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Apocalyptic Representation Supporting Authoritarianism in Science Fiction Movies

What often happens though is that there is evidence in some films that the authoritarianism is a positive influence. This is ofte...

Christ A Crisis in the Life of God by Jack Miles

by the Nazis to advance their agenda (and died insane) and Paveses died by his own hand. Miles posits that Gods intention in i...

Adolf Hitler, Thomas Jefferson, and Frankenstein on Achieving Justice Through the Legitimacy of Violence

fall of the Tower of Anor and the end of the realm of Savron. He encourages the people to:...

Kurt Vonnegut and William Gibson's Science Fiction

cyberworld just ahead of the concern which began to take place in the real world. Unlike many of his predecessors who liked to pre...

A Comparison of Shelley's Frankenstein and Scott's Blade Runner

forever hovering overhead beckon to the fleeing people that their safety exists in the off-world colonies, demonstrating that eart...

Contemporary Oedipus Imagery

if he should have a son. Therefore, Laius took steps to prevent conceiving a son by Jocasta. However, Jocasta wanted a child and c...

Myths and Legends Surrounding Vampires

The term "myth", on the other hand, is reserved by anthropologists and folklorists for those stories which deal with the creation ...

An Analysis of Neil Frude's The Intimate Machine

This paper addresses the history of Artificial Intelligence (AI) from both the perspectives of science-fiction and reality. The au...

Four Works of Gary Paulsen Compared

They fought and screamed and never should have been married. I can remember hiding under the kitchen table one day and just wishin...

Actor John Travolta

time Travolta began doing the leaps and pirouettes on the flashing dance floor in Saturday Night Fever, he was already a veteran a...

Tombstone, Arizona Life and Wyatt Earp

for no good reason except he was afraid of them and what they might do to him. The truth is that the...

Life and Morality

role in this respect. Plato held that the key agent in any sort of behavior but especially ethical or moral behavior (or lack of t...

Naturalism and Realism in the Literature of the Nineteenth Century

is often an important feature. The individuals portrayed are not depicted as standing outside of their own historical background a...

Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles and Denial

As mentioned before, the first edition of The Martian Chronicles was written in 1950, a time during which the Cold War was startin...

American and British Screenplays and Their Sociocultural Text

the constraints which the box-office places upon both screenwriters and directors is a major influence on American film, whereas t...

Novel Analysis of Ender's Game

power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you cant...

Race Issues in I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

Tituba is viewed as the first witch--black or white-- to actually confess (Anderson). This makes this black woman quite an interes...

President Kennedy's Assassination According to Jim Garrison and Oliver Stone's 1991 Film JFK

(Garrison, 1988). Garrisons book chronicles his investigation into what was perhaps the most notable murder case in America. Gar...

Slavery Theme in Dawn by Octavia Butler

power structures and organization are often present in her writing. In fact, it would be more accurate to describe her writing as ...

Element of Horror in Fiction Stories 'The Monk' by Matthew Lewis and 'The Castle of Otranto' by Horace Walpole

style presented in this story, a style that clearly speaks of a dark and foreboding reality, we present some of the opening paragr...

Fiction of the 20th Century and the City

the city may appear attractive and it certainly attracted Nick, it is hollow. He expresses this by returning home to the midwest. ...

Goodbye Tsugumi and N.P. by Banana Yoshimoto

narrates her story with forthright honesty. She explains that--while she is named after the Virgin Mary--she is far from saint-lik...

African American Poetry and Fiction Analysis

gender. In fact, according to what Ms. Jacobs writes, women were discriminated against by white and black men alike. Here, though...

What is Hypertext Fiction?

to culminate in a conclusion. The purpose here is to find that middle ground in complaints that hypertext allows writers to impar...

Characterization and Gender Stereotyping

Ophelia to see how women characters have changed over the years. Penelope was able to fight off suitors for decades while maintain...

Literary Fiction and Self Discovery

they move to a town that Joe commences to alter. He opens a store and becomes incredibly prosperous, but insists that Janie never ...

Ecocriticism and the Literature of John McGahern

in the shadow of Irelands Iron Mountains, a few locals have populated a bog and settled into their ways" (Freeman, 2002). The enti...

Literary Depiction of Cultures

but complications arise. Not one, but two suitors join them on their trip. During the trip both men vie for her affections. In the...

An Artificial Intelligence Overview

in the form of mere "intelligence." Their bodies were physically dead, but they were supposedly alive in cyberspace. This brings u...

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...