The Man in the High Castle

How do the makers of the film The Castle, and the author of The Colour Purple explore the ways people stand up for their values and beliefs? The Castle is a 1997 film that predominantly focuses on Daryl Kerrigan battle against the government to prevent the eviction of his family from their home. The Castle contains elements of the unequal distribution of power and the struggle for justice. Comparably, these aspects of the film can be identified in the 1982 epistolary novel, The Colour Purple.…

The Story of the Grail, a story of one unusual knight’s attempt to prove himself a man and find the grail, shows the interesting trend of the various treatments of women. Perceval, the main character, tends to treat women unjustly and rudely, even though he finds one woman whom he treats very politely. Knights of King Arthur’s court, Sir Kay for example, also exhibit similar displeasing actions towards women. In the period which this story takes place, those of royalty or knighthood would have…

The Castle (1997), directed by Rob Sitch and Strictly Ballroom (1992), directed by Baz Luhrman both succeed in displaying the idea of Australian dreamers. They both to show that Australia is a land where working hard can make dreams come true. Scott, from Strictly Ballroom, dreams to win the Pan Pacific’s, and more importantly, to dance his own steps. Darryl, The Castle, just wants to keep living his simple life in his house with his family. While both ideals and characters vastly contrast, they…

deathly cold; famous for their endurance and loyalty. Reginald stood behind the King as he scanned the room with a skeptic's eye. With all four nations together it was tempting for any assassin to strike. Tonight the castles guards heightened, more patrols, even in vacant rooms. The castle was a large target and he was to protect it. He was adorned in Southern armor; the golden glow accentuated the copper color of…

managed to work as a top editor when she had to quit her grammar school because of her father’s death. While she was working, she found a summer school where she was able to earn college credit. At the end of the story, her mother married a wealthy man who was dealing with estates. As her family got rich, she was able to go to a prestigious university in Michigan. I liked this story because it is an excellent resource of how the people in Brooklyn lived in the 1910s to 1930s. I had no idea…

Throughout the book Stoker draws out long, dramatic moments allowing suspense to build and create riveting and thrilling moments and sections in the book. As Jonathon explores Castle Dracula in Dracula, He makes a daring decision and states “A wild desire took me to obtain that key at any risk, and I determined then and there to scale the wall again and gain the Count’s room. He might kill me, but death now seemed the happier…

The tension between the past and present is one of the key central tropes that is continually addressed in the novels ‘Dracula’, written by Bram Stoker, and ‘Lady Audley’s Secret’, written by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. While gothic novels such as ‘Dracula’ and sensation fiction based on gothic tropes like ‘Lady Audley’s Secret’ are both presented in a modern society, the plot, underlying symbolism, and settings allows the past and present to persist as a central trope of the gothic. In the early…

renowned architect, Alexander Jackson Davis, began a new revival of architecture known as Gothic Revival. Gothic Revival is a style of architecture that used traditional styles of thirteenth century Gothic architecture such as; ornamented facades, high pitched roofs, and pointed arches to revive medieval architecture and applied to a modern time. Alexander Jackson Davis was one of the most successful and influential American architects in nineteenth century America, known for his picturesque…

his/her inferences on that person. William Shakespeare illustrates the way appearance versus reality can be used in many different ways through his play Macbeth. This play is set in medieval times and starts in the middle of a civil war in Scotland. A man named Macbeth meets three witches who give him a prophecy that he will one day be king, but Macbeth wants to be king now and sets off to kill the king and become the new king. Once king, Macbeth gets paranoid and starts to kill anyone he sees…

how Stradlater pretends to be friendly and charming to place him in a high hierarchy of popularity. Stradlater’s friendly greetings come off as being phony to Holden because Holden knows Stradlater is not being sincere to others. Holden’s stereotyping of Stradlater is caused by Holden’s desire to come…