Arthur Andersen

Throughout history, adults shelter children from the actual world, using movies as a method to accomplish this desire. Adults worry about children not experiencing a “proper childhood” and will give them content to fabricate an idealist encounter of life. When adults conceal the world from their children, most of the children will believe in the fantasyland presented to them. With children as well as adults, movies secured a way of sending people into another reality. However, pertaining to…

The Siren by Kiera Cass is a romance novel with forbidden love and mystical happenings. This novella stars Kahlen, a young girl, who was rescued from her terrible fate of drowning in a shipwreck by serving the Ocean for a century instead. She was forced to use her voice to lure people into the water and drown them, thus “feeding” the Ocean. After a hundred years, she would be given her humanity back and forget she was ever siren.There are two rules to being a siren: you can only use your voice…

Hans Christian Andersen stories are illustrious to young ones but why? Adults read different versions of his fairy tales to put children to sleep yet, they do not know how strange and disturbing they actually are. Fairy tales are read to kids worldwide because they create situations to inspire infants to be better. However, do you know what horrors lie between the pages of classics? There is no doubt people have heard of The Little Mermaid, The Little Match Girl, and Thumbelina. Does everyone…

Research regarding the use and analysis in two different literary genres has found the archetypal meanings of color in film and fiction, Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic story of A Little Princess and Kenneth Branagh’s magical 2015 film Cinderella. The plot of “A Little Princess,” is familiar: Sara Crewe is a Cinderella figure whose story begins with the loss of her fortune, derived, in part, from diamond mines in India and ends with its restoration. A Little Princess and Cinderella use color…

Hans Christian Andersen wrote unique, never-seen-before fairy tales, used his vivid imagination to innovate ways to overcome his cynical view of life and the critics who ridiculed his work because of it, and illuminated the face of creativity; forever changing the fairy tale genre. Andersen is world-renowned for his fairy tales. The most famous among his impressive repertoire include “The Ugly Duckling”, “The Princess and the Pea”, “The Emperor’s New Clothes”, and “The Little Mermaid”, but…

The Impact of Willy’s Expectations in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman “Blessed [are] [those] who expect nothing, as [they] will never be disappointed” (Alexander Pope). In the playwright Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, Willy Loman is a mercurial salesman who contemplates suicide due to the emptiness in his life. Despite his hard work, the Loman family survive with only minimum income, causing Willy to hold his sons, Biff and Happy, to unhealthy pressure that hinders their mental…

King Arthur, also spelt Aurthur in other cultural texts, is the mythical king of England who is made king by many supernatural events in order for him to unite all of the people to be one nation. He is given many gifts, those gifts could include Excalibur the sword of Kings, Guinevere the Queen he sought, and the most loyal and true knights. Arthur was an iconic figure to all Englishmen who wished to be king. His story was one that would be revised for centuries and used as a basis for every…

Does Reverend Paris care more about his reputation than his own daughters? In The Crucible written by Author Miller, Reverend Paris is elected to become, Salem’s new “Reverend”. He wants to make a good impression on Salem, since he is a leader he must hold a certain level of respect, for the community and their personal household. Paris faces his worst nightmare when his daughters turn out to be possessed with witches. This is not a very good situation to be involved in, weather you’re the head…

Day in and day out, humans are constantly gaining knowledge. Knowledge is defined as information or skills based on education or experience. A lot of things on Earth today were invented by using one’s prior knowledge based on the education received or the experience one has gone through. Knowledge is then to create power to provide one with a stable job, social status, and a say in what another person can or cannot do. Knowledge can be gained through multiple ways like attending school,…

The concept of perfection is something that cannot be reached or can be achieved because if you have nothing to redeem then you have nothing to gain. Just as a caterpillar is to a butterfly, redemption is to success. Although they may seem like opposites, they actually are very much alike because you need one to have the other. One must recognize a fault that they have suffered and learn from it to better one’s self and eventually teach it to others. The idea of redemption through failure…