Authorial techniques are employed by F Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby (1925) and by Ian McEwan in Atonement (2001) to express the loneliness of their characters. In these books, isolation dominates the mood and events of the story; however, the loneliness of the characters often reflects the cultural restrictions of their historical setting. Arguably, the motif of social change and tension also impacts the moods of the books, to a lesser extent. In the Great Gatsby, the moral decay of the 1920s
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According to Robert Fagles, Oedipus The King is known by all to be a dramatic masterpiece. This Greek play is such a masterpiece because it tells the story of a well-known myth in Sophocles’s time and tells it in a way that was never thought of before. He had Oedipus discover through his own persistence that he was the person he had to exile. The play is a tragedy of fate that critics of the 18th and 19th centuries have tried to discount. Our generation of critics sees the situation that Oedipus
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Horror films, throughout the years of its existence, have taken over as one of the most influential and popular genres of all time. From killer to paranormal to monster movies, horror films have created the “counterculture” aspect of the ideal in hollywood. The ideas of “the hero”, “the happy ending”, and overall “everything will be fine” idea is challenged and experimented against in these films. People enjoy the idea of being scared because for the same reason people laugh and cry, people get
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mind. She manipulates Macbeth into his demise so she could become a queen. Despite the fact she is barely consulted throughout the play, Lady Macbeth is what drove the plot into action. When we first see Lady Macbeth, she is plotting the murder of King Duncan. While reading the letter from her husband she remains in awe of every possibility that could come about if the prophecy was fulfilled. If she was to be even greater than she was, she knows she has to spill blood to get her there. Upon seeing
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Was the connection between Romeo and Juliet love or obsession. This pair of star-cross’d lovers not only had family against them, but as well as fate. In the city of Fair Verona was where it all started. The feud between the two families, the Montague’s and Capulet’s, was never explained but to my research it has been all about money. In the beginning it was never like that. It was mentioned by her father that they were running out of money and the only way out was to marry count Paris so their
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and his empire were a plague. One that could only be cured through complete and utter annihilation. The only problem was, the bastard felt that about anyone that dared to oppose him. And as much as it pained him to admit it.... Those thoughts the King had were ones he once shared. "Seems
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In the The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the story's narrator, Nick Carraway is a young man who has just move to Long Island. Nick lives next door to Jay Gatsby. Gatsby intrigues Nick. He seems to be so fascinated with idea of Gatsby. Not by Gatsby himself, but the idea of Gatsby. He sees something in Gatsby and what he sees is how Gatsby is / has been trying to achieve getting Daisy to be his. He finds it warming how Gatsby has such a strong love for Daisy. Even though Nick finds Gatsby
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our new king: Macbeth. I, Ross, and all of the other noblemen of Scotland were invited to his castle for supper as part of the coronation tradition. I do have some concerns, however, about this whole ordeal, and that concern is shared amongst a handful of the other noblemen. Macbeth is certainly a worthy warrior, and his status in combat is proven and legendary. His capability to lead an empire, though, is not something that will have me rest easy. There is a reason that the warriors and kings are often
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Have you ever stolen anything? Come on, you know you have done it before! Well, I know for sure that I have stolen something and I received some big consequences for doing it. Sherlock Holmes is a detective and he is on a case about Ryder, a criminal, and Ms. Cusack, Ryder’s apprentice or if you will, companion, and they stole a Carbuncle. A Carbuncle is an expensive jewel that belonged to the Countess. Holmes eventually finds out who had stolen the jewel and stuffed it into a goose. I know right
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him, something else that makes Hamlet seem like a textbook case of depression in the modern world. He is depressed because of the lack of support from his family, particularly his mother, and also because he knows that his father’s murderer is now King and married to his mother. Hamlet has just recently learned this, by way of his father’s ghost, accentuating his hatred for his uncle. This is another thing that makes him feel hopeless about the world around him, knowing that a murderer is in charge
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