Damsel in distress

Spring Breakers (2012, dir. Harmony Korine) could be described as an actuality film, or a film that has no real purpose. Through his use of editing, lighting, and sound, Harmony Korine is able to create affects in the viewers. Some argue that this film is a feminist work, but after analyzing the film, I must disagree. Media changes how we perceive things and can be used to expand our perception. Film directs where our attention should be, and allows us to live what is happening on the screen.…

Ancient omens and Prophecies An omen is a technique used by writers to foretell the future, an omen is another way of foreshadowing. It provides hints throughout the text giving the readers signs or clues as to what might happen in the future for a character or in the plotens. The characters are connected to some ancient prophecies that are obscure, partial and confusing; and all along the plot unexplained incidents keep taking place to make these dreadful prophecies come true. The characters…

The World of Harry Potter Defies but Supports Boys and girls have different roles in this world. Or do they? Can boys and girls have the same gender roles? Boys can be just as preppy as girls and girls can be just as tough as boys. Harry Potter is a series that supports and defies these roles so we can see that the same gender roles can apply to both sides and not just the one. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone both supports and defies basic stereotypical gender roles, when Ron…

1. The Labors of Heracles that can be seen as ‘conquests of death’ are: First would be the Labor of the Cattle of Geryon. In this quest Heracles had to face terribly awful odds in order to complete the task. He had to go to the western edge of the earth and even required the aid of Helius’ golden cup to sail the waters in and had to face the Geryon, his herdsman and Orthus. It was unlikely, or even impossible that he completed the quest and the fact that he did makes it a conquest of death.…

At times, the question of interest in our minds is, where do we go in our afterlives? It is quite reasonable to say that many people have different convictions of where death will take them. Specifically, christians believe that there is a heaven and a hell and depending on how they carry out the Great Commission will determine their fate. Alluding to a part of the Divine Comedy, Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, it is illustrated to the readers in this poem that people who have partaken in a certain…

People can most often be put into boxes: a man is good or bad, smart or dumb, handsome or ugly; but while a person can have a tendency to lean in one direction, nothing ever works out to black or white. The same theory can be applied to characters of fiction, such as Hamlet from Hamlet, although because he is a fictional human his actions can be interpreted differently by different people. One opinion displays Hamlet’s actions and ideas of those of an entitled man of thought must fulfill the…

The closest we get are the damsels in distress of his Romance series, but these are sappy teen images really, rendered all the move uninvolving by a deliberately deadpan painting style. “I’ve never done an anguished picture in my life,” admitted Lichtenstein. He also quoted that art doesn't…

In addition, though Dracula succeeds in transforming the three vampire women and Lucy into perverse vampires, he fails in transforming Mina Harker, the heroine. This is because “the world seems full of good men—even if there are monsters in it” (Stoker 209). Mina’s character is the epitome of what the New Woman is. For example, she is intelligent and hard working, accepting the technological advances and utilizing them to aid in tracking down Dracula. However, with this in mind, Mina is still…

Disney exposed many boys and girls to what we had to do to live out our “happily ever afters”. The damsels in distress were all gorgeous and ignorantly eating apples from strangers or hoarding dinglehoppers until their handsome, wealthy men stepped in to marry them. Cue the end to the happy couple skipping to their white carriage, birds chirping, and the cursive, sparkling script “And they all lived Happily Ever After”. It is then that the guardians of the child will add another scene, one that…

“Private Eye” or tough “Hard-boiled” private investigator detective fiction is the classification most dominated by American writers (Mansfield-Kelly 205). One of the founders and innovators of the private investigator is Dashiell Hammett. And is also “The most influential figure in the structuring of hard-boiled detective fiction,” (Mansfield-Kelly 229). He wrote the first tough-guy detective in “The Gutting of Couffignal”, named Continental OP and wrote The Maltese Falcon (Mansfield-Kelly 229)…