Saving Face

The portrait serves as “the most magical of mirrors” (Wilde 86), a work of art that exposes Dorian Gray’s innermost conscience and lays bare the face of his soul. Though Dorian is spared the physical burdens of age and sin, the portrait does not fail to reflect these and starts to decay in his place. The painted image supposedly “bears the burden of his shame” (Wilde 73), yet the accumulating knowledge…

In the novel, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" Dr. Jekyll was a handsome young man who enjoyed others company. Eventually, he started to become more and more isolated. He deviated from ever being seen by even some of his loyal servants. A hideous transformation occurred and changed Dr. Jekyll. He turned into a small, hard to look at being. Dr. Jekyll figured this was his alternate self of how he felt. He named it Mr, Hyde. In the next three paragraphs, I will compare and contrast Dr. Jekyll and Mr.…

The play “Yellow Face” by David Henry Hwang, who is also a Tony Award-Winner of M Butterfly. The play is adapted and directed by Jiff Liu, production and theatrical designed by Francois-pierre couture, costumes are by Manee Leija. The play has feature cast with experience in to and film. It features total of nine actors, but the most main character in the play is Marcus. In the beginning of the play, I like how he give introduction of the characters because when watching the play, it is very…

Everyone has a choice. What matters, is if we make the right one. In the film Harry Potter And The Order of The Phoenix based on J.K. Rowling’s book, Sirius Black says, “We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we act on. That’s who we really are.” It’s clear that Dr. Henry Jekyll from the play, “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” And Courtney Davidson who wrote the article “Confessions of a Former Hazer.” Both agree with Sirius Black’s quote. Dr.…

lighting also corroborates that Batman is kept a secret, therefore, should be kept in the dark. ‘Because he’s not our hero. He’s a silent guardian, a watchful protector…a dark knight’- Lt. James Gordon. In the film, Batman could be seen a protagonist by saving people,…

Firstly, I would like to use the source of “War on Terror” to point out batman “gadgets” and how he is one of the most powerful men of his world. I would like to bring in the idea that batman has all the financial spending power that other people do not have. I will connect this to the notion of the power that others such as villains wish for, but they cannot have. As a result, batman creates a huge advantage among his competitors or villains. Secondly, I wish to discuss and analyze batman…

My parents were killed right in front of me in a dark alley after watching an opera show, who am I? I was bitten by a radioactive spider while on a school field trip, who am I? After being frozen for nearly 60 years, I was given a super-soldier serum, who am I? My team went on a test flight into space and while on the journey, our spacecraft was heavily damaged and my team was exposed to cosmic radiation, who are we? I was raised to be an assassin for the Soviet Union and was taken in by S.H.I.E…

Bringing the fiction characters to real-life is the power that every book, novel, comic fans definitely want to have. If I have that such kind of power, the character I want to bring to real-life is Batman, because he is the symbol of justice, a very smart person and dare to break the law and fight the bad guy even they are the government. Every comic and superhero movie fans in general and DC fans, in particular, know that Batman is the symbol of justice. He fights the bad guy who commits…

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a book by Robert Louis Stevenson based in the dark streets of 19th century London, England. The protagonist is Dr. Henry Jekyll, a doctor of medicine who is well known and respected by the community but also experiments in his spare time. His main experiment of late is to separate the good and evil of a single man, as he believes that they are two separate entities confined in one person. He succeeds at first, splitting himself into two personas: his normal Dr. Jekyll,…

Most of these characters share the same exact traits, and face the problems. I, myself have faced some of the problems that have been categorized, and so have you. Are these problems what shape a good leader at the worst of times? Or is this all just coincidence? Here we will be looking at three categories; person vs. person, person vs. self, and person vs. nature. We are comparing three characters from three completely different stories, and seeing how they all act alike. Alma from Time of…