Opium den

On opium, “The family doctor prescribed it like any other medication” (Shcivelbusch 206). On cocaine, “it renews the vigor of the intellect and relieves mental exhaustion, rendering the flow of thought more easy and the reasoning power more vigorous,” as according…

like in the “Man with the Twisted Lip” then grow into something much more complicated. In the latter, the story seems very simple at first, Dr. Watson is approached by a woman who needs him to bring her husband home. Dr. Watson then goes to the opium den, finds her husband and sends him on his way home.(Doyle “The Man with the Twisted…” 69-70) Although the reader may have thought the story would be about that man they soon realize they have been misled. With such a turn of events, it may…

In Wilde’s The Picture Of Dorian Gray, the title character is forced to face a life full of cruelty and regret. As the novel progresses, Dorian goes from fearing death to embracing it. Dorian kills, watches the people he cares for die, and eventually comes face to face with is own death. All of these changes in Dorian’s life are due to his deteriorating soul and corrupt morals. In the Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde accompanies Dorian with death to advocate the importance of selflessness.…

I. Introduction The purpose of this paper is to analyze the recent ethical scandal of Dr. Eugene J. Gosy of Williamsville, New York. Dr. Gosy is a local pain management specialist who has been accused of illegally prescribing pain medication which resulted in six patient deaths. The 166-count federal indictment states that Dr. Gosy disregarded warning signs of abuse or addiction in his patients. Instead, he continued to prescribe millions of prescription pills for no legitimate medical purpose…

When the Holocaust is mentioned, one immediately thinks of the Jewish genocide in Europe. However, a few years prior to World War II, Japan invaded China, captured Nanking, and performed a number of cruel atrocities on the people in and around the city. This horrible event, known as the Nanking Massacre or the Rape of Nanking, included brutality that rivaled the infamous Holocaust. “Many thousands of [the women] were killed after gang rape, and...others brutally injured and traumatized.…

Doyle’s stories are part of a distinct urban Gothic tradition, which constructs the environment of the city as a site of alienation, degeneration, and decay" (Spooner & McEvoy, 2007). His famously fetishized representation of London; a maelstrom of opium dens, slums, gaslight, hansom cabs, and alleyways provides a setting in which barbarian criminality finds its form, the urban jungle through which the likes of Mr. Hyde, from Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and,…

Following the release of D.W. Griffith’s seminal work, The Birth of a Nation, was an explosion of controversy over the racism in the film’s portrayal of blacks and people of mixed race. Since then, Griffith had thoroughly maintained that he himself was not racist and in righting his wrongs, he went out to make in particular, two films to show the movie going public how unprejudiced he was (Lesage). Those two films were Intolerance and the movie to be discussed in this paper, Broken Blossoms.…

For the Wages of Sin is Death: The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray tells the tale of a beautiful young man with a disturbing curse. The novel follows the moral corruption of the protagonist Dorian Gray, who is introduced to us as someone innocent and unspoiled. It is only after he gets his portrait painted by an artist named Basil Hallward, that his death begins its countdown. Basil reluctantly introduces him to Lord Henry, a rather interesting character…

A closer look at the two respective partnerships shall now reveal that Mrs. Miller and Eula are the men's active and vital partners as well. Admittedly, both women are to an extent dependent on their male partners. Yet, as one will see, whereas in the classical Western film, as noted before, it is usually only the women who are dependent on the men's help, both films under consideration here present the men as being also in the need of the women's help. In Rooster Cogburn, Eula certainly…

of respectability admired by men, however not Dorian, during the era according to Caird (Caird 185). Sybil is but one of the women Dorian so awfully affects in the novella; there are many, but towards the end of the story when Dorian reaches the opium den an older woman cries for him by the name Sybil uses, “She snapped her fingers. "Prince Charming is what you like to be called, ain 't it?" she yelled after him” (Wilde 144). This instance here is a clear example of how Dorian’s misdeeds have…