Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Singing in the Rain is “backstage” musical filled with comedy, songs and romance that was released in 1951 but set in the late 1920’s. It was one of the last films to be produced during the profitable golden age of the studio system. The film employs the typical characteristics a Hollywood musical by relying on superstar names and contagious dance numbers. The movie incorporates an additional level of parody into its wistful plot that is centered on the disruptive shift from silent movies to…

change in their life after being locked away. Belle is locked away in the Beast’s castle, where she is guided by Mrs. Potts and the other enchanted objects as her view of the Beast changes from dislike to love. This change is seen audibly through the song “Something There,” where the characters begin to notice a shift in feeling between Belle and the Beast. Meanwhile, in Chicago, Roxie Hart is thrown in jail after she is accused of murder, where she is guided by Mama and Billy Flynn. Her…

The film’s budget for special effects, costumes, sets, etc., was exceptionally greater than that of the theatrical production, so its overall aesthetic is much more polished and credible. The whole experience is immersive and the visuals impressively believable to behold. The overall effect, regardless of the magical elements, is much more realistic, and the setting looks like part of the real world, not a fictional land. Taking this into consideration, it is not surprising that the film had to…

word “blissful” brings to mind an absolute entrancement that the author has when seeing her. Things that are blissful captivate the entire experience, and so does Alisoun. In addition to this, Alisoun is not only as beautiful as a pear tree, again going back to the sweetness of fruit, but also a new tree. The “new” aspect brings about a sense of youth and innocence, which highly contradicts her subsequent…

Teenagers are faced with a significant amount of adversities throughout the transition to adulthood. In J.D. Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye”, the main character, Holden Caulfield, is a teenager who is overwhelmed by the internal conflicts he is facing. This story is talking about how he went from initially feeling despondent to eventually obtaining happiness. Holden has been faced with several obstacles throughout his lifetime such as losing his brother at young age, having a distant…

Innocence is a complex and questionable concept when explored; it typically requires a lack of corruption and an excess of purity, characteristics that are often only seen in children and infants. The individual possesses a form of naivety to the complications of life and the world surrounding them, which when applied to adults, enables them to act in a manner that may seem out of the norm to the society they reside in as well as society now. Taking this into account, Milton’s narrator in…

The Forrest Gump is a 1994 movie and it is played by Tom Hanks. This movie is about the life of Forrest Gump from Alabama, who is unintelligent and naive, but he is a nice guy and very athletic, who witnesses some events of the 20th century in the United States. Through the movie’s entirety, outstanding performances from various award winning actors give this film’s involved and interesting plot a sense of realism that is far superior to that of other dramatic movies. Although many people think…

In 1960, Harper Lee wrote a novel titled To Kill a Mockingbird. The book addresses racism in a small town called Maycomb County, Alabama in the 1930s. The book is narrated by Jean Louise “Scout” Finch. Her father is a lawyer whose name is Atticus Finch and he accepts a case involving a Black man named Tom Robinson. Tom had been accused of raping a poor white girl named Mayella Ewell. Mayella’s family would be considered in today’s society as “White trash.” The town and even some members of…

Zionist writers were rediscovering ideas from their past, including sex, desire, and the rest of their worlds, to determine the course of their future. The modern poem, “A Prayer to be Sung,” by Miriam Yalan-Shteklis, plays off of the Biblical “Song of Songs,” to determine the sexual, and cultural revolution to come by the…

themes seen in books is a character’s loss of innocence. Loss of innocence happens when a character is exposed to situations they had never been exposed to before such as war, death and violence. These are all things that most children are naive to and have never experienced in their life. However, when a child encounters situations similar to those mentioned, it causes them to grow up, sometimes earlier than they were supposed to. Their childhood innocence fades and causes them to see the evil…