Corpse Bride

The corpse mines were closed down. The soldiers all left to fight the Russians…. And then one morning, they got up to discover that the door was unlocked. World War Two in Europe was over. Billy and the rest wandered out onto the shady street. The trees were…

Paul Celan is perhaps the greatest German-Jewish poet in the twentieth century. He was born in 1920 in Czernowitz, in the Kingdom of Romania (now a part of Ukraine). He was raised in an educated German-speaking Jewish family. He studied medicine at the age of 18 in France, but left early when the German occupied Austria in 1938. He then changed his course of study to learn Romance languages. When the danger spread all over Europe, he tried to warn his family, but it was too late for them to…

He is a miserable wretch who longs only the love of humankind. Due to the fact that he is a reanimated corpse fitted together from many pieces, he is considered ugly by many who see him. The monster often describes himself as invisible lamenting and his loss of how Humanity has left and despised him. He considers himself unfairly judged and 6 Desperate Measures…

“A Gothic hero should be passionate, obsessive and unsettling in equal measure.” In light of this comment, discuss the representation of both heroes and heroines in the Gothic texts you have studied this year. Gothic heroes were first known as Byronic heroes being ‘mad, bad and dangerous to know’; they normally had a problematic and secretive past therefore isolating themselves from the world be it physically or mentally. Gothic heroines are stereotypically seen to be young, innocent and a…

Another company that utilized a creator involved in stop motion was Tim Burton. Yes, he had other films but some of his work included stop motion to tell his stories. Be it in a short film, Vincent or long form like The Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride. The designs and characters just leaping out of his mind to create a world so detailed and one can admittedly say twisted, you need to sit back and enjoy the ride he takes you…

Emily Dickinson consistently expresses the notion of gender roles within a patriarchal society. Many critics have alluded to the fact that the women’s rights movement influenced Dickinson’s work. Kelly writes in her article ‘Critics, who have surveyed the different cultural elements that fed into Dickinson's poetry, have concluded that Emily Dickinson's work was influenced by the women's right movement. In addition, some of these critics believe that some of her poetry can be interpreted as…

Questions A: 1. Antigone is distraught since her uncle, Creon, banned the burial of Polynices, her brother. 2. Ismene does not want to break the law. She also mentions that she is a woman, so she cannot cope with men. She is also afraid of being stoned in public, which is the punishment for burying Polynices. 3. Antigone is disappointed at her sister for not helping her to bury their brother. She does not care what Ismene thinks, and she said she will go through with the burial herself. 4. The…

marriage that saving thing: a wife who does not go against her man,” Also, Sophocles suggest that Medea had to seek revenge because she felt Jason betrayed his duty. This is suggested when Medea pleas, “I even bore you sons—just to be discarded for a new bride. Had you been childless, this craving for another bedmate might have been forgiven,” Therefore, Medea’s situation becomes worse, as a result of her sense of…

Oedipus Rex, Antigone (both by Sophocles), and Medea (by Euripides) are Greek dramas; each of these dramas takes place in Ancient Greece, during 5th century B.C., and include these three significant points: a king’s fíat, revenge, and suicide, all of which influence the entirety of each play’s plot. Oedipus, the king of Thebes, proclaims he will locate and penalize Laius’s (previous king of Thebes) murderer; anyone who withholds information will be subjected to punishment. Creon, successor to…

Expressionism was a modernist movement that originated in Germany during the early twentieth century. The expressionist movement was highly recognized in art, architecture, literature, and films that aimed to reflected specific concerns dominating public life in Germany. This paper discusses the qualities that define three classical German Expressionist films, including Friedrich Wilhem Murnau’s film Nosferatu- A Symphony of Terror, Fritz Lang’s film Metropolis, and Robert Wiene’s film The…