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A 13 page paper which examines how the authors’ cultural backgrounds are reflected in the personal essays “The Execution of Tropman,†“This Too is Life,†“Death,†In Praise of Shadows,†“Pleasure Boat Studio,†“Meatless Days,†“In the Middle of the Journey,†“Criteria of Negro Art,†and “The Formation of the Intellectuals.†Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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of self? Intellectuals and authors have long struggled to understand what makes people as they are, and why some nations are allies while others are seemingly in a constant
state of war with each other. While the individual is celebrated in every society, it is the demand for conformity that ultimately emerges triumphant, whether the country is East
or West in geography, or Democratic or Communist in political ideology. Therefore, it becomes increasingly clear that it is culture and not biology that represents the definitive component.
Culture promotes distinctive attitudes, shapes perceptions, and establishes the criteria by which good and evil, right and wrong, are judged. Therefore, the way in which authors express themselves is
strongly influenced by their respective cultural backgrounds. This is most readily apparent in such personal essays as Ivan Turgenevs "The Execution of Tropman," Lu Hsuns "This Too is Life"
and Death," Tanizaki Junichiros "In Praise of Shadows," Ou-yang Xsius "Pleasure Boat Studio," Sara Suleris "Meatless Days," V.S. Naipauls "In the Middle of the Journey," and Antonio Gramscis "The Formation
of the Intellectuals," in which the authors descriptions of concepts, people, and events, is a direct result of cultural conditioning. Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) was a Russian novelist who
passionately portrayed the ongoing class struggle between the peasantry and the intellectuals that threatened to tear his homeland apart. Ultimately, Turgenevs radical views would force him to go into
exile, eventually settling in Paris. He and his Russian literary contemporaries were extremely impressed with the way in which the French Revolution had brought about what appeared to be
an open society that encouraged free expression. But Turgenev would eventually learn that nothing is ever really as it seems when he witnessed the guillotining of a prisoner named
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