Select two different significant elements in Jane Austens novel Emma and analyse how they are reshaped to create new meaning in Amy Heckerlings film Clueless Transformations require an imaginative reshaping of significant elements of a text for new contexts Jane Austens Emma has been modernized and transformed into the Amy Heckerlings film Clueless For this to be successful Heckerling must keep the key elements and reshape them to create new meaning Emma has been transformed into Cher They both
The Appointment in Samarra by W Somerset Maugham is a fable narrated by death This is what caught my attention to this clever fable Most writers would not introduce death as a narrator from the beginning of the story like Maugham did and thats why this fable stands out to me from all others This fable has a good and wise story value in my opinion Its very creative and has enough details throughout this story to really understand what is going on with the characters This fable is very easy to re
There are some characteristics make gothic stories differ from the other types stories Like there is also a victimizer who is associated with evil and whose powers are immense or supernatural or the atmosphere is pervaded by a sense of mystery darkness oppressiveness and fear In Frankenstein Victor is the victim and he is the one make the monster in a dark apartment and his spirit is tutoring by the monster after the monster is been created And the change of his feelings to the monsters the mon
So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security conformity and conservatism all of which may appear to give one peace of mind but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future What makes a man go into the wilderness with no experience of how to survive The very basic core of a mans living spirit is his passion for adventure Imagine
So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security conformity and conservatism all of which may appear to give one peace of mind but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future What makes a man go into the wilderness with no experience of how to survive The very basic core of a mans living spirit is his passion for adventure Imagine
Epiphany and Revival in The Dead James Joyce was born in Dublin he was the most prominent writer of English prose in the first half of the twentieth century Many critics maintain that his verbal facility equaled that of William Shakespeare or John Milton and his experiments in prose as a virtuoso redefined the limits of language and the form of the modern novel The Dead the final story of Joyces collection Dubliners is considered one of the most beautifully executed stories in the English langu
Death of a Salesman is a play that has come to redefine the concept of modern tragedy The Greeks first defined dramatic tragedy it is evident that the Greek tragedies were a profound influence on Arthur Miller He was drawn to the Greek tragedies for their magnificent form the symmetry Aristotle wrote a significant thesis on tragedy in his Poetics His analogy was that there are four crucial elements that must be present in order to define a play as a classical tragedy Namely the play must incorp
An Erotic Marriage Argument A Discussion of John Donnes The Flea A discussion of the John Donne poem The Flea in reference to the relation between the erotic and religious language found throughout finds relevance in almost every line of the poem The two seemingly opposite ideas exist in a congruent fashion without compromising the positions the entities stand upon Although Donnes agenda when composing The Flea is not certain the tone and the subject of his other work give the reader a good imp
The Character of Iago in Othello In the Shakespeare play of Othello Iago plays an important role Iago is a compelling sophisticated villain who revels in his own ability to dissemble Shakespeares Iago is one of Shakespeares most complex villains At first glance Iago is pure evil Perhaps the most interesting character in the tragic play Othello is honest Iago during the play Iago uses carefully thought out words and actions which enable him to manipulate others and do things in a way which benef
The Many Roles of Beloved In Toni Morrisons Beloved we can see that Beloved is a complex character that serves many roles and is used to retrieve the repressed history of slavery in America Usage of the past and present events both serve to reinforce the idea that the past is still alive in the present For that reason a 124 ghostly character Beloved suited this role and represented the incarnation of Sethes dead daughter and also a representation of slavery victims When introduced in the novel