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“Heart of Darkness” and “Apocalypse Now” Comparison
Apocalypse Now
Heart Of Darkness
Francis Ford Coppola has crafted his film Apocalypse Now to adapt the main values and attitudes as Joseph Conrad’s novella Heart of Darkness. Whilst the themes of imperialism and human evil are evident in both texts, Apocalypse Now further builds upon these themes through the manipulation of the concepts of the journey to comment on…
Theme of Injustice in ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’
Justice
To Kill A Mockingbird
Injustice is a problem that everyone faces. Nobody likes to suffer from injustice; yet, it is done to other people constantly. In the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, there are three main characters that suffer great injustice. It shows about how people can change their decision simply by a person’s race….
Poems about Feelings of Love and Death Analysis
Blues
Poem
In this assignment I will be comparing the poems Remember by Christina Rossetti and the poem Funeral blues by WH Auden. I will show some intensive points of comparison in the form, structure and language used and how both poems deal with love, tranquillity, peace and death. Both poems are about the feelings of love…
How Does Fate Affect Romeo and Juliet
Destiny
Romeo And Juliet
William Shakespeare’s tragic play, “Romeo and Juliet”, was written in 1597. This tragedy is based on the passion of love, including images of fate and death. – Elizabethans strongly believed that fate controlled their lives and everything was planned out. Most people believed that the power of the stars could foretell the future. In the…
A Psychoanalysis of Holden Caulfield’s Daydreams and Fantasies
Holden Caulfield
Psychoanalysis
In The Catcher in the Rye, author J. D. Salinger creates a timeless antihero who embodies flawed adolescent confusion and brash teenage skepticism. Holden Caulfield’s two hundred-page testimony to the reader—littered with his colloquial prose and cynical opinion—helps the audience understand his attitudes and identify his yearnings and tendencies. One of the best ways to…
Characters of Curley’s Wife and Slim in ‘of Mice and Men’
Of Mice and Men
Wife
“Old Candy watched him go. He looked helplessly back at Curley’s wife, and gradually his sorrow and his anger turned into words. ‘You God damn tramp,’ he said viciously. You done it di’n’t you? I s’pose you’re glad. ’” Curley’s wife is a key character to ‘Of Mice and Men’ because she plays such a…
The Scarlet Letter: Character Analysis of Pearl
Character Analysis
Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter is the story of Hester Prynne, who is forced to wear a letter “A” on her clothing as a reminder of the adultery that led to the birth of her child, Pearl. A first read of The Scarlet Letter would give the impression that Pearl’s temper is a result of how…
The Story of the Flood in Three Gilgamesh, the Metamorphosis and Genesis
Epic of Gilgamesh
Gilgamesh
Metamorphosis
Religion
It is apparent in our class readings, that when the gods are angry at the humans they created, these gods unleash unforgiving rains to flood the earth, and kill the human race. Over the years, there have been various texts about these floods. While the occurrences of the floods themselves are continuous throughout these texts,…
Shakespeare’s Sonnets Analysis
Sonnet
William Shakespeare
Shakespeare, regarded the greatest sonneteer of all time, had taken the untried in form and substance in his sonnets. In his time, sonnets followed the conventional Petrarchan form and content that Shakespeare’s deviation was initially disturbing, but much later was subject of interesting analyses. Petrarchan sonnets dealt with conventional love, but Shakespeare went beyond when…
The Search for Identity in The Crucible
The Crucible
It is evidently true that many novels and plays, including The Crucible by Arthur Miller, spend a great deal of time exploring and developing characters journey’s to achieve a greater fulfillment of one’s identity. In The Crucible there is a strong sense of the effect of examining one’s conscience upon John Proctor and Reverend Hale’s…