Helena

The Comparison of Alice and Odysseus’s Heroic Journeys “Consider it a great joy, my brothers, whenever you experience various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. But endurance must do its complete work, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing.” (James 1:2-4.) As in the first chapter of the book of James, battles are found in both Homer’s The Odyssey and Tim Burton’s film, Alice in Wonderland. The similarities between the characters’ experiences in…

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Jean-Michel Basquiat was a Brooklyn born self taught artist. His first attention attracted his graffiti in the city of New York. Basquiat’s artistic talents and inspiration came from his cultural heritage as his mother being Puerto Rican and father a Haitian American. After quitting high school a year before his graduation and years of struggling his work finally got him fame. Receiving fame for his words, stick figures, and animals, the public adored all of his hard work. Basquiat began street…

4. Discuss the contrast/battle between good and evil in Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. [Ensure that your focus is on filmic elements] Alice in Wonderland heavily weighs up the idea of good and evil, this contrast is brought under the spotlight by the White Queen and the Queen of Hearts and their areas of dominance. This battle between good and evil employs a wide category of film techniques to show this struggle such as; setting, costume, soundscape, actors’ ensemble and performance, and camera…

Throughout the multiple Tim Burton films I have seen, is that in just about every movie or short film made by him has a unique directorial style that you can tell the movie is by Tim Burton. In the movies Alice In Wonderland, The Corpse Bride, and Edward Scissorhands all start off with eerie music that engages you into the movie immediately along with the incredible imagery and appearance/makeup of each character throughout the films. In the films Alice In Wonderland, The Corpse Bride, and…

The Art of Tim Burton Creepy, eerie, dark, and weird are all words that describe Tim Burton. Tim is known for hits like “The Nightmare Before Christmas”, “Edward Scissorhands”, and my personal favorite “The Corpse Bride” all very successful movies that are favorites to many people. In my opinion, Tim burton is an amazing and talented artist who puts amazing and insightful twists on stories that the average Joe wouldn't see or understand until looking into one of his films. His inspirational and…

ways. Hermia, Helena, and Titania are all disobedient and rebellious women in the play. At the time women were treated as property. The father or husband would make decisions for his wife or daughter, and the woman had no say and were to respect the choice that was made for them. However Hermia, Titania, and Helena do not follow the orders given to them. Hermia rejects the husband her father chose for her and Titania refuses to give her husband, Oberon, the changeling child. Helena loves a…

forced into loving Helena due to the faerie king Oberon’s magic spell. While Helena, who views Demetrius as her true love, get her “happy ending” once the two are wed, Demetrius’ side of things is less than…

forced. In Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” two women are forced to fight for what they want. Hermia is deeply in love with Lysander who cannot have Hermia’s fathers blessing. Helena is in love with Demetrius who is in love with Hermia and has been given Hermia’s fathers blessing to marry. Hermia and Helena are in the cross fire of their loves. So why does their friendship get lost and found again? Why not love who you want and not force it to occur? A Midsummer Night’s Dream shows just…

I told Hermia about the plan and she was convinced to come with me. Helena came to us and complained about how Demetrius loves Hermia instead of her. We told Helena it’s ok we are going to run away tonight. That was a fearsome night when we ran away with our love coming with us. We kept going as far as we can. After hours, we decided to rest and slept a…