Matt Hardy

Tom Ripley is a young man in this film struggling to make a living like most of us. He was bribe to play a role of a Princeton guy who just broke his hand and couldn’t play. While playing the piano in this cocktail party he met Herbert Greenleaf a wealthy shipbuilder who mistake Ripley and believes that he attended Princeton with his son Dickie’s, because he is wearing a borrowed Princeton blazer for the cocktail party. Greenleaf recruits and pays Ripley $1000 dollars to go to Italy and bring…

Good Will Hunting is a story about a young man who overcomes his demons brought on by a childhood of psychological, physical, and emotional abuse in order to better his life and pursue his natural talents of mathematics with the help of his relationships. Throughout the story we are introduced to three of his most important relationships, the one with his psychologist, his best friend, and his love interest but in my point of view his most important relationship is with Chuckie, he is the main…

The Downfall of Tess in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles Tess of the D'Urbervilles is considered to be a tragedy due to the catastrophic downfall of the protaganist Tess. From the early days in her life, her father John had begun to destroy her, which then led to Alex D'Urbervill and eventually finished with Angel Clare. Each dominant male figure in her life cocntributed to her tragic downfall which the reader encounters at the end of the novel. It is unfortunate how one woman…

for the world” (Hardy 21) because she does not want them to learn that her father is too drunk to go and that she could not manage it herself . Her stubborn refusal to ask for help results in the death of the family horse, Prince. Tess continues to make decisions influenced by her pride when she refuses help from others and rather take matters in her own hands. When Angel leaves Tess after learning of her past she does not make a scene as “pride, so entered into her submission” (Hardy 225). The…

Romanticizing Abuse Todays’ society is mentally misconstrued on what they believe is romantic and an act of love. Then again there are books, television series, movies, and even social media which say otherwise; they paint the ideal picture of what ‘Love’ is, in its many forms in popular culture. Fifty Shades of Grey is a renowned trilogy among the younger generation that explores a peculiar relationship between Christian Grey, a sex crazed Multimillionaire and Anastasia Steele, an…

commonly known as the original “Girl Sleuth”, is the lead detective of the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories. A young girl of 16 or 18 years of age (her age varies between stories), she was created by publisher Edward Stratemeyer, famously known for his The Hardy Boys detective series, and written by a variety of ghostwriters under the penname Carolyn Keene (Nancy Drew 2015). Nancy Drew is a female, amateur detective who stumbles upon mysteries in the fictional town of River Heights where she lives…

“The Ruined Maid,” by Thomas Hardy, is a closed-form poem that uses imagery of the “ruined” maid to satirize Victorian social conventions. Thomas Hardy wrote “The Ruined Maid” in closed-form to magnify the poem’s imagery. The poem is Anapestic meter and follows the unstressed, unstressed, stressed syllabic pattern. This meter gives the poem a sense of joy and bounciness that adds to the maid’s new happiness. Hardy also uses an AABB rhyme scheme for each stanza. The rhymes, along with the meter,…

“ Believe that fate is the optimal combination of choice and chance” (Cindy Hilsheimer) This means that fate happens because of your choice and the chance you have. Not only do your choices affect you they also affect others. In A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare the king of the fairies makes a decision to put his wife under a spell. In the process, he accidentally puts the spell on 2 other people who are in love and that leads to a break up, because of his choice he altered other…

Will Hunting- Impulsive, Fixated, & Unopen to Experience Michelle McDevitt Student at University of Michigan – Dearborn Abstract Will Hunting is the main character from the movie Good Will Hunting (Armstrong, Gordon, Weinstein, Weinstein, & Van Sant, 1997). Will is incredibly intelligent, loyal to his friends and has the potential to do great things. He is also deeply flawed, the ones that I will be focusing on in this paper are from two humanistic perspectives and one behavioral perspective.…

There are several qualities that made me choose the film, Good Will Hunting. The main reason was the emotions that I felt when I watch the film for the first time. As I watched the film, I became engulfed in a world that was very similar to mine. From the story plot to the characters, each aspect of the film seemed to demonstrate the central theme of the film, which was the ability for the protagonist to grow as a person. Will begins the film by being distant from others, which is a common…