Lady Caroline Lamb

Claudine (1974), directed by John Berry is a movie about a hardworking single mother and her six children who are living on welfare. Between being a working woman, a mother, and a lover all at the same time, Claudine is torn. When she begins seeing a man, Rupert, whom she has to hide from the government, Claudine falls for this man and they both need to make decisions about each other based on finances and welfare. This movie really opened my eyes to all the struggles and true reality that…

ate nine of his physcology patients before being arrested . The filmic version of The Silence of The Lambs and book version have the same plot line, but they have major differences in the audience's view on the main characters, the development of the story, and most importantly the connection between the one Doctor Hannibal Lecter and the main character Clarice Starling. The Silence of The Lambs is about Clarice…

“At that point, Mary Maloney simply walked up behind him and without any pause, she swung the big frozen leg of lamb high in the air and brought it down as hard as she could on the back of his head.” From only reading this, the reader is simply astounded. Imagine seeing this comical scene in a movie. Viewers would be left stupefied and full of laughter. “Lamb to the Slaughter” would make a phenomenal movie for teenage audiences and Roald Dahl fans. It consists of all the qualities that are…

Last year, I watched Silence of the Lambs for the first time. It is about Hannibal Lector helping the FBI find serial killer Buffalo Bill. This movie peaked my interest in serial killers and the psychological issues they have due to their childhood background. Hannibal Lecter was born in 1938 in Lithuania to wealthy parents. At age six Lecter met his sister, Mischa, and the two formed a strong bond. When Lecter was eight his family had to flee their estate in order to escape Hitler’s Blitzkrieg.…

The initial conclusion one can draw from the critique of modern culture by both Kafka and Eliot in their portrayals of modern man is that it is them placed in these settings and their literature is simply an outlet for said critique. The modernist sentiments expressed in their works were, in part, universally held opinions amongst literary contemporaries of theirs and as such were not only a veritable representation of them coming to grips with the reality of the world around them, but also of…

An Explication of “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” by T.S. Elliot, is a poem about a man’s psychological state of mind as he is walking through town on his way to visit a woman to ask her an important question. Instead of focusing on the woman and what he wants to ask her, he focuses on what others think of him and how he is not good enough for her. Prufrock gets himself all worked up about his physical and mental inadequacies and ends up not…

Recurring images of time, romantic disillusionment and memory reveal the inherent tension between the actual and the possible in Eliot’s poetry. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock dismantles idealistic romanticism and exposes the pessimistic perspective on life, love and time that is central to modernism. At the time of writing, in 1911, Eliot was twenty two years old, and was battling with a lack of lyrical inspiration. For this reason, critics have argued that Prufrock 's romantic hesitations…

No two men are exactly alike, not even identical twins. Some attributes, appearance, and ideology may mirror, but no two men are alike. Differences in how the world is perceived will allow these individual to stand together, but appear far apart. The modernist method of writing allows for individuals to do exactly that, stand together but appear to be far. Writers Ernest Hemingway and T.S. Eliot demonstrated such disassociation in living deliberately in time and place of Nick and J. Alfred…

In Macbeth, the prophecies the witches make and the negative effects they have on other characters, namely Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, demonstrate that entities outside of our control have the power to determine our fates. When the witches predict that Macbeth would rise to the position of king, he becomes power hungry, insecure, and paranoid, which results in his mental instability and eventual death. The witches’ revelation of their prophecy to Macbeth and the events this action set in place…

Act I, Scene i Analysis: The opening scene of Macbeth is super short but it introduces the 3 most influential characters of the play. The witches’ presence in the play is very small but they remain a constant and a powerful beings throughout. This first scene establishes the witches’ connection to Macbeth. It makes the reader curious to discover who he is and also what is “the hurlyburly” (I, i, 3) that the witches discussed. Shakespeare creates dramatic irony, in that he informs the…