The House of Mirth

be seen in the results of its release on Greenwood, Mississippi, the site where the movie was filmed: tourists often bypass multiple famous historical sites in the Civil Rights Movement to take the “The Help” tour to see “Skeeter’s farm” “Hilly’s house,” the Junior League building, and “Aibileen’s place” (Graham, 64). The film not only seeks to redeem the racist actions of whites in yesterday, today, and tomorrow, but it also shifts more of the responsibility for the Civil Rights Movement on…

from his own life (Lanier 121). This intentionally invoked intrusiveness is exploited many times throughout the film, particularly in regards to the very structure of the house itself. Unlike the grand outdoors of Branagh’s film, here the action never travels outside the close-confines of the immediate home. While Whedon’s house is not quite reminiscent of the city Barton advocates for, its small scale creates the desired atmosphere of claustrophobia, which is exposed by the camera angles.…

When a fire starts there can be several opportunities to put that fire out in order to stop it from getting out of control. The same principal applies in life. There are many opportunities to reverse bad decision when they are small and under control, but if they are not reversed in time the impact of the decision could have serious consequences later on. Thus who ever does not control the impact of thier bad decisions will be responsible for their own inevitable demise. In Macbeth by William…

People are rarely placed to work in a position with no specific job description. Those who are, usually fail. However, this was not the case for Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. She grasped the opportunity to influence the world, and did so with grace and passion. The title “Wife of President Franklin Roosevelt” does not do her justice. Eleanor was more than a First Lady and she was more than a wife, in fact, she was one of the most esteemed women in the world. Eleanor Roosevelt dramatically changed the…

“Perfect.” This was a great idea. The best one he had for a while now. * This was the worst idea. Foggy thought as he ran his hand through his hair as they walked to the kitchen which several relatives told him where his mother was. His childhood house was bursting to the seams with the sheer amount of Nelsons that attended the party. Cousins, aunts, uncles, nephews and nieces. The place was filled with fifty different shades of blonde and the pleasant chatter that filled the air, so…

Shobha De’s Novels expose the vicissitudes of modern society’s marriage system and marital relations leading to frustration, conflict and loneliness.The present paper focuses on agony of Maya who feels trapped in matrimony. This paper also takes up the issue of the psychic cum social complexities of middle class Society. Here, the story revolves around Maya, a pretty girl who is eager to escape her dull, middle class home in Calcutta for the glamour of Mumbai, where she moves after marriage to…

BASILONIA, Yvonne Mae G. 3LIT1 “Conveying Emotions and Awareness through Drama: The Tempest Reimagined Review” The Tempest, a play written by William Shakespeare himself was adapted in the Philippine setting by the Philippine Educational Theater Association, titled The Tempest: Reimagined, and speaks of the super typhoon Yolanda when it hit the country and the great damage it caused to the Filipinos. Emotions swirled within the stage brought by the actors themselves, the effects of both…

ABSTRACT Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement which started off in Italy from the late fifteenth century to the early seventeenth century. After it started in Italy, spreads across European countries such as England and had an effect upon the literature of this period, so based on from here the purpose of this study was to search these effects in terms of poem’s theme, structure, aspects and some parts where poetry was influenced by renaissance in Elizabethan Age. The study analysed…

Introduction Nathaniel Hawthorne had deep bonds with his Puritan ancestors and created a story that both highlighted their weaknesses and their strengths. His knowledge of their beliefs and his admiration for their strengths were balanced by his concerns for their rigid and oppressive rules.The Scarlet Letter shows his attitude toward these Puritans of Boston in his portrayal of characters, his plot, and the themes of his story. The early Puritans who first came to America in 1620 founded a…

The Shakespearean audience might have recognized Puritan concerns spoken through the mouths of the mechanicals in the play. A group of common laborers gathers in the house of Peter Quince to rehearse a play that they hope to perform in the celebration preceding Theseus and Hippolyta’s wedding. The play they plan to perform tells the love story of Pyramus and Thisbe, a young couple who is separated by their families’…