Trainspotting Danny Boyle Despite being criticised for glamorising drug use Trainspotting highlights primarily the divorce of drug users from humanity The film displays the underground of drug culture of Scotland warts and all in order to condemn the practise which destroys thousands of lives The film Trainspotting was marketed towards a much larger audience to make filming more lucrative and so it was altered slightly from the novel of which it was adapted from The intended audience is primari
How the setting enhances the horror in the story The title of the work is The Cask of Amontillado The author of the work is Edgar Allan Poe The source of the work is The Bedford Introduction to Literature And the author of the source is Michael Myer The story is within pages seven thirty seven to seven forty two The story is about a man Montresor who has a personal grudge against Fortunato for something that no one figures out in the story Montresor seeks revenge upon Fortunato he explains to t
To whom ever it may concern The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger has been a very controversial book It was published back in 1951 and since then it has been censored and uncensored many times Between 1961 and 982 The Catcher in the Rye was the most censored book in high schools and libraries in the United States Suite101 com Online Magazine and Writers Network What people do not seem to understand is that in this country people are granted the Freedom of Speech In other words authors have the
Compare and contrast the concept of technological surveillance that Orwell envisioned in 1984 and the forms of technological surveillance that are used today Nineteen eighty four is a novel by George Orwell which was written in 1948 The novel is about the life of the main character Winston who lives in the futuristic world where Big Brother has full totalitarian power and your every move is watched by the Party who are the authorities in 1984 Every room has a large tele screen with Big Brothers
Black shapes crouched lay sat between the trees leaning against the trunks clinging to the earth half coming out half effaced within the dim light in all the attitudes of pain abandonment and despair Conrad 14 Images such as these were not uncommon in the deep dense forests of the African continent during the empirical reign of Western Europe during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Ideologies that had very little fluctuation among these empires sought to gain territory through th
The Road Not Taken and Other Poems by Robert Frost Robert Frost born March 26 1874 Robert Frost is considered by most to be one of America is leading 20th century poets Frost Some of his most famous work includes The Road Not Taken Design and Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Frost won an unprecedented number of literary academic and public honors http encarta msn com because he allows all readers from all different experiences to relate to his poems Frosts poetry is based mainly upon the li
Fahrenheit 451 takes place in an unspecified future time in a hedonistic and rabidly anti intellectual America that has completely abandoned self control and bans the reading of books Anyone caught owning them is at the minimum confined in a mental hospital and has the books confiscated and burned At the maximum the penalty is a sentence to immediate death People are now only entertained by in ear radio and an interactive form of television The protagonist Guy Montag is a fireman certain that h