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Film and writing techniques play a significant role in how to scene or event is being perceived by the audience. Likewise, in the film, Capote (2005) by Bennett Miller, and the book In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, literary and directory techniques used are vital to the composition and understanding of the story’s tone and…

Women are shown to millions of people around the world in advertisements as either sexual objects for men, or useless, unless in the kitchen. They have been portrayed in the same manner for the past 50 years or more, many women are exploited, stereotyped, and used as objects to sell and advocate products. Advertising is…

Racism is used in by many people and societies throughout the ‘Merchant of Venice’. Some can be brutal and some not that ruthless. From black people to ‘Jews’, you will find many of the cruel jokes and remarks in this book. Some examples include different religions mocking other religions like the Christians and the Jewish…

The Grapes of Wrath, written by John Steinbeck, portrays the migration of the Okies to California during the Dustbowl era. The novel aims to present the clashes between the Okies and Californians, which mirror current conflicts between native-born Americans and immigrants. These enduring works of literature are important for their lessons and examination of controversial…

“Guilty” verdict has been reached in the trial of Tom Robinson. A jury of twelvewhites has reached a verdict that Tom Robinson, a black male, raped Mayella Ewell,a white woman. The rendition of this verdict has brought to a close a trial that hascaptured the news and stirred the emotions of this town for several…

The type of development varies from one definition or example to another, but any significant change in the character for the better is usually accepted as a bloodcurdling. Many readers and critics alike have categorized the novel The Catcher in The Rye by J. D. Slinger as a bloodcurdling. The novel is about Holder Coalfield,…

The phrase ‘There must be a full moon out tonight’ has been verbalized for years to describe the behaviors that humans demonstrate when there is a full moon out. Some evidence say that the moon causes erratic behaviors in humans. Lunacy is defined as intermittent mental derangement associated with the phases of the moon. The…

The Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave to become a bestseller in 1845. Douglass accounts of cruelty, aberrantly, and immorality throughout his novel successfully portrayed his argument that slavery is a depraved practice. Due to the rapidly expanding cotton industry, as many as four million men, women, and children were enslaved…

William Shakespeare’s Macbeth has always been considered one of the literary worlds most celebrated tragedies. It is arguably the darkest and most gruesome of his plays. The protagonist, Macbeth, is the poster child for tragic hero, “a literary character who makes an error of judgment or has a fatal flaw that, combined with fate and…

‘Exceeding Honesty’ Investigating the Heroic trait in the Character of Iago in Shakespeare’s Othello Talking about Iago in his introduction to the play ‘Othello’, A.L. Rowse is of the opinion: He (Iago) and Othello stand out as two protagonists in the simple and haunting tragedy, Desdemona their sacrificial victim. (Rowse 271) In the four and…