Scott Schwartz

OSCAR WILDE: A STUDY IN ART, MORTALITY, AND PLEASURE PURSUIT Hussein Jasim Mohammed Al-Husseini English Department University of Misan Amarah, Maysan, Iraq Abstract Oscar Wild's attitude to hedonism would not be of an ordinary variety. Thus, it becomes all the more necessary to focus this study on Hedonism - Its Philosophical Bases in intertwining connection with the extraordinary strange personality of Oscar Wilde. His mind during its vigorous growth of creativity for one decade and more…

John Steinbeck’s, The Grapes of Wrath, is a glimpse of the reality behind Americas historical Great Depression, though it’s intent is much deeper than that. Steinbeck reinforces the idea of family unity and fighting together with the Joads and their journey. The deeper message that Steinbeck wanted to make with the Joad family is unclear and their future beyond the last chapter is also left to the assumption of the reader. However, chapter thirty reveals a great deal of information when looked…

The movie “The bicycle thief” is a neorealist Italian drama. The protagonist of the plot is an unemployed man, Antonio Ricci. The movie aptly depicts the state of post-world economic unrest. The lack of job opportunities resulted is alienation of labour, which Marx considers to be a state where labour is external to the worker. Under such a situation work is just a tool for survival. Given an option the worker would prefer not to work. This gives us the idea that such a kind of labour is more…

The novel The Catcher in the Rye written by J.D. Salinger can be considered as one of the most successful, controversial and most influencing novels of the 20th century. Salinger´s protagonist Holden Caulfield has had a decisive impact on the success of the novel and is widely considered as a symbol for teenage rebellion. The impeccable success of the novel is therefore mainly due to the development of a clear theme (One´s attempt to resist changes in life can result in the life´s downfall)…

There's a motivation behind why James Bond has figured out how to stay so significant and still appear speaking to men all over in excess of fifty years. Notwithstanding who plays him or what decade the film happens, the thought of James Bond is an individual as well as a way of life. Since the James Bond Film Franchise has kept going almost sixty years, the characters don't age in connection to arrival of the first film. Rather, Bond is constantly mid-matured. In like manner, in Ian Fleming's…

Once upon a time in a land far away, A duke named Theseus, the most prestigious of Athens, was due to marry the love of his live, Hippolyta. To celebrate he planned to throw a large festival. Whilst working on the plans, a fellow nobleman, Egeus, entered with his daughter Hermia and two other men. Egeus explained that out of the two men, one, Demetrius, was due to marry Hermia. This would all have gone to plan if it wasn’t for Lysander, the man Hermia had fallen in love with. To resolve the…

Breathing Underwater is a 2002 young adult novel by Alex Flynn that tells the story of Nick and Caitlin. Nick is sixteen years old who comes from a comfortable background and has a devoted girlfriend in Caitlin. Things, however, are not what they seem on the surface. His father is distant and abusive. Caitlin stays with him because of Nick’s controlling actions. The story is in part epistolary in nature with portions presented in the form of letters and as diary entries in which Nick chronicles…

This piece of paper will examine the problem aspects of the Bulgarian translation of chapter 1 of Willa Cather’s My Mortal Enemy. 1. Cultural Aspects: the transmitting of the clothes Myra and her husband wear might be a bit problematic. In the original text, the reader saw Myra Henshaw in black, velvet dress. The translator decided to put on Mayra not velvet but a silk dress (“жена в черна копринена рокля”). Perhaps, this was done because the image of a velvet dress in the Bulgarian reader’s…

Chapter two Form the beginning in the movie and the short story we are introduced to Mike Enslin who writes books about haunted places. His books Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Houses, Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Graveyards and Ten Nights in Ten Haunted are best sellers, but he internally shows some insecurity and guilt due to his hypocrisy, he believes in the existence of ghost other hand in his books he doesn’t believe in paranormal or in supernatural phenomena. Enslin hates his…

Titanic: Parthiv Patel’s 1997 movie review Fictional characters: Leonardo DeCaprio as Jack Dawson poor man from Wisconsin he win the Titanic tickets in card game, Kate Winslet as Rose Bukater a 17 year old girl from Philadelphia who was forced in to engagement to 30 year old man Cal Hockley so her mother Ruth can maintain higher class in society, Billy Zane as Cal Hockley rich and arrogant 30year old fiancé of Rose, Frances Fisher as Ruth Bukater Rose’s widowed mother who arrange the Rose’s…