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by Billy Wilder) is regarded as a classic example of film noir. The screenplay was adapted from a novel by James M. Cain by Raymon...

adaptation of Harper Lees novel To Kill a Mockingbird, directed by Robert Mulligan, is a cinema classic that continues to move eac...

his attire was a bit gaudy for a man of his social position. I have long suspected that Montresor and Fortunato were jealous of ...

friends-who were all at the same class at school-had the idea that war is glorious and noble, an attitude encouraged by their teac...

is notable about Tolkien is that his world makes internal sense. Each race (Elves, Dwarves, Men, Orcs, etc.) has a distinct langua...

(Brackett & Wilder, 1950). Its the narrator, who is telling his story from beyond the grave. He says he wants to tell the real ...

more day and this is granted. Jason lamely agues that his abandonment of her and their children is for the best. After formulating...

his goods will be forfeit as well. Having already said in court that he wants only his "bond," Portia has him on the ropes when he...

(Eliot 30). In addition she is "likely to seek martyrdom," then try to escape it only to have it befall her when she stopped looki...

delivered, uncompleted phone calls, overtures not taken up, appeals repulsed. William Faulkner, who praised the novel, said that w...

most memorable stories and characters in American literature, and they remain popular to this day. This paper considers perhaps hi...

in drama, as well as two of the most destructive. This paper compares and contrasts the plays that bear their names. Discussion H...

shadow of a doorway, looking just like Sonny ... Then I saw that it wasnt Sonny, but somebody we used to know, a boy from around o...

entire character development is based on the idea that he is crucifying himself through the device of his mental anguish. He has n...

in presenting the various biographies that make up this text, citing the private documents of the emperors, as well as public sour...

ar?te (Hooker 1996). In the works of Homer such as the Iliad, ar?te is used to describe both the Greek and Trojan characters, in o...

come from the animal such as eggs. Some vegetarians also eat fish. Again, the rules very dependent upon the particular philosophy ...

at times the exact opposite of what is being said. The once well-known short stories of O. Henry are masterpieces of irony: in one...

the woman to his commander, but withdraws from the battlefield, refusing to fight in retaliation for the humiliation imposed upon ...

The choices which Anna and Vronsky make are disastrous for both. Through these choices, however, Anna will come to recognize the ...

can tell that ornamentation is a large part of this model. The Irish often added spirals and curves. One might look at these as co...

hit-and-run death of Toms mistress, the married Myrtle Wilson. Her widower is deceived into thinking Gatsby caused the accident, ...

is "large and stout for his age," meaning of course that hes much larger than the girl (Bront?, 2007). He is a glutton as well and...

ignore Lady Macbeths continual rants and her role in all of it. Just as the man who is "henpecked" claims that his wife drives him...

Author Karen Castellucci Cox notes in her literary analysis of The House of the Spirits, "Esteban speaks for an entire class and g...

achieved little even though they are in their 30s when the play opens. Linda, Willys wife, desperately tries to hold the family ...

real motivation or interest. Therefore, to have his body match the way that he has felt about himself for a long time does not gre...

a patch in the icy crust on one of the windows. The light seemed to look into the street almost consciously, as if it were watchi...

Luhrmann, "In Moulin Rouge, our ultimate Red Curtain gesture, music and song is the device that releases us from a naturalistic wo...

his rule to all those who regarded him as an interloper. He sought the assistance of his most trusted advisor, his brother-in-law...