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    The Big Sleep is an interesting novel by Raymond Chandler with many twists and turns throughout the entire plot, with an abrupt plot twist at the very end. The story is set in the in Los Angeles, California in the 1930s, from the point of view of Philip Marlowe, the protagonist. The basic plot of the entire story starts when a private detective, Philip Marlowe, gets hired by a wealthy man, General Sternwood, for a job, which involves the blackmailing of one of his two daughters, Vivian Regan.…

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    The femme fatale became a very popular character in crime fiction in the United States during the mid-twentieth century (Jaber, 1). This character is a woman who is portrayed to be hyper-sexual and is manipulative towards men. The femme fatale appears in hard-boiled crime fiction and film noir. She also was featured on many pulp covers making seductive poses because of the rise of sex in books (Horsley). Throughout the mid-twentieth century, the femme fatale character changed. Throughout this…

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    Philip Marlowe the Paradox of a Bachelor Raymond Chandler was a man of great talent. Chandler was a talented novelist. He created unique characters throughout his writings. One of his writings, “Trouble is my Business” is home to one of Chandler’s most famous creations. The famous Philip Marlowe. Philip Marlowe is a Los Angeles private investigator full of contradictions. Philip Marlowe illustrates the characteristics of a man who doesn’t like to show pain or fear, likes to stay away from…

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    He could be defined by his sexual potency, just as much as by his denial of pleasure. Raymond Chandler, in his 1950 essay, The Simple Art of Murder, outlines this archetype, with an authority appropriate to his foundational authorship. Chandler writes, “He talks as the man of his age talks, that is, with rude wit, a lively sense of the grotesque, a disgust for sham, and a contempt for pettiness.” (Chandler “The Simple Art of Murder”). As the genre of noir expanded through generations of film,…

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    During the Great Depression a Knight arises by the name of Philip Marlowe. Philip Marlowe is a detective during this era trying to make a living by solving cases but also seeking the truth when solving these cases. In the book The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler Philip Marlowe is given a task by General Sternwood, to take care of the person who is black mailing the Sternwood family. Marlowe takes the task and as the story unfolds he finds out whom the individual is that is blackmailing the family,…

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    Man. Hammett also wrote over 80 short stories in his life time, Hammett also worked in a magazine and later in life became a screenplay writer. Hammett’s short stories, movies and novels has greatly influenced the works as many writers such as Raymond Chandler, Chester Himes, Ross Macdonald, Robert B. Parker, James Ellroy,…

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    In my essay I will first sate the traits of an ideal knight and then discuss the characteristics of an ideal knight as represented in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight while comparing and contrasting them to the characteristics of ideal knights in traditional texts. Quoting examples from the text, I will then discuss, analyze and come to a conclusion if Sir Gawain has been represented as an ideal knight in the 14th century poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. During the Middle Ages and in many…

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    A detective – the one who solves the mystery of a crime, clever, wise, and knowledgeable. Yet detectives are not always the obvious type, as is exemplified by a both a novel and a series of short stories. In G. K. Chesterton’s Favorite Father Brown Stories, the wise detective is not a usual detective. As implied by his name, Father Brown was an English village priest in the 19th or 20th century, who ended up being the one to solve or lead another to solving a crime or finding the criminal.…

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    On November 20th, my sister and I attended an astonishing play called The Pillowman at the Newnan Theatre Company in Coweta. The Pillowman was originally written in 2003 by Irish playwright Martin McDonagh. The play takes place in an interrogation room in an unnamed totalitarian state. A middle aged writer named Katurian (played by Arden Avery) is being questioned by two detectives Tulposki (played by P. David miller) and Ariel (played by Robert Stowe) while his older brother Michal (played by…

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    When asked of what a man is supposed to be, most people would reply strong, tough, blunt, and essentially a badass. In literature, we would define these type of people as “hard boiled”, meaning that they are tough both on the outside and on the inside. In The Maltese Falcon, Sam Spade, a rugged San Francisco detective shows many resembling traits of a hard boiled detective, but also has the ability to show some compassion when necessary. Part of what defines a detective as, “hard boiled”, is…

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