Corpse Bride

Sutpen's eccentric actions cause pain for others, but his tragic fate at the end indicates the carnivalesque reversal. Being a character in a historical novel, Sutpen’s doom at the end surpasses the personal to encompass the fate of the people he represents. In other words, his narrative acquires an allegorical dimension: He is the typical embodiment of eccentricity as he carries his "design" at the cost of human lives and their dignity. Sutpen’s tale of rise and fall is the story of the…

population of Sierra Leone was recorded at 48.1% (The World FactBook: Literacy, 2015). What continues to be a plague in the educational system is the low enrollment of girls and the high number of drop-outs. The gender inequality is as a result of child brides, premature pregnancy and cultural biases of the girl child (Education in Sierra Leone, 2007). The educational system also faces immense scarcity in trained teachers and educational equipment and supplies such as…

The Gurlesque is a term coined by Arielle Greenberg who, together with Lara Glenum, brought together what they acknowledged as Gurlesque poems in their recent anthology where they propose the rise of a new tendency in contemporary avant-garde poetry by women. They define the Gurlesque as “an emerging field of female artists now in their 20s, 30s and early 40s who, taking a page form the burlesque, perform their femininity in a campy or overtly mocking way. Their work assaults the norms of…

was a traitor, but he chose this way in order to display his power. He even says “The city is the king’s,” a statement that he is superior to all, even better than the gods (Sophocles 30). Haemon, Creon's son, in tears begs his father to spare his bride, but Creon does not sympathize and targets women, “we must defend the men who live by the law,/ never let some women triumph over us./ Better to fall from power, if fall we must,/ at the hands of a man-never be rated/ inferior to a women,…

imagery and uses light as a way to emphasize certain aspects. (Perno, 2014)2 Death is another common theme found throughout his films. Edward Scissorhands, Sweeny Todd, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Big Fish, Sleepy Hallow, Frankenweenie, Corpse Bride and Alice in Wonderland and many more have near death experiences or actual death. In the film, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, most of the characters face a near death experiences from Augustus almost drowning in chocolate to then being…

In the eighteenth century, “Gothic” meant anything that was unusual, disrespecting of tradition, or nonconforming. Gothic writing revolved around wicked, amazing, and sometimes destructive people, objects, or events. Much of Gothic literature was a result of disturbances in the eighteenth century. Mayhem erupted due to major changes in politics, economics, and social norms. Subsequently, Gothic literature valued the past with its ideas of aristocratic strength, passion, barbarity, and magic. The…

“I don’t need sunshine now to turn my skies to blue. I don’t need anything but you.” These famous words of Annie’s perfectly describe how many people feel when seeing this classic comic strip come to life on the big screen. “Annie” is one of those stories that has been here since the beginning. Parents introduce it to their children, and because of this it has worked its way up to present day. From the first time I had heard about it, every little thing about “Annie” has had a place in my heart.…

Conflict Between a Parental Figure and Their Creation Parents are someone that something else develops out of. By utilizing this loose definition of parenthood, Frankenstein, a novel by Mary Shelley, explores conflict between a parent and a son or daughter in an unconventional way. Victor, in essence an absentee parent, created his monster but then left it to it’s own devices, allowing it to be tortured by society; this development is the main theme in the story itself. First ,Victor…

honor her memory by not taking another wife and bringing a stepmother into their children’s lives, after which she passes into the afterlife. At the end of this passage, she states, “Goodbye, be happy, both of you. And you , my husband,/ can boast the bride you took made you the bravest wife, and you children, can say, too, that your mother was…

Dial R for Revenge Revenge is a model embedded in our society since the earliest of times. It is a justice that evades the bounds of formal law and almost always undertaken responding to a grievance. To break revenge and its justice down to its simplest terms would be to illustrate the act as a cycle imposed with the result becoming an alliance with power. One character loses control, eventually taking this affair into their own hands, performing the act of revenge, which causes the one whom…