Lover College Essays Samples For Students

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The Narrators of ‘Porphyria’s Lover and My Last Duchess’ – Similarities and Differences
Unlike comics or fairy tales, villain characters are not a common occurrence in modern adult literature, especially in poetry. In the literary works aimed for the grown up or matured reader segment, the authors more often than not, refrain from portraying a character which explicitly exposes villainous nature, or coal-black personifications of evil. Mostly characters who exhibit villainous traits are not easily located in such literary works, but their persona is revealed only after a deep scrutiny of the said work.
Particularly in the nineteenth century, as ...

This poem is a love song composed by Robert burns, a Scottish poet whose poems mostly fall under the genre of love. In “red rose”, the reader is made to read about a romantic affair of two persons who are intimately in love. This essay will ventilate the poem with a view to analyzing its structure, theme, subject matter, characters, stylistic devices that the poet uses to convey his message and the traits of the characters that the poet uses in the poem.

Structure of the poem:

This poem contains four stanzas. Each stanza comprises four lines/verses hence each of the stanzas is a quatrain. Each line is ...

“Hotline Bling,” a song co-written and performed by Canadian rapper Aubrey Drake Graham, known simply as Drake, rose to popularity in late 2015. While it was well known for its corresponding music video, it has also been critically praised for its emotional depth. Essentially, “Hotline Bling” is an emotional appeal from the narrator, Drake, to a former lover, who remains unnamed in the song. Throughout several stanzas that center around the phrase “ever since I left the city,” Drake uses the rhetorical devices of pathos and ethos in an attempt to compare and contrast his past and current relationship ...

William Shakespeare was popular for his works in the entertainment industry where he was mainly recognized as a good play writer, poet, and a dramatist. Today there are total number of “38 plays, 154 sonnets, poems and 2 narrative poems as the surviving works of the author (Damrosch 25).” He lived in the late sixteenth and the early seventieth century in England. Regardless of the fact that he died in the early seventieth century, his works have been appreciated across the globe and been translated into many languages. Shakespeare’s literary pieces works have also been used in schools. Shakespeare’s ...

In Plato’s Phaedrus, Socrates describes the correct method of deliberating about a subject under consideration. Socrates, while talking to his friend Phaedrus, contends that to deliberate accurately about a particular subject the first and foremost thing one should do is determine vividly and without any ambiguity the subject that he wants to deliberate upon. Socrates remarks regarding the right way of deliberating as, “If anyone means to deliberate successfully about anything, there is one thing he must do at the outset. He must know what it is he is deliberating about otherwise he is bound to go utterly astray.” If ...

Introduction

“Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart,” is a fascinating story written Chretien de Troyes that explores the themes of courtly love and knightly valor. The story tells the story of the famous Arthurian knight, Launcelot and his love affair with Guinevere. The main action of this classic tale centers on the abduction of Guinevere by the evil Meleagant and the various conquests of Launcelot as he attempts to rescue his lover. A revolving theme of the tale is the struggle that Launcelot faces in trying to balance his duties as a lover and as a knighted warrior. Throughout the tale, the two ...

This paper will look at love, sex and gender within the backdrop of postmodernism, existentialism and orientalism in the novels The Women of Algiers in Their Apartment by Assia Djebar, Foam of the Daze by Boris Vian and The Lover by Marguerite Duras. In the novels love/ and sex are shown as something that a woman has no control over, something that destroys due to its intensity, and something that forever changes a person, respectively. While gender is seen as being something that disenfranchises women in a male dominant, unequal society and something that can destroy a man if ...

Music – Song Critic

Introduction
Greensleeves is amazingly a beautiful song sung by Loreena McKennitt. The song is from the album “The Visit”. The album was released in 1991. It is one of few most memorable songs for me. The song appeals thousands of music lovers like me for its ultimate romantic feelings. It’s a plea of a lover, who has been rejected by his beloved. I like this song because of its fine combination of romantic and melancholy note. The deep feelings of the lover are accompanied by the perpetual velvet voice of Loreena McKennitt. The way she sings, creates an ...

Compare and Contrast Pablo Neruda’s “I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You” and Edmund Spenser’s “My Love is Like To Ice”
Pablo Neruda’s “I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You” and Edmund Spenser’s “My Love is Like To Ice” Share certain characteristics of these sonnets for, and certain techniques of expression, but overall are very different in treatment of love and in the mood that their sonnets creates.
The sonnets form transcends time - Spenser is writing in the 16th century, Neruda in the 20th century - ...

Sonnet 130 – “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” – is an original and witty poem which satirizes the excessive imagery used by other love poets of Shakespeare’s time, and also pokes fun at the stereotypes of feminine beauty that were the dominant norm in Shakespeare’s era – and still are to a certain extent. Those stereotypical, hackneyed images of what women should look like have parallels in our culture too, because through the media and films, images of what the ideal woman should look like are used to manipulate us. Shakespeare’s language will be analyzed in order ...

A dream within a dream is a romantic poem by Edgar Allan. Throughout the two-stanza poem, the theme of love and romance takes center stage. The persona of the poem is a male lover, who addresses his ladylove through the poem. The poem opens with the speaker informing the readers about his dreams about a certain girl. The speaker openly tells the ladylove that she is actually correct in concluding that he (the speaker) has spent his entire life dreaming about her. However, according to the speaker’s choice of words, there is a high probability that he will not get the lady. According ...

Introduction

The raven is poem which talks about the undying devotion of love. The narrator in the night of December sits to read the book forgotten lore as a way to forget the loss of his love called Lenore. As he continue reading the forgotten lore a bird called raven steps into his chamber when he went to investigate it perches on the bust of pallas above his door.
When the raven comically and serious positions itself it makes him get amused. The man out of his curiosity asks the bird to tell him its name .Surprisingly the bird answers him ...

The complexity of the characters in a written work is often a significant method to invest the reader in a given work – following people who have interesting stories and who change over the course of the plot is one of the biggest draws to a work of fiction. As time passes, it can be thought that a greater emphasis on psychological complexity can be found in fiction; as society and language develops, there exist more complex problems that must be addressed. This can be seen in the epic poem Beowulf, there is not as much complex psychological development within the characters as there is ...

In his work entitled, The Lover's Dictionary, David Levithan recounts the ups and downs of romance. Specifically, Levithan uses words to describe the aspects of the relationships. It is a quite revealing book in the sense that there is a unique structure to it whereby the words read like a dictionary. Arguably, the overall tone of the novel is similar to that of Drake's "Hotline Bling." The song, along with the music video remains a viral sensation because of the antsy and catchy dynamics that are woven within it. Lyrically, Drake tells the story of an ex, who has ...

The song by Porter is about someone he loves. In the song, he asks them if they love him as he does. He says, ‘do you love me as I love you?’ he continues to ask the person if he means anything to him and if they would help him see his dreams come true. As he sings the song, he is watching the moon at night through his bedroom window and his mind is all to his beloved. However, he is filled with thoughts of whether he is loved with the same intensity as he loves him. Given ...

‘How do I love thee let me count the ways’ – Elizabeth Barratt browning

‘Sonnet 138’ – William Shakespeare
Both these sonnets are very famous in the English-speaking world and both deal with a relationship between a man and a woman. However, Barratt Browning and Shakespeare adopt a very different tone and attitude when talking about love; use language in very different ways; manipulate the form of the sonnet in contrasting ways; and produce very different emotional effects on the reader. In short, the sonnets represent two very different attitudes to love in their content and different attitudes to the sonnet as well.
The subject matter of each sonnet is vastly different. Barratt Browning’s sonnet ...

Given the background of the story “The Lady or the Tiger?” by Frank Stockton, one can easily tell that the princess-barbarian is in quite an ethical dilemma. If she points to the right door – where a lady waits to be married to her lover – she loses. Of course, if she points to the wrong one – where a ferocious tiger awaits the unsuspecting youth – she still loses. If you put yourself in her position, it would be truly difficult to choose her barbaric nature over love and that the author points out. Still, if the young man she loves marries ...

After reading Anne Waldman’s Gossamurmur, I was inspired to write a literary piece that would be synonymous with hers in terms of style. I therefore had to engage in an extensive rhetorical analysis so to come with an exemplary piece that would be characteristic of well-defined rhetorical choices in regards to the language, the audience and the genre of the piece. After the comprehensive rhetorical choices analysis, I decided to construct a poem whose focus was on two aspects of human life that are often considered to be correlated. These are loneliness and love. People who do have partners of ...

Questions: Modern Japanese Literature

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In Oe's The Catch and Banana's Lizard, themes of trauma and salvation are addressed in both tales. Both short stories grab the reader's attention immediately, and both short stories are fast-paced as they explore themes of salvation and redemption in different ways.
In The Catch, the protagonist, a small Japanese boy who lives in a small rural village during World War II, befriends a prisoner-of-war, an African-American soldier. Throughout the story, their relationship gradually develops into a kind of trusting friendship. The story is told through the eyes of the boy whose nickname is "Frog". As the story progresses, ...

Intentional Disintegration or Disjointedness in Modernist Poems

Modernist poems and literature often use disjointed information and views aimed at developing the reader’s curiosity. The idea of dense intellectual and intentionally difficult to comprehend scripts are based on the concept that authors of the poems have wide research and knowledge hence they design their work in a manner that they convey diverse ideas. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is one of the modernist poems with a lot of disjointed and disintegrated information. The final image of the “Sunday Morning” provides a summary that sheds light on the poet’s arguments. The paper analyzes the poem the Love ...

Literature

The books, Jade Peony and Frankenstein, have female characters in their plots so as to spice up the dramatic events that occur in the two books. First, it is important to note that this paper will focus solely on Jook Liang, who is a character in the Jade Peony, and Safie who plays a minor role in Frankenstein. These two women characters have some similarities and differences. This paper argues that the two characters Jook Liang and Safie are both brought up in highly chauvinist societies that have little regard for members of the female gender, but both characters are portrayed ...

It cannot be denied that Edgar Allan Poe made important contributions to the literary community. Poe effectively made his place in the literary community by always altering it using dark themes, Romanticist aspects, and strong imagery. Poe’s lyrical poem, “The Sleeper,” which was first published in 1831, gives readers a chance to retain a conclusive idea of his mysterious intentions. Poe establishes his ideas in his work using imagery. Poe creates an uncanny and weird environment in his poem that is inhabited by his characters. Poem portrays a lady in a long dress in his poem. Poe’s dark and deep romanticist intentions ...

The first and second speeches of Socrates in Plato's Phaedrus, as with the rest of the dialogue, deals squarely with the subject of love. Debating with Phaedrus over this subject, he gives two speeches (a third, as well, if dialogue is counted) that ruminate on the nature of love and of man in general. These speeches are both indicative of a well-thought out argument, though there are some differences in perspective between the two. In this paper, we will examine the two speeches Socrates gives in Phaedrus, as well as what they discuss and the ways in which they differ.

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Titian’s and Peter Paul Rubens’s Venus and Adonis

The essay looks at Rubens and Titian version of Venus and Adonis and makes a comparison of their style. While Rubens and Titian version of Venus and Adonis, Rubens’s picture is typically Baroque. Rubens was greatly influenced by Titian and copied his version of Venus and Adonis. The story behind Venus and Adonis is derived from Ovid's Metamorphoses. The goddess Venus is shown clinging to her mortal lover, the handsome young Adonis, whom she is infatuated with. Venus attempts to stop her lover from going hunting. But hunting is a passion with Adonis and he knew that it ...

In today’s literary world, Robert Browning belongs to a club of great literary minds and is considered in retrospect to have been “one of the most important poets of Victorian England” (Martin 8). During his lifetime, however, his work received considerable criticism and was often not well-received. Much of the criticism was related to the unconventional form he took. Part of this unconventional form can be seen in Browning’s treatment of the aristocracy of his time. But before this can be discussed in terms of his work, it is first important to understand both Victorian England and ...

A couple from my neighborhood was selected for this interview and I was familiar with this couple because we were had good neighborhood relationship. The couple interviewed had four years relationship, after that, they broke up with each other. The interview was conducted with a male partner who revealed the whole story about his relationship with his lover. He told that they accidently met on a wrong phone call that he made to her by mistake. After that, they started knowing each other and became good friends at the start. This shows communication process, which is a process through which people can ...

This novel is written by Graham Greene in the year 1969. Greene was an English playwright, literacy critic and a writer. His writings usually highlighted ambivalent political and moral issues and problems of the world. He was widely renowned for his ability to amalgamate widespread popularity with literary acclaim. Many of his writings reflect his Roman Catholic background, although he strongly objected to the idea of being called as a Catholic writer rather than a writer with a catholic background. However, he never received a Nobel Prize in the literature category but he was runner-up in the year 1962 to Ivo Andrić. Major novels ...

Sakuntala: Symbolism in the Allusion to Plant Life

In Sakuntala, Act I, background of the scene was fully colored by nature and it was decorated with fresh flowers and cute creepers. The King Dushyant tried to kill a male deer that was stopped by a hermit and his team. Then, he changed his way to visit the hermit’s daughter who was taking care of the living and nonliving things in the hermit’s forest. He could see green groves, fully-grown grains, lovely birds, and blossoming flowers that show his future that he is going to meet such a wonderful and pleasant natured lovable girl who would be his wife ...

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Hong Kong films present unique characters who want to pursue love, adventure, wealth and vast exploration of different paces. The films portray characters who are majorly are youth. They are eager for compassionate love and fast accumulation of wealth. They dream of visiting different places all over the world. Their dream for wealth, love and adventure leads them to different places. The films portray the dramas of fantasy, love, and journey and self- discovery by different characters. They seem to harbor a big dream concerning the needs. They are passionate and attached themselves to “Hong Kong dream” “New York dream” ...

Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most celebrated poets in the history of English literature. His poem, The Raven, is one of the most famous literary works in the world of arts and aesthetics.
The very first line of the poem evokes a melancholy mood as the poet writes, “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary.” (Poe 1) The poem shows the speaker sulking inside a room longing to be with his lover, Lenore. Hearing a knock at the door, he opens it, only to find no one there. When he opens the window of the room, ...

Every person knows William Shakespeare, who is considered to be one of the greatest English writers. He was born and raised in Stafford-upon-Avenue. Right in his hometown, he had found his wife -Anne Hathaway. During his writing career, he wrote down 154 sonnets, 2 poems and 38 plays. Two of his best known sonnets are ‘Sonnet 18’ - “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day” and ‘Sonnet 130’ - “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like a sun”. They both have present similarities and difference between them.
They are written in the same Shakespearean format - sonnet. Both of ...

In many instances, authors use powerful ideas that shift their readers in a way that intrigues their every day understanding of life. It is not debatable that Robert Browning and William Shakespeare were legendary writers of their time. It is also not ironic that although there are years separating the two writers, their work contains similar themes. As a common ground for my comparisons, this paper examines the common ideas and how the themes are brought out in William Shakespeare’s “Othelo”, and Robert Browning’s two poems “My Last Duchess” and “The Laboratory”. Using characters Iago in Othelo, The Duke ...

The medieval world conceived of itself and its universe as “a great chain of being” which was bound together by “love, also called caritas or charity.” This was a spiritualized sense of love, and was distinguished from amor – “the love of things of this world.” When human romantic love was presented in literature it appeared in medieval romances, which came to exemplify ‘courtly love’ – a term not used until the 19th century.
The origins of the word ‘romance’ are interesting. It referred to works written in ‘romanz’ or French – the language which had developed in France from Latin, the language spoken ...

Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 by design mocks the traditional love poems of Shakespeare’s times. More traditional love poems were rife with exaggerated comparisons that extolled the beauty of the beloved. Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 outright makes fun of such things in lines like the opening: “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;” (1). While much of his poem is spent describing her lover’s shortcomings, in the end he claims to love her.
Shakespearean sonnets are fourteen lines long and consist of four parts (Kennedy n.p.; Owen 260). The first three parts known as quatrains each consist ...

The Song Irreplaceable, which is sung by Beyoncé and the play A Doll's House written by Henrik Ibsen, share a common theme that is broken marriage or love. In the play, Norah, the protagonist leaves her marriage to seek inner peace and find out who she is because of her husband’s betrayal. From the beginning of the play, Mr. Trovald is in control of the marriage, and it never seemed that Norah could have the courage to move out (Ibsen 5). She leaves her keys and wedding ring and slams the door behind her. In the song, Beyoncé ...

I chose William Faulkner’s short story A Rose for Emily for this essay. The work was first published in 1930. The movie I used for comparison appeared in 1983 and was filmed by Lyndon Chubbuck. Both film and story have similar main aspects. They describe a death and life of 74-year-old Emily Grierson who was a town’s heritage. People found that the woman killed her lover Homer Barron and lived with his body like with husband for many years. While Chubbuck saved the main idea, he made several changes that had impact on movie’s perception.

MAIN CHARACTER

Emily ...

Compare and Contrast Robert Frost's Mending wall to john Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn

The “Ode on a Grecian Urn” was written by Romantic poet John Keats in 1819 and is known for its profound meditation and conclusions on the nature of beauty. It highlights the issues of beauty, truth and eternity. It portrays Keats’ attempt to understand the eternity of sculpture, an art form. Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall” was written in 1914 and depicts how two men meet on terms of civility to repair a wall between them. This paper will try to compare and contrast “Ode on a Grecian Urn” with “Mending Wall” with regards to form, structure, and themes.

Keats’ “Ode ...

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The two stories named “The Sonny blues” and “A Rose for Emily” described the psychological aspects related to human beings. Sonny Blues is a short story based on the life of a boy named Sonny and his brother, who has been described as a narrator throughout the story. Sonny was a younger brother of a narrator who suffered a lot of pains and miseries throughout his life just because he was black American. His brother always judged his brother as a careless and irresponsible person who was destroying his life through falling into drug addiction. Throughout the story, the narrator remembered past events about his family ...

Introduction

Thesis Statement: A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a place about how conflict brings about radical change in a person’s identity.

Change

In the play, the woods represents “radical change”
The Marriage scene represents the authority of the parents to enforce identity on their children
The characters enter the woods as one person, and through conflict, emerge out of the woods changed forever.
Hermia’s Radical Change
Helena’s Radical Change
Lysander’s Radical Change
Demetrius’s Radical Change
Demetrius Goes from Prescribed Groom to Lover of the Unrequited
Conclusion
A Midsummer ...

In his relationship with Socrates, has Alcibiades been made into a true lover; that is, is Alcibiades now a philosopher. To answer this, love must be defined philosophically or otherwise.
Socrates, in his speech, says that love is a feeling for some object. Love is a desire for an object. Eros is the Greek god of love. The Roman god of love is called Cupid. In his speech, Cupid says that love is a feeling for beautiful things. Socrates philosophically says ‘love’ is not good or beautiful’. He goes on and says that if it were the contrary, then he would not be ...

Introduction

There are different film genres that we have. Grouping of the film genres has proved to be quite a problem in the past. However, the different genres have been realized, and it is notable that most films have more than one genre (Friedman, 23). In some cases, the genres have a common similarity and have several differences. For the woman’s and noir films, they are both feminine based. They keep on changing as the film progresses.

In a woman's film, the protagonists are defined by the nature and the society unlike in the male genres where protagonists are defined by action. ...

- “Farewell my Concubine”

Overview of the Film

The film, “Farewell my Concubine,” directed by Chen Kaige is a Chinese film belonging to the drama genre. The drama explores the impacts of China’s political mayhem during the middle of the twentieth century on the lives of the families, individuals and groups. In the film that spans over 53 years, the story of the lives two men, Xiaolou and Dieyi, has been used to depict the idea of the rapidly changing family systems and cultural orientations of the people of China during the period of invasion in China by the Japanese government. The essay ...

Introduction

Love is an intangible feeling that makes us vulnerable to danger, pain and suffering. However, love is the foundation of friendship; it brings us together and promotes cooperation. Friendship and cooperation is usually contaminated by betrayal and lies. The people we love can easily manipulate our trust.
We have all experienced different kinds of love in our lives. As we grow up, our parents teach us how to love through words, actions and feelings. It is true when people say love is life, because life without love would be meaningless. Love is seen in various aspects of our ...

Scholars mainly utilize symbols to convey and express people’s emotions in order to develop their stories or arguments. Edgar Allan strategically employs this style by utilizing physical images and spaces in portraying the feeling of various characters under different set ups. Opposing feelings may have little difference among individuals with strong personalities. For example, it is often hard to know when someone loves or hates something. The paper analyzes how Edgar Allan employs physical images and spaces of confinement in describing the psychological states of people in his scripts The Fall of the House of Usher and The Raven.
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In this poem, a committed lover goes on to wish the most heavenly things for his ladylove from the innermost core of the heart. Yeats pours his emotions into the cauldron of this beautiful poem and the reader is left with goose bumps after absorbing the exquisiteness of the emotion of love.
In the first five lines, Yeats goes on to express the surreal things with which he wishes to adorn her. The lady is no less than treasure for the passionate lover. His dreams unfurl their wings of desire and the reader is also left lost in a realm ...

I strongly agree with the analogy that best friendships are more stable than love relationships. This is mainly because, in love relationships, they are greater depths of intimacy, trust and exclusiveness which if betrayed can hurt the other person much more than in best friendship relationships. They are a lot of emotional connections involved in love relationships that makes the other person feel responsible and more caring for his or her lover. The intimacy and commitment levels are more involving. Therefore, should there be suspicions of cheating or unreciprocated love the other party may experience a lot of hurt feelings. Jealousy ...

In his play M. Butterfly, David Henry Hwang presents traditional gender and cultural stereotypes of male dominance, female submission, Caucasian power, and Asian mysteriousness. The character Rene Gallimard displays typically male characteristics of strength and control when he deliberately delays contact with the character Song. He and other Caucasian characters are in positions of power within their government, and emphasize their perceived strength over Asian countries. The character Song appears to submit completely to Gallimard’s requests, frequently emphasizing traditionally female characteristics of passivity and modesty. Song also maintains a sense of mystery by refusing to unclothe herself. Ultimately, in ...

Both poems express the griefs of speakers who have lost their loves, discuss the similarities and differences in the methods of these poems and the ideas they suggest.

Both ‘The Raven’ and ‘Annabel Lee’ deal with the speaker’s memories of a loved one and both, perhaps necessarily because of their subject matter, reveal an obsession with death. Poe, to a certain extent, uses similar methods in both poems and yet the tone and mood of each poem is rather different, and, this essay will argue, the effect on the reader is different as well.

Both poems make extensive use of ...

Edgar Allen Poe wrote “The Raven” in 1945. The poem shows how lost love can lead to depression. Depression, and mental illness in general, is a topic common to many of Poe’s works, and he often uses an unreliable narrator as one of the primary means of showing such depression. Following the death of the woman he loved, a male speaker narrates “The Raven,” and through this first person account, the reader is allowed a glimpse of his descent into madness. Through the poem, Poe demonstrates to how the experience of losing a loved one can propel someone ...

This essay is an analysis to Richard Ford’s “Under the Radar”. Ford’s story, despite short, conveys a deep and textured plot and along with perplexing characters. The story revolves around the theme of early marriage, infidelity among professionals and the consequences in the revelation of these actions. There is not a hint of happiness or closure at the end and it leaves the reader free to think up of the ending on their own, with the lingering opinions on mistrust and deception.
“Under the Radar” starts off with a young couple, Marjorie Reeves and her husband, Steven ...

It needs to be taken into account that literature goes on to reflect the true nature of the society of this world. The stalwart literary artists have for long engaged in portraying the dynamics of the interpersonal relationships in their works, and the theme of domination and its subsequent subversion has come to find commonality in the works of many literary artists of the world. If one closely introspects on some specific works, it would be easier to gauge how the thematic content of domination has been portrayed in the literary texts over the span of the history of ...

Blow Up is a 1966 British-Italian film by Michelangelo Antonioni that tells the story about a London photographer who believes that he accidentally captured a murder on his film. The story in itself covers a day in the life of Thomas- the photographer whose lateness in taking some scheduled photos of different people leads him to having an adventurous but hectic day. The significant event that day is how he accidentally captured a murder scene as he photographed two lovers at a park which brings about Mise en scene to create plot and themes.
Antonioni makes extensive use of ...

Published in 1889, Laura Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate is set in revolutionary Mexico of the early twentieth century. At that time, society and the family institution exercised an authoritative and oppressive control on women’s activities and expression; in fact, such control had existed since colonial times, Up until recent times, women had been playing a subservient role from which even in the twenty-first century they are still struggling to break themselves free. Not only were women denied participation in society and politics as individuals with their own voice and identity, but they were mostly confined to ...

Introduction

The Dubliner collection is an assortment of narratives by James Joyce, which he compiled at the tender age of only twenty-three years. The collection is composed of literary, influential and revolutionary stories covering different aspects of politics, and even social matters.
The Dubliners is characterized by different themes. These issues revolve around terrorizing moments experienced by characters. The themes connected to death or mortality as referred in the text, includes suffering, isolation, and disappointments. These topics take on physical, mental, political and even spiritual anguish. The authors explain that the affected individuals are to some extent responsible for what ...

Dunya Mikhail is an Iraqi poet who exiled to America from her homeland. She is one of those poets who have been greatly influenced by Iraq- Iran war. This influence is reflected in her poems due to which she is also acknowledged among the war generation in the literature world. She has also experienced the consequences of the invasion of Kuwait and desert storm along with her fellow countrymen. In response to the criticism, she published an article in the Baghdad Observer, “reminding those critics that there might be no post-war generation, as the war seem be to be ...

It has to be reckoned that the art form of drama is surely one of the most effective and expressive ways of exuding and exploring relationships among individuals. The form of art provides the playwright with utmost scope of portraying affective charm and aesthetic quintessence so as to leave a mark in the minds of the avid audience or readers of the text. One can take into consideration the plays, The Normal Heart and Dog Sees God so as to delve deep into the intricacies of relationships and emotions that get portrayed via the characters and content of the ...

Aeschylus’s tragedy, “Agamemnon” presents the return of the king from the Trojan War, and his death at the hands of his own wife, Clytemnestra, soon after his arrival. The readers find out early in the play that, in order to reach the battleground, Agamemnon had to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia to appease the gods. The chorus presents the sacrifice with many horrific details, in order to outrage the audience and to direct their antipathy towards the king. Later in the play, Clytemnestra murders the king, and his mistress, and claims that his daughter has finally been revenged. However, ...

John Frederick Nims’ “Love Poem” and William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 130” are two different poems that are separated by four centuries, but the poets have successfully presented the “ideal” poems to represent the “ideal woman” in a grounded world with all her flaws. The poems reflect that love on the surface is superficial when compared to the inner beauty of a loved one. Honesty and integrity are more effective when dealing with true love.

William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 130”, was probably written to ridicule the traditional love poem that showed women as divine angelic creatures with no flaws. Shakespeare recognizes ...

The sexual anomaly in this book is masochism. This was a new category in the sexual perversion. This kind of sexual perversion was very rare during the time of the writing. The writer had various published writings that helped him understand the various sexual cherished fantasies among people. People were able to recognize their secret desires as described in his writings. There were several cases in his book, which described the strange sexual desires. People however related to these strange sexual desires (Leopard, 1).

One such case described a man who wanted to be a slave to his lover. The other ...

The overwhelming theme that seems to be driving the characters in Casablanca seems to be – “All’s fair in love and war”. This movie is often said to be one of the greatest films made in the golden era of Hollywood. It certainly has all the classic elements to stir up ones imagination – war (although none of the characters are directly in the middle of it), an exotic third world setting, cheeky dialogues, a good sound track, the famous love triangle, and a star-studded cast. All these elements have combined to make this movie a huge success.

Casablanca can ...