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Stephen King King Recalls
1,891 wordsStephen Edwin King is one of today's most popular and best selling writers. King's major contribution to horror literature is to situate it within the general anxieties of contemporary life. His focus is not on vampires, werewolves and such, but on ordinary people faced with these horrors and the darker horrors of lost jobs, disintegrating families, mental breakdown, and all the other fears that haunt the modern age. What makes Stephen Kings stories almost magical is that the settings of his sto...
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Act Four Scene Act One Scene
1,463 wordsIn Shakespeare's Macbeth, the repercussions of Macbeth murdering his King are very numerous. Through themes which include, imagery, soliloquies, atmosphere, and supernatural beings, Shakespeare enforces the magnitude of Macbeth's crime. Most of these factors are linked together. One of the main ways in which the horror of the murder is underlined is through the Great Chain of Being. At the time this play was written, it was believed that there was a hierarchy in the universe, with God being at t...
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Act Three Scene Act Two Scene
1,484 words... ow awful Macbeth is as a King, and what a horrid person he has become from killing. He even kills his best friend, Banquo, which again shows the enormity of the situation. Under Duncan, Scotland was a hierarchies society with good rule and no hint of chaos. Under Macbeth, it is quite different. A metaphor for this change is the banquet scene of Act Three, Scene Four. A banquet is supposed to be a warm, happy place, but at Macbeth's banquet it is not. When the guests enter the banquet, they e...
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Nightmare On Elm Street Film And Reality
1,437 words... x Seven, eight, gonna stay up late Nine, ten never sleep again. As a teenage girl wanders around a dark boiler room in only her nightgown, as a screeching is heard as knives are scratched against the pipes. A badly burned man wearing a dirty hat and striped sweater with knives for finger grabs her from behind and she then wakes up screaming in her bed, it was only a dream. Not long after this, the same girl is in another dream where she is being chased by the same man, Freddy Kreuger. As the...
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Gothic Horror Horror Film
1,542 wordsThe genre of Gothic horror film has existed almost as long as the cinema itself, and it has always fascinated me. As the definition above suggests, the word can be loosely used to define any horror story with suitable settings, but such themes as disturbing dreams, desperate, undying love and melancholic romanticisation of death are also usually important in Gothic cinema. The following is a brief and superficial overview on Gothic horror film and some classics of the genre. Directed by Robert W...
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Inside Every Human Hearts Of Darkness
2,049 wordsInherent inside every human soul is a savage evil side that remains repressed by society. Often this evil side breaks out during times of isolation from our culture, and whenever one culture confronts another. History is loaded with examples of atrocities that have occurred when one culture comes into contact with another. Whenever fundamentally different cultures meet, there is often a fear of contamination and loss of self that leads us to discover more about our true selves, often causing per...
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Edgar Allan Poe Didn Acute T
7,778 wordsI have been given the task of comparing three stories of suspense in three different styles of writing. During this essay I will discuss the way each story is written, how and why certain effects are achieved and what elements contribute to the mood and suspense of the story. Finally, I will conclude as to which story I have found the most successful. An important thing to look at when studying a story, in my opinion, is the title. Titles of some stories give away the plots or endings, where oth...
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Horror Movie Three Films
1,560 wordsThe David Cronenberg David Cronenberg The director I chose to do my Analysis/Research paper on is was David Cronenberg. After screening The Dead Zone, Cronenberg? s work impressed me. Prior to this class I had never heard his name, even though I had seen previous works such as The Fly. Since I had already viewed this movie I resorted to alternate movies he had directed. I was able to locate The Brood and Videodrome. The main reason I chose Cronenberg for my director had to do with his style. His...
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Heart Of Darkness Marlow Sees
1,675 wordsIt is interesting to note that the female characters in Heart of Darkness seem to stand in a category of their own. It is queer how out of touch with women are. They live in a world of their own says Marlow about his aunt. Considering Heart of Darkness as a journey of self-discovery, Marlow s assertion seems to deny women the right or the need for the quest for truth. Conrad has suggested an ironic ambiguity, a confusion of light and dark about their nature, although the women themselves are not...
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Upper Middle Class Tabula Rasa
2,781 wordsFear is the quintessential human emotion. Some people live lives devoid of joy, happiness, and pleasure, but no one escapes the experience of fear and fear s companion, pain. We are born in fear and pain. Our lives are profoundly shaped by them, as well as our efforts to avoid them. Fear, experienced by every being of the human species, is an utterly unavoidable emotion. The extent and range of fears varies from person to person, but the emotion is the same. One person s reaction of seeing a sna...
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Victor Frankenstein Percy Shelley
10,415 wordsFrankenstein Biography, Setting, Plot Outline, Themes, Literary Techniques Essay, Frankenstein Biography, Setting, Plot Outline, Themes, Literary Techniques Most people know of Mary Shelley as the writer of Frankenstein and the wife of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. However, she was far more than that, and parts of her life were just as dramatic and tragic, if not more so, than her famous gothic novel. Marys parents were themselves well-known in English society and somewhat notorious. Her father...
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Alter Ego Stephen King
2,087 wordsStephen Stephen King Stephen King Stephen King is one of the most successful authors of the twentieth-century. He brings nightmares to life in a way that no other writer has succeeded to do, and is now among the most prestigious horror writers of the time. King is indeed a genius at work; however, to fully understand the legacy of Stephen King, one must understand the background from which he came and the manner in which he handled it. Due to the desertion of his father and his lack of self-este...
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Francis Coppola Movie Apocalypse Inside Every Human
2,363 wordsCompare and Contrast: Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now Inherent inside every human soul is a savage evil side that remains repressed by society. Often this evil side breaks out during times of isolation from our culture, and whenever one culture confronts another. History is loaded with examples of atrocities that have occurred when one culture comes into contact with another. Whenever fundamentally different cultures meet, there is often a fear of contamination and loss of self that leads u...
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Francis Ford Coppola Child By Tiger
3,108 wordsWilliam Blake spent much of his youth as an impoverished child, his family barely afforded him the chances to learn to read and write. He boldly worked with controversial themes during the largest revolutionary wars ever. His theories of innocence and experience were revolutionary in themselves and inspired and stirred awesome works reflecting upon how one moves from that state of innocence to experience. Joseph Conrad, Thomas Wolfe and Francis Ford Coppola can all derive their masterpieces from...
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World War One First World War
2,513 wordsEveryone is faced with struggles in life, whether physical or emotional. These struggles inevitably shape an individual? s personality and outlook on life. Timothy Findley? s novels, The Wars and Stones, suggest that the consequences of struggles in life result in a journey of self- discovery. War exists in the character? s physical and psychological accounts of the horror of life. In the novel The Wars, Robert Ross actually goes to war and fights in World War I. In the novel Stones, Minna Joyce...
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Francis Coppola Movie Apocalypse Inside Every Human
1,907 wordsMans Journey into Self in Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now Inherent inside every human soul is a savage evil side that remains repressed by society. Often this evil side breaks out during times of isolation from our culture, and whenever one culture confronts another. History is loaded with examples of atrocities that have occurred when one culture comes into contact with another. Whenever fundamentally different cultures meet, there is often a fear of contamination and loss of self that lea...
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Ahab Quenchless Feud Anacharsis Clootz Deputation Ishmael
10,308 wordsIt is easy to see why Melville, himself a prey to the deepest forebodings about the optimism of his day, recognized at once his kinship of spirit with Hawthorne. There is a certain tragic phase of humanity which, in our opinion (he wrote), was never more powerfully embodied than by Hawthorne. A year after Hawthorne published The Scarlet Letter, Melville dedicated his own most powerful embodiment of this tragic phase, Moby Dick, to Hawthorne, his acknowledged master. Together the two books are wi...
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Owl Creek Bridge Boston Little Brown
3,934 wordsAmbrose Gwinnett Bierce was born on June 24, 1842 in Meigs County, Ohio to Marcus Aurelius Bierce and Laura Sherwood Bierce. He was a naughty child, but, when he was not out playing devilish pranks, he would surround himself with the books of his literature-loving father. To these, he once wrote, he owed everything. Family conditions were never comfortable and Ambrose Bierce left home at fifteen to become a printers devil for the Northern Indianian in Warsaw. This position he forfeited at sevent...
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Stephen King Mentally Ill
275 wordsA Critique of Stephen King? s? Why We Crave Horror Movies? Elliot Potter In Stephen King? s essay? Why We Crave Horror Movies? he suggested that we are all mentally ill, demonstrated by those who talk to themselves on occasion, make grimacing faces or have hysterical fears of snakes, the dark, or tight places. King also stated that he believed that a horror movie appealed to all that is worst in us, allowing us to experience morbidity, basic instincts and fantasies in the darkness of the theater...
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2,472 wordsStephen King s Devices of Tension-Building as Seen through Salem s Lot The novel which we will examine, called Salem s Lot, is among Stephen King s finest novels. From the way he details the gory scenes of the story, to achieve a building of tension throughout every page. Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947, the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and then Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. From his soph...
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