Essays on All You Zombies

It needs to be reckoned that the there is a difference between the sex of a person and the gender identity. In a society that is largely patriarchal in nature, the societal institutions come to impose the gender on the individual based on the sexual identity that the person is born with. However, this process of gender construction is not a natural phenomenon and can be described to be rather an imposition as per the parameters of patriarchy and its norms. As one goes through the story, All You Zombies, written by Robert A. Heinlein, one finds the exploration ...

1. The term dystopia refers to an imaginary place where people suffer from all kinds of dehumanization, pain, torture, oppression, and diseases while they have a feeling of unhappiness and unpleasantness regarding themselves being unfairly treated in the overcrowded surroundings. The dystopias do exist in the real world in places like Gaza, where the common man is subjected to prejudice, poverty, intimidation, hunger, hopelessness, depravity, insecurity, and consistent surveillance by the oppressive rulers. The story, Speech Sounds, definitely connects to the state of dystopia where the people are in misery because their ability to communicate has been hampered and ...

Comparative paper between “Out of all Them Bright Stars” and “All You Zombies”

“Out of all Them Bright Stars” is a science fiction short story written by Nancy Kress and “All You Zombies” is a short story of the same genre written by Robert Heinlein. These two stories are similar because they are both science fiction and they differ because of the topics they deal with. The stories are different and while “Out of all Them Bright Stars” is about blue men coming from space to Earth, “All You Zombies” deals with a story which involves the time machine. “All You Zombies” is a story about a man who is young and ...