Literature: An Inspiration for Film Masterpieces ought to have a muse. A muse doesn’t always need to be a beautiful woman femme fatale‚ either‚ as popular belief might suggest. It simply must be an inspiration; a child with a watering can for Renoir‚ a quarrel with a woman for Ray Charles. Inspiration can be everywhere‚ so why not in words? Literature can be- and often is- a grande muse for people. One of the most popular ways literature embraces it’s splendid inspirationalism is through the big
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Who are the main characters and where does the story take place? Shepard: I would have to say the primary character is Alison DiLaurentis‚ or otherwise known as Ali. She was known as the most popular girl in high school who was acted like a snob and always got her way. Ali was the leader of her group of friends until she disappeared. One year later‚ her body is discovered and this brings her friends back together to find her murderer. I would say if it were not for her‚ then the story would
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Conflict in Purple Hibiscus * In the novel‚ Purple Hibiscus‚ Adichie clearly portrays the conflicting oppression of Kambili’s patriarchal household - where she is ordered to follow a strict ‘schedule’ - to the realization of an almost ‘holiday’ like freedom she is exposed to when visiting Aunty Ifeoma and her family. * The author also intentionally expressed the Catholic upbringing of the protagonist in the novel and her brother‚ Jaja‚ as a stark contrast to their Auntie’s strong Igbo traditional
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Nineteenth century English literature is remarkable both for high artistic achievement and for variety. The greatest literary movement of its earlier period was that of romanticism. It was born in the atmosphere of the violent economic and political turmoil that marked the last decades of the 18th and the first decades of the 19th century. The outburst of political activity brought on by the Great French Revolution of 1789‚ the bitter wars with Napoleon’s France that ravaged Europe for almost 25
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Objectification‚ Sexualization and Commodification of the Spice Girls The Spice Girls are a cultural phenomenon; the all female group was formed in 1994 and consists of Geri Halliwell‚ Victoria Beckham‚ Melanie Brown‚ Emma Bunton and Melanie Chisholm. Through their names Baby Spice‚ Sporty Spice‚ Scary Spice‚ Ginger Spice and Posh Spice each member embraced a different female identity that helped to distinguish between them and helped their fans to identify with a certain member. The audience
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With close reference to pages 183-186 analyse Salinger’s use of language and structure‚ exploring Holden’s contradictory view of the world. On Page 183 Holden says ‘you could tell the two hot- shots I was with weren’t enjoying it too much. They stayed close as hell to me‚ and the one that didn’t talk at all practically was holding onto my sleeve’. Holden calls them ‘hot shots’ because they acted phony by bunking school and then lying about there being no school. (P182). Throughout the novel‚ Holden
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The Effect Of Pop Culture on Kambili Throughout Purple Hibiscus Pop Culture has always had a huge effect of teenagers‚ some teenagers more than others. Although some teenagers are late bloomers‚ usually by some point all teenagers join the bandwagon. However‚ there are always outliers such as Amaka and Kambili in Purple Hibiscus by Chiminanda Ngozi Adichie. Amaka has grown up knowing pop culture‚ whereas Kambili has never known what pop culture even is. As her cousin Amaka pulls her into the
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insecure‚ flighty homosexual male. Armand plays the part of a more reserved‚ logical‚ manly homosexual. The Senator is a conservative‚ political white man who claims to be interested in family values and morality. Both he and his wife are upper class snobs‚ who do not want to associate with "commoners." Armands first wife plays the part of a desperately horny‚ divorced woman. Val and Barbara are the only couple that would be deemed "normal" by society. The two show no outlandishc or unusual characteristicsl
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music has no artistic value.’ Is this a fair comment? (2008) An oft heard criticism of contemporary music today is that they are more “noise” than “music”. Be it hip-hop‚ rock‚ heavy metal‚ Rhythm-and-Blues (R&B) or any of its likes‚ cultural snobs have dismissed them as unworthy in comparison to the classical music from masters like Beethoven‚ Bach‚ or Strauss. These critics often see contemporary music having no artistic value as these music genres are often considered to be outside the traditional
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Nick’s associations with the materialistic wealthy class ultimately led to his decision to give up on the American dream. As mentioned by James Adams‚ the American dream is‚ “a difficult dream for the European upper classes to interpret adequately‚ and too many of us ourselves have grown weary and mistrustful of it. It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely…” (Adams). The American dream is not supposed to merely be the aspiration to have a lot of materialistic things‚ but the wanting
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