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emphasized. Harker is clearly in foreign territory. This point is even emphasized by the Count who tells Harker, "We are in Trans...
not take a sedate woman? That would be more fitting than a little skittish thing of a girl." However, Ronan could not be stopped, ...
by his friend Lieutenant Rinaldi who is determined to arrange for the two of them to meet up with some British nurses. At this poi...
of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!" (Conrad PG)....
character is testified to by the fact that so many movies have been made which were inspired by it. Within each, regardless of ho...
quiet sense of mystery introduces us to the events. We gain a sense of suspense and a bit of mystery in the fact that Mr. Utter...
to the devastating events of WWI and they are constantly searching for something. With their characters we find their attachment t...
when she comes across her father once more, when he is mad and lost and truly a tragic figure, she does the right thing and stands...
her story, she shares that her grandmother, a very strict woman and set in her ways, decides that Janie should be married off to s...
goading and nagging, contributed to Macbeths downfall; however, when one examines the play that the main impetus to Macbeths actio...
specifically tailored their works to suit the tastes of their Athenian audiences, mirroring the "fears, tensions, and potential vi...
Shakespeares characters that the audience (or the reader) immediately understands will not have an easy time of it. The story of "...
flashbacks in the movie) (Street 48). Through these interviews, the audience learns that Kane inherited a fortune at a young age, ...
although he makes it clear that it is not "Ghoul") calls on the Birling family of Yorkshire and although everything appears to be ...
any film based on a novel, there is much that is left out. And, interestingly enough, if it were up to anyone but Peter Jackson, t...
and brother, "If a physician of high standing, and ones own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing th...
manner by which Garcia Marquez achieves this objective is through magic realism. In a world that combines fantasy and reali...
it clear that there are many unsolved frictions between the two sisters, frictions which include the fact that the youngers husban...
the town of Bisbee. "It is July 20, 1989, early afternoon, monsoon season in the Sonoran Desert, and I am going back to Bisbee. A...
Quixote does hold some hope for the future. Cervantes was also disgruntled with the political systems as well. Just as Don Quixote...
in Twains book is that which involves dialect, a subject that gained a great deal of criticism when the book came out. From the ve...
Okonkwo relished in the traditions which consolidated his power within the village and reinforced his identity. The supreme test ...
News Service). Even that consideration, however, is worthy of additional introspect in regard to the intended cultural meaning of...
In some scenes featuring very dark-skinned Bernie Mac, the only thing absolutely visible on the screen was the whites of the actor...
shining armor since he has redesigned his house to look like a castle. However, he does not bring this kind and generous nature in...
growing stronger and more defiant with every passing episode. "...Homer certainly recognizes the notion of intention, and in many...
stir" as it was the date of a double festival: that of the Festival of the Three Kings and that of the Feast of Fools (Hugo, I, I)...
these nonverbal cues that reveal more than the spoken dialogue. Alfred Hitchcocks reputation as the cinemas "Master of Suspense" ...
given a task to perform and in doing so derives some sort of personal meaning from it. He may meet with a great series of misfortu...
of the government was quick and without "civil commotion." But while Machiavelli praises Agathocles on one hand, he also points ...