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Swiss novelist and play writer, Friedrich Durrenmatt, in his tragicomedy, The Visit, tells the corrupted tale of how one woman earns her justice by turning a whole town of people against one man, all for revenge. Durrenmatt uses Claire’s revenge to show the true corruption of justice in Europe following World War II. Durrenmatt creates a suspenseful tone in order to express to his readers the idea that wealth and corruption can bring one power. Claire Zachanassian shows her power and control by…

While Edgar Allan Poe is known primarily for his horror stories and gothic poems, he is also generally credited for the creation of modern detective fiction. In the three short stories featuring the Frenchman, C. Auguste Dupin, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” “The Mystery of Marie Roget,” and “The Purloined Letter,” Poe’s creative story components were innovative and added entirely new elements to fiction writing. Many of the story features that he devised are now widely used in other…

Sherlock Holmes is a detective hero of all times, a fictional character who is more famous than his creator Arthur Conan Doyle. The Scottish author Doyle wrote one of his well-known novel “The Sing of Four starring” the unique and detailed character Sherlock Holmes. Although Doyle has never been a colonist nor his character Holmes, the novel presents the idea of the British empire and its power along with the danger of colonized India and its people through Victorian perspective. I shall start…

The art works, “The Haywain” by John Constable and “The Scream” by Edvard Munch, are two different types of painting that represent the two movements of art work which is Romanticism and Expressionism through their style of art paintings. The well known and well represented the style of art work of romanticism, which is “The haywain” painted in 1821, Constable was the English painter during 18th century. He was a mainly outdoor of landscapes painter that he painted the nature scenery as he saw…

The Hound of the Baskervilles Book vs. Movie In Victorian England lies one of the greatest authors in the mystery genre, the father of the detective story, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The Hound of the Baskervilles, one of his best works, was written in 1902. It is in the perspective of Dr. Watson, who is working along with Mr. Sherlock Holmes to try and solve the murder of Sir Charles Baskerville. However, in 2002, one hundred years later, David Atwood directed a…

Comparing Three Detective Novels All the three excerpts from “Devil in a Blue Dress” by Walter Mosley, “Murder Is My Business” by Lynette Prucha and “The Big Sleep” by Raymond Chandler are detective genre stories set in Los Angles. The investigators and their clients share some similarities and differences particularly with respect to their roles in shaping the plot and the main themes in the stories. Firstly, the three stories are set in Los Angeles. “The Big Sleep” is typically set during a…

wife to death. 10. How is “The Purloined Letter” different in theme, setting, plot, and characters than the previous works from Poe that we have read? “The Purloined Letter” is about blackmail and deceit. The story is about a stolen letter and C. Auguste Dupin is a so call detective and dumb police Officer G. This short story is about law, order, and intrigue. Most of Poe’s stories are dark and…

Andre Breton was a prominent French Surrealist poet who was born in France and was known as the founder of the Surrealist movement (Biography.com 1). Andre Breton was thought of as the man who was the influence of the Surrealist movement due to his outstanding work of art and literature during the movement (poets.org 1). Breton found an interest in medicine and pursued medical school while a young man (biography.com 1). Breton has developed his passion at a very young age and very rarely does a…

utilization of painting techniques that suggested movement and the transitory nature of the scene (Grove). One of the artists who was a strong proponent of these changes and was at the forefront of the emergence of the Impressionism movement was Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Grove). Shortly after Renoir was born in Limoges, France, on February 25, 1841, his family…

Sherlock Holmes has been extremely popular since Sir Author Conan Doyle created him. Holmes is a fictional character in the late 19th century who was a remarkable detective. He is known for solving mysterious cases that no other person could solve, not even the police. Sherlock is an excellent detective for his use of observations, deductions, and imagination. Holmes uses these skills in the stories: “A Study in Scarlet”, “The Speckled Band”, and “Silver Blaze”. In the short story “A Study in…