Nick Castle

tastes. Fitzgerald picks Jay Gatsby as a character who represents newly minted millionaires. Having created his own image, Gatsby tries to get Daisy’s heart and impress her with his material success. He throws an incredibly luxurious parties at his castle-like mansion every Saturday night. However, as the story develops, Fitzgerald gradually reveals Gatsby’s vulgarness and portrays him as a man who has established his reputation and wealth by untruthful means and who lacks authentic social…

At the party, Daisy tells Nick that her and Gatsby have had a row about ‘the future’. It transpires later in the film that Gatsby’s great hope is that the future can be like the past, before Daisy was…

disorder. One quality of a narcissistic individual is an obsession with a number of grand and seemingly “unlimited” fantasies. Gatsby’s fantasy of ideal love that he experiences with his neighbor and not-so-secret lover, Daisy Buchanan, runs deep. Nick Carraway, the story’s narrator describes multiple instances in which Gatsby is “possessed” when he is with Daisy, suggesting that Gatsby is out of touch with reality (Fitzgerald 96). The intense passion that Gatsby feels for Daisy is not a true…

of Oregon, unlike the original where the fog looked really awesome and a little scarier. In 1871 four men founded Antonio Island, on a night like most nights we see these four men are actually murders. Present Day is now upon us as we meet Nick Castle (Tom Welling) a fisherman tring to live a simple life.When his girlfriend Elizabeth Dane (Maggie Grace) shows up after living in New York for 6 months. It doesn't take long…

Though written as a comedy, Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost both begins and ends in death. With an impressive score, an even more impressive stage, and an early 20th century setting, Director Christopher Luscombe sets an ambitious goal to produce a successful comedy steeped in war motif. He plays his own game of wits, much like the characters, with Shakespeare’s words by taking advantage of already present themes of life, death, and time, and gives them applicable meaning to a pre-World War I…

It is Gatsby’s death that truly makes Nick realize the emptiness of the lives and the value of Gatsby’s dream. What came as a shock was that despite the fact that hundreds of people would come to his house every weekend for his lavish, grand parties, no one had cared enough to even attend his funeral except for three people: Nick, Gatsby’s father and one man who used to attend Gatsby’s parties. Even the people who had a part in Gatsby’s…

of New York, but also the struggles the characters experience as their secrets are exposed to those around them. The early scenes in The Great Gatsby where Tom’s mistress is revealed to Nick when he is at dinner with the Buchanans and Jordan Baker (9:45-11:03), and the following discussion between Daisy and Nick over her wishes for her daughter’s future and her personal bitterness towards the world (11:03-12:39), highlight an overarching theme of the film which is that all of the characters have…

The Power Hungry Fool In the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare, we are introduced to a highly rewarded, noble born, young and heroic character by the name of Macbeth. He was one of the soldiers fighting for King Duncan in a battle that was taking place in Scotland, and he was named a hero for winning it. As a reward, King Duncan named Macbeth Thane of Cawdor. Since Macdonwald, former Thane of Cawdor, was executed for he betrayed the King, Macbeth was now known throughout all of Scotland as…

Recently, gun control has been the center of many heated debates by forcing the United States to reconsider the Second Amendment “right to bear arms.” The majority of Americans will readily agree that most violent crime in the United States involves the use of some kind of gun. Because guns are much quicker and deadlier than knives or clubs, they are the "weapon of choice" in the commissions of crime. However, radical laws that diminish the right of the public to bear arms jeopardizes public…

head and walks off, asking again for Gawain to find him in a year to be proven courageous. Almost a year later he embarks on his journey to find the strange man and stumbles upon a castle after many days of facing great danger and terrible weather. The lord of the castle welcomes Sir Gawain, allowing him to stay in his castle for a few days and bring him to the Green Knight’s chapel, but in return, the Lord asks him to play another game. In this game, the Lord and Sir Gawain must give each other…