Charles Bronson

Charles Dickens novel, A Christmas Carol left a powerful imprint on the world, eternalized as its growing list of adaptations only continues. One notable adaptation, A Christmas Carol (2009), features acclaimed actor Jim Carrey, as the famous misanthrope Scrooge. In this variation, fidelity is found in the use of animation to its full extent, to depict the characters and world with greater freedom than live-action or written word. By analyzing three scenes, and Beyond Fidelity: The Dialogics of…

Live life to the fullest, for the future is scarce. According to Dorothy Canfield Fisher’s story “The Heyday of the Blood”, an old man takes his great-grandchild to a county fair to show him that having fun is worth the risks. One literary device in the story is a symbol, which is the Merry-Go-Round, which symbolizes life. Another literary device is situational irony, which Gran’ther showed in the story, where he’s expected to act like any other elderly person, but he acts like a reckless,…

Darwin’s Delay Knowing something is true and having the ability to prove it are on different ends of the spectrum. Charles Darwin and Stephen Jay Gould may have known something about that. His name may not be as recognizable to the average person but Stephen Jay Gould is a widely known and read 20th century scientist. Some even consider him to be the on the same level as Charles Darwin. Charles Darwin spent most of his life researching and trying to prove his theories. He wasn’t out for fame or…

Fun Fact The Arctic Fox can be 2.3 to 3.5 feet long. In the winter the Arctic Fox has a white coat in the summer they have a brown coat. Their white coat helps with the cold and with camouflage. They also have a bushy tail and 4 longer teeth and 8 shorter teeth. The male Arctic foxes are protective around the females or around their family. Predators of baby Arctic foxes focus mainly on the them because they're easier to catch. Arctic wolves hide in the snow and wait for the foxes to walk by…

Magic realism is a literary genre or style that incorporates mythical and magical elements in realistic fiction, most often associated with Latin America. In Bless Me, Ultima, Rudolfo Anaya uses many tools and literary elements to tell Antoine's story. Magic realism is the most commonly occurring and most effective literary element to tell the story. Anaya uses magic realism to introduce and describe various characters. For example Narciso, he is the town drunk and nobody takes him seriously,…

The meanings behind the beauty of nature by the nineteenth century have almost dwindled into pure unimportance. For some, nature stands for protection and home, while for Englishmen of that time it stands for power and profit. Nature comes from the word natus, which means birth in Latin. History provides an assumption that for many God was the creator of all including nature. He controlled the growth, a change for every season, and anything pertaining to Earth itself. Nature's beauty was created…

The suffering can play a key role in developing theme and the plot in a literary work. This is the case in the novel Great Expectations, written by Charles Dickens in the year 1860. The suffering that Miss Havisham faced early on in her life may have caused her to cause suffering in the life of Pip and Estella. In the novel, Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens, Dickens shows how suffering in one’s life may lead them to cause suffering in the life of another. Estella’s the girl adopted by…

Imagine working an 18-hour shift six days a week. To most adults today, that would be unbearable, but for many child laborers in Victorian England, such labor was the reality. In Great Expectations, Charles Dickens portrays many cruelties imposed on children in the Victorian Era that reflected reality. Dickens’s portrayal of children in the Victorian Era was not at all dramatized and depicted what many child laborers faced in the Victorian Era. The creation of factories in Britain had many…

As Above, So Below Essay Rudy Rucker’s As Above, So Below is a novel that gyrates upon the most culminating years of Peter Bruegel, a Netherlandish Renaissance artist in the 15th century. Peter Bruegel and his partner are pursuing for a patron, someone to help finance their artwork. After finding a patron, the relationship between the men and the patron becomes burdensome. So, Peter breaks off from both men. 3 years later Peter forms a close, lasting bond with two men, who both help Peter with…

Philip Pirrup, or Pip, is seven-years-old when he encounters an escaped convict in a graveyard, whom he his forced into providing food and tools for. His 'mother' (actually older sister) punishes Pip severely for all his transgressions, excluding this because it is kept a secret. When Pip comes of age, he is apprenticed to his father Joe, a blacksmith, until his presence is requested by Miss Havisham, an elderly woman. At the house, he is met by Estella, Miss Havisham's foster child, and the two…