Dark Ages

some of the greatest directors of all time. Kubrick most notably similar to Nolan in the way that he lets his vision drive his work and strives to create a perfect film for his audience. Kubrick and Hitchcock had the misfortune of directing before the age of social media. Like Leonardo DiCaprio before him, the public pressure for a Christopher Nolan best director award may be around the corner, despite how much the academy may detest him. Oscar or no oscar there is no questioning the validity…

romantic, however, that is not completely accurate. Dark Romanticism is not colorful and romantic; it is more dark, supernatural, and mysterious. The setting of short stories in the Romanticism period often involved the use of nature. Nature helps to capture the feelings and thoughts of the reader. Nature opens up individual’s minds to imagination, which became a source of creativity and gave an artistic vision to writers. Romanticism differs from Dark Romanticism by the setting of the story;…

Short Essay: After Dark Haruki Murakami tests the boundaries between everyday Tokyo reality and a surreal realm in After Dark. The book follows two sisters who are each present in different realities. In this novel, Murakami uses sleep as a symbol of disengagement and disassociation from the world. The plot bounces between many different locations, but centralizes around Eri’s bedroom and the love hotel, Alphaville. Takahashi discloses to Mari later in the book that his original business of…

For this essay, I have decided to compare two “bad guys” that audiences always seem to love. One is your classic high school rebel in The Breakfast Club, while the other is Batman’s favorite villian in The Dark Knight. Judd Nelson and Heath Ledger share many similarities in their roles as John and the Joker, however I think the biggest difference between the two actors is the amount of intensity put into their characters. John is a troubled young man, who seems to be mad at the world. Judd…

In The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger by Stephen King, the gunslinger tries to catch the man in black. The novel is 305 pages long. The book is set in a dystopian parallel universe. The world is similar to our own, having the song “Hey Jude” and its own versions of modern technology. The gunslinger crosses the desert with his mule and he encounters Brown. He tells Brown about what happened in Tull. He asked the townspeople about a man in black, where he discovers that he brought a man back to life.…

In The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger by Stephen King, the gunslinger tries to catch the man in black. The novel is 305 pages long. The book is set in a dystopian parallel universe. The world is similar to our own, having the song “Hey Jude” and its own versions of modern technology. The gunslinger crosses the desert with his mule and he encounters Brown. He tells Brown about what happened in Tull. He questioned the townspeople about a man in black, where he discovers that he brought a man back to…

lived in to write the stories that he did. In his time, he discovered he was living in an age where dark literature were “best sellers”. The death of his parents when Poe was just three years old had also shaped his writing style which is gothic. John Allan, who was his adopted father, failed to pay for Poe to go to University of Virginia, because of his gambling debts. Although not all of his stories were dark and sad, some were filled with humor and hoaxes that lightened the mood. For…

Hollywood motion pictures often display their historical moments in appealing ways. The latest Batman movie, the dark knight (2008), directed by the one and only Christopher Nolan, is a perfect example of that. Like many superhero movies, it has a hero and an anti-hero. Featuring Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne/Batman who is the hero and Heath Ledger as the Joker who played the anti-hero. The Joker’s main purpose is to bring chaos to the people of Gotham city, so Batman must come to terms with one…

characterized by criticism of social attitudes towards race, politics, gender and religion specific for that region, in combination with elements of the supernatural, magic realism and satire. "Gothic" has come to mean quite a number of things by this day and age. It could mean a particular style of art, be it in the form of novels, paintings, or architecture; it could mean "medieval" or "uncouth." It could even refer to a certain type of music and its fans. What it originally meant, of course,…

with many other works. Poe’s gothic literature is infused with examples of macabre diction and advanced syntax. Poe is known worldwide today for his gothic style and dark themes, portrayed by grim diction and syntax that varies in both length and complexity in order to give insight on settings and characters.…