Essays on Blood Meridian

In the novel Blood Meridian, written by Cormac McCarthy in 1985. McCarthy’s shows how he has gone through research on the history of the West before writing this book. McCarthy illustrates how gruesome the expansion to the west was. McCarthy describes a lawless group of…

The novel Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy expresses how sticking up for others as well as anti-heroism can all come together to form the best character. Judge Holden is the best character out of the one hundred fictional novels since the 1900s because of his…

Every society has an established system that categorizes a behavior as being good or bad. It all depends on what is considered proper or improper. Literary artists in various settings have had an interest in describing and discussing certain behaviours as per their perceptions. From…

Violence and Redemption In the profound book The Powers That Be, author Walter Wink reflects on the theme of “redemptive violence” and states that: “The story that the rulers of domination societies told each other and their subordinates is what we today might call the…

An Exploration of Judge Holden in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian As human beings, we often find ourselves searching. It is ingrained within us to question the nature of the world, and to discover the truth of what surrounds us. From the creation of the wheel…