What is a dream? Some might call it a reflection of one’s subconscious. Others might call it a deep seeded regret, want, or desire. Others may even cite it as a vision of the future, or explanation of the past. Akira Kurosawa once said that “Man is a genius when he is dreaming.” Nobody will ...
While typically examined as a feminist tract, The Yellow Wallpaper also presents us with a period piece on the attitudes of the medical community on mental illnesses. In the story, Charlotte Perkins Gilman presents to us a woman’s diary entries that reveal a progressive descent to insanity. An examination of the cause reveals many things. ...
Whenever something gets a lot of buzz, I get curious. The blockbuster book (and now series) “50 Shades of Grey” was a juggernaut. You know something is a phenomenon when it’s been parodied and copied to no end. Visit any book store and you’ll see countless covers that look similar, obviously hoping to cash in ...
There has been a recent wave of superhero movies as of late. Some good, some bad, some great and some not worth mentioning, but how will this year stack up to the rest? That is the question. We are now in a day and age where the superhero can come to life as is was ...
The film I chose to view for this analysis was What’s Eating Gilbert Grape. The problem presented in this film involves a single mother who has kept herself isolated from society for years following the death of her husband. Her children have assumed complete care for her and their mentally-disabled brother Arnie who is approaching ...
From reading Thom Hartman’s The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, we might conjure an image of a huge bomb in the form of planet earth, with several rapidly-burning fuses protruding. Each fuse represents one of the ways in which human beings are contributing to the destruction of the earth and consequently, of themselves. Hartmann begins ...
I asked several writers how long it took them to write a novel they wanted published. One woman writer made a frustrated face at me, a couple others just stared at me (their novel wasn’t finished yet), and a few just stared. We all have hectic lives having to take care of families, jobs, extended ...
Malcolm Gladwell proffers reasons for success that have never been explored prior to his ground-breaking study known as Outliers. The logic is so obvious that attention has not been paid to these causes before. For instance, Gladwell tells us that a study of successful hockey players revealed that an unusual number of these players had ...
“He wanted to show that fate ruled people’s lives, and that those who interfered with it did so to their sorrow.” In the short story, The Monkey’s Paw, written by W. W. Jacobs, fate and chance play a major role. The story strongly suggests that a person’s life is pre-determined by fate and interference would ...
In Act V, Scene II of Shakespeare’s Othello, the Moorish general’s life and fortune are finally unraveled by the malicious Iago. The general stumbles into his bedchamber to find Desdemona sleeping and reiterates his perceived necessity in killing her. Desdemona is awakened by Othello’s presence of her husband and is battered with charges of gross ...
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