Essays 61 - 90
hatred and prejudice was not the result of anything they had done but rather the result of the physical and cultural differences b...
they are dull-witted animals fit only for manual labor (Huxley). The idea of manufacturing sentient beings and then using chemical...
survival were still slim. Background information on Baumer and his comrades is filled in through flashbacks. In this fashion, th...
of violence and vengeance. The author explains that it was when she was in Maglaj that she came to a full understanding of war; t...
demented that he becomes a vessel for their agenda. Beginning with the setting, King has executed a masterful scene of susp...
a "filmy" eye, and in the narrators mind, it became an "evil" eye (Poe). The narrator, who is obviously mentally ill, decided he ...
action shot at a car race. To rely on an old clich?, he is "bored to tears." He spends most of his convalescent time sitting at th...
tales. While "The Oval Portrait" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" are distinctive in setting they share certain simil...
As Tom was a sleeping he had such a sight!/ That thousands of sweepers Dick, Joe, Ned, & Jack,/ Were all of them lockd up in coffi...
Zaks experience that the challenge of using outdated and outmoded expressions in a musical were too much for Zaks. He says, "The s...
style presented in this story, a style that clearly speaks of a dark and foreboding reality, we present some of the opening paragr...
Circumstances come to a crossroads for Seymour when he discovers an odd looking plant after a total eclipse of...
by her own relatives. She seems to learn that hard times can come from black as well as white folk. Annes first taste of how thing...
other horror films. For example, in many subtle ways there is the age old suspense that we often saw in Hitchcock films as subtle ...
emphasized. Harker is clearly in foreign territory. This point is even emphasized by the Count who tells Harker, "We are in Trans...
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...
mindless conformists, and sought to sound a warning through the medium of film (Caligari, in the figure of the mad doctor compelli...
horror film, according to director Elias Merhige, "The horror film transforms itself, adapting to our fears, to the things that we...
Film criticism and gender are discussed in relation to the horror genre. A look at sexual mores is included. This five page paper...
This report analyzed the Near Dark horror movie within the context of critic Robin Wood's observation that 'normality is threatene...
In six pages this paper discusses how violence in television is represented in reality, horror, and children's program genres. Fi...
The feminist rewriting of fairytales as reflected in this short story by Angela Carter is considered in a paper consisting of five...
In eight pages this paper examines the messages that exist within horror or ghost stories. Eleven sources are cited in the biblio...
as seen in the more recent Rocky Horror Picture Show, the cult classic appeals to audiences because it portrays a different perspe...
In six pages this paper examines the approaches to the horror genre by directors Alfred Hitchcock and Steven Spielberg in this con...
In eight pages this 1986 film is examined in terms of the horror genre and how it has always warned against the social changes res...
anxiety, continue through most of his lifes work. "Illness, madness and death were the black angels that kept watch over my cradl...
In five pages this reality text by Remarque on the horrors of war as experienced by young Paul Baumer during the First World War i...
In 5 pages this paper examines how the horror short story genre was developed in 'Rappaccini's Daughter' by Nathaniel Hawthorne an...
the horrific murders of her school friends tips off the audience that she is the deranged killers elusive victim. The audience is...