EN 400 fascism

The key distinction between the two texts lies in how this repetition operates. In Remainder, repetition is internal and self-imposedthe narrator deliberately reenacts events in an effort to achieve authenticity, carefully controlling every detail and turning people into objects within his constructed scenarios. However, this internal drive for repetition becomes totalizing, creating a closed system that mirrors authoritarian control. In contrast, the first half of Minor Detail presents repetition as external and system-imposed, where violence unfolds through military routines and bureaucratic procedures that individuals simply carry out. Despite this difference, both forms of repetition ultimately produce the same effect: they limit agency, distort reality, and reproduce structures of control. Together, the novels suggest that whether repetition originates from within the individual or from external systems, it operates in ways that reflect and reinforce the underlying logic of fascist power.

also follow these rules below: Other Pointers:
1) Get and use a good dictionary.
2) Make sure you have a thesis and not simply a topic.
3) Assume your reader has read the book and knows the plot and characters well. Dont spend time
repeating information that will bore him or her.
4) Tense: write about literature in the present tense and avoid changing tenses in the middle of an essay.
A shift in tense would be warranted, for example, if you moved from talking about a book (in present
tense) to talking about the authors life (which youd probably treat in the past tense).
5) Strengthen verbs: though the verb to be is a useful verb, it can lead to weak, wordy, and imprecise
constructions.
A) Passive Voice.
B) Expletives (it is, this is, there are).
C) Stronger verbs.
6) What person should you use? I one we you: The first person (I) is a powerful mode of
address. You can use it in your essays, though you should be aware that I can at times seem self-
indulgent if used haphazardly or too frequently. Try to write in the first person when what you are saying
is in fact personal opinionone that your audience might not share, to claim it as your own. Also use it to
in analytical moments where you reflect how your argument differs from other scholars or thinkers.
Otherwise, you can use the third person (one; the reader; he or she etc.) or sometimes, the second
person: you. The second person is dangerous, however, since it can sound presumptuous or bossy, just
as using the pronoun we when you really mean I can sound self-important.
7) Pronoun references: beware of unclear pronoun references: he, she, and it will attach
themselves to any nearby noun; they may even refer equally to two different nouns in a sentence. Work
on giving specific nouns instead.
8) Apply the correct preposition. Ex. Derivative of not derivative from; subordinate to not
subordinate for. These are often idiomatic, so check the dictionary if youre unsure and read your
sentence out loud to hear if of sounds more natural than from etc.
9) Its or Its. Choose the correct one. Its is a contraction for it is. Its marks possession and means
something belongs to it.
10) Avoid truly, ultimate, very, so or other intensifiers. Instead choose a better adjective. Instead
of she is really very smart write she is brilliant.
11) Avoid clichs. They reduce your thought and the works youre reading to banality.
12) Be specific. Make sure your prose is accurate and precise as possible.
13) Take out filler sentences, plot summary, and over generalizations.
14) Split infinitives. Though not an error, per se, formal writing usually does not separate the infinitive
with an adverb. She wanted to run swiftly is better than she wanted to swiftly run.
15) Dangling modifiers. Ex. Swearing and drinking, the nun criticized the dissolute rake reads as if the
nun is the one drinking and swearing.
Citations:
If your reader knows from context what book and author youre quoting from, you need not include them
in the parenthesis.
Augustine writes: XXXXXXXXXXXX (235). But he doesnt write that XXXX (Wilson 35).
Block quotation
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XXXXXX. (35)
Thesis help:
IDEA OBSERVATION ANALYSIS THESI