The Beautiful and Damned

Once upon a time, there was a beautiful girl named Cinderella who lived with her wicked stepmother and two cruel stepsisters. Jealous of Cinderella’s beauty, they forced her to dress in rags and put her in charge of all the housework. She suffers silently until one night her fairy godmother helps her get to the royal ball. When at the ball, the prince falls in love with her and she has the opportunity to live “happily ever after.” At least that’s the version most young girls have been told.…

As Viviana walked away from the house carrying little Isabela, she felt the power of Esme inhabit the house and reach out for her. It buzzed inside her head like a sick headache and brought nausea to her throat. She used every bit of her will and pushed her grandmother back. She regretted not being able to bring her sister with her, but questions would most certainly be asked if she carried a dead body down the middle of Main Street. She wouldn’t be able to take care of the child forever and…

pope what it looked like. The pope urged Michelangelo to work quickly and frequently came to check on its progress. This was enough pressure to make Michelangelo uncover the ceiling before it was finished. Michelangelo’s work on the ceiling was so beautiful that it even influenced the style of another very famous artist, Raphael, who was also doing work within the Vatican (WEBSITE). Featured in the center of the work are nine sections depicting stories from Genesis, twelve Prophets and Sibyls…

1. Jake and his comrades are considered lost after the war because they are a product of immense torture. Being lost is not beautiful or triumphant, but an exhibition of the cowardice that remained with the expatriates. They are no longer able to love to fulfill the pre-war ideal of romance and commitment. Avoiding any meaningful dialogue, they talk around their war wounds and drink themselves into oblivion. They experienced the lowest downfall of humanity and it removed their ability to feel…

Men and Guys in the Great Gatsby “Who was guy, and who was men in the novel “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald?” was the question that most of people wanted to know. And “how could we identifying men and guys?” was also a hot topic too. To find the answer for the second question, we first had to look at the article “Guys vs Men” by Dave Barry. In this article, Barry gave out his point of views and examples on how he thought guy characteristics were. Guy characteristics such as guy like…

has identified Jonathan’s ignorance towards the future through this bright pastoral setting of the “high sun” (Stoker, 11). Jonathan will then proceed to pass through “green swelling hills”, where he will discover “all the glorious colours of this beautiful range, deep blue and purple in the shadows of the peaks, green and brown where grass and rocks mingled, and an endless perspective of jagged rock and pointed crags” (Stoker, 12). Here, Stoker is using the motif of color to relay Jonathan’s…

end of objective morality, the 1920s was a decade of exhilarating social changes and overwhelming cultural changes. F. Scott Fitzgerald, an American Romantic Modernist writer, who portrayed the American Dream in two of his novels -- The Beautiful and the Damned and The Great Gatsby -- explain how money can either be your rise to fame or your downward spiral into an black abyss. Throughout the novel, the reader discovers how the American dream is an unrealistic assumption for a corrupt system…

The entire play is beautiful and comes together perfectly thanks to the Jessica. Jessica is the primary reason that Shylock was so mad at Antonio. She left him to elope with Lorenzo, stole a large sum of his goods and converted to Christianity, all with the help of Antonio’s…

Anthem is a complex take on societal views. The novel follows the main character, Equality 7-2521, as he breaks the chains of his dystopian society. Slowly learning the ways of the “unmentionable times” to unlock his individuality. Anthem is a book made to show in which ways current society is flawed. Equality is exactly like his brothers. He learns new feelings throughout the book and he becomes a new person. The house was made to model Equality’s change over society. This house represents…

[Thesis]: Hawthorne explores the paradoxical views of society about fate, sin, and redemption using the Puritan town’s dependency on Hester Prynne as their scapegoat as a hyperbolic mirror of human nature. By using the scarlet letter as a vehicle to reflect changing public interpretation and perception, Hawthorne emphasizes how the despised manifestation of sin on whom the townspeople project sin can often be the model of a hardworking, moral individual. [Po1]: [Topic Sentence1(Romanticism…