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Cinematic and Literary Representations of Vanity

necromantic books are heavenly!" (Marlowe, Act 1, Li 40-50). Having made his decision to...

Dutch Vanitas Paintings and Vanity

the human body. In Leiden, the first important Vanitas painter was David Bailly (1584-1657), and later Pieter Claesz (c. 1596-166...

Nineteenth Century Romantic Literature

In five pages this paper examines h ow 'The Vanity of Human Wishes' by Samuel Johnson and William Wordsworth's 'Ode Intimations o...

Tremors Science Fiction Film Review

to avoid being consumed, Bacon, Ward, Finn and a number of townspeople spend a significant amount of time on the roof of houses, h...

Martin Scorsese Cinematic Comparison

In nine pages Bringing Out the Dead and Taxi Driver are contrasted and compared in terms of themes, characterization, and cinemati...

Africa's Cinematic History

Africa had been claimed by one European nation or another. The nations claiming Africa were Belgium, France, Germany, Great Bri...

Art Questions

page. The use of negative space to enhance the darkness of the central image is important to creating a tone for the site, and th...

Oleanna by David Mamet

In five pages this play in three acts is analyzed in its representation of themes emotional warfare, power, and sex....

STANLEY TOOLS

on product leadership. Stanley is in very good shape, in many ways. Stanley is a brand that many people recognize. Weve been aroun...

Excalibur, A Cinematic Representation of Arthurian Legend

his sword and kneels commanding that his enemy should knight him. Overcome with Arthurs bravery, as the noble could just as easily...

Three Decades of Cinematic Representations of Their Respective Times

In six pages this report analyzes how Gold Diggers of 1933, Casablanca, and Invasion of the Body Snatchers each represent their re...

Frame Concept and Cinematic Representation

surprise twist at the end - the camera, representing the subjective perspective of the audience, is "run over" by a car rather tha...

Cinematic Gender Representation

choice to live and abide by a certain set of unwritten expectations. The movie, Menage, directly challenges this idea. Powrie al...

Culture and Women in Slavenka Drakulic's Makeup and Other Crucial Questions and Maxine Hong Kingston's No Name Woman

In six pages this essay compares and contrasts these literary works in terms of their representation of women and culture. There ...

Issue of Mortality in Literature and in Life

is common knowledge. Who does not worry about death? Even children, from a very young age, often ask the ultimate question which i...

Interpretation of Edgar Allan Poe's Writings

In eleven pages Poe's writings are interpreted in terms of its representation of conflict as well as pastoral with such works as '...

The Mask by Fumiko Enchi, Turn of the Screw by Henry James, and Gender

Enchis The Mask. The governesss crisis, as I read it, arises in her struggle to define herself (as we all must) in terms of the ga...

Theme of Vengeance The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende and Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

In seven pages the thematic representation of violence in these literary works is contrasted and compared. There is 1 source cite...

Comparative Analysis of 'Representations of General Nature' in 'A Haunted House' by Virginia Woolf and 'Barn Burning' by William Faulkner

This paper applies Samuel Johnson's contention that 'representations of general nature' should be featured in good stories in a co...

Greed in Henrik Ibsen's 'Hedda Gabler,' Voltaire's 'Candide' and Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Canterbury Tales'

male dominance. Heddas immoral, destructive character is a direct product of the oppressiveness of a patriarchal society. As a m...

"We Be Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks, "The Lesson" by Toni Cade Bambara, and "Shiloh" by Bobbie Ann Mason and the American Dream

The thematic representation of the American dream in two literary genres (1 poem and 2 short stories) is discussed in 9 pages. Th...

Literary Representations of King Arthur's Death

the beginning, the play of the sword, and the final passage of Arthur. Malory and Tennyson: The Beginning In Malorys version o...

Literary and Cinematic Portrayal of Slavery

In seven pages this paper considers how slavery has been portrayed in cinema, stories, and books. Eleven sources are cited in the...

Film and TV Adaptations of King Lear, Hamlet, and Othello

of Hamlets famous soliloquies, except for the ones which heightened dramatic impact, such as "To Be or Not to Be." He shrewdly ch...

Cognitive Cinema Theory and Narration

night light. It sits in bedrooms and living rooms but has become something one does in place of nothing. Rather than sitting and r...

American Interpretations of Film Noir

of America had suffered through more than 15 years of deprivation in one form or another. The Great Depression that began with th...

Copyright Protection of Literary Works

the written word, either as a creative work or as a study (Lefevere, 1992). Under the 1988 a literary work has a broader definitio...

Portrayal of Women in Griselda by Boccaccio, Brothers Menaechmus by Plautus, and 'The Odyssey' by Homer

a distraction, as a goal, as a guide, and as an agent of social recognition (The Odyssey in Transit, 2000). Odysseus is indeed co...

Chinese Literary Works

the mountain (Fox Volant of the Snowy Mountain). As the characters wait for Fox Volant, they start to recall incidents from the p...

The Fifth Child, Angela's Ashes, Death of a Salesman and the Theme of Family Disintegration

play, wants this to the exclusion of reality. At the beginning of the play it becomes apparent that Willy is in trouble. Suffering...