Subject Movie Citizen Kane is about Charles Foster Kane‚ and his life story and it’s kind of told by a reporter asking his “friends” order rather than make all them people whom he may have known deeper than just saying hello to. The movie starts off with Kane laying in bed and then dying while saying the famous quote from the movie “Rosebud”. Then it goes to reporters watching the news on the March which is a bit basically a short five minute documentary on Kane’s life. Then after that they saw the
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William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is a cherished piece of literature that has been remade into movies many times throughout history. The 1968 version and the controversial 1996 version give different perspectives of Shakespeare’s famous play. While the 1968 classical version of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet should be appreciated‚ the modern version portrays the complexity of love in a fast-paced society by using narrative and stylistic elements combined with energetic editing in an advanced
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She was one of the most prominent American feminist‚ sociologist‚ novelist and writer of short stories. The story begins with the plot where a couple had rented an ancestral mansion at a very reasonable price. The ‘mansion’ is pretty much empty and set away from the road‚ referring to an empty set. They rented the mansion so that her husband could cure his wife’s illness. As the story goes on‚ the lady pushes herself towards lunatic imaginations and leaves her completely insane. The story is narrated
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Edgar Allan Poe Take Home Exam In Poe’s works which involve the theme of confinement‚ there is a main moral that Poe bases these stories off of: we cannot hide from or repress our own fears and emotions. If we do deny ourselves‚ these feelings will eventually catch up with us. We must face these things. In the “The Black Cat‚” and “The Tell Tale Heart‚” Poe tells us of the repercussions of repressed guilt and remorse. In “The Black Cat‚” confinement is used to represent the main character’s state
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give an effect of good versus evil. Burton has made Edward’s appearance in keeping with a character that is antagonistic and evil‚ with scary claw-like hands and a black‚ skin-tight bodysuit. His expression is full of melancholy and anxiety. His mansion is dark and gothic looking‚ a house of horror. It’s broken and old‚ with strange objects held within. The mansion’s location‚ at the top of a steep hill‚ considers its isolation‚ hidden within the clouds. However‚ appearances are deceptive;
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Throughout The Great Gatsby readers only receive the limited first person point of view from Nick Carraway‚ the narrator. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses Nick’s character in order to influence the reader’s interpretation and perspective of the novel; it also affects how the reader is positioned to respond to other characters in the novel. The reader‚ as only receiving Nicks review of other characters‚ has to believe that this is indeed what these characters are like and must accept that Nick is correct
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Reading & Writing – Analysis Written by Izak Lucas-Parr Text 1: Edward Scissorhands (Film) Directed by Tim Burton Edward Scissorhands (1990) tells us a story about an artificial man‚ Edward ‘Scissorhands’‚ who was made by a lonely inventor in his mansion atop a hill near a small town. Long after his inventor’s death‚ Edward is brought into society by Meg‚ a local resident and encounters many new and interesting things as he attempts to belong in civilization. The text explores concepts of belonging
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her second home. Whenever Magnus asked where his father was (Not that often that is) she would say that he was everywhere with a huge smile on her face. Magnus’s Mother grew up in a huge mansion with her two
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In a society compelled by money‚ social status and love‚ all may seem virtuous for a moment‚ but come to a devastating finish in the matter of seconds. Everyone with ambition can live the American dream. People originate from third world countries to generate business in America. Many can live in poverty their whole life‚ but turn their lives around and become wealthy. Pursuing after his American Dream force Jay Gatsby in “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald to go against his morals just to
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Nick describes how after the deaths‚ reporters‚ police‚ and newspaper men surrounded the mansion to get information on the murder and how even after he is gone‚ rumors were still being created about Gatsby. He tries to plan a funeral‚ but it seems that all of Gatsby’s “friends” were suddenly gone. Tom and Daisy had moved without leaving any contact
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