Part one of term paper
Like Moses among the bullrushes Oedipus on the mountainside, or Snow White in her Disneyland forest, Charlie Chaplin's The Kid is a tale whose underlying archetype has enthralled audiences of all ages: the abandoned child found in the wilderness. But unlike his more privileged mythological predecessors, who at least had the good fortune to be ...

Part two of term paper
... London. Ambling down the alley, taking his daily constitutional while deftly ducking the flying garbage heaved by householders from the tenement windows above, the Little Tramp appears. With fastidiously impeccable manners, he slips off his walking gloves before selecting a cigarette butt from his smoking case, an old sardine can. Pausing to note the worn condition of those shabby fingerless gloves, he tosses them away with the cavalier panache of a gentleman of leisure with a dozen other pairs of ...