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The Metamorphosis and a Doll’s HouseCircumstance is a powerful thing, it causes evolution in characters far beyond what they would normally experience. In Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis Kafka develops the attitude towards this situation through the use of his protagonist Gregor. In the character Gregor we see that an individual will cling to their ideals…

For 10 weeks, apprentice director Richard Eoin Nash observed rehearsals for auteur writer, director and designer Richard Foreman’s latest experimental theatre work, My Head Was a Sledgehammer, which runs through March 27 at Foreman’s Ontological-Hysteric Theater in New York. The experience, Nash writes, “was frustrating, exhilarating and titillating, sensually, spiritually, intellectually.” In this account of…

Since the turn of the 21st Century, the Hollywood film industry has produced a vast number of motion pictures that can be classified as “genre films. ” Each of these genre films follow a similar method of narrative elements that is specific to a particular theme and setting in which the story’s plot is built…

Running Head: BPD in Girl Interrupted Borderline Personality Disorder in Girl Interrupted Girl Interrupted is a movie based on Susanna Kaysen’s novel, which was inspired by her stay in a mental institution in the 1960s. Incidentally the main character, played by Winona Ryder, is named Susanna. She is eighteen years old and begins the movie…

Do what you love and the money will followIn this essay I will examine the meaning behind Jacob Needleman’s statement “There is this idea: ‘Do what you love and the money will follow’. I think that this is one of the New age Fantasies”. First explaining this quotation, I will then look at some of…

    In one poem he expresses his longing for poetry of “sensations” rather than “thoughts,” yet in a letter he admires Wordsworth’s ability to “explore those dark passages” of “mystery” philosophically. Because of the obvious contradiction, it is apparent that his philosophical assessment of poetry was not fixed. Keats refined his poetic philosophy in…

In The Woman Warrior, by Maxine Hong Kingston, captures readers with her own interpretation of what it was like to grow up as a female Chinese American. As a little girl, she came to America with her family. She shows us how difficult it was to fit into two different societies. In the Chinese society…

Gothic literature makes extensive use of primitive, medieval, wild mysterious, or natural elements. No Writer uses these elements to create such dramatic and strong effects as Edgar Allan Poe. He masters the Gothic story and is able to draw the reader deeply into his tales. The reader empathizes with the characters. Poe uses intense imagery…

The media has jaded people in today’s society, and It seems that people no longer care or even attempt to think about others problems and how to fix them. Many people In this country either do not care or are happy to be ignorant of the Issues affecting our world today. If someone cannot come…

You open your eyes to a narrow hallway with various passages opening to the left and right. The walls seem to be made of some pseudo-stucco material. You ignore the passages as you head forward to the opening at the end of the hallway. A spacious chamber opens up before you, with three passageways that…