Stephen King, the king of horror, attended a screening of Pan’s Labyrinth next to director Guillermo del Toro. According to Del Toro, King squirmed when the Pale Man chased Ofelia. Del Toro compared that the experience was like winning an Oscar (Davis). Guillermo Del Toro’s 2006 fantasy film Pan’s Labyrinth follows Ofelia in 1944 Francoist Spain where she discovers the magical underworld of the Faun.…
Black Swan, it’s a movie about a woman, Nina, a 28 year old ballerina living in New York City, who is picked to play both swans in the ballet “Swan Lake” . Nina is a perfectionist, a control freak and very much alike to the white swan, a pure, innocent girl. She still lives with her mother, who’s extremely controlling of her and treats her like she 's 12. Her mother doesn’t let her do anything alone, her room doesn’t even has a lock. Nina’s room looks like the room of a child, its all pink with flowers on the wall, there are many stuffed animals.…
Eventually, when we learn that Song is actually a spy who has pretended to be a woman in order to gather information for the Communist Party; Gallimard cannot take this act of betrayal and commits suicide creating a correspondence to the opera Madame Butterfly. Earlier in the play, Gallimard gives grounds for the Oriental woman’s suicide in Madame Butterfly by stating, “Death with honor/Is better than life/ Life with dishonor,” (Hwang 17). This quote can reveal a connection with Gallimard’s own suicide as he may view homosexuality as a dishonor to himself and of the culture, and believes his only way out is…
Jamaica Kincaid, the author of the short story “Girl,” was raised on the island of Antigua. During the time in which she was raised, Antigua was influenced by the British government. Because of the British control, Kincaid was raised in a culture immersed in the ideals of oppression and slavery. Being an African American woman in Antigua during the rule of the British government influenced how she wrote later in life. She eventually moved to America and landed a job as a writer for The New Yorker.…
Suzanne Collins Suzanne Collins is my favorite author. She wrote The Hunger Games trilogy, Gregor the Overlander books, as well as some other children's books. Although you might not like futuristic writing, Suzanne Collins is a great author because gives a great action packed dystopian story, that inspires you to make a difference, and connects to audience through unbelievable metaphors. I remember reading The Hunger Games for as long as I possibly could. I would go to school the next day sleep deprived because I was up all night reading.…
Author Chekov’s personal life was very similar to the story in which he wrote. On the 25th of May in 1901, Chekov married his wife Olga Knipper, a stage actress. Together they maintained a long distance relationship, Chekov was living mainly in Yalta and Olga in Moscow as she continued to seek her acting career (Hingley). While Chekov and Olga were separated, they continued to uphold a stable marriage as they lived apart for most of the year. Around the time, Chekov wrote The Lady with the Dog, which included two characters, Gurov and Anna Sergeyevna, whose lives were very similar to both Chekov and Olga.…
The butterfly is a perfect way to describe a transition for something. This insect starts life as a caterpillar, then twists itself into a cocoon. During the time the caterpillar lies dormant, insulated off from the rest of the world, there is a period of great transformation and change. Finally, after this time of self-imposed hiding and transition, the caterpillar awakens and transforms into this beautiful butterfly. A change is a like a restart at something, it can change you for the better, just like it did for Hester Prynne.…
“The Most Innocent!” Symbolism in the Final Scene of Daisy Miller Henry James’s “Daisy Miller: A Study” is the story of a free-spirited American girl who finds herself under the harsh scrutiny of the society of American expatriates living in Europe – key among them is one Mr. Winterbourne. Though an American by birth, Winterbourne has lived outside the country long enough to be no longer familiar with its customs. However, he is also set apart from European society (esp.…
Fear can be a lot of things. It is defined differently from one person to another. The fear of falling, the fear of being alone. Fear is a wide concept that contains so many meanings that you cannot count them. Fear has the ability to keep us from doing something we want-…
This particular scene from The Princess and the Frog is incredibly detailed and encapsulates the themes and messages of the movie. Although an entire paper could be written solely on the color symbolism is this particular scene, an introspective assessment of the lyrics is equally important in terms of hidden meaning. Every single line of lyric in the song is directed towards the film’s main themes of white privilege, gender expectations and roles, and regional culture. Starting with the first line, she states that people think she’s crazy. As an African American woman in the South, owning a restaurant is an exaggerated goal and atypical for her race; this aspiration is usually for a white person, usually male.…
The short story of The Locket by Kate Chopin, tells the tale of loyalty and suffering between a Civil War Confederate soldier, Edmond, and his lover Octavie. As Octavie’s locket symbolizes love and devotion between all things sentimental, the separated couple must find faith in one another when all hope is lost and the locket is stolen. {{this doesn't answer the question-we want to know whether the ending was surprising or not and what held or didn't hold your suspense}} With Chopin’s descriptive use of imagery and pleasing plot twist, it’s impossible to not appreciate the reunion of Edmond and Octavie in the conclusion of The Locket. It was evident that the main character Octavie suffered in pain after she finds out Edmond is dead as Chopin writes, “Octavie had experienced many such moments of despair, but a blessed resignation had never failed to follow, and it fell upon her like a mantle and enveloped her” (Chopin). In continuation of the story, the reader is again sympathetic to Octavie’s somber emotions as Chopin writes, “The soul of her youth clamored for its rights; for a share in the world’s glory and exultation” (Chopin).…
Imagine being considered less than the people you love and care about. In Louisa May Alcott’s novel, The Inheritance, this is the case for Edith Adelon. Although she is loved by the ones she loves, she desires to be equal. Edith longs for acceptance and equality throughout the whole novel. This conflict reflects upon the structure, setting, plots, characterization of Edith and many other characters, social and economic factors, symbolism and irony.…
Death in Sardinia takes place in Florence in 1965. The book starts out with a visit to the hospital, where Inspector Bordelli is visiting a dear old colleague. Sergeant Oreste Baragli, who at sixty is only five years Bordelli’s senior, is dying of stomach cancer. Bordelli offers his friendship to Baragli, playing cards, asking him of his family, and filling him in on the latest news. When Baragli asks for updates from the police station, we are introduced to Pietrino Piras, another colleague of Bordelli’s.…
The short novel The Metamorphosis, written by Franz Kafka, is one that relies on heavy symbolism to develop complex themes throughout the novel. In the book, a dejected and depressed travelling salesman named Gregor Samsa awakes in his room finding himself mysteriously transformed into a human sized insect, commonly believed to be either a cockroach or a dung beetle. He futilely attempts to get out of his bed and go to work, all while pondering his meek and insignificant existence, wondering how he might be able to alter his circumstances in order to improve the quality of his life. Gregor does attempt to leave his room, an activity where his progress is greatly hindered by his new form. When he does get out, his family is shocked by his new appearance; his mother faints; his boss, who came to check up on his worker, flees the scene out of fear; and Gregor’s father screams and almost beats Gregor with a cane.…
The Symbolism behind Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Albee started his career of writing plays in New York where he became renowned for his work and received numerous awards for it. Albee is well known for his dramatic plays which one of them being Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf , which is centered around on the main couple being Martha and George. The couples get drunk and play games, but not ordinary games but games that take a whole new turn in the play. Albee portrays the characteristics of the fundamental aspects of symbolism throughout the play in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? three times which the first one being the representation of alcohol throughout the play, second one being Martha and Georges marriage…