‘Our enemies are to be found abroad and at home. Let us never forget this.’

‘Our enemies are to be found abroad and at home. Let us never forget this.’

1. Plath

   • Challenging of traditional binaries that were enforced by a restrictive binaries
     • Civil rights
       • Religious fundementalism
       • Feminist movements
     • The Applicant
       • Objectification of women
         • Appeals to the consumerist advertising
       • "How about this suit ?"
         • Aesthetically orientated
         • Black and stiff but not a bad fit
           • Symbolic of the confinement of marrige
     • Morning Song
       • Homonym of title
         • Mourning
       • Emptiness: The . . surrounding the New statue exemplifies the loneliness and bare distant nature of the statue/ baby - punctuation mirrors subject
   • The enemy resides within
     • The Bee Box
       • Shift in tone - resembles her loss of power
       • The bees resemble the inner deamons
       • Plaths Death

2. Isuguro

   • Ono's distrust of the new Japan
     • Ono draws our attention to the contrast between the once “narrow little street… crowded with people and the cloth banners” and the “wide concrete road” it has been replaced with. For our narrator, Japan has been stripped of its intimacy and humanity.
       • Isuguros own context
     • Daughters
     • American operations in Japan
       • 3 steps
         • Punish
         • Rebuild $
         • Sustain
   • Onos inability to reflect upon is own actions
     • Tone of the novel
       • Howard : Decurous and reserved
         • Experimentation of cowardice
     • “the glass-fronted building where Mrs Kawakami’s used to be.”

3. Vonnegut

   • The restriction of the binaries doesn't cleanly fit over everyone
     • Vonneguts contextual identity
       • Lawrence: Spiritual medicine man
     • The depiction of the German soilders
       • Billies Death
       • Our enemy is consumerism
         • Disables out identity from folourishing

4. Carter

   • Recognises the disunity
     • Recognises his own fault
       • Use of alternate voices
         • Ironically dismantles the Presidents capibility
           • Only though this are we able to accept what he is saying
   • Establishes the need to become unified
     • Detente
       • Enemys from afar can never become friends
     • High modality
       • “especially” “clear” “it is” “as you know” “essential”
     • The notion of the crisis of confidence

5. Beckett

   • Everywhere is subject to the same excential crisis
     • Unprescribed setting
       • laconic landscape
         • Schineder: state of mind not a play
     • deracinated characters reflects the global displacement caused by the bomb
     • Becketts movement from Ireland to Paris
       • The notion of translation
   • Characterisation of Pozzo and Lucky
   • No one is exempt for the red and blue fued
     • Everyone is impacted by certain things