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    Criminals In Pulp Fiction

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    The subject of this assignment is Pulp Fiction, a 1994 gangster American comedy about blood, guts, violence, strange sex, drugs, fixed fights and a dead body disposal written and directed by the Oscar winner Quentin Tarantino. One of the most influential films of the 1990s, a delirious post-modern mix of neo-noir thrills, pitch-black humour and pop-culture touchstones. Gangster Films are developed around the sinister actions of criminals or gangsters, particularly bank robbers, underworld…

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    fiction as a whole. Like Hoefer states, “Just as the novel’s nostalgia whitewashes the frontier past, its understanding of gender fails to accommodate anything beyond several narrow, frontier-inspired categories” (49). With the formulation of the Femme Fatale and the affirmation of “the hierarchies and relations between the sexes sanctioned by bourgeois society,” Marlowe chooses to idealize past conceptions of gender and label anything that exists outside this conception with “the status of…

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    An Analysis of the characters in Dashiell Hammett’s “The Maltese Falcon” Dashiell Hammett’s novel “The Maltese Falcon” takes place in the port city of San Francisco, California. Published at the beginning of the economic crisis of the Great Depression in 1930.The novel carries out aspects of lust, greed, betrayal, and the suspense of murder, as all characters are after wealth that follows a prestige falcon artifact. As a murder mystery in crime fiction the novel presents all aspects of…

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    Conflict In Lady Macbeth

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    William Shakespeare’s famous 17th century play, Macbeth. Lady Macbeth, the main character Macbeth’s wife, plays a huge role and almost entirely affects the outcome of the play even though she is not the main character. She demonstrates the role of femme fatale, a woman who will use and destroy any man that comes into her life. She dominates the relationship with her husband, using him as her own personal puppet, which ends in both of their demise. She is on a constant pursuit for more power,…

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    The second woman who influenced Fitzgerald was Ginevra King .Fitzgerald attended in prestigious Princeton University, but could not quite fit in because nearly all of the students were more affluent and came from more prosperous families than his own. In 1914, through a trip home to St. Paul, he met Ginevra King, at a dance. She was the core of whole thing Scott wanted and could not have. He pursued the relationship for over a year, but gave it up in 1916 after her father supposedly told…

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    Judith Slaying Holofernes

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    The story of Judith slaying Holofernes is widely interpreted in many paintings. The story comes from the Book of Judith. Judith was a wealthy, young, and beautiful widow. She decided to travel to the Assyrian commander in chief, Holofernes, to seduce him into leaving Bethulia. She dressed in her finest clothes and jewelry and entered the Assyrian encampment. She charmed Holofernes over the next few days. Once she gained his trust she got him drunk. Before he could attempt any sexual advances she…

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    The Color Purple is an epistolary novel written in1982 by Alice Walker. She was born to sharecropper parents in Eatonton, Georgia, in 1944. She is Pulitzer Prize-winning, African-American novelist and poet most famous for authoring The Color Purple. The Color Purple novel presents three black women who have struggles on their lives, and their society forces them to live like slaves and maids .They fight to achieve independency and freedom from men domination. Moreover, the novel creates a link…

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    Greek mythology is the most mythological accounts of the ancient and modern world. They explained everything from religious rituals to the weather, and they gave meaning to the world people saw around them. Greek myths have contributed a lot to classic and modern literature in the form of symbols. in Greek mythology, We still study mythology today because it teaches the human nature and well being lessons that are still reached today in modern times. Another reason why we study mythology is…

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    Among the numerous Femme Fatales of the Gothic Literature Era existed one of extraordinary power and mystery. Ayesha, known as “She,” was one of the greatest seductresses of the late Victorian Gothic period created by H.G. Haggard. With her unique beauty and charm she could put the world at her feet, but with total power comes consequence. She who must be obeyed was only as powerful as the blinding obsession she had for Kallikrates would allow her to be. Ultimately,a it is that obsession that…

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    Hate Of Patriarchy

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    The Patriarchy is a social system that puts men in a position of power, often because they are men. I want to destroy it. I don 't like the constant objectification of women. I hate the fact that a fetus has more rights than a woman because there is a chance it 'll become male. I hate the fact that in some places women are not even allowed to do anything without the supervision of a male. I hate the idea that lesbians are perceived as male hating, but gay men are shielded from accusations of…

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