Don DeLillo

The rest of the show, I felt like I was Don Draper. And in that instant, when the camera panned back, away from Don’s smiling face, and the “I want to buy the world a Coke” ad started playing, I felt that feeling. But when the credit rolled, and I felt like crying, I knew that nothing would ever be the same. Now, this essay has not been about the book that I started this by talking about. But they are not different. There are a lot of similar themes, and if Don Draper was in Vietnam, he would…

During the early 1900's miners in southern West Virginia were fighting, literally, for simple rights that every worker deserves. A 40-hour work week, decent pay that wasn't in scrip, and a sense of safety. On May 19 of 1920, members of the Baldwin-Felts detective agency arrived in the town of Matewan to evict union miners from houses owned by the Stone Mountain Coal Company. After catching wind of the detectives’ activities, Matewan Mayor Cabell Testerman and a pro-union sheriff named Sid…

reputation or certainty. Most are far too worried about appearing foolish or putting time into something that will not have quick results. Maybe that is part of the reason that the fool of Miguel De Cervantes still touches something in the heart of readers. Don Quixote tells his neighbor farmer Pedro Alonso, “I know…

Cosi fan tutte was written by Mozart during the Enlightenment Period. This was a time of scientific, political, and philosophical change that made society more democratic. A more democratic society meant that the middle class was being able to make decisions that affected their financial situation. In return, the middle class was able to afford to enjoy art and music such as Cosi fan tutte. Cosi fan tutte was one of three of Mozart’s masterpiece works. Mozart used this opera buffa to display his…

historical novel genres together worked allowed Scott to consider political and social issues of the day through the medium of the socio-political battles and debates of a previous era—sixty years since. Comparatively, Byron’s poetical piece-de-resistance Don Juan, published periodically, branches across many genres, using their conventions as its own pleasure to generate a shockingly unique work from an amalgamation of many pre-existing genres through the appropriation of their conventions. To…

makes you who you are and what you categorize within the human race. Cervantes also connotes the term “stumbling” (33); when we see the word “stumbling”, we often see it as an action that is when one trips over another, but Cervantes means to connote it as one who is struggling with more internal thoughts. “Bullets” (19) are being personified to be the “eyes” or the superior race, those who are there to “kill slowly” (19), being those who take down the minds of those with colored skin, slowly…

Truth in Fictional Literature One of the themes in Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote is the opposition of truth and imaginary in literature. Various characters within the novel, including the priest, state that literature’s purpose should be to only illuminate the truth and even suggest censorship on books that could rot one’s mind, like Don Quixote’s mind. However, one of the aspects of fictional literature that the priest and others do not understand is that fictional literature does contain…

Have you ever read the spectacular novel Don Quixote? In the novel, Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote and his squire share a friendship. Sancho, his squire, always helps Don Quixote. Whether it’s telling Don Quixote not to attack the windmills or even advising him not to worry about the princess, Sancho is always helping Don Quixote. The painting, Young Girls at the Piano by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, two girls are at a piano and one girl is helping the other read the sheet music. The…

Don Juan is a name synonymous with seduction. Today, a young man popular with young women may be called a ‘regular Don Juan’ and many bachelors could only hope for that comparison. This modern colloquialism is rooted in the names’ history. For example, Moliere’s Don Juan is a libertine. He is willing to break hearts, wedge between couples, and lie in his pursuit of pleasure. This zealous seduction raises the question of where Don Juan finds pleasure: In the act of seduction or in the lovemaking…

enemies' captain to be dead or to have been conquered by another part of the army. Many times this has given victory to him who used it."Shakur adopted the stage name ‘Makaveli’ as well as the phrase "Exit 2Pac, Enter Makaveli" in the album sleeve for The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory — an album which depicts Tupac Shakur as Jesus Christ. There’s also a numerical theory involved in all this and it's called the 7-day theory.What is the 7-day theory? Well, there are far too many numerical…