Essays on Back to The Future

In the novel , 1984, George Orwell depicts the bleak totalitarian future he envisioned would happen to the world in 1984. In this future, the government is involved in every aspect of a person’s life and can monitor them whenever they want thanks to the...

Old-time radio broadcaster Owens Lee Pomeroy once said, “Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, and the past perfect!” It is common for people to engage in nostalgia because they like to reminisce about happy parts of their past or imagine...

A past attitude is reverted to and revised in Wordsworth’s “Ode to Duty” and “Elegiac Stanzas.” Employing geographic metaphors, both celestial and earth-bound, the poems climb over rocky Wordsworthian terrain that details his reconciliation between past and present and implications of the future. Though vastly...

The Hero’s Journey is a theory discussed in Joseph Campbell’s non-fiction book The Hero with a Thousand Faces. At its most basic level, this theory states that most stories and myths are divided into three parts – the hero’s Departure,Initiation and Return. In this essay,...