The Virgin Suicides

Every year around 246 million children are bullied in some form or another (Villapando). In The Chocolate War written by Robert Cormier, Jerry refuses to sell chocolate during his school’s annual fundraiser. One simple word, no, leads to horrible repercussions. Romeo and Juliet, a play by William Shakespeare, tells the story of forbidden love between two feuding families’ children. Their love and death have a lasting impact on both families. Both works contain many instances of bullying, raging…

The romantic period had many themes presented throughout the period. One of the most prominent of the themes was despair. William Blake, Mary Shelley, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge all presented despair throughout their works. Despair can be presented throughout many different aspects of life, whether it be around death, inventions, or events in their lives that affect them. The lives of the people depicted in the romantic period were all defined by despair and that despair caused overwhelming in…

The main issue in the film, Ded na si Lolo is the impact of culture, specifically of irrational beliefs. In the movie, it depicted our traditions and superstitions about family ties and wake. Ded na si Lolo featured how a family cope up with the death of a loved one. It perfectly shows the attitudes and practices of Filipinos that surrounds death, the funeral and the wake. Culture refers to the cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies,…

The given extract is a soliloquy that takes place in the beginning of the second act of Shakespeare’s renowned tragedy: Macbeth. At this point in the play, Lady Macbeth has succeeded in coercing Macbeth into committing murder. Fueled by his ruthless ambition and need to prove his manhood, Macbeth is now just about to murder King Duncan in his sleep. These are the words he speaks while waiting for Lady Macbeth to ring a bell in signal for him to make his move.This extract is immensely important…

Short Term 12 by Destin Daniel Cretton delivers its main selling point across to its audience successfully, which is bringing fourth honest pain. Audience are given the privilege to explore the world through the troubled teens’ and their care taker’s lenses. Grace played by Brie Larson is a young care taker of a home facility for troubled teens. She looks after the troubled teens and comes to terms with her own past alongside her co-worker and longtime boyfriend, Mason played by John Gallagher…

In the Parliament of the Fowls, we are introduced to a rather intriguing narrator; one that has yet to experience what love has to offer and who is in turn eager to learn from it by looking for wisdom in his readings. Clearly, the narrator is yet inexperienced in the craft of love as he himself admits to have learn about it only from his study: For although I know not Love indeed Nor know how he pays his folk their hire, Yet full oft it happens in books I read Of his miracles and his cruel ire.…

Through the examination of A Separate Peace by John Knowles and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee a common thread found in both novels is the element of death. Death normally is associated with the termination of a person and the anguish that comes along with their passing. A Separate Peace and To Kill a Mockingbird show how death impacts those affiliated to the person who has departed from the world. Gene (A Separate Peace) and Jem (To Kill a Mockingbird) each experienced the lost of an…

The play Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman delves into the conflicts of three characters, Paulina Salas, her husband Gerardo Escobar and Dr. Roberto Miranda. It is implied that the play revolves around the citizens of chile, recovering from the after - effects of the brutal Pinochet dictatorship. Dorfman uses a range of literary devices to convey both atmosphere and suspense, however more significantly I will zoom into the three prominent ways, which are; Light Imagery, Dramatic devices and…

Nearly everyone around the world makes mistakes. Some are minor mistakes, while many cause a ripple effect. At times, making mistakes that involve the close people around us can create a feeling of loss or defeat. This universal theme is brought to text in “All Summer in a Day”, by Ray Bradbury, and “Happier”, by Ed Sheeran. In “All Summer in a Day”, Margot’s classmates put Margot down by bullying her and robbing her of her chance to see the sun, although they soon become aware of how unpleasant…

Hush is a horror movie about a woman named Madison Young. Maddie is a mute author, who temporarily lost her hearing and her speaking ability when she contracted bacterial meningitis when she was 13. She ended up losing both her hearing and her speaking ability after she had a surgery that went wrong. Due to Maddie’s disabilities, Hush presents an emphasis on isolation and the importance of existential awareness that other horror movies fail to provide. Hush is different because most of the…