Moby Dick 1 is an 1851 novel by Herman Melville The story tells the adventures of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage on the whaling ship Pequod commanded by Captain Ahab Ishmael soon learns that Ahab does not mean to use the Pequod and her crew to hunt whales for market trade as whaling ships generally do Ahab seeks one specific whale Moby Dick a great white whale of tremendous size and ferocity Comparatively few whaling ships know of Moby Dick and fewer yet have knowingly encountered
History is made by men with The Right Stuff Abraham Lincoln faced not one man but a nation A nation torn apart set against each other in Civil War Abraham Lincoln displayed the Right Stuff by ending the war freeing slaves and reuniting the nation as one In the 1940s the military begun testing rocket propel jets These new airplanes required certain men with unique aptitudes ones who have the ability to push themselves never quit never accepted the norm and demonstrate the courage to push the env
In the novel Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys presents parallelism with the motif of fire The first occurred in part one when Antoinette was younger where she suffered from a weak identity because her mother closed her off and left her to emotionally deal with life alone The second fire occurred in part three where Antoinette finally came to terms with her purpose and knew what she had to do to set her free Both these fires have significant effects on the future and set Antoinette free on both occas
Treasure Island The Journey of Jim Hawkins For the duration of existence people undergo the physical and mental stages of growing up During this phase people establish through their dealings who they actually are in addition to what they are worth For instance Treasure Island is an adventure tale but it is also the story of one boys Jim Hawkins coming of age On the outset of the voyage Jim was a timid adolescent but by the closing stages he had matured incredibly In his novel Treasure Island au
Staging of The Tempest It is clear that The Tempest depends for much of its success on a wide range of special effects such as sound lighting and fantastic visions of the natural and supernatural worlds Ariel the mystic spirit and his cohorts provide some eerie and some wondrous musical sounds painting pictures with their voices of settings the audience saw For example when luring the spellbound Ferdinand towards his future wife Miranda Ariel and his fellow sprites caress the shipwrecked prince
What is the Heart of Darkness Written in the late 1898 1899 Joseph Conrad wrote a historical autobiography although not much of it his personal experience it was a collaboration of all the people in the journey through the Congo River At the start of the novella the characters are on the Thames River outside London where Marlow is telling the story that makes up Heart of Darkness Heart of Darkness deals with the main character Marlow a sailor and his journey up the Congo River to meet Mr Kurtz
The Cove Cause and Effect Essay The Cove is an award winning documentary that educated the public about the increasing Japanese dolphin hunting culture The film was very successful in using a collection of emotional evidence that told a story from an ocean conservationists point of view The director Louie Psihoyos used interviews footage and even a spy like story plot that turned the film into a completely one sided suspense filled expos of the tabooed dolphin slaughter culture Psihoyos calls t
Throughout Frankenstein the actions of Victor and the creature bring them together Victors rejection of the creature drives the creatures emotions In his rejection the creature seeks revenge on Victor The creature causes Victors misery which coerces Victor to seek revenge on the creature Both the creature and Victor revenge on each other Though separate beings the creature and Victor share a relationship of complicated dimensions that of nobility born of suffering that of creator created and th