Sincerity can be compared to honesty. However, are they one and the same? George Henry Lewes wrote in his book The Principles of Success in Literature, “Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.” Christopher Meloni said, “I never find sincerity offensive… so, be sincere.” However, Edward Albee was quoted in a 1962 ...
In The Zoo Story, Albee showed us the results of lack of communication and inability to the love. In The American Dream and The Sand Box, we saw the emptiness of a family’s life the destruction of Mommy’s love. In Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, the struggle for dominance in a barren marriage became a ...
Stanley Webber, the protagonist, is a recluse in his late 30s characterized by humour, consternation and fear. Highly capricious at one moment and highly humorous at another, he appears like a frightened animal. He appears to be a pianist in his past life. He is an escapist as he comes across as a recluse set ...
The term “American Dream” was originally coined by James Truslow Adams in his book “The Epics of America” which as published in 1931. This dream has always played a major role on immigration to America due to people perceiving America as the greatest country of opportunity, entrepreneurship and a freedom of spirit that all wish ...
There’s so much rubbish in movies today, even a film about a psychopathic tire will garner box-office. That seems to be the underlying jab from Quentin Dupieux’s mock-horror film “Rubber.” With overt metaphors and monologues that smash the 4th wall with stabbing commentary, “Rubber” beautifies the rubbish it mocks. The tire, Robert, awakens from a ...