ENGL124 Study Guide - Heaven Forbid, Consumerism, Prosieben

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL124
• Professor: Theo Finigan

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For instance, the invasion of santa mira by the pod people in body snatchers seems to disrupt the functioning of various small businesses (thus challenging the american ideal of entrepreneurial capitalism); beloved examines the inhuman effects of slavery, a monstrous economic system that essentially transforms human beings into commodities; while bartleby questions the selfish motives behind charity. Chosen texts: world war z, war is a social tragedy, the zombie apocalypse seems to function as a mechanism of destroying the existing capitalism in the world, accentuates how useless the capitalist regulation is during the time of the war, we need materials to survive, but they are essentially useless, bartleby, the scrivener, heroic opposition to economic control, i would prefer not to = emotional exhaustion not direct refusal to perform tasks, emphasizes how economy is detrimental to america, overwhelming theme of fear(cid:224)why, bartleby exhibits passive resistance e.