Protagonist College Essays Samples For Students

The setting is very important in any work of fiction. Often, the setting in the work of fiction carries a symbolic meaning that helps underscore the central theme of the work of fiction. In light of this, this paper will consider the symbolic function that the settings in A Worn Path and I Stand Here Ironing by Eudora Welty and Tillie Olsen respectively. The central theme in Eudora’s A Worn Path is the triumph of human love. This is seen through the protagonist who endures everything to make a journey inspired by the love for her grandson. Although she is ...

Introduction

Individuals read stories and books since they are interested in what is contained in those books and stories. Stories make us love or hate characters, provide us details, and build up to the point where we get the climax. "The Story of an Hour," by Kate Chopin gives us the details all through the story to set up sudden climax of Mrs. Mallard death. For this reason, this essay examines the sympathetic character of Mrs. Mallard as presented by the author in the short story.

After reading this epic short story, I think that Mrs. Mallard qualifies ...

The poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost was written almost a hundred years ago, and is still one of the most popular and loved pieces of poetry in English-speaking world end beyond. The poem is very brief – only twenty short lines, and as many other pieces of poetry of similar size is deep in meaning and may be interpreted in various ways. It would be reasonable to perform a textual analysis, as proper understanding of lexics and their combination may be a key to a better understanding of the meaning of the poem, both written and unwritten.

The poem ...

Love is an intrinsic sense of affection between two people. There are different types of love; relationships and affairs love. Relational love involves the affection between people who are related by either blood or culture. On the extreme end, affairs love involves two people from the opposite sex who have affection towards one another. Freud’s argue that; love is not what is given but shared. It is what the man gives to the woman and gets in return. He believes that a woman should be submissive in love affairs. A woman is believed is believed to be the chief ...

Literature gives a reflection of the society we live in, authors are able to get their ideas from the issue that face the society and organize these ideas to come up with plays, novels, poems and even songs. Once one can connect what an author presents to the contemporary society, it is very easy to understand the themes and the ideas that the author reflects. 1. Compare and contrast the depiction of female characters in Oedipus Rex, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and The Glass Menagerie. What does each author suggest about the role of women in his society ...

English

Poe’s ‘The Tell-Tale Heart can be described as a short story that hovers around the theme of crime and murder, and the short movie also justifies the duration of the story. The movie is more of a narrative; the protagonist is seen continuously describing his mind and moves directly to the camera. The movie can be categorized as being quantitative because of the attitude of the protagonist right through the movie. He says that he has no personal hatred for the old man, but it’s his vulture’s eyes that seem to make him go cold inside. This instigates ...

When a person reads a lot, favorite writers and characters become a small family. Moreover, a person gets to know author’s style. Hence, in future, it will be easy for the reader to recognize the author. For this assignment, I had to compare two short stories of Stewart Edward White: The girl who got rattled and The two cartridges. In this comparison essay, I will suggest that the both short stories have a lot in common not only in the style of writing but in protagonists’ characters and actions.

The protagonist of both stories is Alfred. In the first story, Alfred is described as

“He was a little man, and he was bashful.” (White, The girl who got rattled) ...

Lusus Naturae or the freak of nature was a story written by Margaret Atwood. It was a dark, scary, and at times, evil story about how a young half-human and half-monster female, which was also the protagonist in the story, was being treated by the people around her. She was so unwanted to the point that her parents just wanted her to die. She was described in the story as someone who has red fingernails, yellow eyes, and thick hair everywhere in the body . The protagonist in the story once said that “our family has always been respected, and even liked, more ...

Lynd Ward developed his masterpiece in the depths of the great depression with his pictorial narrative the Wild Pilgrimage. Wild Pilgrimage is a narrative that portrays a laborer in this case referred to as a protagonist who is fleeing from the frustrations of the countryside to the city. In the narrative the countryside is far from being ideal and the laborer ends up with enemies of his own class whom he has to deal with in the city. The narrative implies individual escape and its rejection and a hint of what might be referred to as a lifestyle of the enslaved. The title of ...

Literature is a powerful tool that has the ability to take readers to different worlds and different eras. Literature has a way to change readers’ perspectives and teach valuable lessons. From the beginning of time the world has known stories. As time passed stories developed into pieces of literature that have lived for thousands of years, and the most recognizable of that literature that has survived this long will continue to flourish readers’ imagination. Literature has the power to access one of the greatest forms of relaxation and stress relief; it has the power to help readers escape. Most children have ...

The third version is a black-and-white video capturing bits of life of the main character (whom he is performing), having as well a figure of Jesus walking behind the protagonist and performing miracles on the way. The protagonist also ends up delivering a message to the crowd from the culprit and the church. Stylistically, the video is different from the other two as it looks more approachable and cheaper, as if made on the spot. The video was indeed made as guerrilla-type video, having different scenes shot on the spot without much preparation. It is also reminiscent of silent films with ...

Literary Analysis

Literary Analysis In the societies today, there comes a point in the life of an individual when there is the loss of innocence. The loss of innocence originates from the gain f experience and knowledge by these individuals. People lose their innocence through many situations. These situations are forms of occurrences in the lives of individuals that have major impacts on their lives (Fryback, 2008). It is important to understand the facts and aspects that cause loss of innocence among the individuals. There are certain states that an individual undergoes during the process of loss of innocence. These steps ...

Film Noir means black cinema. Films that have a dark, cynical undertone or have a dark visual style are classified as films of the noir genre. The Man Who Wasn't There, a movie made by the Coen Brothers in 2001, and Tay Garnett's 1946 film The Postman Always Rings Twice are considered to be of the noir genre. Within the noir genre, The Postman Always Rings Twice is considered a classic film noir while The Man Who Wasn't There is considered a post-modern neo-noir film. There are similarities and differences in the thematic devices used by the classic noir film The Postman Always ...

Miss Brill is a short tale written between 188-1923 by Katherine Mansfield. The story was first published in 1920 and reprinted in the Garden Party and Other Stories. It is a story about a lonely English teacher living alone in a French town next to the Public Gardens. The novel tells us about how she spends her time waking and sitting in the on every Sunday afternoon. As the story begins, Mansfield narrates how Miss Brill chooses to wear her fur, and while in the park, she notices that it is full compared to the last Sunday. When she is joined by a young ...

Saving Grace is a novel written by Lee Smith and first published in 1995. It is a fictional journal of a middle aged woman named Grace Shepherd who embarks on a meandering pilgrimage with her father. Florida Grace is the daughter of Rev. Virgil Shepherd, a travelling preacher who handles snakes and performs signs and wonders. His family is forced to follow Reverend Virgil around in his travels in order to support his preaching ministry. Grace believed in Jesus, but hated Him because she was forced to travel all over in many hardships in support of His ministry. The novel talks about the life ...

Life is full of many decisions, some small and some big. But in the end they normally reduce to only two important decisions, either of which could lead to two separate outcomes. Such decisions are so hard that years after we have made them we still wonder which was the correct choice. In Kazuo Ishiguro’s short story, ‘A Family Supper,’ the author symbolically – and often – uses the duality of the number ‘two’ to describe several things. This concept of ‘two’ describes the duality each character’s dichotomy, alluding to two possible outcomes for the story’s ending whether ...

Sonya, Svidrigailov, and Lebezyatnikov represent three sides of Raskolnikov. How? Which sides?

In his novel Crime and Punishment, famous Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky aimed at solving an important psychological and moral issue, in particular, to show people the failure of empty and fabled theories, as well as reveal their dangerous and destructive forces. It was the theory that became the idea of the main character, Rodion Raskolnikov, who decided that a strong person had the right to ignore the laws of conscience and morality to achieve his goal. The Raskolnikov's purpose was noble: to retrieve his relatives, in particular, mother and sister, from humiliation and death. But here again we are facing ...

In Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray and Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold, the protagonists Dorian Gray and Santiago Nazar are the central characters in these literary works. The protagonists make the stories develop as their ideology or value system are the central part of the conflict (Literary Devices). The protagonist are the main but not necessarily ideal characters. Despite the protagonists’ being unbiased and honorable or not, the changes in their characters, their suffering in the face of psychological and moral dilemmas highlighted by the author lead to the climax of the story ...

In the literary story about Gilgamesh, the other protagonist in the story is Enkidu. The protagonist in the story is a character who plays a major part in the story and enters some sort of clash due to another character in the story called the antagonist. The protagonist of a particular text is the charterer that the audience is likely to sympathize more with. Thus, Enkidu is a secondary protagonist of the story and his character almost overshadows that of the main protagonist. One character that is descriptive of the protagonist is the fact that he defeats the adversary facing him (Woloch, ...

Book Review: A Visit from Goon Squad

A Visit from Goon Squad was written by Jennifer Egan. This fiction won the National Book Critics Circle award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction last 2010 and 2011 respectively. The story revolved around Bennie Salazar. He was an executive who loves rock music. The main setting of the story occurred in New York City, USA but it also showcased California, USA as well as foreign locations like Kenya in Africa and Italy in Europe. The main theme of the story is about the lost time when main protagonists in this story were deprived of their early life and incorruptibility. ...

The richness of art is that it allows for many approaches. O. Henry was one of the most important American writers and continually fused his culture into his woks, providing a sentimental slice of American life. However, being Russian, Boris Eichenbaum in his essay “O. Henry and the Theory of the Short Story” approaches the impact of this great writer through other means, principally through the analysis of his stories’ structure. Even though the plot of O. Henry’s “The Gift of the Magi” is a classical quest, its finale ironically turns this convention on its head. In this story, one ...

The film, A Beautiful Mind, portrays the story of John Forbes Nash Jr., an eminent mathematician. The biographical work directed by Ron Howard cinematically represents the life and ordeals of Professor Nash. His remarkable advancements in the “game theory” and marriage with his beautiful student Alicia face challenge of his ailment of schizophrenia which perturbs his life. It becomes clear to the audience that the protagonist fulfils the DSM-IV criteria for the disease. He suffers from hallucinations and delusions right from his days in college as a student. He imagines of Agent William Parcher. He even imagines the kids ...

Organization

There have been several ways of oppression and domination in human history, the most common being slavery, colonization and class or caste system prevailing in the society. Gender oppression is another important kind(Wang). Oppression leads to tension and violence because the oppressed would definitely rise against the oppressor one day after a long period of subjugation. A lot of literature has been written following these themes of subjugation and dominance. Some of the ways in which violence and domination have operated in countries of South America, the causes and repercussions are being discussed here in this essay in various ...

The play “Madame Butterfly” was written by David Henry in 1903 but was later produced in 1988. The great inspiration of this play rose from an opera directed and produced by the famous Italian actor and a song writer Mr. Giacomo Puccini. In a specific occasion, his opera “Madama Butterfly” was the source of inspiration in producing Hwang’s Madame Butterfly. The play is solely based on a true life experience. This play is borne on stereotypic racism in the early Asian community. The intricacies of male-female struggled relationship are clearly exposed as the play evolves into a complex tale (Wisenthal, 86). The ...

The film Fahrenheit 451, which was directed by the stalwart director François Truffaut, was made fourteen years after the novel with the same name was published. Ray Bradbury’s literary work and the film have certain conspicuous similarities as well as differences from one another. However, the basic plot of the book was maintained while making the film without too much change. As the book was adapted into a film, certain key characters and scenes were left out in the process. Faber is one such important character which is missing from the film. The book by Bradbury portrays ...

Introduction

Film noir is Hollywood crime dramas style of film making as from 1940s to 1950s. These crime dramas were characterized by a chiaroscuro style of low-key black and white (Conard 12). Neo-noir on the other hand is a word used to describe the past 1970 films. These films were reminiscent of the 1940s and 1950s noir films. Unlike the noir films, neo-noir films incorporate up to date themes, visual elements or media, content and style making the neo-noir more updated. The word noir is a French word meaning, “black film” it is documented to have first used by Nino Frank a French ...

Many authors have written significant and fascinating works about people in isolation; this isolation is often used to showcase their alienation from society (and subsequent subjugation). In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” a timid housewife is prescribed a rest cure by her physician husband, involving her sequestering herself away from the rest of the world, diving into inaction. She experiences both tremendous psychotic episodes and incredible feministic tendencies and desires, echoing the frustrations that women in the 19th century had given their restricted autonomy and the forcefulness of their husbands. Meanwhile, Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis tells the horrific ...

The Story of an Hour is set in the late nineteenth century in an American house. The story takes place over just one hour, as the story suggests. Chopin uses a variety of narrative techniques to add depth to her story, such as symbolism, foreshadowing, and point of view. The Story of an Hour is written in third person narrative. The story works well in third person, especially as it begins in the viewpoint of one character and then moves onto another which turns out to be the protagonist. The Story of an Hour begins in the viewpoint of ...

John Updike’s 1961 comic short story revolves around the day in the life of Sammy, a bachelor checkout assistant in an A&P grocery outlet. John Updike employs literary techniques to capture the attention of the reader. Through the deployment of literary techniques such as plot development, character development and the use of themes and symbolism, Updike manages to write a well balanced literary masterpiece that captures the reader’s imagination. The plot of the short story is comprehensively developed and it revolves around the life of Sammy, a cash register clerk at an A&P store. Sammy is undertaking his shift ...

It cannot be denied that Edgar Allan Poe made important contributions to the literary community. Poe effectively made his place in the literary community by always altering it using dark themes, Romanticist aspects, and strong imagery. Poe’s lyrical poem, “The Sleeper,” which was first published in 1831, gives readers a chance to retain a conclusive idea of his mysterious intentions. Poe establishes his ideas in his work using imagery. Poe creates an uncanny and weird environment in his poem that is inhabited by his characters. Poem portrays a lady in a long dress in his poem. Poe’s dark and deep romanticist intentions ...

An individual terrorist has been described throughout history in many different ways, such as anarchist, a lone-wolf terrorist, and a revolutionary terrorist among others. Although the specific context of these different labels tend to vary but there are many similarities between them. Perhaps the most notable example of an individual terrorist in history would be the U.S. army veteran, Timothy McVeigh, who killed 168 people and injured another 500 after detonating a bomb in Oklahoma City ("Profile: Timothy mcveigh," 2001). Although this strategy of terrorism is quite old, we still need to pay attention to it. In 2010, CIA-director Leon Panetta emphasized ...

Reading through Ralph Ellison’s story “Battle Royal” one comes to the conclusion that if a man yields to the power of majority without struggle, he dooms himself and his posterity to infinite slavery. It’s no mere chance that the protagonist’s grandfather, laying on his deathbed, says nothing, but a wish for his sons “to keep up the good fight. (1)” At the time of the old man’s death, his words had little effect on his relatives, who were afraid of doing something “against the wishes of white folks” (1). Nevertheless the protagonist unveils the ...

The journey is something that has been discussed in literature for many years, as it carries a universal resonance for all people who wish to reach a destination or accomplish a goal. Eudora Welty and Robert Frost are two authors who examine the nature of the journey, and attempt to symbolize that nature in their short stories and poems, “A Worn Path” and “The Road Not Taken,” respectively. Both “A Worn Path” and “The Road Not Taken” are about how the journey we take through life defines us and gives us purpose. Phoenix’ journey is to help others and herself; the protagonist ...

Analysis of the play Seminar

On 15 November 2012, the Phoenix theatre in Indianapolis presented a show on the play called “Seminar”. The intent of this paper is to provide an analysis of the play as it was shown on that day. The paper therefore draws attention on the story of the play and describes the play’s protagonist.

The seminar is a play about four aspiring young novelists who decides to sign up for the private writing classes with Leonard who is an international literacy figure. Each of the four novelists in the private seminar exemplifies a type of aspiration. For example, Douglas draws attention on ...

Voltaire’s Candidate

The book is about a controversial character called Candidate who has a very positive attitude that whatever happens will end in good things or have happy ending. As a result of this positive belief, the actor goes through very many problems but with a resilient spirit which makes him determined to survive through the challenges, sees him through. Like any person who is prepared to survive, the protagonist had a mentor and coach going by the name, Dr. Panlosss. Dr. Panloss is the man who inspired the protagonist to be a courageous and have a spirit which is unwilling to surrender to the problems of the ...

Charlotte Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” tells the tale of a young married woman who suffers from what is presumed to be post-partum depression. Her physician husband decides to sequester her for a ‘rest cure’ in their summer home, which turns out to backfire when she starts to slowly go insane. The story takes the form of journal entries denoting her gradual slide into madness, as she hallucinates and forms paranoid thoughts about her husband and the outside world. The audience sees all of this through a first-person perspective that allows us to see inside the mind of the protagonist, ...

The Portrayal of Adulthood in The Chocolate War by Robert Comier and Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher

The Chocolate War is about the bravery and steadfastness of Jerry, the protagonist, in refusing to engage in a depraved years-long tradition at Trinity High School carried out by The Vigils. The Vigils order students at the high school to complete various challenging tasks often with harrowing outcomes. The Vigils ordered Jerry to refuse helping out at the high school’s yearly chocolate auction despite the fact that they assured Brother Leon, the coordinator of the event, that they, including Jerry, would help sell chocolates. Jerry’s task was supposed to last for ten days, after which he would be ...

The Stranger or L’étranger, is a famous novel by the stalwart author, Albert Camus which depicts the story of a man who traverses the path of life being an outlaw from the norms of the society. Meursault, the protagonist, is faced with the demise of his mother, love of a lady and the assassination of a man. But, in stark contrast to a common man who would show pangs of emotions at every occurrence, Meursault remains unfazed by the turns on the road of life and shows no care about bringing forth his own emotions or bothering about other people’s emotional states. ...

Jane Eyre is proto-feminist persona at a time when feminism was not a concept let alone a movement. In that era the thought that she and Rochester could enjoy a marriage based upon equality was a totally novel possibility. Jane is allowed to be strong, and so Rochester is freed to sometimes be weak. This inter-dependence is what allows them both a freedom of action and emotion ususlly denied by the society of that time. Jane has her freedom of choice because she earned it. She grew up as an the orphan, endured her cousins, the school, the epidemic, faced mortality when her friend died and ...

Introduction

Written by Graham Greene and directed by Carol Reed, The Third Man has been rated as "one of the greatest British thrillers of the post-war era, in the best Alfred Hitchcock tradition, and beautifully produced" (AMC Filmsite).Voted as the number one British Film of the 20th Century by the respected British Film Institute, this film set in post-World War II Vienna begins with the protagonist Holly Martins, played by Joseph Cotten, arriving in Vienna from USA to meet and work with his childhood pal Harry Lime, played by Orson Welles. It is the friendship between Harry Lime and ...

This essay is based on the article “No Name Woman” by Donald McQuade and Robert Atwan. The culture that is focused upon in this article is the Chinese culture. It is evident form this article that the Chinese have a unique culture that is centered on the family and societal morals. In the article, the authors address the idea of adultery in the Chinese culture. The Chinese culture abhors adultery. Adultery is treated as being a formal of moral decadence. The perpetrators of adultery face serious repercussions for actions of adultery. For example, the protagonist in the article becomes pregnant when ...

Inside and Outside: Moral Goodness In Three Short Stories by John Updike

John Updike’s early short fiction written during the period between the late 1950s and mid 1970s confronts the issue of morality in post-World War II America. Updike wrote in his novel Rabbit, Run, “Goodness lies inside, there is nothing outside. . .” (325). Updike’s fiction shares in common the theme of inner goodness confronted with a world where morality is empty. In three of Updike’s short stories, “The Happiest I've Been,” (1958), “A&P,” (1960), and “Problems,” (1975) the author treats the subject of morality in three different but connected ...

Nineteen Eighty Four is a dystopian novel written by Gorge Orwell in 1948 and was later published in 1949. The novel depicts a totalitarian dystopian world where all the citizens are constantly brainwashed and are forced to be equal. The people in the book are forced to work for big brother without any freedom as their rights are infringed. The party in the novel suppresses the people’s thinking by making them equal in addition to creating fear in them through strict laws and propaganda in order to stop them from resisting (Bowker 102). Through this book, Orwell warns us of ...

Zane Durmont

I very much enjoyed this story. I liked the use of acid taking as an unusual way of portraying the protagonist’s feelings about his father. Overall, the narrative was believable and enjoyable to read. The light hearted nature of the drug experimentation and the deep subject of the narrator’s father create a tense combination.

You seem to shift between tenses a fair bit; in other words, some sentences are written in past tense and some in present tense. I suggest that you go through the story carefully and change them all to the same tense. In my opinion, present ...

Kate Chopin’s “Desiree’s Baby” and “The Story of an Hour” are both intelligently written and gripping short stories. They have many similarities such as their settings, protagonists and the presence of literary techniques such as symbolism and foretelling. However, there are also many differences, such as the nature of the marriages that are explored in each. Over all, there are many elements which make each story memorable individually, but it is clear that both are written by the same author. “Desiree’s Baby” is set the mid-nineteenth century United States of America, on two plantations in ...

Female protagonists are not often presented with a great deal of angst or flaws, especially in 19th century literature. However, the following short stories are a notable exception. The protagonist of “The Yellow Wallpaper” gradually grows psychotic from isolation and confinement to a small wallpapered room; Calixta in “The Storm” falls into a passionate one-night affair with a former lover on the evening of a thunderstorm; and the titular “Eveline” is solemn and contemplative, not really knowing what direction to take in her life. In this paper, we will examine the similarities and differences between these three women, and how the circumstances in their lives ...

Influence in The Picture of Dorian Gray And The Book of Job

The Picture of Dorian gray is a novel written by Oscar Wilde. Dorian Gray is the main character in this book and it revolves around his life and how the characters in the novel influence the protagonist’s life. Dorian Gray is depicted as a wealthy, beautiful, and unspoiled male who changes his life completely by sinning and pleasure after meeting Lord Henry who totally influenced his life. Wilde writes a story whereby the main character Dorian Gray is influenced to embark on a hedonistic life; a life he had feared for a very long time. Dorian was an innocent man who was forced to ...

INTRODUCTION

The paper evaluates the various contexts within which the audience can read the play by Shakespeare and watch the film produced in this modern day, about a decade ago. Given that the two vary in the period of production, it is inevitable to have differences in the intrinsic and extrinsic contexts of the literary works. Some applications in the play could not be included in the film because of the technicalities involved in the production of films. At the same time, there may be some modifications to enable the audience receive the content of literary work in a better ...

Persepolis is a comic autobiographical novel written by Marjane Satrapi. Marjane writes about her life from childhood to adulthood during the Islamic revolution in Iran. The novel is about the protagonist’s life and the challenges she faces into adulthood and how these hardships changed her identity. As the main character in the novel, Marjane is depicted as a tough and intelligent girl who followed in her parents footsteps. She was a young Iranian girl who had to overcome great obstacles in her childhood in order to become a great person in future. Marjane grew up in a difficult and complicated setting in Iran ...

Victor Martinez’s “Parrot in the Oven” is a novel that reflects the protagonist’s school days, his athletic activities, and family life. Victor Martinez experiences, as a Mexican-American, are the influences that induce him to produce such a literary work with figurative language that he receives naturally from his family. In his life, Martinez’s high school days and his teachers take an important role as they motivate his to find opportunities that he can get as a son of a migrant worker. He presents his feeling and emotion for finding his identity in the novel. As “Parrot in the Oven” ...

Analysis over the lighting used to convey the movie Fight Club (1999)

Fight Club was produced in 1999 by Art Linson and Cean Chaffin in regency enterprises. It was directed by David Fincher and starred Brad Pitt, Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter. The movie is based on the novel Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk which he released in 1996. The movie features “Jack” played by Norton an insomniac who is the narrator and the protagonist of the movie and “Tyler Durden” played by Brad Pitt who is a mental projection of the protagonist.

The movie can be categorized as a neo-noir film, a genre that uses low key lighting and shadows ...

Compare and Contrast: “The Destructors” and “The Most Dangerous Game”

The goal of this essay is to explore the short story by comparing and contrasting various elements of this type of fiction. To achieve this purpose, the essay focuses on the following two short stories: “The Destructors” by Graham Greene, and “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell. Set in the 1950s in war-torn London, Greene’s short novel follows the story of a gang of teen-agers who are planning to destroy an old building that stands in the middle of a neighborhood that was reduced into rubble during WWII. The pointlessness of this violent and destructive act highlights the brooding ...

Every individual has two lives, the life we live, and the life we live after that. Nobody is perfect, but if one works hard enough, he/she can stay away from failure. The Natural is a novel written by Bernard Malamud. It is Bernard Malamud’s first novel that initially received mixed reactions, but afterwards, it was regarded as an outstanding piece of literature. It is a story about Roy Hobbs who, after making mistakes in his life, he returns the bribery money and is left with self-hatred for mistakes he has done. Hobbs was a baseball player who aspired to be famous, ...

Aliens Films (1979-1997)

What is the significance of events in films? Are all the bits and pieces in films intentionally included by directors? These are some of the questions I asked myself as I set out on a comprehensive analysis of the audience message in the Aliens Films (1979-1997). According to film analyst Greg Smith, different events in films are not to be treated as accidental encounters of random occurrence and spontaneity. They are instead purposefully planned series of events with cause and effect and with nothing left to chance (Greg 128). Greg explains that Hollywood films are inadvertently one of the most ...

Homer, the stalwart figure in the history of literature of the world, made his mark in his seminal work, The Odyssey, which has passed the test of time and has got engraved in the verses of immortality all over the globe for its literary excellence and quintessence. The cinematic adaptation of the epic was directed by Andrei Konchalovsky and it released in the year 1997. Odysseus is a man of paramount strength, but relies on his brains than his brawns. The perseverance of the human soul and loyalty are all the various facets of human emotions which the epic as ...

Donald Barthelme was born in the year1931. So the Barthelme was born nearly a little less than a century later than the time the term feminism was coined. But he died in 1989, a time when the concept Feminism had taken root and was an established movement which has thousands of supporters from both genders.

Work

On the surface his writings were filled with bizarre incidents but there was always an underlying theme or idea that would try to explore the boundaries of the world as people knew it, in that time and age. Barthelme's world has a framework that revolves around a disturbing level ...

The thrillers of Alfred Hitchcock have not been strangers to unconventional protagonists – from Vertigo’s cowardly, power-hungry Scottie Thompson to Rear Window’s incapacitated paranoiac LB Jeffries, to the hapless journalists and playboys of his early British spy capers like Foreign Correspondent and The Lady Vanishes. Part of the thrill of Hitchcock’s thrillers is seeing a clear sense of comedy and irreverence mingling evenly with the serious, atmospheric cinematography of his films. North by Northwest is no exception, mining comedy out of an otherwise highly tense spy thriller through the haplessness of his protagonist, ad executive Roger Thornhill (Cary ...

Introduction

The fact that literary works are aimed at mirroring the reality of the human society whether local or global means that there will be a point of convergence among them. The mirroring of the reality of the human society is informed by the need to facilitate and sustain debates that will lead to the finding of solutions to better human society and life. The converse is also true that literary artistes have their works colored by personal, ideological and sociocultural settings and because of this, literary works will diverge on structure, ideas and themes. The case is exemplified by the ...

Introduction

This book is a collection of short stories, reflecting on the author’s experiences as influenced by the American culture. This was important to the author, especially because she was still familially bound to the influence of her Mexican heritage. The short stories in the book revolve around the social roles that women have in the society, and the relationships that women have with men and other women in the society. Most of the characters used in the books are stereotypical. The men as depicted in the book personify male machismo. On the other hand, women are shown as generally ...

Introduction:

The gangster we are all looking for was authored by a Vietnam's –American author Diem Thuy in 2003.The novel is a fragmented sequence of events that were undertaken by a nameless character in Vietnam and the United States is concerned about the immigration and family dynamics, war as well as liberation. Hence, immigration happens to be the focal point of the book. This is in relation to the effects that it causes to the female protagonist’s lives and daily encounters. The narrator and her father went to Singapore through the south china U.S navy ship (Lê, 2003 p. 46). They stayed ...