Modernist Novel

The Babadook is a truly scary horror movie from 2014 directed by Jennifer Kent. The “Babadook” is a scary boogie man that a single mother just cannot seem to shake. At one point in the film the mother, Amelia played by Essie Davis, goes to the police station because she believes someone is stalking her. She, however tells the police at the station that she burned the book and they say they cannot do anything about it because she burned the evidence. She turns and sees clothing arranged in a way…

C. American Literature 04 March 2018 Critical Analysis Uncle Tom’s Cabin is an American novel that was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852. Harriet Beecher Stowe was an American author and abolitionist, born in Litchfield, Connecticut, on June 14, 1811. However, she achieved fame for her novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The novel’s purpose was to stand against slavery, and it was one of the highest-selling novels of its time. The book travels through the hardships of Uncle Tom, a slave who is…

“Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different” -Stephen King. I find that the movie paints a perfect picture well, on the other hand, reading the book you have to let your imagination take over and create images in your head of what might the scene look like.“ The cat in the hat” was a well-written book by celebrated children’s book author Dr. Seuss, originally published in 1957 and a well-developed movie directed by Bo Welch, after reading…

novel's characters debate the theory of "essentialism," the notion that gender distinctions denote some fundamental and crucial differences between human beings” (Feuer 87). As clearly shown in the novel, women are lower in status; nonetheless, the distinctions are also appointed to men as well. In the novel there are extreme differences between the high status and low status people. For example, the Commanders are considered the high status because they are able to have a Wife, a Handmaid, and…

The question is, “What would capture attention and be a cool and very visual way to begin a movie or a book and, more specifically, my autobiography? Stylistically, the latter is often considered to be more complicated. Besides, in the labyrinth of “opinions,” I encountered opinions that were diametrically opposed to one another, and there were even irrelevant statements, when referring to rigidity, chronology, points of view, and the choice between first- and third-person writing, between what…

In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tom Buchanan is seen as the antagonist in the book. Throughout the book readers get frustrated with this man and why nothing bad ever happens to him, but to the people who are associated with him. Tom Buchanan is an egotistical, unfaithful, and hateful man. Tom is known for his egotistical personality. He is selfish, vain, and overall a bad guy. Throughout the book, he makes references to himself and how great he is. For example, when Tom says, “I've…

First of all, I would like to talk about briefly the character Zarathustra for Nietzsche by referring his influential work Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The book mainly includes the made-up journey and the philosophical speeches of Zarathustra. The journey starts when Zarathustra was in the age thirty, he left his home and went into the mountains. After his personal experiences in the mountains as a hermit, he wanted to return to humanity to spread the wisdom that he has attained. For many readers,…

Alan Bennett’s The History Boys makes use of the tension between the characters of Hector and Irwin to provide a framework for the rest of the play and to make comments about the education system . Hector and Irwin as characters are diametrically opposed and the difference between them is shown through their differences in teaching style and in their fundamental beliefs. This means that Bennett is using the comedic clashes between the two characters to communicate his ideas and political…

shows in this story that the two halves are actually very similar. Crane’s Maggie, A Girl of the Streets gives readers a window into a life that may be otherwise foreign to them. This vivid glimpse into a life of poverty is jarring, but reading this novel can help us recognize dangerous flaws in society, or ourselves, that we have never seen…

The Battle Hymn Of A Tiger Mother, a bestselling novel by Amy Chua really added to this stereotype. Amy Chua, the mother in the story, was very strict with her daughters. They wouldn’t be allowed to spend time with friends or go on sleepovers. On the other hand, they had plenty of time to get good at music…