Alter ego

the point – Harrison Ford plays the rogue-like hero extremely well. This is not to say he is unable to play other characters, another popular alter ego is the hardened, slightly grizzled authoritative figure as seen in many of his lesser, yet still successful films such as that of Colonel Graff in Enders Game. “Many actors resist typecasting and try to alter the kinds of characters they plan on the screen from film to film” (Belton, 2013, 96). Although not typecast as many actors fall victim…

What’s the difference between “Grand Theft Auto V” (GTA V) and boxing? For starters, GTA V is a video game, and boxing is a competitive sport. One side is influenced by money, weapons, sex, and drugs. The other is influenced by physical brutality and roaring chants of spectators. Both of these two have their differences, but one thing that they primarily share is violence. Statistics show that GTA V was a record breaking video game seller – having sold over 34 million copies. It was also one of…

control but when feelings of self-hatred grows in them, the character projects that rage onto a fictitious version of himself, and even though the stories are in first person, where is the main character who tell the story, the creation of this alter ego transform the main character in an external observer. In The Tell-Tale Heart, the narrator states his love for an old man whom he will violently kill and he will chop him apart. The narrator in a desperate intent tries to give a rational…

the epitome of evil. The duality of Jekyll is a key element of ‘The Beast Within’. At first, Jekyll attempts to separate his evil side through supernatural means in order to maintain his virtuous facade. The diametric opposition between the two alter egos is conveyed in the text through contrast. For example, Henry Jekyll is described as embodying virtue and decorum - core values of Victorian society, in “a large, well-made, smooth-faced man of fifty … every mark of capacity and kindness.”…

The Devil in a Blue Dress exhibits multiple hard-boiled crime novel characteristics, Walter Mosley uses these characteristics to influence the reader’s perspective on racial issues. Mosley creatively uses racial differences to illustrate the challenges facing minority classes in 1940’s America. The novel is set in Los Angeles, following the Second World War. Racial disparity was still a very real issue at this time prior to the Civil Rights Movement. Mosley shows the challenges that people…

The Puzzle Of Computer Science Philosophy A major in Computer Science has always been what I have wanted to achieve. My brain is constantly in a state of self imposed hyperactivity. I have excelled in creating new puzzles in order for my brain to get its daily dose of adrenaline. However the adrenaline rush i got from my first puzzle would last much longer than expected, becoming my own personal stalker. When I first got asked the question such as every other child is, what do you want…

Hardly new in the United States, school shootings are perceived as devastating, frightening and incomprehensible acts, with long-lasting effects on society. Representing the work of America’s ten deadliest school shooters, statistics compiled, account for one hundred and thirty-three dead and one hundred and forty-two injured. Yet, the question remains, what type of person would enter a school with the purpose to extinguish human life? Do school shooters aim with specific targets in their sights…

Within narratives throughout the centuries, some protagonists have been set in a frame where readers question the sanity of the main character by the end of the novel. In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, some believe Hamlet is indeed insane by the end of the play whether it was due to circumstances or not. Don Quixote is a similar but different story. It presents a case of insanity, but it becomes a little more specific as symptoms begin come across more clearly. As a psychology double major, the…

Stanley is very macho, very honest, and very brutal. Tom, who is Tennessee’s alter ego, is also a very strong character. In A Streetcar Named Desire, Stanley is a quintessential male. He is very possessive of Stella and his entire house. The idea for this character came to Williams from an old friend who use to work at the factory…

In 2001, Michael Haneke directed a film called, The Piano Teacher. Haneke’s attitude, as conveyed to the spectator, is not to rail against pornography, per se, but to rail against its impact as generated by a capitalist patriarchy. This stems from a similar modality introduced by Linda Williams1 in which she “...moves beyond the impasse of the anti-porn/anti-censorship debate to analyze what hard-core film pornography is and does.” (Slade 656). Haneke’s method portrays a patriarchal approach…