Watchmen is a comic book created by writer Alan Moore Dave Gibbons and John Higgins The series was published by DC Comics in single issue during 1986 and 1987 and has been subsequently reprinted in collected form On Examining the Theme of the Watchmen the main Theme was to examine what superheroes would be like in a credible real world Characters of Watchmen were Moores admonition to those who trusted in heroes and leaders to guard the worlds fate To place faith in such icons was to give up per
V for Vendetta Dystopian futures in society often spring from conflict in society This often results in a vision of an authoritarian or totalitarian government and the resulting conflict that the two forms of government cause The graphic novel V for Vendetta written by Alan Moore is no exception This novel was also adapted into a movie In the process of adaptation the directors of the film version attempted to maintain the overall characters and anarchist themes of the graphic novel however the
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe The Causes and Efforts of Okonkwo Downfall Most parents have good intentions when they are raising their child Every parent use different methods of parenting each with the common goal of protecting their children and preventing them of making the same mistakes they did Unfortunately some parents are too strict which unintentionally pushes the child to do that same things their parents tried to prevent Children doesnt necessarily turn out how every parent imag
The many essays and critiques of Henry Jamess Turn of the Screw presents us with several different approaches of how we can interpret and what we should make of this unusual ghost story James creates a sanctuary that allows the readers imagination to run wild bringing up the questions of whether there exists a crazy or sane Governess heterosexual or homosexual boy and ghosts or just terribly hidden guests Upon a first reading of such a story one might overlook all of these details Each individu
In The Stranger Albert Camus portrays Meursault the books narrator and main character detached and unemotional He does not think much about events or their consequences or does he express much feeling in relationships or during emotional times He displays emotionless throughout the book in his reactions to the people and events in the book After his mothers death he sheds no tears he seems to show no emotion He displays limited feelings for his girlfriend Marie Cardona and shows no remorse at a
In The Story of an Hour written by Kate Chopin as Mrs Mallard listened to the words spoken by her sister Josephine of her husbands death she did not hear the story as many women have heard the same with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance 193 She heard the words she understood their meaning But even in her pain she knew this was her chance to be free from her marital burden of the times The news of the death of Brently Mallard was painful for Mrs Mallard She grieved weeping in her
The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin revolves around the theme the forbidden joy of independence In the story independence is a forbidden pleasure that can be imagined only privately by Louise Louise reacts in obvious grief when she hears of Brentlys death from Josephine and Richards It was appropriate and quite normal for her to portray such behavior since Brently was her husband However when Louise was alone she begins to realize that she is now an independent woman a realization that invigora
Mittyesque The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by author James Thurber is about Walter Mitty an ordinary character that flocks his mind with fantasies in which he plays the hero who navigates through enemy territory saves lives and faces a firing squad The story is likely to have taken place in an ordinary town with hairdressers hospitals and grocery stores for people to scurry about doing their everyday chores Another important character is Walters wife who hovers nags and controls Walter to compl
The Scarlet Letter Committing adultery in the novel The Scarlet Letter was frowned upon by all puritan community In the novel a young women named Hester Prynne is being publicly humiliated and punished by the Puritan community for committing adultery in mid 17th century Boston In The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne provides his readers with three scaffold scenes which hold a great importance to the novel The scaffold serves as a place of public punishment and shame there lies the center of a
Scarlet Letter Darkness to Light The Scarlet Letter shows thought out the book many different themes and motifs There are also many symbols The main motif shown was the transition from dark to light The main three symbols I saw that displayed this transition were Hester Prynne her daughter Pearl and the scaffold All three had a transition of being in or being used as something that represents a form of darkness into something being used as a form of light All three have other symbols that are a