Essays on Ghost

Liability Waiver

The Reno Air Race is an annual event celebrated each year in the Reno Stead Airport in the north location of Reno, Nevada, United States of America. During the 2011 edition, one airplane crashed with the surface having a result of the death of the pilot Jimmy Leeward and ten spectators and 70 people injured. The airplane under consideration was the Galloping Ghost, a P-51D-15-NA Mustang manufactured by North American Aviation in 1944 to the United States Air Force to be used against Germany and its allies in the World War II. The war suddenly ends, and the airplane ...

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Woody Guthrie is a musician who has a deep influence on American music. Guthrie’s upbringing and early life had a great influence on the lyrical content of his songs in later life. His father was a democrat and a racist; also rumored to be a member of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). Woody experienced the Great Depression in his early twenties and witnessed “drought, disease, crop failures and farm foreclosures” (Billet) in the farmlands of America. Guthrie and his songs represent ...

Lady Macbeth is an interesting character, no matter how she is staged, or how she is read. The changes in the way she reacts – going from a seemingly confident woman who herself urges her husband to shore up his courage in the face of what he has to do, to someone who wavers more and more, until finally she kills herself – are a challenge to stage in a realistic manner. The weird sisters are said to be the three fates which appear in Greek and Roman mythology, though how much they are so is up for debate. There is ...

Charles Fischer

Paper Submission Date “Seeming” in Hamlet In Hamlet, William Shakespeare uses the word “seeming” three times: The first time is in Act I, Scene 5. This is the scene between Hamlet and the Ghost of his father. In describing the evil nature of the character of Claudius, the king's brother and his murderer, the Ghost says, “The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen:/ O Hamlet, what a falling-off was there!” (Shakespeare n.p.). In this sentence, the Ghost is explaining how the queen, who was assumed to be virtuous, let her will be influenced by Claudius. The word “seeming” means ...

Marcellus in Act I states that “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark” and this sets the tone of the play as well as the struggles of Hamlet. Hamlet is wrecked by feelings of uncertainty over his father’s death and his mother’s incestous marraige to his uncle Claudius. Although Hamlet wants to avenge his father’s death and restore honor to the royal house, he struggles with his innate goodness and morality. He knows he has nothing to go on except the ghost’s words and looks for proof that his father was indeed murdered. Hamlet ...

According to Christopher Bader, Joe Baker and Frederick Carson Mencken in Paranormal America: Ghost encounters, UFO sightings, Bigfoot hunts, and other curiosities in religion and culture (2011) research shows that “more than 2/3 of Americans have paranormal beliefs with this being manifested in their penchant for movies with paranormal themes. This statistic is not alarming since evidently the paranormal and the supernatural have been a part of human culture since the beginning of time. In fact, in most religions paranormal experiences are either commonplace, or show up without alarm to the persons practicing that particular religion. While persons without ...

"I'm glad there's some folks gettin' interested in the old ways. This new generation don't know such things, but when they find the old songs and the tales, they'll delight in them." --Granny in Grandfather Tales (Chase & Williams, 1948) The Southern Appalachian region has a rich heritage of folklore and songs passed down orally from European immigrants settling in the mountain range situated from New York to Georgia (Abramson & Haskell, 2006) from the 18th to the 20th centuries (Hanlon, 2000). Since the middle of the 20th century, variations of the folktales have been compared to publications such as Grandfather ...

In the movie “The Sixth Sense,” the director employed varied techniques to bring about a valuable motion picture. Out of the many techniques evident in the movie, gothic symbols and motifs are paramount as these techniques bring about other aspects of the film such as thematic expressions. This paper explores different motifs and gothic symbols in the movie “The Sixth Sense.” Ultimately, the paper highlights the meaning or importance of the identified technique. Shyamalan (the director of the movie) consistently employs visual motifs through reflective objects such as glasses, windows, mirrors and many others. The visual motifs in “The ...

Act V, Scene III

“The lights burn blue. It is now dead midnight.

Cold and fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh.

What do I fear? myself? there's none else by: Richard loves Richard; that is, I am I. Is there a murderer here? No. Yes, I am: Then fly. What, from myself? Great reason why: Lest I revenge. What, myself upon myself? Alack. I love myself. Wherefore? for any good

That I myself have done unto myself?

O, no! alas, I rather hate myself For hateful deeds committed by myself! I am a villain: yet I lie. I am not”.

“Methought the souls of all who I had murdered

All came to my tent, and every one did threat This scene appears as the only time that ...

Superstitions in American culture

Superstitions refer to belief in magic and fear of the unknown, which leads individuals to adopt irrational behaviors. The influence of superstitions on individuals has remained strong throughout human history, but this influence has been declining with increased urbanization and education of the masses. The Halloween superstition reflects a fear of some power by human beings, which is beyond their understanding and control. However, some superstitions remain prevalent in American culture and other industrialized societies. During Halloween it is traditionally believed that it is a period that common myths, omens and folklore have more weight for the people who ...

The verbatim theater is considered as a type of documentary that is grounded on the spoken words from the people who record their testimonies on interviews concerning the topic or event not common in the mainstream society. The two examples of the verbatim plays are Robin Soans' ‘Talking to Terrorist' and Alan Valentine's ‘Parramatta Girls.' Both plays are similar because they portray social and political message but different in terms of approach and ideas. On one hand, Valentine shed light on the social perspective to portray the issues that are hidden from the mainstream society and bring the stories ...

The Grass Dancer, a book written by Susan Power, who descends from the Native American Sioux people, fascinates the reader with the elaborateness of the plot, complex kinship and thematic saturation. Power weaves a complex story of life and relationships of a young Sioux Harley Wind Soldier living in a reservation in Dakota and struggling to regain his identity. However, the far from being one-sided or hackneyed: the author deploys various techniques to portray the story of the entire Sioux Nation through the array of interrelated characters. However, the main peculiarity of the book lies in Power’s careful ...

Motherhood is a sacred act for each woman. It is the most powerful and spiritual component of a woman’s life. Published in 1987, “Beloved” by Toni Morrison depicts heart-wrenching lives of African slaves and explores the mother-child relationship and the experience of black women in an unjust and prejudiced society. “Beloved” was based on the real story of a slave woman called Margaret Garner who killed her own child. This masterpiece emphasizes the barbaric and cruel effects of slavery and oppression of black women in the circumstances of racial inequality and abusive behaviors. They were not allowed to ...

Crisis in Denmark is an article written by William Shakespeare in the 1590s. The play is set in the kingdom of Denmark, whose King is Claudius. He killed his brother King Hamlet and was engaged to his brother’s wife Gertrude, the queen of Denmark. Gertrude had a son known as Prince Hamlet, who is eager to revenge his father’s death (King Hamlet). Back in his mind, he knows his uncle Claudius is the course of his father’s death after his father appeared to him as a ghost, also seen earlier by Bernardo, Marcellus, and Horatio Hamlets’ ...

1. Topic: Media Ethics in Movies. 2. Title: Crafty Sensationalism: How much should movies invent? 3. Claim: Some movie genres have always been controversial and have faced the ire of realists who questions the sensationalism. Movies such as Ghost in the Shell present a sensationalized version of our world, which leaves its audience with an imaginative world which is far from reality and might never exist. The impact is seen in children, as they do not have the developed mind to understand it is fictional. They fear possibilities of the events happening in the real world. Such level of ...

Final Reflective Portfolio

This paper is a reflection of the skills I have gained in this class. It focuses on four texts and analyses them as indicators of my development as a reader and creator of literary and cultural texts. Three of the analyzed texts were created for this class while the fourth was written for a math class.

Part 1: Texts

The Ultimate Book of Martial Arts Fay Goodman's book entitled The Ultimate Book of Martial Arts is already an entertaining read by itself. However, different parts of the book contain paratextual elements that give it a new meaning and make it a more ...

At the beginning of the play, Hamlet, the son of Hamlet, the king or in other words, Hamlet, the prince, is introduced to the reader as being a university student who had been studying at Wittenberg. He has had to leave his studies to go and attend to the death of his father in Denmark. Although he was very loyal and loved his father so much, he gets disappointed when he gets home and finds that his uncle Claudio, has married his mother, Gertrude. His love for his father comes out when even Claudio realizes that Hamlet was sad, ...

Toni Morrison uses the literal mode of magical realism in Beloved as a decolonizing agent for the post-colonial context as narrated in the story. Morrison uses both magic and realism to narrate the experiences and life of African Americans during the post-colonial period. It focuses on the experience of ex-slaves trying to rebuild their lives in the United States after being freed from slavery. Morrison also uses the narrative as a way of addressing some of the silent experiences about the African Americans under the slavery of the white man. Sethe, the protagonist in the story is from the ...

William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” has been celebrated as one of the best plays ever written, and its popularity is proven by the fact that the play is still being enacted, centuries after being presented to the public for the first time. Partially, its universal appeal is explained by the fact that the play tackles issues that are still relevant for the contemporary audiences, such as betrayal, revenge and love, among many others. The play’s universality is so great that director Michael Almereyda was able to adapt it to the screen by changing the setting of the story to ...

The Ghost Map, by Steven Johnson, is a narrative that revealed how diseases spread, how cities developed and how people viewed science in 1854. Integrative thinking and the ability to make connections enabled Dr. John Snow to trace the pattern of the disease to its origin. John’s ability to make a connection between the epidemic and the water the people consumed was marvelous. It enabled him to save people’s lives. It is, therefore, important to have an open mind and think in a connective manner. This is a narrative that took place in 1854 during summer. London, ...

Ghost stories and narratives can take many different forms and change according to history, location and culture. What is considered scary in one culture could be dismissed as a fantastic tale or a comical narrative by another. The cultural values and everyday narratives of the people in a certain location determine what is scary and what is not. The West and the East have different cultural values and beliefs. They differ not only in simple matters such as greeting a stranger but also in the principles that govern their conduct in life and business. These differences are also evident ...

Hamlet is a play written by Willian Shakespear which deals with loss and revenge, religion and love. Prince Hamlet is a tragic hero who dies, but fulfills his mission which is to avenge his father who was killed by his brother, Claudius. Instead of looking forward to a bright future with Ophelia, Hamlet engages himself in a mission full of acting, deception and hypocrisy. The final result is the tragedy which ends with the death of all of the main characters. Hamlet is a tragic hero who is successful in realizing his goals and who dies due to being ...

With the evolvement of the society, increase of our Planet’s population and accessibility of gained information the number of times the news about occurred serial killings escalates. It is logical to assume that the general number of active serial killers increases with time at least due to the statistical approach to the question. Based on the conducted research this work will explain what makes a serial killer kill on the example of a fictional character form a popular TV show Dexter Morgan. In order to understand the serial killer’s actions the paper will examine all of the ...

Introduction: Hamlet is a famous drama written by William Shakespeare, between the year 1599- 1600. Hamlet, the lead character in the play is the prince of Denmark. There are various themes in the play. For example, the difference between appearance and reality. Prince Hamlet was torn between appearance and realities that happened in his life. The following text of Act III, scene iii of the play is analyzed: “A brother’s murder, he says, is the oldest sin and “hath the primal eldest curse upon” (Semper 79; De Grazia 83). Hamlet is the most complex character ever written by ...

Guillermo Del Toro’s Spanish horror-fantasy film The Devil’s Backbone is a unique ghost story for its time, given the film’s setting during the Spanish Civil War and the morally ambiguous nature of the ghosts found in the film. In telling the story of a small orphanage in rural Spain in the early 1930s, haunted by a small boy named Santi whose death provides one of the central mysteries, The Devil’s Backbone mixes the high fantasy of fairy tales with the gritty despair of one of Spain’s most tumultuous historical periods. As evidenced in the ...

The folklore refers to the wisdom, information and the human expression that is passed on anonymously from one generation to the other or circulated and transmitted as the traditional cultural behavior. The Canadian folklore includes the legends, songs, rhymes, songs, proverbs, superstitions, weather lore and the practices like the traditional craft-making and food making To become the folklore, the story, belief or custom must undergo the process of the ‘folklorization’ and meet the criteria approved by the community intended. The item may undergo the process many times to qualify. In Canada, the anonymity with the general recognition, variation and ...

Ghost stories and narratives can take many different forms and change according to the history, location and culture of a place. What is considered scary in one culture could be dismissed as a fantastic tale or a comical narrative by another culture. The cultural values and every day narratives of the people in a certain physical location determines what is scary and what is not. The west and the east have different cultural values and beliefs. they differ not only in simple matters such as greeting a stranger but also the principles that govern their conduct in life and ...

Dali's Bio

Salvador Dali, also known as Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali y Domenech is a reputable Spanish and he is perhaps well known for his artistic works such as the Persistence of Memory and the painting of melting clocks. On May 11, 1904, Dali was born in Figueres, Spain. Since his early age, he has been encouraged to practice the art and in the 1920s, he decided to travel to Paris where he interacted with reputable artists such as Miro, Magritte, and Picasso (Ranker, Sec.1). The interaction with these artists influenced him to develop his initial Surrealist phase. However, he was ...

Introduction

This novel revolves around kitchen, and its contextual interpretation is in the Mexican society. The recipe was a major element to the Mexican kitchen, and it signified the life endeavors in this society. The thesis of this essay is a discussion on various attributes of the Mexican kitchen through the ailing Mama Elena, her three daughters and the surrounding love inferno between Tita and Pedro in the contextual ranch setup. 1. What was the general interpretation of this novel, and what impacts did it have? ( what conversations did it start or what understanding did the book generally bring to ...

GMO is genetically modified organism. It has become very wide spread in our world. However, not all the people are aware of what GMO is and what it does to their bodies. Many consumers are buying products at the grocery store and are clueless that they have become a part of the global experiment. Nowadays many activists are trying to explain people what GMO is and how it works. David Suzuki and BBC Documentary “Ghost in Your Genes” provide a lot of explanation to the issue of GMO in the modern world. Overpopulation is one of the main reasons ...

After seeing the pamphlet on “Ghostblasters,” a business dedicated to remove ghost from the home through a scientific process, it was important to explore how legitimate this claim is. Typically, there is not even proof of ghosts as an actual reality, but rather a myth to frighten young children. Here, there is business advertising and collecting money from individuals who seek their services believing there has been an “ectoplasmic” removal of the ghost materials. Not only has the proof of ghosts been inconclusive from a scientific point, but the possibility to remove something that has not even been proven ...

The Dawes Act (1887) The Dawes Act of 1887 was intended to assimilate Native Americans, with the intent of making them more like white Americans. To do so, various Native American tribes were removed from their homelands and relocated to areas called Indian Territory. Upon arrival at their new lands, they were told that the land they now occupied was to be owned communally, whereas, prior to the Dawes Act, Native American tribal communities individually owned their own familial lands. On February 8, 1887, the 49th Congress went on to specify in detail, how these communal lands were to ...

Analysis of the Character of Shakespeare's Macbeth in the Social and Historical Contexts

The play "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare, which is based on the Scottish history, appears to be not so much a work of art as a political response to the era in which it was necessary to develop a Scottish theme, emphasize the historical friendship of England and Scotland, and tell about the popular witches and witchcraft at the new royal court. Undoubtedly, tragedies are the creative heritage of William Shakespeare. They express the power of his brilliant mind and the essence of his era, precisely because the subsequent periods comprehended their conflicts through the prism of the Shakespearean works ...

Introduction

The World Bewitched (1965) was written by Bekker to outline theological and philosophical viewpoints that challenged the notion that ghosts, devils, and angels had an influence on historical events, as well as nature.The story was written at a time when Christianity was being perfected in England and the rest of Europe. During this time, The World Bewitched (1965) was written, Bekker served as a minister in Amsterdam. Protestants needed a philosophical and theological approach to accentuate the assumption that God was the ruler of the world. The need to project God as the authority while discrediting the influence of ...

Introduction

The Dubliner collection is an assortment of narratives by James Joyce, which he compiled at the tender age of only twenty-three years. The collection is composed of literary, influential and revolutionary stories covering different aspects of politics, and even social matters. The Dubliners is characterized by different themes. These issues revolve around terrorizing moments experienced by characters. The themes connected to death or mortality as referred in the text, includes suffering, isolation, and disappointments. These topics take on physical, mental, political and even spiritual anguish. The authors explain that the affected individuals are to some extent responsible for what ...

Dualism

The theory of dualism in terms of mind and matter was first theorised by Rene Descartes and was called as Cartesian Dualism. According to him, mind was divided into two parts: res extensa (extended substance) and res cogitans (thinking substance). Res extensa is the physical substance, which is extended in space; whereas, res cogitans is that which has no physical body and attributes to the thought process of a person. According to Descartes, it was this non-physical part of you which forms the real you. Further, it is the two-way interaction between the physical body and non-spatial thinking substance ...

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark or the Hamlet is one of the most famous tragedies written by William Shakespeare. It tells a story of the Danish prince Hamlet who wanted to retaliate upon his uncle Claudius. The man killed his brother king and took his place. Hamlet found the truth with the aid of his father’s ghost and decided to revenge. His actions led to the death of all main and the most part of the secondary characters. The prince did not survive too. The Hamlet was performed and cinematized many times. Researchers also create theories ...

Each and every piece of art is being connected to some particular period of history: to its key events, to its main personalities. The appearance of the photography has made the artists’ reactions onto some particular events even more intense, as it gave them much more freedom for the creation. Nowadays, one of such key issues of the modern world is the terrorism and each artist sees this issue differently, putting his or hers own sense in it. What do pictures tell the viewer? First of all, they teach to think and to try to find some hidden elements ...

The logistical system ensures goods circulate in the global trade system uninterrupted; however, there may emerge a threat that jeopardizes the huge logistical chain, even with one of the important links like a seaport targeted by cyber terrorists. The computerization of navigation and other important vessel and transportation management systems has brought as many benefits like cost efficiency and speed as it has vulnerabilities. Just as new technologies have penetrated the system of vessels control, so too have cybercriminals taking advantage of overreliance on IT and crew reduction. From changing the course of vessels of moving drugs in the ...

Gertrude’s relevance in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is threefold: she is the mother of the hero, the widow of the Ghost, and the wife of Claudius, the current King of Denmark. Still, her hasty and even incestuous marriage portrays her character in a negative way despite the fact that she played no role in the killing of Hamlet’s father, the previous king of Denmark who also happens to be the Ghost of the tale. Carolyn Heilbrun’s The Character of Hamlet’s Mother argues against the view of the woman as “shallow” simply because of her lustful ...

VISUALIZING DEATH AND ITS POTENTIAL MEANING

VISUALIZING DEATH AND ITS POTENTIAL MEANING

Introduction

It is in ones desire to go skydiving and hope that the parachute pulls, but still questioning its possibilities. It is in ones desire to drive a car much too fast to control but believing one is fully capable of not necessarily cheating death. It is ones desire to drink a large amount of alcohol, knowingly, all at once. It is the death drive, the instinct towards chaos. Primarily it can be said that throughout the entirety of this essay we will explore many different ways in which death has been, and can ...

This paper is going to examine how the author has gone about to explore the subject at hand which is the existence of ghosts in ancient Chinese belief systems. Within it will be detailed arguments that the author, Mu-Chou Poo, makes and make an informed decision whether he has successively examined the merits and the shortcomings of the sources he uses for information. This work will be divided into paragraphs that summarize the main points concerning the topic at hand and examine whether the author has indeed studied both sides of the historical sources. Mo-Chou Poo is a revered ...

This paper is going to examine how the author has gone about to explore the subject at hand which is the existence of ghosts in ancient Chinese belief systems. Within it will be detailed arguments that the author, Mu-Chou Poo, makes and make an informed decision whether he has successively examined the merits and the shortcomings of the sources he uses for information. This work will be divided into paragraphs that summarize the main points concerning the topic at hand and examine whether the author has truly studied both sides of the historical sources. Mo-Chou Poo is a revered ...

A short film “Ghost Recon: Alpha” is the background to the game “Ghost Recon: Future Soldier”, released in 2012 (Alaux et al.). The French company, engaged in the video games production, Ubisoft performed the adaptation of the given film. After a bad start of the game Prince of Persia on the big screen, Ubisoft came to a more serious approach to this issue. Ubisoft decided to perform shootings of the acclaimed video game series “Assassin's Sreed” through its own efforts and at its own expense, thereby fully preserving copyright movies. Such a move is quite expected, as this will ...

Introduction

The minority of works is appealing to find an association between the popularization of the anti-hero concept with the trends and moods actual in the society of nowadays. Therefore, in order to both provide the reasons for anti-hero popularization and explain the importance of this concept for modern society, the following research will consider the most popular and significant anti-heroes depicted in modern literature. In particular, the research will focus on anti-heroes created by Marvel comics due to the fact that comics provide the easiest and the most favorable way to represent the heroes, anti-heroes and villains to the ...

Published around 1600, William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” has enjoyed incessant success with changing generations of viewers due to the complexity of its characters and its universal themes which continue to fascinate the audience. One of the most important themes in the work is madness and this subject has been intensely studied by critics. Hamlet’s madness or “antic disposition” appears to represent a flaw in Hamlet’s character, meant to hide his weak character and instable personality. In the play, this disposition causes great unrest among other characters, as people fear Hamlet’s madness, or his simulation of madness, ...

Edwidge Danticat is a popular Haitian-American writer who has succeeded in gaining acclamations from different sections of the society. Danticat writes extensively on issues that affect women, sexuality and immigrants. Danticat has learnt a lot from her own experiences and is gifted with deep understanding of literature. Danticat has won several awards for her fierce and issues based writing. This paper proposes a discussion on Edwidge Danticat and further analyses her literary works. Danticat was born in Haiti on 19th January, 1969. Her parents migrated into United States without her when she was just nine years old. Danticat and ...

Andre Breton a well renowned French writer and a poet were born in a modest family in Normandy. In his research, he mainly majored in psychiatry and medicine. During the World War II, he participated as a doctor in a neurological ward in Nantas where his research on the artistic tradition started. The main influences for his study were the anti-social behavior that was exhibited by some of his patients. For instance, Jacques Vache, a young patient at the age of 24 years committed suicide and wrote several letters that were published in an introductory essay called Letters de querre in 1919. The novelist married ...

Reading Response Questions

This paper serves as an advice to Randy Marsh on some of the investment options he has, if he needs to increase his savings by 25%. It explores a few of the technical analysis tools to try to justify when and why it is important to time his buying and selling of stocks at the United States stock market.

Currently, his savings stand at $550000, so increasing it by 25% takes it to $687500. He must maximize his profits so as to achieve this.

In the snow child, Angela Carter uses an imagery/symbolism effect to achieve literary success in ...

Alphonse Macharia Mucha was a decorative artist and painter from Czech Republic. He is famous for his distinct style in art. He came up with many designs, postcards, advertisements, illustrations, and paintings. He mostly painted theatrical scenery. His works of art were previously known as The Mucha style but later on became Art Nouveau meaning new art in French. Most of Mucha’s art works featured young women, classic robes, with lavish flowers surrounding them. In most of his works, Mucha made use of pale pastel colours. Mucha used most of his art works to express himself. He even stated ...

In the operations problems subtopics on various aspects of the activities is considered. The technical/Contracts department, headed by a contracts manager, was the docket responsible with project estimations, preparation claims and procurement of the material. During the surveying of the project, the quantity surveyor gave the management the estimated cost of bidding on the price of bidding of the project. There resulted a costing error due to the time constraints in meeting of the bid submission details. During material procurement, as stated prior to 2009, the construction materials and supplies were normally ordered by the head office from time to time ...

The 1990 film entitled ‘Ghost’ starred by Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze and directed by Jerry Zucker was among the most popular depiction of the afterlife in modern media. In the film, Swayze, who played the part of Sam Wheat, Molly Jensen’s (Demi Moore) lover was killed yet remained on earth as a ghost. It was quite intriguing how Swayze’s character was able to co-exist between two different realms, enabling him to actively participate in its events. For some reason, the notion of afterlife in pop culture is that dead people or their souls still remain on ...

Question one

Science fiction is a sub- class of the horror film. Science fiction films sometimes often get confused with horror films. These two genres complement each other, and they have similarities because science fiction is said to have got adopted from traditional horror films. These two genres have distanced themselves from reality by use of fantasy and elements that get futuristic. Victims in horror films are shown as helpless completely, while science fiction shows the victims with more resilience. Alien a science fiction film of 1979 shows aliens getting defeated by technology and weapons. While the thing a horror film produced in 1982 ...

Act I

- The ghost of the king may have returned as a way of bringing bad news to the country according to Horatio - Guards are keeping watch because it is their duty to guard the castle. At the same time, the country is about to go to war and so they have to be ready for anything. - In Act I Scene IV, there is foreshadowing where Hamlet’s father appears to him as a ghost and tells him about his murder. Pathetic fallacy is seen when Francisco says that “its bitter cold and I am sick ...

Shakespeare was not just one of the most prolific playwrights of his time, but of all time. An quick Internet search revealed that the general consensus is that he wrote in his lifetime thirty-seven different plays—comedies, tragedies and histories. Of his tragedies, few would argue that any is as tragic as Hamlet, whose protagonist is considered the iconic tragic character. The realities he faces are some of the most unimaginable hardships any human being could imagine going through. These difficulties leave their mark on Hamlet as a person, and the consequences of them become his consequences. This essay explores ...

The purpose of this essay is to analyze and explain the satire of religious thought that Gustave Flaubert has established in the form of Loulou, the parrot, whose body is an incarnation of the Holy Ghost. Through Loulou, Flaubert seems to be mocking all parrotry, and he makes the parrot mindlessly repeat all sorts of clichés. In fact, the parrot’s own name comprises of the repetition of the word “Lou.” There is a scene in the book when visitors to at the house are admiring Loulou. One of the visitors marvels why the parrot is not named ...

Jean Rhys’ I Used to Live Here Once, is an unusually short story. However, it is also unusually memorable, which is always a sign of an effective piece of work. Through the use of point of view, symbolism, imagery, and other narrative techniques, Rhys explores a delicate theme in a subtle yet powerful way.

I Used to Live Here Once is a rather shadowy tale of a woman who appears to be a ghost calling on her childhood home. The narrator trails the woman on her walk from a near river and along an old road that leads to the house in which she spent her ...

In today’s digital age of filmmaking, traditional filmmaking has been eclipsed by computer-generated imagery (CGI), digital film recording, and all manner of other filmmaking tools used to bring the impossible to life. With digital cinema, production styles have become innovated and advanced to a turning point, in which the future of cinema is in a state of flux – does digital cinema overtake traditional filmmaking, or can it be used to underline unique thematic content and as a valuable tool for filmmakers? Perhaps the most apropos way to examine digital cinema and its applications to film is to explore how they are ...

English 2310 – 401

Interpretation of Themes in ‘Hamlet’ The play Hamlet remains William Shakespeare’s most popular play on stage and off-stage. As a play, “Hamlet portrays the doubts and fears of a conflicted prince whose dead father places the most burdensome of obligations on him: to avenge the king’s murder at the hand of his brother and Hamlet’s uncle, Claudius, who also marries the widowed queen, Gertrude” (652). Hamlet portrays the Prince’s unpretentious character as he attempts to find the truth about his father’s death and seek revenge. The Prince is weak and indecisive, and yet he also ...

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in heaven was a novel written by Sherman Alexie in order to demonstrate the unique strain that has been placed on his people, the Native American peoples, in a changing world. One way in which he distinctly demonstrates the impact that environment, or a changing environment can have on the Native American people is through the story telling of the Character Thomas Builds-the-Fire. Thomas is, at his core, a character that seems to live in the spiritual realm. As such, he tells stories that extend beyond himself, and demonstrate what he sees as major issues effecting the ...