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    Character analysis In the book Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser, you can see Carrie grow all through out the book. She goes from being utterly dependent to completely independent and confident. She eventually gets everything she ever wanted, but has no one to share her glory with. Through Carrie the theme is illuminated through her growth, conflicts, and tone to show all you are willing to risk and the changes you see in yourself from achieving the american dream. Carrie is able to grow from her experiences from being dependent on men, to being independent. In the beginning she is lost and poor and then meets Drouet, he gives her money and power, but she does everything he tells her to do because he is the one that gave her this superior…

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    A Feminist Perspective of the American Dream-- An Analysis of Carrie in Theodore Dreiser’ Sister Carrie Ⅰ. Introduction Sister Carrie is written by Theodore Dreiser. For me, the most important subject of this novel is Carrie’s American Dream. Thus, this paper aims at analyzing the Sister Carrie tells the story about Carrie, who leaves her poor family from Colombia City and after experiencing the life as two men’s mistress in Chicago and New York, becomes an actress at the end. Though attacked…

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    I am generally not a fan of classic novels. They are normally boring to me either because of their topic, which I am not interested in, or the language is too difficult for me to understand and I get fed up. I prefer to read more modern novels set in the current time. However, I thought Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser was a great novel. Sister Carrie was written in the late nineteenth century, but I could still relate to the novel. Sister Carrie did not feel outdated like some novels do. Some…

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    of the lavish stores, hotels, and houses lead Carrie to fall…

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    Carrie Movie Comparison

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    In 2013, Kimberley Pierce directed a remake of Brian De Palma’s horror film classic Carrie. The arrangement stays the same, but by using a little modernization, additional character development, and new scenes here and there, Peirce essentially reinvents the same familiarity while making the film her own. Pierce jettisons the focus off of Carrie’s tumultuous relationship with her mother and puts a microscope on Carrie’s desire to fit in. While Brian De Palma’s version focuses on the sexual…

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    using the ‘male gaze’ and punishing women for any kind of sexuality. Brian de Palma’s 1976 film adaption of Stephen King’s novel Carrie is no different. Although marketed to young women, Carrie is fraught with female objectification and fetishization with an overall lack of progressive female characters. It would seem having a female protagonist as…

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    Director Kimberly Peirce reimagines the classic story of Carrie, a highschool teenage girl who is tormented by the entire senior class. Given the excellenct casting of Carrie as well as her mother Margret, this movie delievers effects which the original wasn't able to support in it's time. Chloe Grace Moretz (Kick-Ass) portrays the role of Carrie White, giving us a satisying performance which by the time the movie is over, your happy that little vampire girl from 'Let me In' ended up landing the…

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    Women In Horror Films

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    dichotomy of the virgin vs. sex kitten, innocent vs. deviant, pure vs. impure female image and the religious undertones that drive this binary. This film does, however, stray from what feminist theorists have called the “male antagonist,” as Carrie acts as both the antagonist and protagonist in this film. On the contrary, Carrie does fit the virgin profile while other females in the film fit the sex kitten profile. In order to better understand the reflective theory in the context of this film,…

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    Stephen King Carrie

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    Carrie is a book by Stephen King and the book was banned because it was a violent, and had a sexual themes in parts of the book. Carrie is a just teenage girl and is trying to get by in school. She has these telekinetic powers and she barely found out about it. She does not know how to control her powers. There was an incident when she was little, she cause a rain storm to occur when it was sunny. The sad part about her life is that she has this psychopath mother who hurts and abuse Carrie…

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    Stephen King Sacrifice

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    Stephen King, in the novel, Carrie, illustrates the character, Margaret White, and leads that character to her destruction to suggest that mothers who are abusive, insane and unloving will lead to their destruction. Margaret White is the biological mother of Carrie and is the main villain of the novel. She is the major reason why kids in school treats Carrie as a social outcast. Margaret is a fundamental christian who twists the meaning of the words in the bible to claim that almost everything…

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