The plays tittle refers to the carnivalesque spirit of abandon that surrounded renaissance Twelfth Night festivities. In which the normal rules and order of social life were suspended or else deliberately reversed‚ "serious issues and events mingled perplexingly with revelry and apparent madness." Closer textual and language analysis provides a detailed demonstration of these ideas‚ the comedic elements of the play draw from the tensions created between common social restraints and the unruly
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1001 nights Chaucer used the frame of that collection of stories‚ to make all of the stories inside that frame more complicated‚ more ambiguous and more interesting. Our interest in this collection of story is in the frame on the way stories get told. But there are two things for all purposes in this course. The first one is the question what kind of a story does this frame require? The frame itself is in some ways more limiting than that in Chaucer’s since it only has one narrator and a very limited
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Vincent Van Gogh was an artist who painted several pieces of art that have become world famous and have been showed around the world; one being The Starry Night. Van Gogh at the time of this painting was in an Asylum after being in a long depression‚ and this is believed to be the view from his window. The painting displays a village over a night sky with an immense cypress tree in comparison to the other objects in this paining. Also shown is many stars in the sky with a very bright moon the top right-hand
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THE ARABIAN NIGHTS The story starts with the description of two brothers‚ one is the King Shahryar‚ of Banu Sasan in the islands of India and other is King Shah Zaman of Samarkand in Barbarian land. They were full of grief and anger at the treason of their wives. The King Shahryar swore himself a binding oath that whatever wife he married he would abate her maidenhead at night and slay her next morning for he felt that there was no chaste woman on the face of the earth. As this was done for
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amoungst a younger audience. The American slasher film has its roots in an Italian genre called giallo which usually combines elements of the crime thriller with stalk and slash style scares. John Carpenter got the sub-genre off the ground with Halloween in 1978‚ and pretty soon films about teenagers being stalked by knife/axe/garden tool wielding psychopaths were popping up all over the place. The first Friday the 13th hit in 1980‚ launching one of the most prolific horror franchises of all time
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Day of the Dead is a holiday which is celebrated in Mexico and begins on October 31st; the day of Halloween in the United States‚ and ends on November 2nd. On the Day of the Dead‚ families and friends come together to remember and pray for their relatives who have died. This holiday is much like Memorial Day which is celebrated in the United States. The Day of the Dead originated from traditions observed as much as 3‚000 years ago. These traditions have been passed on from generation to generation
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Starry Night A mono-toned starry night with twisty‚ long lines and cracked short lines unexpectedly generates a wonderful sight. It states darkness in the artist’s soul. The artist of the painting is none other than Vincent Willem Van Gogh‚ who is a famous Dutch post-Impressionist painter. He drew the painting in an asylum at Saint-Remy‚ France‚ in 1889. He cut off his own ear‚ and then he was sent to the asylum‚ which was the reason that he created the Starry Night in an asylum. This masterpiece
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Split is a 2016 American Psychological horror-thriller film that was written and directed by Night Shyamalan starting James McAvoy‚ Anya Taylor-Joy‚ and Betty Buckley. The film follows a man with 23 different personalities who kidnaps and imprisons three teenage girls in an isolated underground facility. One of his darker personalities manifests within his psyche and results in his eventual transformation into a merciless and cannibalistic sociopath with superhuman abilities and an insatiable hunger
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Every fall‚ many families repeat their yearly tradition of pumpkin carving; where they pick out the best pumpkin‚ and carve it to create a jack-o-lantern‚ which they later place on their doorstep as a Halloween decoration. Carving a pumpkin is often challenging and can leave the carver frustrated and hating how their creation ended up. However‚ there’s an easy way to get a good‚ desirable pumpkin. Starting off‚ finding the perfect pumpkin can make or break certain designs. Pumpkins can be bought
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(until the sequel anyway). So while the narratively dominant killer’s subjective point of view may be male within the narrative‚ the male viewer is still rooting for the Final Girl to overcome the killer. We can see this operating archetypically in Halloween (Jamie Lee Curtis‚ 1978)‚ Friday the 13th (Betsy Palmer‚ 1980)‚ Eyes of a Stranger (Jennifer Jason Leigh‚ 1981)‚ and A Nightmare on Elm Street (Heather Langenkamp‚ 1984). One of the book’s central strengths is the direct simplicity of its
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