Edgar G. Ulmer

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas is an adventure novel published in 1844. The genres of this book are mixed up history, adventure fiction and romance. The story is set during the early 1800’s and takes place in olden days European countries but mostly took place in France, Rome and Italy. Alexandre Dumas is a pure French citizen which is why he might have wanted to tell the readers a little about history through this creative novel of his. The main character of this story is Edmond…

The Blessed Damozel(1846-1847) is representing a unique case in which Rossetti first composes the poem and after decades he painted it (Fig. 16). The early version of the poem was published in The Germ magazine in 1850 while more elaborated version of the text became an opening poem of the collection from 1870. Rossetti wrote The Blessed Damozel at the age of 19 and it combines his concerns with women, religious and the Dantean legacy. One of the inspirational sources of the poem was Allan…

I'm going to tell you how all of this madness happened. It was the year 2017,a dark and gloomy morning in a small town known as “Talls”. There was this one girl named Millie, she had a dad named Jhonn, her mom had died to a disease called “Truled Midus” it was a horrible disease that ran in her family's blood. Millie was 91% supposed to have had it when she was born, but she never did. She was now 12 years old, she has been to the doctors office many times before, and they have told her that it…

In the aftermath of a tragedy people often look towards artists, towards novelists, musicians and poets also, for comfort, the kind of comfort one finds when someone is able to capture an event, or feelings, that you yourself find incomprehensible or unfathomable or inexpressible. For example, after 9/11 there was a rush to proclaim certain kinds of art as speaking for the time[s], and it was then that Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent received a lot of attention, it being a novel concerned with…

There are many ways that an author can go about writing a story to convey his or her message. In the 1926 short story “My Wood”, E. M. Forster writes about the impact of materialistic things on himself. In the 1952 short story written by Ray Bradbury “The Veldt”, Bradbury describes the hold that technology has on people and how it can put people in dangerous situations. The two short stories contain a similar concept of how easy it is for one to become obsessed with inanimate objects. In both of…

Exploring Life After reading several poems, the poem that stood out to be the most was from The Dream Songs. I am one of 13 children, and I am one of the youngest of my siblings. My older brothers and sisters were adults and live in their own home with their family. As a child, I would stay home and tell my mother I was bored. She would say not to tell her I am bored and to find something constructive to do. She would say go to the beach and enjoy the scenery. In from The Dream Songs written by…

A dark side of reality George Saunders’s collection of stories, Tenth of December, makes statements about current society by depicting a darker version of reality. By mixing elements of science fiction, horror and cynical humor, Saunders moves the reader through a series of intense emotions. In “Victory Lab,” he tells one story from multiple points of view, describing the brutality and terror of a young adolescent girl who is kidnapped but then saved by a neighbor. In “Sticks,” he portrays the…

Throughout the readings assigned in the fall semester of 2017, certain themes appear prevalently from one piece of literature to the next. One such recurring theme is that of invalidation, more specifically how various forms and levels of such leads to some measure of destruction of an individual, or even as grandiose as an entire society or civilization. Two examples of this theme, consistent across multiple readings, are: the short story “Harrison Bergeron” written by Kurt Vonnegut, and the…

The column “The Power of Good” by Ben Shapiro published by TownHall.com on October 04, 2017, focuses on the good acts that arose from the tragic mass shooting in Las Vegas. Shapiro, a political columnist, responds to the massacre at a concert in Las Vegas to highlight the good that can come from a horrible event. Shapiro uses his diction to conceive vivid descriptions, first-hand interviews, and malicious events that contrast with his opinion to present it as fact to advocate his point that…

Fyodor Dostoyevsky's famous novel Crime and Punishment contains a cast of various characters. One such character is an old friend and ex-student of the protagonist Raskolnikov whose name is Razumikhin. Razumikhin is described as a tall man with a large view on life. He is innocent, kind, and loves to joke and make wits. His qualities and attributes make him appear as a character used for comical relief. The author makes it clear to the audience that Razumikhin is the foil character to…