Alfred Young

With Kristine, her cage was also her family. When she was young, her family was poor, and because of this she had to devote herself to raising her family and her brothers. In order to do so, she left her lover Krogstad and married a wealthy man. Though this obstacle had ruined her relationship with Krogstad, raising…

Abbas Kiarostami was an Iranian filmmaker whose films are so uniquely his they are in a genre of their own. Smart and profound films that offer many polysemic viewpoints and are full of ambiguity. Throughout his career there have been many different techniques, styles, and changes Kiarostami has tested and implemented. His movies all have a certain distinctive quality to them, but starting with his 1987 film “Where Is the Friend's Home?”, he settled into a style that is now uniquely his own.…

Released in 1955, To Catch a Thief was one of three films director Alfred Hitchcock produced within an eighteenth month period and was the result of a collaboration with rising screenwriter John Michael Hayes, whom he had previously worked with on Rear Window. Quickly written and produced, the film is about retired cat-burglar John Robie, who after being framed for a ring of jewel thefts in the French Riviera, seeks to find the real culprit, while evading the police and the romantic advances of…

There are many examples that show that birth order influences someone’s personality. Alfred Adler, Sigmund Freud, and Carl Jung are three very famous philosophers who have theories on how people’s personalities are based on the order they are born in. Based on their theories, only children, youngest children, middle children, and oldest children all have different characteristics and personalities. Some of the characteristics that would alter, based on birth order could be: openness, social…

Paradox’s can be found everywhere in everyday life. From literature to our personality. A personality is a pattern of approximately permanent traits and individual characteristics that are both consistent and are individual to a person’s behavior (Fiest, 2014). A paradox is any statement or proposition that is self-contradictory, but expresses a possible truth (Merriam, 2016). Each and every one of us has a personality that is unique to ourselves. Our personality affects every aspect of our…

• “Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm”: Sigmund Freud’s theory that a woman has not achieved sexual maturity unless she’s experienced sexual pleasure in her vagina. Enforces heterosexual views of sexuality and enforces the belief that women need men to achieve orgasm; a myth maintained deliberately by men. He also mentions that “if a woman is unable to achieve sexual pleasure even though she has an adequate partner, shows her frigidity and her need for psychiatric assistance”, this statement enhances…

Georgia O’Keefe was born the second of seven children near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin on Nov. 15, 1887 (“Georgia O’Keeffe: About the Painter”). From the age of 13 (Stabb), she knew she wanted to become an artist, and she began her art career in 1905 by studying at the Art Institute of Chicago. She continued her education a year later at the Art Student’s League of New York. After working in Chicago as a commercial artist for a while, she moved to Texas to teach art (“Georgia O’Keeffe: About the…

director that has garnered enough influence that they have total artistic control over the entire production (Miller 54).” Here we will be discussing one such director, M. Night Shyamalan and his low-budget film Split (2016). Split is a thriller about a young man named Kevin that suffers from Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), more commonly known as…

Christopher Nolan’s Memento is organized in a way that the story and character development is presented to the audience backwards and with the same amnesia as the character. We experience scenes out of order and backwards. In the film Leonard talks with the motel manager about his memory condition (Memento 8:00). However, this has happened before, we the viewers are just know seeing the exchange between the characters for the first time. This can help the audience have a connection with Leonard…

In the Alfred Hitchcock Film “Psycho”, Norman Bates, a motel desk receptionist, is living with his “mother” in a giant house close to his family’s motel. The lovely Marion Crane, who is very disturbed and looks as if she has a dirty secret, greets him one stormy night. In the “parlor scene”, Norman and Marion are talking and eating dinner late at night. This scene shows the first clues of how crazy Norman actually is by showing a glimpse of his anger. Marion comments on his mother saying he…