Hurrying

tomb in the original play, Zeffirelli moves the gathering to another place and time at the steps of the church to suit his narrative techniques. He also cuts out the Friar’s speech seeking to explain the happenings. Instead, the film shows Lawrence hurrying out of the tomb on the previous night probably out of fear of being held guilty of the occurrences (Zeffirelli). The producer also chooses to leave out the last lines of the play where the fathers…

Pictorial Representation of Confucius and Others Portraits of Confucius and his followers were created during and after their times in heavy proliferation. While not many of these images remain due to their fragile nature, the few that are still relatively intact exhibit an amazing insight into the lives of their subjects. There is little mention of visual art or painting in the analects, but with Confucius’ thoughts on music being so positive, one can safely assume that he would have at least…

I was next in line to lead the grey and miserable city of London. The Industrial Revolution was at its peak, masses of smoke poisoned the city, trees were sparse and there was people everywhere; hurrying with their own busy lives. As a part of a royal family, I was expected to do great things, although freedom was not of reach as I became a puppet. My avaricious father had everything and yet he was eager to imprint his ideology into me. Everyday…

Mouth grasped open, trepidation creeps in, eyes bugged huge, and a feeling of increasing dread is what is felt as you read along. These are all the appeals that captivate the reader into the world of gothic novels. We hate just to love these elements although they are what makes the reader so enticed we want more. The gothic literature presented in Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier allows the reader to feel a sense of terror and fear because of the clever usage of imageries of the natural world,…

Introduction “Journey to the Center of the Earth” by Jules Verne is a novel that truly dives the reader into the center of the earth through striking portrayals, itemized clarifications, and the "eye witnessed" records of the storyteller. On the most fundamental level, Journey is an experience story, a story of the hindrances, experiences, and ponders. The unpredictable researcher Professor Hardwigg discovers headings to the center of the earth in an old book and sets out, alongside his nephew…

It was after 3 a.m. She painfully rose from the floor and ran shoeless from the room. She emerged to discover the Phi Psi party still surreally under way, but if anyone noticed the barefoot, disheveled girl hurrying down a side staircase, face beaten, dress spattered with blood, they said nothing. Disoriented, Jackie burst out a side door, realized she was lost, and dialed a friend, screaming, "Something bad happened. I need you to come and find me!" Minutes…

1. Four main issues I presented in this video are race, sex, socio-economic status, and culture. The video appeared to have an overall framework of African American men, stereotyped into a single group of limited income, inept, as well as suffering from mental illnesses. I believe that it portrayed the worldview of most of white America in an accurate way. According to our textbook, worldview is defined as, “our psychological orientation in life and can determine how we think, behave, make…

Under the premise of manifest destiny and the ideals of Americanization, the federal government sought to stretch the Euro-American establishment from coast to coast by disengaging the indigenous people from their ancestral homelands. In pursuance of this goal, the Dawes Act of 1887 was founded in congruence with the ideology that one must “kill the Indian” to “save the man,” with one method of approach being the assimilation of native youth into mainstream society. Providing a unique…

At the beginning of the book it starts off with our main protagonist Hu in an asylum and you automatically get a first impression that he is “mad”. Hu wasn’t a mad person, but a person who misjudged and the relationship dynamic he had with Foucquet is what drove him to seem “mad” and there was no major change in Hu’s behavior throughout the journey in 1722. The relationship dynamic was questionable between Hu and the missionary Foucquet at first it was meant to be a business relationship.…

Part seven, Prompt eight A common theme throughout the novel, French resistence, was especially demonstrated in part seven. Etienne joins alongside Marie-Laure to oppose the Nazi party’s occupation in France. They work together to oppose the Facist regime in every way possible. Through several small actions, sending radio broadcasts to fellow allies, they take major steps towards ultimately defeating the German soldiers. “He says, “The war that killed your grandfather killed sixteen million…