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Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (2009) and Edward Lear’s The Owl and the Pussycat (1871) are works of literature that both use “nonsense” to convey a story. In what follows I will argue that nonsense is significant, especially in children’s literature, as it is a useful tool for education, and promotes individuality of thoughts. The use of nonsense in literature challenges rules and it allows for the brain to think outside of the restricted boundaries of teaching, which…

Anna Anderson: The Eerily Similar Imposter of Anastasia On a chilly fall day in 1997, people crowded the ticket booths in order to purchase their seat for the new animated film, Anastasia. The award-winning Warner Bros. film Anastasia was released November 21, 1997, featuring actress, Meg Ryan as the voice of the famous Grand Duchess Anastasia. The movie told the fascinating story of the Russian siege of 1918 and how a former friend of the Romanov family, Grigori Rasputin cursed the whole line…

In 1896, Otto Lilienthal of German origin was the Glider King after attempting over 2000 flights but sadly died after fracturing his neck from 50 feet downfall. At that same period in America, the Wright brother (Otto and Wilbur), successful business owner noticeably with their understanding of bicycles, began to look into Lilienthal work. On December 17th, 1903, they showed the world the very first motorized airplane with a 12s flight. Over the years, the mechanics of airplanes improved as well…

of June 1949, it is one of Orwell’s most renowned books. The story takes place in London which is part of the country Oceania. The citizens of Oceania are governed by a very dominant group of people, The Party, who are further commanded by the Big Brother. The Party implements conformity…

different way (2006: 9). As most fairy tales, Sleeping Beauty is a straightforward example of reinterpreting a story in order for it to never die. This classic tale has been the source of inspiration for several adaptations, the compilation of the Grimm brothers, or film director Robert Stromberg’s Maleficent, to name a couple. The original tale barely mentions the evil fairy in the moment in which she casts a cruel spell on the princess, whereas the…

In the book “Victorian Transformations: Fairy Tales, Adolescence and the novel of female development” several critics have seen Jane Eyre as a rewriting story of the Cinderella and the beginning of the book especially supports this view. To begin with, Robert K. Martin believes that the Cinderella’s theme is especially apparent in the first chapters of the novel, "as Jane Eyre emphasizes her own position as abandoned child, with evil aunt and two [sic] evil cousins, whose parentage is…

Ahjussi (아저씨), also known by it’s English title The Man from Nowhere, is an action packed, thriller film starring Won Bin as the movie’s protagonist, Cha Tae Sik. The movie was released on August 4, 2010 and was directed by Lee Jeong Bum. The story begin with Cha Tae Sik, the owner of a pawnshop, who lives by himself and leads a quiet life. He is a quiet man and does not have any friends except for a little girl, Somi, who lives next door with her mom. Somi frequents the pawn shop, often selling…

The film Metropolis directed by Fritz Lang, is a science fiction film, consisting of a futuristic city dystopia, follows the journey of Joh Fredersen, his son Freder, and a poor worker named Maria through their efforts to overcome the vast differences separating the working class and the elites of the city. Whilst the novel 1984 by George Orwell is also about a dystopian society that is controlled by ‘The Party’ follows the character, Winston Smith who decides to rebel against the Party and fall…

The novel Neuromancer was published on 1st July 1984. The book was written by William Gibson and possessed by the aura of Orwell. 1984 was the year of Aura of Orwell thereby indicating that every piece of technology resembling the one depicted by the author in his noble novel was perceived as an indicator sign or a disturbing awakening. The book helped dooms day connoisseur and dystopian fanatic immerse further into their apocalypse believe. 1984 is the year in which the entire western world…

In Karen Russell’s short story “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” she uses the epigraph, which is based off a book named “The Jesuit Handbook on Lycanthropic Culture Shock”, to show the reader what the wolf-Girls should be thinking or acting like during that stage. An epigraph is a quotation at the beginning of a text or a section of a text suggesting the text’s theme or central idea. In Stage One Karen Russell shows this by devolving the majority of the characters in this stage.…