Mad Men

In the book “Fahrenheit 451” Ray Bradbury uses many allusions. An allusion is a reference to a well know person or event. A writer uses them to help simplify complex emotions or ideas. Allusions make it easier for readers to understand the complex ideas by comparing it to the reference the writer used. This essay shows the use of the allusion “Cheshire cat” from “Alice in Wonderland” and how it helps to show the themes in “Fahrenheit 451”. I think the Cheshire cat helps to show, the theme that…

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Throughout the three novels.. Alice and Wonderland , The Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , & Heart of Darkness , each of the main characters that took place in all three novels discover the “real world” by entering the unreal/surreal world. All three novels take place during the Victorian era , The early Victorian era marked the arrival of a large middle-class society for the first time in the history of the Western world. The literature of the Victorian age entered a new period after the…

Stop! Do not throw away that blue sweater just because it is starting to look worn out. Washing your favorite throw overs can cause them to look worn and shaggy with fuzzy lint pulled up over time. That doesn't mean those throw overs are now to be thrown away. Possibly the best advice Wengie could pitch our way is taking an average razor and shaving your sweater. Shaving delicately will pull that lint right off smoothing the material out and renewing the bright colors giving the newly bought…

‘Mad, bad and dangerous’, how accurate is this description of Gothic villains in the texts studied? The quote ‘mad, bad and dangerous to know’ was originally attributed to Lady Caroline Lamb in description of Lord Byron. The Romantic poet was infamous for his behaviour: excesses including huge debts, numerous affairs and aristocratic living. In the Gothic context, however, the concepts of ‘madness’, ‘evil’ and ‘danger’ take differing, more threatening forms. The role of the ‘villains’ in…

Tales of mad scientists dominated literature like a mirror into America’s psyche. In the early twentieth century filmmakers coincidentally, or intentionally caught onto the repressed fears individuals held in regards to the advancement of science and the decline of religion, and created a horror film empire on the topic. Upon the development of sound in horror films, what is remembered as the classic period was born. From 1931 to 1936, there was a trend in horror cinema which featured mad…

In the essay, the movie being analyze is Zootopia, with the depiction of discussing race, ethnicity, gender, and social class. By talking about examples with the movie one can comparing it to events today one. In the movie “Zootopia”, a brave bunny name Judy Hopps is trying to become the first rabbit cop. When she first joins the unit she is given a lesser job than everyone else who is looking for missing animals. Judy then meets a shifty fox named Nick Wilde, who tricks her in a hustle. Judy,…

In My Neighbor Totoro, Mei and Satsuki Kusakabe explore the wild woods and let their imaginations run wild. Seeing magical creatures like a kind majestic beast, to a cat bus that has headlights as eyes seems too surreal. The movie takes you to a whole new world where you can find adventure through the eyes of two imaginative girls. Director, Hayao Miyazaki made this anime movie one of the best children’s movie I’ve ever seen. This movie had so many different morals behind it. The first moral I…

It has been said that “the turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.” Although, for many, it is difficult to find this strength making growing up seem frightening. This process and struggle reaching adulthood is shown in both Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. Alice in Wonderland is a story of a little girl named Alice whose fantasies take her a made up, crazy land called…

In Frank Beddor´s The Looking Glass Wars, the author puts a twist on the story of Alice in Wonderland. Beddor writes the tale from the perspective of Alyss, the princess of Wonderland who had to escape her queendom when her evil aunt Redd attacks the palace. She ends up alone in the middle of England taken in by the Liddles until she returns to Wonderland with Dodge Anders to reclaim the throne. When these changes were made to the story, real significance was provided with meaningful themes…