Jack Torrance

that Dan Torrance has been sustained by an AA community in a small town in New Hampshire, Dan comforts the dying at a nursing home, where he’s better known as “Doctor Sleep”. Before Dan can live a normal life without his ‘shining’, Dan meets young Abra Stone. Together, they will fight the True Knot and defeat the vampires with insidious intentions permanently. Dan Torrance is searching for redemption. Abra is looking for a hand to hold. True Knot is scrutinizing for meals. Adult Danny Torrance…

scary. Over time though It gets revealed that Danny, has a mysterious power known as "The Shining" that shows him things from the past and future which is a big point because he can see the horror and things that are yet to happen. In the meantime Jack starts driving into insanity, turning more and more aggressive, at this point everything changes and the fright hits in as Danny and his mother Wendy realize they have to flee for what is about to…

Kubrick mirrors the interactions of Jack and Wendy with the power dynamic found in gothic literature of the enigmatic villain and damsel in distress. Wendy is established as the damsel in distress with her terrified facial expressions, wet hair, stuttering and high pitched cries for help. Threatening this weak and submissive woman is Jack as the enigmatic villain. Embodying the threat of the unknown through his unsettling changes in emotion…

Kubrick has Wendy, a woman, do all of the work, which suggests since she is insignificant in the masculine Overlook, the work she does is insignificant in turn. The Overlook is a masculine structure because only men are in charge of running the Overlook and is a masculine dominated space, as well as being very misogynistic, declaring “women need to be corrected” (Kubrick 1:31:08). Frank Manchel reinforces that Kubrick depicts the hotel as masculine, and females as inferior to men, and Manchel…

penetrating, and insightful visual imagery, King symbolizes Danny’s acceptance of his responsibilities brought on by his Shining, and his increase in maturity. King uses horrific imagery when Danny imagines images of death to symbolize his decision to stop Jack. King describes, “...death images came to [Danny]: dead frog plastered to the turnpike like a grisly stamp; Daddy's broken watch lying on top of a box of junk to be thrown out; gravestones with a dead person under every one; dead jay by…

frightening is that shark attacks happen each and every year. Sometimes, the shark attacks against humans are fatal. Jaws was smart, angry, and very determined to kill anyone who entered "his" ocean. Number Nine: The Joker Movie: Batman (1989) Actor: Jack Nicholson Nicholson's portrayal of The Joker was more comical in his diabolical ways. He killed without reason, and thrived by being so evil. Joker was obsessed with revenge and it led to his demise. Number Ten: Keyser Soze Movie: The Usual…

real George gave to his demon Friend. Moreover, in The Shining, at the Overlook Hotel, Jack and Danny are affected by the hotel by giving the perceptions or premonitions to what is really going on there. Unlike the mother, they can see how the place is evil and it affects Jack causing his to become a maniac. In fact, Dick Hallorann, the chef, and his grandmother also possessed the ability to “shine”. Since Jack and Danny are related and so are Dick and his grandmother, it can be…

to view systems of sexism and white supremacy with nostalgia is to endorse that violence. This is the reason that the main villain of the film is Jack Torrance, the middle-aged white man. The shining of the Overlook Hotel affected each character different because it was based on histories of oppression that offered the most power and privilege to Jack. Shining is a personal talent, a kind of sixth sense common in few people, that the son, Danny, has in abundance. Shining is inherently…

The Shining is a novel published in 1977 by Stephen King, a well-known American author. He was renowned for using supernatural events in many of his stories making them a mixture of horror, gloom, and fantasy. King does a good job in all of his books to keep a relatively gloomy sensation while reading them. The Shining is no exception. This book had me more terrified than any other horror book or movie. While The Shining was a scary book, it also had me thinking about three of the main…

change in his attitude or his results. Hoping to find something to interest his son, Jack introduced Stanley to chess, with the desired result. Kubrick took to the game passionately, and quickly became a skilled…