Essays on Heinlein

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 ...

Speech Sounds by Octavia E. Butler

Dystopia is an opposite of utopia. It is an imaginary society living in a world after environmental disaster, devastating disease, dehumanization or totalitarian regime. The only dystopia from real life that comes to mind is North Korea – a totalitarian country, which bears no similarity to Speech Sounds. But nowadays there are a lot of films that depict a society that survived after epidemics. In my opinion, the author tried to show that communication is a key to peaceful life and without it people cannot understand, trust and support each other. But it is difficult to communicate without spoken language; ...

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 ...