YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Laughter in the Dark by Vladimir Nabokov
Essays 121 - 150
mindless conformists, and sought to sound a warning through the medium of film (Caligari, in the figure of the mad doctor compelli...
In eight pages the evolution from fantasy to postmodern in the children's literature genre is considered in an examination of The ...
In six pages this paper examines the plot function served by the witches in this analysis of William Shakespeare's dark play. Thr...
In six pages this text's examination of the Dark Age of Greece in terms of politics and society is reviewed. One source is listed...
are generally seen as common to the Gothic novel, including a medieval or pseudo-medieval setting, a solitary protagonist and a se...
This report analyzed the Near Dark horror movie within the context of critic Robin Wood's observation that 'normality is threatene...
bring his Kurtz back to civilization, Willard is instructed from the start to find and kill his Col. Kurtz. This difference is st...
A 5 page analysis of irony and dark humor in the book by Louis Sachar. Character and plot development revolve around both. 1 sourc...
audience is presented with circumstances and relationships where there is never a truly positive outcome for any of those involved...
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...
all intents and purposes, Ebeneezer Scrooge was extremely narcissistic, self-absorbed, vain and uncaring. According to the origina...
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...
this counsel. When Lady Macbeth hears of he prophecy, she immediately begins to plot and plan. This scene if chilling in its ima...
us with darkness and alienation. We note that Sonnys brother is a teacher, and he feels himself to be successful. He feels that ...
human being. Annies selfish behavior can be defined as individualism at its worst, inasmuch as she does not take into account the...
death (As To Posthumous). There is one chapter, for instance, called "The Death of Jean" which was written just four months prior...
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...
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...
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...
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...
have reattached since he could not afford the cost of both. According to Rick, the hospital priced the reattachment of his middle...
who has lost her lover in the south. We can assume this came from a lynching (as evidenced by the reference to "Dixie," which lync...
This essay is on Marie Nelson's article "Time and J.R.R. Tolkien's 'Riddles in the Dark.'" The writer relates Nelson's principal a...
Background The Fur Queen is the basis on which Gabriel adapts to life and the gay world while dealing with the horrific exp...
a shared, antagonistic experience, and in the process radicalized poetry. This is attributed to Ciardi and di Prima, who brought w...
powerless to stop his thoughts about her. His growing physical tensions haunt him as he relives how the light plays on her hands. ...
film. It tells us where we are and when; in the case of Shakespeares tragedy of young love, were in Verona, Italy, in the 1500s. T...
Taken" and William Staffords "Traveling Through the Dark" are both poems about lifes journey and the choices that confront each in...
1902 novel Heart of Darkness is widely acknowledge as a literary classic that provides considerable psychological insight into the...
has grown deep like rivers" (line 4). Setting the line off by itself emphasizes its significance, as it ties the narrator directly...