Corpse Bride

In the chilling narrative, The Fall of the House of Usher, Edgar Allan Poe describes the gradual emergence of insanity within both the narrator and his companion, Roderick. However, beneath the surface of the relationship that is exhibited between the duo lies a more complex parallel: Roderick and Madeline. Roderick and Madeline are not only described as twins, but also are strongly alluded to be symbolically connected together to the house. Poe symbolically portrays the deterioration of the…

Medea sees the Princess as a pawn, advantageous to her ultimate defeat of Jason and when the young bride meets her untimely death at Medea’s hands, it is Creon who is left to endure the torture of having one he loves torn away from him. And it is through Creon’s harrowing experience that an audience is presented with an unparalleled account of human suffering…

The monster that Victor Frankenstein created was a Byronic hero. A Byronic Hero is a charismatic, broken, dark individual often in exile with a troubled past. The hero has flaws that make him more human like and attainable to the audience. He is a vulnerable and imperfect being and in these traits, we find Victor Frankenstein’s monster. Lord Byron penned the first Byronic hero in 1812. When Mary Shelly wrote, “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus,” (1823) she was arguably influenced from his…

The partition of India is the most painful and traumatic episode of Indian history. Partition in general was accompanied by a huge wave of violence, but the atrocities against women were probably the most horrible ones. Though women were neither the part of the political decisions that divided the nation nor they had any role in the violence that followed partition, yet they were the worst targets of brutality inflicted by the men of other communities. The impact of the partition on women was…

common criminal and the powerful verb ‘drag’ show his disgust at being challenged by his daughter, and threatening to disown her furthers that opinion. He also insults her, most notably with the metaphor ‘green-sickness carrion’, referring to a pale corpse. The fact that he is insulting her in this extremely graphic way showcases a drastic change from his attitude to Juliet earlier in the play, when she was beloved by her father. It implies that this conflict may never be resolved…

equality. A practice named sati is executed at a much smaller scale nowadays, but nevertheless sati is still practiced in many parts of India. Sati is where recently widowed women are burned to death on her husband’s funeral pyre, a pile of wood where a corpse is burned. The practice is currently outlawed and illegal, yet it still occurs and is regarded by different societies as a valued form of demonstrating womanly devotion and sacrifice. Research by Guild for Service illustrates that for…

What would you say if I told you John Wilkes Booth, one of the most famous assassins in history, escaped and lived out the rest of his life? Not only this but, the government knew that John was not killed and ignored the countless facts. Many historians, authors, ex-government officials and even major magazines agree that something is a little off about the account of his death. While we are told that John was shot by a Union soldier in Garrett's Farm 12 days after Lincoln’s assassination,…

still a sexual object whose purpose was to be his. However, this could simply be a subconscious desire, causing repressed dreams that are conflicted with his desire and social acceptance. In chapter 5, Victor dreams of Elizabeth transforming into the corpse of his dead mother; ‘a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw grave-worms crawling in the folds of flannel.’ The fact that he sees one woman transform into another suggests that in Victor’s mind they are one in the same, yet the ‘grave-worms’…

In certain situations, there is no such thing as the right decision. There is one option that satisfies one side and another option that pleases a different side. Choosing which one of these options to act upon, shows a person 's morals and reflects their character. In Sophocles ' Antigone, Antigone is faced with a choice that tests her morals versus her loyalty to the King. After the death of both her brothers by each other 's hands, Creon, the King, decides that only Eteocles, the brother…

addition, as she is being lead to her death, she expresses regret over not marrying Haemon. She was deprived of a future. On the other hand, because Creon was to late to change his mind, he lost his son as warned. Haemon killed himself after finding his bride-to-be dead. But before he does, he attempts to kill his father. Likewise, when Haemon’s mother finds her son dead, She also commits suicide and Creon is left alone to grief his deceased family. So even though, he may have seemed powerful…