Schindler’s List is based on the true story of the Holocaust, and Oskar Schindler who saved over 1200 Jews during WWII (oskarschindler.com). It is true in essentials, but sacrifices some historical accuracy for the sake of artistic expression, and to make it a more interesting film. It is true that Schindler’s List is a work ...
Characters are probably the most important and fundamental element of fiction. In fiction, a character is an imagined person who participates in a story. The character is usually a person, but can also be a personal identity or a personified animal or subject (for example, see Orwell’s Animal Farm or a voice that inhabits an ...
A reoccurring theme in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet appears to have an unsympathetic link towards the moral ineptitude of the people involved in the play. To understand the type of spying that is exemplified, one has to look at the unethical King Claudius and his tireless facade. Hamlet finds himself knowingly in a conspiracy devised by ...
Don DeLillo’s 1991 novel Mao II is undoubtedly an example of postmodernist writing. The novel exhibits frequent references to television news, advertisements, and other elements of popular culture; it features an antihero in protagonist Bill Gray; and it makes an existentialist statement about free will through constant references to Mao Zedong, crowd imagery, and the ...
