Theme of Madness Essay

Code Name Verity is a story about two pilots in 1943 during World War Two. One pilot, her code name Verity, is parachuted over Nazi Germany and is captured by Nazi soldiers called Gestapo and taken to an abandoned hotel that serves as a prison. Verity is forced to write down secret codes she knows which tell where British airfields are located. In exchange she receives back articles of clothing that the Gestapo has taken from her. Mattie, code named Kittyhawk, is the pilot of the plane Verity…

The poet Tupac Shakur faced a good deal of racial discrimination throughout his life. His poem “The rose that grew from concrete” is about Tupac Shakur sticking to his dream even though the hard times. The speaker describes the feeling of what arise when he held on to his dream. In “The rose grew from concrete” the main literary devices that Tupac Shakur used was metaphor to compare the difficulty of keeping your dream even when no else was there to support you. In “The rose that grew from…

The Treasure of Lemon Brown Everyone has a treasure right. What is your treasure? The story of Lemon Brown is about a boy who wanders into an old tenement and finds a homeless man, named Lemon Brown. He was a blues singer and a good one. He said “I sung the blues so sweet that if I sang at the funeral, the dead would commence to rocking with the beat.” Lemon Brown’s treasure was a harmonica and some newspaper clippings. He gave his son these items and his son died in the war. Lemon told…

A Critical Analysis of “Disaster Topographics” by Blake Fitzpatrick “Disaster Topographics” by Blake Fitzpatrick is an article published in “Image and Inscription: An Anthology of Contemporary Canadian Photography”, compiled and edited by Robert Bean in commemoration of Gallery 44’s 25th anniversary in 2006 (Bean 11). The editor Robert Bean describes the book as a "photo album," a "compilation of photographs, captions, narratives and explanations", proposing a mixed, different and subjective…

as a form of self-expression. Despite having two dynamic main characters the plot moves forward with fluidity. This is mostly due to Baldwin’s use of ongoing themes such as loss of innocence, suffering and self-discovery that manifest in both of the leading characters. In “Sonny’s Blues”, the author utilizes music to highlight these themes…

rather than what it truly is which is tearing something down. Curation into beauty consists of shaping something by taking things away, and in The Lost Wax by Jericho Parms, the author shows this central theme throughout the book that a person is made and formed by the losses in their life. This theme is accentuated by stories in Parms’ life that implore love and loss, but these stories that on the surface may seem miscellaneous, at the same time they all point back to a metaphorical idea of…

connections between these elements and the overall theme of the film, and how the theme is developed, will then be discussed. All the elements of cinematography and mise-en-scene contribute to the theme that death is an inevitable, inescapable part of every person’s life, and that death itself is an almost mundane topic. Cinematography is the means by which a film is made. Within the scene, many different techniques are used for emphasis and to highlight the theme of the film. The camera…

The Yellow Wallpaper had culture as one of its themes; one could see that through the narrator. The narrator seemed to have mental instability due to the fact that she was not allowed to visit certain people, or travel. This was mainly because her husband, who was also a physician, dismissed her mental issues on nerves and hysteria. Later on in the reading the narrator starts to see and imagine things vividly, mostly from not having anything to which occupy herself with. In today’s culture…

emphasize a female in a dominant position because in this world women are treated as a minority in most cultures and religions, so i feel the intent of placing a female leader was to show how society would or could be in terms of gender equality. The theme learnt here is that women should be placed on a pedestal next to men instead of being degraded. The quality of Commander Lewis that made her standout was not only that she was a female, but she was a responsible individual who chose to work…

"Search of Self" is one of the main themes that developed throughout the novel. "The present alone was significant; was hers, to torture her as it was doing then with the biting conviction that she had lost that which she had held, that she had been denied that which her impassioned, newly awakened being demanded"(Chopin, Kate. The Awakening. N.p.: n.p., n.d. Print.). The text supports the theme by explaining how Edna is finding a sense of self. Edna's "newly awakened being" describes her new…