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Critique Of The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari

... unheard of because filmakers felt that the subject matter was tasteless or even repulsive, not to mention difficult to adjust to the silent screen. The first horror film on record was Frankenstein in 1910. Elements from Frankenstein are evident in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. When the demonic somnambulist Cesare creeps into Lil Dagover's bedchamber, director Robert Wiene was exploiting a fear common to us all. Prone and sleeping the woman is uttlerly helpless. She is carried off into the expressionist labyrinth that Wiene use ...

Number of words: 464 | Number of pages: 2

Themes Of Unity In The Grapes

... California only to find that work is scarce and human labor and life are cheap. Tom Joad, the eldest son in the family, starts the book freshly out of jail and slowly evolves from selfish goals to a sense of an ideal worldly purpose in uniting people against injustice. Jim Casy, an errant preacher who is accepted into the Joad family early into the story, changes his beliefs to include all people in a sort of oversoul, as he helps to organize the workers to battle the extreme injustice done onto them by the farm owners and discriminating l ...

Number of words: 1506 | Number of pages: 6

Remains Of The Day By Kazuo Is

... butler.” Stevens possesses “the emotional restraint which only the English race are capable of” (43). When his father takes ill during a major dinner party, Stevens remains calm and goes on with his duties. After Stevens’ father passes away he says to Miss Kenton, “please don’t think me unduly improper in not ascending to see my father in his deceased condition just at this moment. You see, I know my father would have wished me to carry on just now” (106). Stevens is capable of going about his work after his father has died, whic ...

Number of words: 666 | Number of pages: 3

Big Brother: Who Is He And What Does He Want

... is a picture of a large face. It is never really said wether Big Brother is a real person or one made up by the Party to force te ideas and beliefs on the people of Oceania. Either way, everyone has to love Big Brother, if someone even has a bad thought about Big Brother or writes, says, or thinks anything bad about the party they will be arrested, killed or beaten and tortured into loving the Party. People of Oceania are forced into thinking and believing certain things, this is where Big Brother comes in. People are made to believe that ...

Number of words: 756 | Number of pages: 3

Satire In Huck Finn

... Huck seems to lose his slave companion Jim after coming ashore. Huck then is introduced to Buck Grangerford (about the same age as Huck) and is allowed to stay in the Grangerford household. The Grangerford family consists of Buck, who is a young adventurous boy, Emmiline, a fourteen year old that was dead girl, Bob, Tom, Miss Charlotte, and Miss Sophia. The Grangerfords showed all the signs of being upper class by having an extremely nice house, acting properly, and each member of the family had their own servant. Eventually it becomes apparen ...

Number of words: 675 | Number of pages: 3

1984 Big Brother Is Watching Y

... of us can remember, and it is authority that dictates the way we act. Authority is based on instinct. When we receive an order, we intuitively react and follow the command. At first, we do not think, nor contemplate the effects that come as a result of our actions. In 1984, we get a sense of a greater authority in Big Brother. Although we never come to know if Big Brother actually exists, the power and authority that this idol holds over the people is unimaginable. The people of Oceania are divided into two classes, the members of the Part ...

Number of words: 1160 | Number of pages: 5

Black Elk Speaks

... the lives of the Sioux and other tribes of that period. The priest or holy man calling himself Black Elk was born in the December of 1863, to a family in the Ogalala band of the Sioux. Black Elk's family was well known, and he counted the famed Crazy Horse as a friend and cousin. Black Elk's family was likewise acknowledged as a family of wise men, with both his father and grandfather themselves being holy men bearing the name Black Elk. The youngest Black Elk soon experienced a vision as a young boy, a vision of the wisdom inherent ...

Number of words: 1311 | Number of pages: 5

Kafka's The Trial

... began in his early years. He had a depressing childhood, caused by an abusive relationship with his father, which affected all of his relationships later in life. In the novel, The Trial, Joseph K's ordeal with the court can be compared to the relationship he had with his father. As a result of the abuse, Kafka suffered with feelings of inadequacy and oppression and had difficulty making decisions throughout his life. Just as Joseph K is accused of a crime but is never told what it is he has been accused of, Kafka is haunted by his father's ...

Number of words: 1156 | Number of pages: 5

Kate Chopins The Awakening

... of their quadroon nurse. Leonce smokes a cigar and watches as his wife, Edna, and young Robert Lebrun, Mrs. Lebrun's son, slowly stroll from the beach. He urges Edna to swim at a cooler time of the day after he notes her sunburn. He invites Robert to play some billiards at Klein's hotel, but Robert prefers to stay and talk with Edna. Edna is handsome, engaging woman. Robert is a clean-shaven, carefree young man. He discusses his plans to go to Mexico at the end of the summer on business. She talks about her childhood in Kentucky bluegrass c ...

Number of words: 10531 | Number of pages: 39

On The Island: A Review

... is prompted by the integration of a stranger into the family through marriage, as would seem to be the case in this short story. Doris' son John has in a subconscious way transferred his love to his wife Annette. As children grow up, the need to free themselves from their parents grow stronger. This is a perfectly normal process, but it does not have to mean that they should completely ostracize their parents. Doris has recognized that she is no longer very necessary in John's life and has accepted this with quiet resignation ...

Number of words: 1232 | Number of pages: 5

Twain's" A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court" Satire

... story also suggest that Twain was also satirizing the flaws in the author's own nineteenth century society(Wiggins 80). If we look at the character progression of both Hank Morgan and Merlin, the reader can easily see Twain's dual-criticism. When Hank arrives in Camelot, he quickly rises to power. His manipulation of public opinion regarding him by the use of "miracles" immediately brings Hank to the realization that he can basically do whatever he pleases. His knowledge of nineteenth century technology makes Hank Morgan a "human sta ...

Number of words: 734 | Number of pages: 3

A Farewell To Arms - Love And

... topsy-turvy one, and then letting each one assume a role which will bring them closer together, Hemingway shows the pair's inability to accept "the hard, gratuitous quality of life." Stubbs begins by showing other examples, notably in In Our Time and The Sun Also Rises, in which Hemingway's characters revert to role-playing in order to escape or retreat from their lives. The ability to create characters who play roles, he says, either to "maintain self-esteem" or to escape, is one Hemingway exploits extraordinarily well in A Farewell to Arms ...

Number of words: 868 | Number of pages: 4

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