BookRags.com Literature Guides Literature
Guides
Criticism & Essays Criticism &
Essays
Questions & Answers Questions &
Answers
Lesson Plans Lesson
Plans
My Bibliography Periodic Table U.S. Presidents Shakespeare Sonnet Shake-Up
Research Anything:        
History | Encyclopedias | Films | News | Create a Bibliography | More... Login | Register | Help

Not What You Meant?  There are 2 definitions for False Dawn.

False Dawn Study Guide

Print-Friendly  Order the PDF version  Order the RTF version
by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
About 4 pages (1,266 words)
False Dawn Summary

Bookmark and Share Know this work well? Help others and get FREE products!

Themes

Man's inhumanity to man is allowed full reign here, since no law enforcement agency exists. In a 1980 symposium on postholocaust literature, Yarbro warned feminists away from the idea that a holocaust, "even a miniholocaust," would be a welcome way to start with a clean slate and begin to establish female equality. Once anything like that occurs, she declared, history shows that "any small rights that you may have had for anyone but the physically strongest are gone, kaput, zowie. You do not see them again.

If you want to be reduced to a state of chattel again . . . the best thing you can do is to get yourself a holocaust, even a small one. You're.....

This is a free excerpt of 118 words. This section contains 231 words. This Short Guide contains 1,266 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page).

Read the rest of this Short Guide with our False Dawn Access Pass.

Ask any question on False Dawn and get it answered FAST!
Answer questions in BookRags Q&A and earn points toward
discounted or even FREE Study Guides and other BookRags products!
Learn more about BookRags Q&A
Copyrights
False Dawn from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.



Join BookRagslearn moreJoin BookRags


About BookRags | Customer Service | Report an Error | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy