Essays on Homer Simpson

Homer Jay Simpson is one of the most famous cartoon characters and very much liked by children and adults throughout the world. Children of every age are fans of Mr. Simpson and they can’t wait to see him on television. Homer Simpson is not a real life character, but a fictional cartoon character who appears in the series The Simpsons. On the television show, Homer and his wife Marge have three children: Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. As the family's provider, he works at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. Homer embodies several American working class stereotypes: he is crude, ...

The Day of the Locust is Nathanael West’s forth novel written in 1939. Like all West’s previous works, this novel makes a vivid emphasis on social issues, such as spiritual and material degradation of the American society at the time of the Great Depression. It is a story about a frustrated American Dream, about life in which the perception of the reality does not correspond to the reality itself. Researchers say that the idea of the corrupt American Dream introduced by Nathanael West in his stories resulted in the coinage of “the term "West's disease" to refer ...

Since the creation of the character of Homer Simpson in 1987 and of “The Simpsons” show in 1989 and up till now the topic of influence of the cartoon and its protagonist on the values, attitudes and behavior in the modern society has been fueling numerous discussions among fans, scholars, politicians, and, in general, among anyone interested. Homer Simpson’s character has been exposed to an in-depth analysis not only by those who study the art of storytelling, but also by students of political science, sociology, psychology and even economics. It is self-evident that Mr. Simpson had and still ...