Mrs. Doubtfire

The Graduate The sequence that I have chosen for analysis is the scene after the party and Dustin is moping in his room, until he puts his hand in the fish tank to pull out his keys. The scene begins with Mrs. Robinson bursting in on Benjamin. The sound of the door is quite loud in the small space, making it much more intrusive than it might normally have been and possibly drawing a metaphor about her entry not just into his room but into his private life. Her voice is totally calm…

Patrick Lencioni’s book Advantage is entirely different from many of his other books, which read like fables; therefore, his would be my only complaint against Advantage. However, as Lencioni alludes, this is the book he wished he had written first. And rightly so, Advantage includes many of the principles taught in at least five of his other books and his big idea comes in this opening statement: “The single greatest advantage any company can achieve is organizational health.” The entire book…

Pasternak ever said, “Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life.” Like a coin always having two sides, the problem of life and death always interact with each other. In the 1925 published novel Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf declares the idea of life and death is consistent with individual consciousness. Some people die, their consciousness still live; some people live, their consciousness is empty, they are the walking dead. Although…

structural elements. The film depicts a recent college graduate (Dustin Hoffman), whose feeling of a lack of purpose results in his life becoming dominated by his relationship with Mrs. Robinson and eventually, her daughter Elaine. Act I establishes the key characters; Benjamin, his parents and their friends, including, Mrs. Robinson. It feels as though Benjamin is on a different planet to the others, and for that we are sympathetic towards him and want to see how things will play out; this act…

the beginning; emphasizing the work through emotional cognizance. The novel does not advance on a sequential premise, but instead pushes ahead through a progression of scenes orchestrated by a succession of the conscious awareness of its characters. Mrs. Woolf utilizes this free affiliation of emotions to allow internal considerations and sentiments, which mix into each other, and sprout discourse about these ruminations. In the supper party, for example, Woolf changes the perspectives, and…

It was a month before christmas and Ben was at school in 7th period, the last class of the day, him and his friend, Jason were messing around, throwing paper airplanes at kids, and causing problems. They were in study hall, and had already finished their homework for the day, although they weren’t happy about even having homework going into the weekend and Ben was even less happy because he had just gotten a detention for the next 3 school day, and his birthday was on the 30th, the last day of…

The doll of the high school, Princess, was going crazy because she had just realized she needed to submit an essay to her teacher before tomorrow’s prom. The only person she knew who could help was Toad, the biggest geek in the entire high school. Thus, Princess, the most popular girl in high school, needed the assistance of a geek for a school paper. She had to go to the school prom with him since she’d promised, however, Princess realized this geek was truly special after all. Princess…

Ben’s face in the picture in focus and the bedroom door not in focus. Mrs. Robinson opens the door and stumbles in. The camera then focuses on Mrs. Robinson coming in thinking Ben’s room was the restroom. She then asks Ben for a ride home and Ben stubbornly agrees to take her and she throws his keys into the fish tank with the fish tank becoming the focus of the shot. This sets up a sort of symbolic evidence to the movie as Mrs. Robinson disrupts the tank, which represents a sense of security…

of Tom Ripley as a tactful while talented liar, who associates with the grey areas of the society and struggles to live a higher-level life, vain and calculating. For example, just after Tom accepts Mr. Greenleaf’s offer to go to Italy, he plans to cheat a last victim from his lists of prospects, Mr de Sevilla. “Shouldn’t he try just one more in these last ten days before he sailed? ...he needed a good scare by telephone to put the fear of God into him” (Highsmith 180). The thought displayed…

Though the meaning of “America” has changed over the years, “America” once meant the pursuit of a simplistic yet unique dream. Walt Whitman demonstrates this in section 10 of his “Song of Myself” poem. In this section, he takes on the identity of multiple American people. Among these are a rugged mountain man, the captain of a Yankee clipper ship, the viewer of a marriage between a trapper and a Native American, and one who shelters a runaway slave. These people are all different, which serves…