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Romantic Era British Poets

a specific time or age. While romanticism will be prominent in certain epochs, because in its essential characteristics it is a sp...

Romantic Fiction's Gothic Genre

are generally seen as common to the Gothic novel, including a medieval or pseudo-medieval setting, a solitary protagonist and a se...

Monster Threat in the 1987 Horror Movie Near Dark

This report analyzed the Near Dark horror movie within the context of critic Robin Wood's observation that 'normality is threatene...

The Journey in Apocalypse and Heart of Darkness

bring his Kurtz back to civilization, Willard is instructed from the start to find and kill his Col. Kurtz. This difference is st...

A Review of Holes

A 5 page analysis of irony and dark humor in the book by Louis Sachar. Character and plot development revolve around both. 1 sourc...

Horror Film Evolution

mindless conformists, and sought to sound a warning through the medium of film (Caligari, in the figure of the mad doctor compelli...

Strange Life and Literary Journey of Hunter S. Thompson

be permanently altered when Thompson ran afoul of the law (Medenhall, 2004). A series of arrest would eventually land him...

Dark Drama Macbeth by William Shakespeare

audience is presented with circumstances and relationships where there is never a truly positive outcome for any of those involved...

Macbeth by William Shakespeare and the 'Dark' Theme of Revenge

the result of the action he has taken and that such "psychic" revenge is having a far more powerful impact on him than any possibl...

Big Trouble by Dave Barry

that group of people "who, merely by existing, tended to violate laws that solid citizens never even thought about, like how long...

Dark Suspense Elements in Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown' and Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado'

Dark suspense elements are the focus of this comparative analysis of two 19th century great American short stories in five pages. ...

Women and the African Diaspora

practices of their homelands. African Diaspora in the 21st Century Chukwu-Emeka Chikezie (2002) addresses the issues associated w...

Dark and Death Themed Comedy Plays

David Ives "All in the Timing" is a series of one act plays which tell the story of different situations all with a comical and...

Frank Norris's McTeague

his mother dies he was over six feet tall and with his blond hair was an imposing figure, he used the money to set up his own busi...

Images of Light and Dark in "Paradise Lost"

differ. But we are not interested here in the themes of the work but in its imagery. Further, as is well-documented, many readers...

Ebenezer Scrooge's Emotional State in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol

all intents and purposes, Ebeneezer Scrooge was extremely narcissistic, self-absorbed, vain and uncaring. According to the origina...

Mark Twain's Life Transition Represented by Huckleberry Finn

story we can see this as Huck states that "I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the wi...

Disease and Darkness Imagery in William Shakespeare's Macbeth

this counsel. When Lady Macbeth hears of he prophecy, she immediately begins to plot and plan. This scene if chilling in its ima...

Light and Darkness in James Baldwin's 'Sonny's Blues'

us with darkness and alienation. We note that Sonnys brother is a teacher, and he feels himself to be successful. He feels that ...

Infidelity in The Real Thing by Playwright Tom Stoppard

human being. Annies selfish behavior can be defined as individualism at its worst, inasmuch as she does not take into account the...

Analyzing Mark Twain's 'What Is Man'

death (As To Posthumous). There is one chapter, for instance, called "The Death of Jean" which was written just four months prior...

William Shakespeare's 'Dark Lady' Sonnet 127

In this way the sinfulness is likened to the darkness, since evil and dark tend to go hand in hand. And the fact that one is a mi...

Comparative Thematic Analysis of Apocalypse Now and Heart of Darkness

he was supposed to have picked up at this station has broken down, so he is delayed. He tries to make himself busy and during this...

Cinema and Time's Role

human being he is. This comes as a shock to Oliverio who is as bad as the rest in assuming that prostitutes have no brains. Actu...

Film Analysis/Kiss Me Deadly

(Ralph Meeker) swerves to avoid her and runs off the road. Angry, he snarls, "You almost wrecked my car. Well? Get in!" (Dirks, 20...

Wordsworth & Hardy/Perspectives on Nature

First and foremost, the Thrush is seen by this Romantic poet in heroic terms, as a male facing the storm of the public world in or...

The God of Small Things and Sexual Transgression's Dark Reality Symbolism

so clearly it is evident why the Indian people placed such importance on caste and took the entire system so seriously....

Analyzing U.S. Labor Unions

the government was concerned, there was much less power upon industry, and the combination of these factors entirely changed the e...

Analyzing 'Your Dog Dies' by Raymond Carver'

is perhaps the first experience they will have when they lose someone very close. The poem goes on: "you feel bad about it/ you fe...

Bram Stoker's 'Dracula's Guest' Analyzed

he decides to proceed anyway. Clearly, the dark, cold, unforgiving surroundings that encapsulate the guest as his driver leaves h...