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Themes of Fantasy and Reality in Woody Allen's Film The Purple Rose of Cairo

her favorite actor in it, Tom Baxter. After the movie is over she finds herself unable to go home to face the reality of a man who...

Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and Modern Cinema Fantasies

npa), the use of the fantasy genre allows the author or director to stand outside of the reality with which we are familiar, and g...

The Number Devil by Hans Magnus Enzensberger

to the idea of "triangular" numbers. There is an "Alice through the Looking Glass" feeling to the book as almost anything can be a...

The Fantasy of Romance in Three Novels

of the characters faces so that we can see, for instance, how Mr. Darcy reacts to Elizabeths snub or the reaction of the Bennett w...

Miller, Williams, Fantasy and Wishful Thinking

This essay pertains to Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" and Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" and how each play hand...

Becoming a Greater Sports Fan with Fantasy Sports

Before playing fantasy football, I gave little thought to the function of a commissioner or the importance of the role in team ope...

"Politics of Fantasy" by Peter Firchow

This essay summarizes and the describes the principal points of Peter Firchow's "The Politics of Fantasy: 'The Hobbit' and Fascism...

Controlling Past, Present and Future

so now that it seems to be coming true. With newspapers disappearing and media companies merging into fewer and fewer giant corpor...

Uncertain Vision in "Oedipus the King" and "Othello"

woman who was now a widow, he fell in love and married her-his mother (Sophocles). Apollo curses Thebes and says that the city wil...

Fantasy Space of Michel Foucault, Walt Disney and MGM Studios

at least the observance of it. At MGM Studios and Walt Disney World, human submission to discipline and punishment is complete, th...

Fantasy Literature and Science Fiction

has its own set of rules, mostly that there are no rules. So perhaps a better paradigm to explore is whether or not, within a giv...

Theme of Fantasy versus Reality in The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

crop up in bits and pieces, in a haphazard fashion. He will start stories and then abandon them before reaching a conclusion, on...

Bram Stoker's Dracula and Kate Chpin's The Awakening Compared

at an early age and was raised by a cold, unfeeling father. Edna lives in a world that has strictly prescribed social boundaries a...

Robert Herrick's 'Julia's Petticoat'

there, pleasd with transgression evrywhere." This is hardly the action a petticoat could manage were Julia demurely seated at a t...

Eldest Inheritance, Book Two by Christopher Paolini

that her father will never agree to the match due to Rorans diminished prospects. Roran decides to rebuild the farm, but it thwart...

Alice in Wonderland and Harry Potter

his introduction to The Annotated Alice, Martin Gardner relates some of the complex meanings that have been attributed to Alice. F...

Hamlet and Ofelia and the Threats They Face

the not-too-distant past; the guards on the battlements talk about how the previous King Hamlet "smote the sledded [Polacks] on th...

C.S. Lewis/The Great Divorce

pretensions that keep them in Hell, and stay in Heaven, that is, not to get back on the bus for the return trip. Lewis reveals l...

Fantasy: Death of a Salesman and The Glass Menagerie

slowly come to a point where he realizes he is out of time and "His mind has run out of control. He is confused and no longer able...

Princess Diana’s Death

was in terms of the media, so are many people in the world. President Bush is surely a victim of the press, and perhaps rightly so...

The Scale of Adolescent Dissociative Experiences

human being to respond in a way that intensifies the inherent manifestations of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Noted by a...

Children's Literature: Borders between Worlds

when one of the friends drops in on another unexpectedly, he is always made welcome and given a meal. The animals are always upset...

Gatsby’s Fantasy

believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your...

Reading Romantic Fantasy and Living Reality in Don Quixote and Madame Bovary

lifetime - to become the knight-errant hero like those of the Round Table he always fantasized being. The life of a 50-year-old w...

Descartes and "The Matrix"

essentially wrong is when words appear on his computer screen-something that should not happen-and hes told to "follow the white r...

Writing a Fantasy Story

parents simply abandoned the children. There are many directions such a story could take. In this case one could claim that the pa...

Innocence and Its Burdens

in love, but "the happiness that should have followed this love not having come" she thought she must have made a mistake (Flauber...

Orwell’s Nightmare Made Real

them open to all kinds of abuses, including torture. Many Americans feel that torture is justified if it will save innocent lives,...

Beowulf, Tempest, Don Quixote/Their Lasting Appeal

size," who attacks it nightly (Kennedy xiv). Beowulf, in particular is described in heroic terms: Of living strong men he was the...

Fantasy Imagery in Marketing

over the female, with then romanticised image supported by the softer focus and warm colour, associating the myth and the emotions...