Fictional socialites

gained supernatural powers from Dracula’s bite she regained consciousness after her death. A character who we can presume was Lucy was seen sucking the blood of young children; the children called Lucy the “bloofer lady”. Lucy fell from being a socialite to a disgraceful creature who preys on children at nightfall. Lucy appearance is continuously depicted throughout Dracula yet characters like Reinfield are not. In the Victorian era women looks are incredibly important while men are not as…

Summary of Article: Robert Wonser and David Boyn’s article “The Caped Crusader: What Batman Films tell Us About Crime and Deviance,” explore the “sociology of deviance” within the Batman trilogy (Wonser, p. 1). Throughout discussing the relevancy of deviance and crime in fiction films within modern society, particularly centring on the Batman series over the last decade. Current motion pictures consistently explore criminology in the many forms it presumes in, thus presenting cultural relevant…

beginning to have rights. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 tragic love story, ‘The Great Gatsby’ opens a time portal that takes you back to the 1920’s and can make you nostalgic for a life you never even lived. ‘The Great Gatsby’ takes place in varying fictional towns on Long Island. These towns include West Egg, the town for the newly wealthy, East Egg, the town for the old money, and the…

Considered as one of the most preeminent writers of the twentieth century African American, Zora Neale Hurston is a novelist, folklorist, essayist, short story writer, dramatist and an anthropologist. Hurston was an important figure in the Harlem Renaissance and a passionate promoter of the African American culture. However, she refused to let race and racism be the only focus of her work, something that she was criticized a lot for by her African American peers. Instead Hurston’s short stories…

To fully understand the complex characters portrayed in To Kill a Mockingbird, one must take a flashback to the sleepy Southern town, Maycomb, Alabama, in the 1930s. A flashback is defined as a transition to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological order of the story. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee describes a small, Southern town in the midst of the Great Depression of the 1920s and 1930s. Lee specifies the fact that gender roles and ethnical stereotypes are…

characters from his third novel, The Great Gatsby, to describe how people will always feel unhappy with their lives even in times of unmatched prosperity. The American novel, The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald demonstrates how his fictional characters face disillusionment in…

Savior Using a white and black paradigm, the black maids are the narrative subjects of The Help, yet many black readers such as myself, viewed Skeeter as the centralized protagonist and voice. The harshest yet powerful woman in the novel was white socialite Hilly Holbrook, the evil antagonist, was portrayed in a negative light in order for readers to identify Skeeter as the “white saviour”. She terrorizes, isolates, and dehumanizes her domestic workers, specifically Minnie, throughout the…

What is the purpose of your life? And is it worth it? These are our pressing questions because the only thing that is guaranteed is death. But, the most unfortunate fellow is the great Mr. Gatsby, the protagonist of the book ‘The Great Gatsby’, who died abruptly after a terrible confusion of culprits and whose funeral attendees were direly few. Even his one love was not in attendance. If only he was a simpleton, or even a caveman, our dear Gatsby might have found life more forgiving. But that…

born, second son of nine children; four boys and five girls. Born to Joseph Kennedy, an ambitious man who’s need for success was amplified by business adventures and politics, and mother Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, a well prominent political family socialite. John’s father would broaden the Kennedy worth, through extensive investments in the stock market, becoming a millionaire before the age of forty. By the age of four John and his siblings would be moved into a twelve-bedroom rental home with…

True Titan: Its Development and Progression The R.M.S. Titanic is perhaps considered to be the most illustrious shipwreck that had a huge influence in our popular culture, since its occurrence on 15thApril of 1912. This can be illustrated via numerous books, articles and movies; it has become a cultural icon while maintaining its national and international significance. Though, what innovations have influenced its invention and to what extent has it contributed to its significance? In order to…