Conor Oberst Essays

  • The Happiest Place on Earth, An Interpretation

    752 Words  | 2 Pages

    tightly into thirty-six short lines is a depiction of America today as viewed by Conor Oberst, front man for the Desaparecidos. "The Happiest Place on Earth" covers their opinions on patriotism, drugs, greed, pollution, military, technology, and the establishment in general. The overall feeling of the song is rebellion towards the industry, but there is also a sense of hope and a longing for social change. Conor Oberst, the writer of the song, started the music life when he was fourteen years old

  • Essay on Camus’ The Stranger (The Outsider): Meursault as Metaphysical Rebel

    2000 Words  | 4 Pages

    Herbert R. Albert Camus: A Biography. New York: George Braziller Inc. 1980. Masters, Brian. Camus: A Study. London: Heinemann, 1974. McCarthy, Patrick. Camus: A Critical Study of his Life and Works. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1982. O'Brien, Conor Cruise. Albert Camus of Europe and Asia. New York: Viking Press, 1970. Quillot, Roger. The Sea and Prisons. University of Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1970

  • Emotion in T.S. Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

    1454 Words  | 3 Pages

    Emotion in T.S. Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock In his poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” T.S. Eliot subtly conveys a wide variety of Prufrock’s emotions; he creates pathos for the speaker by employing the “objective correlative,” which Eliot defines as “a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events [that] shall be the formula of that particular emotion” (“Hamlet and His Problems”). The first stanza introduces Prufrock’s isolation, as epitomized metaphorically by “half-deserted