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Stuart Gordon’s career has gone full circle lately, having returned to his theater roots by helming the recent LA stage plays Re-Animator: The Musical and Nevermore, his one-man show about Edgar Allan Poe starring Jeffrey Combs. We’ve just received word that Gordon isn’t quite done with stage horror — he’ll next bring tale of cannibalism…

In the heroic poem verse form Beowulf, one learns about one of the first known great heroes. Although heroes don’t ever wear nesss or bear world powers, some people choose to believe that these are the lone heroes that exist. In truth,  heroes are people who do extraordinary things, even in little steps. A hero…

Nathaniel Hawthorne             One of the most significant names in the field of literature is that of Nathaniel Hawthorne, a man known for his deeply imaginative thoughts and great command over written word. He was born on July 4, 1804 at Salem, Massachusetts. His father, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sr., was a sea captain who died of…

When Emir is a child, he feels his father blames him for his mother’s death and cannot love him. He does everything he can think of to try and make up for the mistakes he made in the past Since Emir feels his father does not love him, he thinks Of ways to make things…

Gilgamesh is one of the oldest stories ever told. He was a king about six thousand years ago in Uruk. After the death of his friend, Gilgamesh sets out on a quest for immortality. However, he dies in the end. In the book The Epic of Gilgamesh (Kovacs, 1989), fragrance plays an important role. When…

Post Industrial Society: A Brave New World? Essay, Research Paper Post Industrial Society: A Brave New World? Aldous Huxley was born on July 26, 1894 in Surrey, England. He was born to a really scholarly household, most notably his gramps T.H. Huxley, a well-known life scientist and foremost advocator for Darwin’s evolutionary theory. Aldous? upbringing…

Throughout The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby plays the main character. He is slowly introduced and revealed by Nick Carraway, his neighbor. Gatsby does both right and wrong things, he has acquired his great amounts of wealth through shady business and all to attain a financial situation that is equivalent to that of his love, Daisy…

Sophocle’s tragic play Antigone, written in 441 BC, is a theatrical piece of drama in which an audience is compelled to empathize with its character’s. When empathizing with characters in Antigone the audience can, in imaginative and cognitive ways, participate in the understanding of a character’s feelings, ideas as well as their situations. Antigone, Creon…

The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in the 1920s, illustrates the failure of striving for the American Dream. What he failed to understand was that Daisy and he lived in two different worlds, which, due to social circumstances, were never allowed to intermingle. Daisy was a rich southern belle who became involved with…

In both Lord of the Flies and I’m the King of the Castle, the plots explore the challenges faced by individuals and the resulting consequences. Both novels prominently feature the behavior and actions of the so-called ‘upper class’, as indicated by their titles of ‘Lord’ and ‘King’. Through their works, both authors critique the discriminatory…