The Mansion

the Red Lantern focuses on women in a big mansion and shows the conflicts between wives. During the 1920s, Confucian ethical values were widely circulating in the society and had an impact on women’s life (He, 2013). This paper argues how the Confucian ethical value “male dominance” had an influence on women’s independence regarding making choices about their marriages and work as well as having the ability to think and act independently. Since the mansion, which is referred to as Siheyuan in…

It was going to be a long and hard investigation for Bob, as the body of the Bloodson’s family cook, Raz Mataz, laid in front of him inside the kitchen of the Hauntside Mansion. “It looks like we have an investigation on our hands,” mentioned Bob. Billy Bob was a retired police detective for the Huantside Police Department. As he was offered 1 million dollars from the Huantside Government to investigate this case, Bob had a weird feeling. A feeling that was sensing fear in that this murder was…

Bob loves to rob houses. One day, Bob went to rob a multi-million dollar mansion. Bob used his crowbar to pry the door open. But right when the door opened, there was silence. Or so he thought. Bob did not know that the mansion had an alarm, but it was silent. So people breaking into the mansion would not know that an alarm was going off, giving the police the element of surprise. Bob went straight to the master bedroom where all of the valuable things would probably be. Bob found a safe hidden…

Gatsby’s mansion is next door to Nick’s humble little cottage and is owned by the peculiar, but rich, Mr. Jay Gatsby. First described in chapter 1 as “factual imitation of some Hôtel de Ville in Normandy” the audience immediately sees that the mansion isn’t an original, but rather a copy of a grand hotel. The Hôtel de Ville, a real landmark, is often referred to as a “meeting place”, showing that Gatsby’s mansion wasn’t a home but rather a place where people met but did not live. The mansion is…

Most Dangerous Game." The story starts when Sanger Rainsford, a celebrated hunter and army veteran from New York, falls off his boat and ends up in the shore of a mysterious island. Walking through the island he finds a mansion on the top of a cliff. When he goes to the mansion he is welcomed by General Zaroff and his frightening deaf-mute servant Ivan. Zaroff is an experienced hunter who has traveled the world looking for the most challenging animals to hunt. But he explains that he has become…

There were four kids and they all wanted to go into a 1800’s mansion that was onced was owned by a rich guy named W.H. Treason. Only the main section of the house stands because it had a huge fire and that’s what killed the owner. The parts of the fired were sealed off. He owned thousands of slaves and made them do everything. Now as the kids enter the house they wonder if it was a mistake. They try to get out and it seems the house is haunted. “Did you hear that noise?”, one of the four kids…

the film Sunset Boulevard and the novel Haunting of Hill House are set in a gothic setting. I found similarities in how the societies Norma Desmond and Eleanor lived in drove them into their isolated gothic settings. The description of Norma's mansion and the house that Eleanor visits are presented similarly, both displaying gothic characteristics and being isolated from society. In contrast the journey that Norma and Eleanor take is contradictory, as well as their overall goals. The…

Strawberry Mansion High School is located on 3133 Ridge Ave Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Strawberry Mansion is the only high school in the neighborhood. The school is overcrowded and there is nearly not enough teachers and administrators to handle the student body. The article, “Strawberry Mansion High School”, writes “At Strawberry Mansion High School, the student body makeup is 56 percent male and 44 percent female, and the…

look to his subjects. In the movie one example of this use is when the camera is panning across the town and turns to the mansion atop of the hill looking over the town. As the…

The Gatsby mansion symbolizes how Jay Gatsby uses his “newly money” to buy the mansion he has to be able to show the love he has for Daisy back and to be able to rivaled with people and houses in the East egg that had taken daisy away instead of doing it to build himself up. For example when Tom and Daisy get to the party that Gatsby invited them in his mansion Gatsby says “ You must see the faces of many people you’ve heard about” [pg…