The Beautiful and Damned

The influence of William Shakespeare’s plays on modern culture, especially in television and movies, is apparent. The plot of Disney’s the Lion King is based off of the plot for Hamlet; Arthur Laurents’ West Side Story is loosely based off of the plot of Romeo and Juliet, and Twelfth Night has been the basis for countless teenage romantic comedies. Aside from regurgitating the same overused plots for blockbuster movies, public figures can be found quoting Shakespeare in their speeches,…

Prologue It only took a moment. Only a heartbeat. Only a single scream. Only a moment, before two lives were lost, a spirit trapped on earth and one girl to be both granted a gift and damned with a curse in the blink of an eye. It took only a second, for a life to change forever. It took only a second, the world to end. And Adeline’s, ended in a single moment. The air was warm on her pale skin as she breathed in the smell of cold rain falling from the gray sky above, the moon…

It is not our first time at the museum. I float up those iron and marble stairs light as air, a drop in a cloud. I can feel myself gushing. O'Keefe is my favorite, especially her later years. "She wasn't very subtle," I tell him, "but that's why it matters." When I was five years old, my mother and father took me to the museum for the first time. I've always been the way I am, my mouth always running, and my head always sprinting ahead even faster still. They found that somewhere between the…

his novels to his wife. “Fitzgerald proves to be a gifted novelist, a short-story writer, and an essayist” (F. Scott Fitzgerald) throughout his entire life. He had published many well known works, such as This Side of Paradise (1920), The Beautiful and the Damned (1922), and The Great Gatsby (1925). The Great Gatsby became a “literary legacy”. Through the narration of Nick Carraway, the life of Jay Gatsby was exposed. Gatsby appears to exemplify the modern american dream, wealth and success, but…

a viable option (III.I.58). He is both scared and fascinated with death. He wonders, “Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer/The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune”, or if he is better off ending his life. (III.I.59-60). He is damned if he lives, and damned if he does not. Later in his speech, he inquires that, “ thus conscience doth make cowards of us all” (III.I.84). Hamlet is directly realizing his own fear of death. His own thoughts are destroying his sense of sanity and turning him…

The Mockingbirds Songs In Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird she describes mockingbirds as beautiful and graceful so it would be a sin to kill one. Like mockingbirds people sing songs too in To Kill A Mockingbird there are many characters that have different personalities, opinions, and actions these characteristics would probably change the way these characters sing their songs In Bob Ewell’s case, he was a rotten person that was despicable he spat in atticus's face, he probably raped and beat…

world has impacted us. Regardless of how our fathers left, how they disappeared from us, how they broke us, we are strong enough to prove that we can do this. We can be normal. We are normal. We can be smart. We are smart. We can be beautiful. We are beautiful. We can be worthy. We are…

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896, in St. Paul Minnesota. His father opened a wicker furniture business which unfortunately failed. His father then took a job as a salesmen for Procter & Gamble. His job caused his family to move back and forth between Buffalo and Syracuse, NY. When Fitzgerald became 12 years old, his family returned to St. Paul, MN where he attended the St. Paul Academy and wrote a detective story in the school newspaper (University of South Carolina); this is…

Driving the desolate narrow country highway, I am two counties’ away from Dad’s house. The landscape is cast in the inky abyss of the wee hours. I am alone but for my dog. I curse my decision to leave Dallas so late, when the rear of my car thuds and jerks. The steering wheel vibrates in my gripe as I struggling to maintain control of the car until I manage to hobble it slowly to the narrow shoulder. I sit staring ahead into the beams of the only light for miles around me, I ease the hold…

(Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet both experience obstacles due to who they truly are. Each of their individual identities play a crucial part in the play as well as in their actions and motives, undeniably affecting themselves and those around them.) Romeo and Juliet come from wealthy families that are respected and admired in Verona. Unfortunately, the Montagues’ and the Capulets’ intense hatred for one another pose as a challenge for Romeo and Juliet’s love. The current feud between the…