Pearlescent Deception That which emanates beauty may sometimes bring about unintended consequences This concept is tastefully illustrated in John Steinbecks The Pearl a novel in which an impoverished pearl diver Kino happens upon a magnificent pearl in the midst of a crisis within his family his newborn child has been bitten by a scorpion and requires medical attention which Kino could not have previously afforded This pearl is predicted to bring great wealth to Kinos family and to provide his
The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars But in ourselves that we are underlings Julius Caesar I ii 134 135 Published in 1896 Dracula is an immensely popular novel which has never been out of print has been translated into at least a dozen languages and has been the subject of more films than any other novel Only recently however have students of literature begun to take it seriously partially because of the burgeoning interest in popular culture and partially because Dracula is a work which r
Fear makes people do crazy things In the short story The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell and the movie Quarantine people face adversity that forces them to fight for themselves by all means The characters in both the short story and the movie show that facing difficulties makes people stronger as they begin to value their lives For instance the main character in the short story a big game hunter from New York falls off a yacht and swims to an isolated island in the Caribbean where he is
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn opens by familiarizing us with the events of the novel that preceded it The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Both novels are set in the town of St Petersburg Missouri which lies on the banks of the Mississippi River At the end of Tom Sawyer Huckleberry Finn a poor boy with a drunken bum for a father and his friend Tom Sawyer a middle class boy with an imagination too active for his own good found a robbers stash of gold As a result of his adventure Huck gained quite a
Euripedes Medea opens in a state of conflict Jason has abandoned his wife Medea along with their two children He hopes to advance his station by remarrying with Glauce the daughter of Creon king of Corinth the Greek city where the play is set All the events of play proceed out of this initial dilemma and the involved parties become its central characters Outside the royal palace a nurse laments the events that have lead to the present crisis After a long series of trials and adventures which ul
Opening sequence of Dog Soldiers The sequence begins with a couple camping in the Scottish Highlands The woman gives the man a silver letter opener as a present soon after they are attacked in their tent Meanwhile Private Cooper is seen running through a forest in North Wales He attacks his pursuers but is overwhelmed and wrestled to the ground It turns out Cooper was trying to join the Special Forces but fails when he refuses to shoot a dog Captain Richard Ryan returns him to unit This sequenc