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A discussion on how meaning is enacted or re-created when a text is performed or adapted for a performance. A written comparison of a print text with the text's adaptation into film.

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"Cormac McCarthy's novel "All the Pretty Horses" examines in fine detail the maturing of a sixteen-year-old boy, John Grady Cole, as he travels through the scorched landscape of Mexico. Grady's quest to uphold the romantic ideals of "the Wild West" is beautifully illustrated through McCarthy's attention to detail in his writing. When comparing the delicacy McCarthy has taken to articulate his ideas, with Bill Bob Thornton's film representation of the same title, one can only feel utmost disappointed."

Tags:film, movie, novel, literture

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The paper discusses that both the novel and the film ?Great Expectations? provide a profound understanding of the emotional strengths and weaknesses of human psychology. The author believes that the foremost, and most obvious, similarity between the novel of Charles Dickens' ?Great Expectations? and its film adaptation is the theme based on the depiction of a true Victorian era. The author feels that, unlike the book, the movie characters appear distant and the overall film lacks the sentimental touch of a movie based on the theme of love and its consequences.

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"The probable reason why the movie failed to satisfy its viewers was the fact that the novel was the author's own innovation, based on original thought; whereas, the movie was just a visual sequel of Dickens's magnum opus on the silver screen. Moreover, where the plot of "Great Expectations" demonstrated the literary figure's creative genius, it also well blended his two diversified predispositions. Charles Dickens's ability to analyze closely and his keen sense of observation pertaining to non-living things as well as living species including human beings is one factor. The other, his rather powerful inclination, which overshadows his former tendency, is towards pitiful and hilarious glorified ideals. This harmonization of the two propensities has been aptly and equally remarkably figured out as well as carried out by the director of the movie."

Tags:victorian, characters, love, consequence, observation

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This paper discusses how within both "American Beauty" and "The Great Gatsby" themes and messages are essentially the same, regardless of the difference in media and context. The paper relates that messages of superficiality are communicated and then re-enforced throughout both works. The paper further looks at how, with the use of dramatic irony, both Mendez and Fitzgerald draw the audience's attention to the corruption that surrounds them and silently make a negative comment on the hypocrisy of society. It also examines how the familiarity of the self-destruction of the American Dream that is shared by Fitzgerald and Sam Mendez can only come from first-hand knowledge of this corrupted society. The paper maintains that, even though the contexts of the two texts are different, both creators communicate the same negative opinions of society.

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"The creators of American Beauty and The Great Gatsby communicate strong messages of superficiality to the audience. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald draws the audiences' attention to the superficiality of the American Society by repeatedly showing the characters expectations of fraudulence and repeated imagery of emptiness. In Chapter 3 the audience is shown the expectations that are held by the people of society for everything to be an illusion, the idea that any great wealth or glamour is an illusion. "You needn't bother to ascertain. I ascertained. They're real." The reaction of those who see that the wealth and glamour of Gatsby's mansion is more than an illusion is significant as it shows to the audience how the American society expects the people living the dream to be in some way corrupt. "

Tags:dream, corruption, nick, carraway, daisy, glamour

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This paper explores and compares the multiferous interpretations of two movies "Blade Runner" (1982) and "Brave New World" (1994). The paper shows how the contexts of the two movies are markedly different -"Blade Runner" exists in a context in which there is a growing support for libertarianism, influencing the increase in environmentalism, both of which detect the intended environmental and anti-authoritarian didactic of the texts, while "Brave New World" creates an aberration of the original intent, complicated by the mutating religious values of society.

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"The final scene of Brave New World disseminates Huxley's opinion that the suppression of human nature will ultimately lead to one's demise, a message which is especially prominent to the libertarians. Libertarian is a term to describe those who revile the concept of suppression and as such a message of freedom would be interpreted. The suppression of one's human nature creates a spiral of depression which will result in the obliteration of oneself. The savage attempted to suppress his feelings for Lenina, yet ultimately failed in his attempt. The savage had been taught, conditioned by his society that lust as with "every evil inclination has to place itself under such great restraint, don so many masks, lay itself so often on the procrustean bed of virtue" (Nietzsche), his feelings for Lenina were perceived to be evil, being contrary to the teachings of, in this case, the bible. The contradiction of his feelings and his teachings led to confusion as to the correct course of action, confusion which led to the complete suppression of emotions. The suppression of his emotions resulted in a decent into a self- destructive spiral, beginning with the use of self- punishment as a source of redemption, an act which brought him great pleasure, developing masochist instincts. The savage ultimately commits suicide, hanging himself in the tower, unable to repress his desires. The tower is a symbol of the self-destructive spiral, the concentric circles of the tower leading to the death of The savage. The suppression of human desires ultimately leads to one's demise as one enters a self-destructive spiral, until one destructs. Within Blade Runner there is an overt condemnation of oppression and suppression within the conclusion."

Tags:context, dystopian

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This essay focuses on the feminist criticism of the Shakespeare's drama "King Lear." The author examines modern and traditional presentations of this play. The main characters, and plot line are detailed, and then analyzed in order to look its portrayal of women. The play has undergone several transformations, and has adapted some of the themes regarding women to modern times.

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"Shakespeare's original King Lear enforces anarchy, sexual insubordination and a misogynist emphasis through its portrayal of women and their impact on society, hence their destructive existence. This drama requires the audience to accept the underlying agreement that fathers are owed particular duties by daughters and chaos will manifest if this condition is not met. This assumption obviously imply that in King Lear, chaos was spawned by the neglect of these duties hence suggesting females are once again the cause of conflict."

Tags:criticism, feminist, production, lear, king, daughters, mind, family, relationships

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The paper draws comparisons between "Persuasion's" Anne Elliot's romantic struggles and that of the author, Jane Austen, suggesting that nearing the end of her life, the author was reflecting on how her own life may have eventuated had she married the man from her youth, instead of remaining single. The author examines other relationships in the novel and how those relationships represent the alternative fates Anne may have suffered had she not gained the strength to take an active role and marry for love.

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"Jane Austen's final novel, "Persuasion," is an insightful portrayal of the challenges faced by women in the 1800s. The story seen through the eyes of the heroine, Anne Elliot, gives readers an impression of the influence that nineteenth century society could have on a woman's fate, had she not the strength to resist. Anne Elliot's character changes from passive to active over the course of the novel. It is in this way that she avoids the alternative fates dramatized for her by other women in the novel and ironically, by Jane Austen herself."

Tags:feminism, journey, life, love, marriage, persuasion, power, relationships, wentworth

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This paper looks at the many similarities in Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights", and Charlotte Bronte's novel, "Jane Eyre". The author discusses the gothic elements present in both books: the dark, the hidden, the secrets, and the brooding characters like Heathcliff and Mr. Rochester. The paper examines the element of the occult in both novels: ghosts, visions, the dead Catharine, and insane Bertha Mason Rochester.

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Traditionally, Gothic elements were constituted by the ambiguous, the chaotic, the unenlightened, the supposedly irrational, the dark, the hidden, and the secret. According to literary handbooks, Gothic is a matter of d?cor and mood, of an obscurely pleasurable terror, of the nostalgic melancholy of ruins and of remote times and places. Conventions familiar in Gothic narratives include a vulnerable/curious heroine, a wealthy/enigmatic hero/villain, and a grand, mysterious dwelling concealing violent secrets."

Tags:bronte, genre, ghost, moors, yorkshire, heathcliff, bertha, rochester, catharine, lockwood

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This essay compares Charles Dickens? ?Great Expectations? with Peter Carey?s ?Jack Maggs.? The author examines how the portrayal of the convict characters Abel Magwitch and Jack Maggs are compared and contrasted, revealing astonishing similarities between the two characters, despite the different backgrounds of their authors.

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"Peter Carey?s novel, "Jack Maggs", and Charles Dicken?s "Great Expectations" whilst built on the same story line, were written by two authors from different countries and different times. It would therefore not be amiss for a reader to assume that their respective portrayals of a convict, who earns his wealth in New South Wales and sponsors a London street urchin to gentlemanly status, would differ markedly. This assumption, however, is quickly contradicted upon comparison of the two texts. Both Dickens and Carey, despite their different backgrounds, portray their respective convict characters, Able Magwitch and Jack Maggs, with great empathy."

Tags:able, carey, charles, compare, contrast, convict, dickens, magwitch, peter, pip, sympathy

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This paper examines Shakespeare's use of the theme of time-as-destroyer, in three of the sonnets: No's 64, 65, and 73. Shakespeare's poetic techniques are analyzed in detail. Some of these include meter, alliteration, antithesis, syllogism, personification, ploce, and chiasmus. In order to demonstrate these different techniques, the author makes extensive comparisons between the three sonnets.

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"The poem is an apostrophe, addressed to the absent (or at least voiceless) lover. It says these things you may see in me: that I am aging, that I am like a setting sun, that I must soon die. But because you see this impermanence, this fading or deterioration, you only love me more. Now, impermanence has become a positive thing, fueling the love his beloved has for him.
"The imagery in this sonnet is gentler than that of the two others. There, we had raging, engulfing oceans, and battering days, and rocks and brass and hard, indomitable things. Now, the imagery is of yellowing leaves, and boughs that once had sweet singing birds on them. The giving over to inevitable death is not one raged against, but is a sweet thing like the setting of a sun. His late stage of life is being compared with fading light, and with night which is "death's second self that seals up all in rest." We are being eased into death here, being made to think of it as slumber."

Tags:alliteration, beauty, chiasmus, courtly, elizabethan, literature, love, personification, ploce, poetry, shakespeare, sonnets, theme, time, life, imagery, repetition, couplet, technique, contrast

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A paper contrasting "The Chimney Sweeper" poems from William Blake's "Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience" with "The Ecchoing Green" and "London". The paper focuses on the portrayal of the contrary states of innocence and experience, but the paper suggests that in a greater thematic sense all poems carry Blakes social criticism of the hypocritical Romantic society.

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"William Blake, from a young age, displayed a vivid imagination which was not looked upon favorably during the pre Romantic period. He continued throughout his writing to radically question religion and politics, especially critical of the church, putting forth his views on the world. Perhaps what Blake is most famous for are his contrasting Songs of Experience and Songs of Innocence poems, which have either been paired by Blake himself, or by critics in their interpretations. In plate three of "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" Blake wrote, "Without contraries is no progression", this statement defining the contrary states of Innocence and Experience, regarded as necessary to both human existence and human progress."

Tags:chimney, exploitation, hypocrisy, london, religion