Fellow Shakespearean enthusiasts once again we have seen one of Shakespeare brilliant texts slaughtered and smeared onto a movie screen The BBC version of Macbeth Shakespeare Retold strays so far from Shakespeares original text it is no longer a good representation of the story The essence of the original play is all but gone and all that is left is a shell of its original self This has happened before I think we all remember the abomination that was Baz Luhrmanns Romeo Juliet How many more tim
The Birds was originally a short story written by Daphne DuMaurier and was released to the public in 1952 It was then made into a movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1963 The short story is about Nat Hocken a farmer that lives with his family on the coast of England The movie is about Melanie Daniels and the Brenner family and it is set in the fishing town of Bodega Bay in the United States In both the short story and the movie the characters get attacked by the birds Although there are diffe
Among all William Shakespeares plays without doubt Iago is the most evil character We can encounter many graceless commentaries on that hideous and mysterious man For instance Edward Dowden thinks that Iago is Shakespeares one absolute irredeemable villain Mccullen 250 Moreover for F C Sharp Iago is Born or instinctive criminal 250 as it is seen limitless interpretations can be done due to his cynical deeds since throughout the play he causes several conflicts and problems However in spite of a
The Theodore Dreiser novel Sister Carrie can be viewed from a critical standpoint as a critique of conspicuous consumerism which pervaded metropolitan Americans during the late nineteenth century The central figure in the novel is one Carrie Meeber an eighteen year old girl traveling to the big city of Chicago in order to experience life A Wisconsin farm girl Carrie dresses true to her ordinary circumstances She wears a plain blue dress and old shoes and observes a demure lady like disposition
Willys Dreams Willy has dreams constantly through the play death of a salesman As the play develops so do Willys mental health problems and the script gets more and more complicated mirroring Willys brain We learn Willy has an obsession with achieving the American Dream and his key dreams all relate to this As he did not achieve the American Dream he also wants his sons to and so dreams back to pastimes normally points in his childrens life where misfortunes or opportunities occur Willy is a ve
Anthropomorphism and Personification In Desert Solitaire Edward Abbey is in a pursuit of seeing nature as it is without humanly ascribed qualities 7 Although Abbey does not want to use anthropomorphism or personification he finds that it is impossible to avoid because he sees life in the desert and writes all living things on earth are kindred 25 And if we are all kindred then we share many of the same attributes At first the author defends his position by stating that it is possible for wild a
Discuss race nation and religion in James Joyces Ulysses The narrative style of Ulysses free indirect speech creates an array of different narrators within the novel Given this multiplicity of voices one Ulysses presents the readers with multiple views on race nation and religion that exist within the book An inseparable part of Ireland as a nation is the national religion in the Wandering Rocks episode the narrator describes the trip of the Catholic priest who is rector at Clowngowes School De
Hesse and Kafka make specific use of their main characters Kafkas Samsa is a trapped man We are introduced to him just after his metamorphosis into a bug He remains in this state until his death at the end Hesses eponymous character is portrayed as an enviably successful attractive intelligent revered character that nevertheless chooses to set out upon a spiritual journey in order to reach enlightenment Thus Hesse emphasises the quality of his main character and shows us that a privileged life
Disgrace defined by Webster is to be humiliated by a superior showing or to be a source of shame In J M Coetzees book Disgrace the title is exactly what the book is about a sure disgrace of a professor who has an illicit affair with one of his students which leads to his disgrace where is loses his job and has to leave town to cope with this disgrace The second disgrace is when the main character David Luries daughter Lucy is brutally raped by three men Although two forms of disgrace occur in t
Gabriel Garcia Marquez creates a magical world in his novel of eighteenth century South America Of Love and Other Demons The central character in this world is Sierva Maria a twelve year old girl daughter to a Marquis but raised in the world of slaves Her copper hair has never been cut and she can dance with more grace and fire than the Africans sing in voices different than her own in the various languages of AfricaHer movements are so stealthy that she seems an invisible creature 12 She is in