Lord Voldemort

Hobbits. They are interestingly boring little creatures who are known for living peaceful uneventful lives; however, one fateful day one little hobbit defied the odds. In The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, no matter how small a person may be, they can accomplish anything they put their mind to. Bilbo Baggins accomplished this by slaying terrifying spiders, outwitting the sneaky Gollum and escaping the wise wood elves. All of this to defeat the dragon Smaug and recover the things that once belonged…

Fear has always been viewed as a weakness of humankind. As a human instinct, this emotion is primarily used to ensure safety against something that is feared. However, it has been used countless times against civilizations, causing chaos, disorder, and destruction. Concerned of their own safety, people of the civilization fall to this fear, leaving everything aside, including order. When Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milosevic came to power, he ruled harshly. He tore his country apart…

As a satire the movie, Shrek is extremely enchanting and successfully adds a sense of realism to the “fairy-tale” characters that we have all come to know and love. This realism created by the film flips the way the audience perceives each character. Though due to its animation it may be hard for one to simply accept all that is happening, but Shrek has the ability to encapsulate the viewer and place them on an adventure into the land of faerie, up until the end of the movie when the viewer…

There’s More to Life Than Just The Physical One moment can change a person’s life forever, whether it is something seemingly simple or disastrous. In the book which was created into a film, “Life of Pi,” by Yann Martel, and later directed by Ang Lee, the moment that changes an adolescent boy’s life begins when his father decides to move the family zoo across the Pacific Ocean from Pondicherry India to Canada. The Tsimtsum, the name of the ship that was carrying Pi, his family, and all of the…

Essay Question: Describe an important setting. Explain why the setting is important. In the text, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a group of young boys become stranded on a remote island where there are no adults. The novel takes place on a tropical island in the Pacific, in the midst of a nuclear war.The island is self sustaining but is surrounded by impassable waters so the children have little hope of rescue. The boat shape of the island is a reference to the ship of fools, a famous…

“The escape of the prisoner” not “The flight of the deserter” (Tolkien “OFS” 79). This is how J.R.R Tolkien describes escape as one of the four main functions of fairy stories. With this, Tolkien suggests that the reader should be using fairy stories to escape the situation that they are born into; however, he disproves of readers using fairy stories to escape their responsibilities (“OFS” 79-80). A sub-creation is a secondary world that the mind can enter. It is extremely difficult to achieve…

CHAPTER 04 DATA ANAYSIS 4.1INTRODUCTION After the study of the chapters from ‘The Lord of the Flies’ it’s very clear that the human nature has a wicked side that reveals evil is inherent in human beings and it isn’t an external force. As Jack is the symbol of savagery who has extreme lust of power. In the beginning Jack accepts the rules and want to work together but gradually his innate evil urges him to make new tribe against Ralph where he sets his rules and protects his followers from…

Romeo + Juliet is a movie about two star-crossed lovers who journey with a relationship between the toils of two families feud, adapted from Shakespeare’s play The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet and produced into a film by Baz Luhrmann. The movie details the lives of Romeo and Juliet, who are in love, though caught in the confusion of their families feud. The lovers conceal their relationship, but that doesn’t keep either families from concealing their ‘swords’. Several die in the conquest of…

who have crashed with him. He and his schoolmates must learn to survive. Sustain himself, withstand each other, and survive the obstacles provided by the island that he encounters. Survival of the fittest, the smartest and the bravest. In the book, Lord of the Flies. this is what the author, William Golding, was trying to portray. A case of survival in what seems like a helpless situation. There are many different tactics used for survival, how the characters interact with each other in order…

of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” A quote from Thomas Hobbes, a great philosopher of the 17th century, could not more perfectly express the concept that William Golding portrays in his first novel, The Lord of the Flies. A story of boys abandoned on an island, Lord of the Flies was first published in 1954. This book shows that human beings need the restraints of a civilized society or they will eventually destroy themselves because of the lack of rules, savagery, and the lack…