Escape from Alcatraz

collected funds from around the world. Most people know that Tagore wrote the national anthems of India and Bangladesh - 'Jana Gana Mana' and 'Amar Sonar Bangla' respectively. But few know that Sri Lanka's national anthem is based on a Bengali song originally written by Tagore in 1938. It was translated into Sinhalese and adopted as the national anthem in 1951.One of Tagore's students at Visva-Bharati University, Ananda Samarakoon, translated the lyrics of Nama Nama Sri Lanka Mata from Bengali…

Fyodor Dostoyevsky created the novel, Notes From Underground, holding insightful thoughts on the purpose and meaning of life. Within the novel, Dostoyevsky creates the character, the Underground Man. He laments human’s inconsistencies and their inability to grasp the meaninglessness of existence; while they work tirelessly to exert control over their uncontrollable environments. Human desire for power is epitomized in their attempts to rebel against the physiological laws of nature that govern…

Throughout Fyodor Dostoevsky’s work, Notes from Underground, the protagonist, the underground man, portrays himself as a spiteful, self-contradictory, and overly conscious melancholy man. He continuously over analyzes and questions everything, and this prevents him from taking any real action. The underground man is lonely and constantly vacillates between wanting society’s acknowledgment or to be socially desired and wanting to be completely isolated from society. He gives off the impression…

deals with within their mind after committing a murder. Both books are centered on one criminal act that allows the reader to delve into the thought process of a convicted murderer, each varying from one another. In The Stranger, Meursault is seen as a static character while in contrast Raskolnikov from Crime and Punishment is seen as a dynamic character. Though each have different philosophies and motives for their actions both protagonists carry out an underlying theme in each novel, that…

contradictory elements possible: a scream, a laugh, and finally, a question. The scream takes place at the dinner party, uttered by Lou Levov, who has been in the kitchen of Swede’s house doing his awkward best to stop the inebriated Jessie Orcutt from, in his view, making a complete fool of herself. Distressed by his arrogance, she stabs him in the face with a fork, aiming for his eye and missing by only an inch. But by injuring the family’s father, Jessie is symbolically attacking the…

area but not necessarily accurate nationwide. Quenqua tried to ease any doubt that the readers may have that this study is not an accurate representation of the entire nation by using another appeal to authority. In paragraph seven he uses a quote from Dr. Harrison Pope, who was specifically mentioned to not be part of that study, to assure the readers that this study only supports the fact that “There has been a striking change in attitudes toward male body image in the last 30 years”(qtd. in…

rigid ideals of the Victorian era, however, she undergoes a metamorphosis and gains the courage to defy the conservative values of the 19th century. Through reviewing F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “Sonnets from the Portuguese” it is apparent that an idealistic love is only achievable once societies values are questioned. Gatsby is the victim of the values of his post World War I society. He aspires to achieve an unattainable dream, which is founded…

characters survive from poverty and Raskolnikov ends up confessing his crime. In Crime and Punishment many of the characters live in poverty and struggle to get out of it;…

“From day one Temple wanted to crush her like a bug. He was cruel” (Cornwell 353). In the quote describes how Temple completely despised his twin sister Rachael. In the book the reader learns from Gault’s parents that Temple practically harassed Rachael and tormented her in many ways. One of these ways was when Temple killed the family dog and left it on Rachael’s bed. Throughout the book I always felt on the edge of my seat because every other page it seemed that Gault killed someone.…

A Raisin in the Sun portrays a few weeks in the life of the Youngers, an African-American family on the South Side of Chicago in the 1950s struggling to support themselves each and every day from paycheck to paycheck. When the play opens, the Youngers are waiting to receive an insurance check which comes from the deceased Patriarch of the Younger family, Mr. Younger’s life insurance policy. Mama and Walter have an idea as to what he or she would like to do with the money they are about to…