Ralph Fiennes

Ralph Fiennes, actor and director, portrays the fearsome Roman military hero who loathes those of lesser class than to him, protagonist Coriolanus. One of the most important scenes for the film “Coriolanus” is his banishment, done by the people he sought lesser of (plebeians). His sudden outburst to the banishment y the common people will be referred to as the ‘‘common cry of curs’ speech from the Shakespeare play, to the common people on power and honour. Specifically this scene, is after his banishment

Kenneth Branagh’s Much Ado About Nothing is remarkably different in tone from the other plays discussed. Unlike the other two comedies, Taming of the Shrew and Merchant of Venice, there are far fewer comedic aspects that do not translate well to modern audiences. The film has much less violence in it than the others and even its chief villain is more like a cartoon villain than an outright evil manipulator. The tragedies are known for their fascinatingly complex villains such as Richard III or

The Constant Gardener The Constant Gardener, which is one of the greatest movies I have ever seen, is not fiction. After watching the movie, if you search the title on the internet, you will know the shocking fact that this is a real story. The Constant Gardener originated from the novel The Constant Gardener written by John le Carré in 2001, based on a real-life case in Kano, Nigeria, related to medical experimentation in the 1990s. Therefore, both the novel and the movie are mainly depicting

The Universal Inner Struggle Revealed in Hamlet       Life is defined by the struggles it presents us.  Without these constant tests of our fortitude, we would never grow as mature human beings.  This is the one common denominator linking all people, past, present, and future.  It is no mystery why our literature and art reflect this characteristic.   The creation of a character is a mirror-image of a human.  Shakespeare perfectly understood this truth.  He crafted Hamlet, Claudius, Polonius

In “Wuthering Heights”, Emily Bronte created a suspenseful setting by giving an eerie feeling to the story when Lockwood enters his new residence and it was not very welcoming to Lockwood. Bonte described snow as a dangerous thing that can kill you. “A sorrowful sight I saw; dark night coming down prematurely, and sky and hills mingled in on bitter whirl of wind and suffocating snow”, (Bonte 10). This setting gives Lockwood a life or death choice to make, does he go back to his residence or stay

The overuse of a narrative device by an author can hinder a novel. However, such devices, when used with “intelligence and discretion [...can be] capable of moving and powerful effects, without which fiction would be much poorer” (Lodge 85). One such device used craftly by Emily Brontë in her novel “Wuthering Heights” is “the pathetic fallacy, the projection of human emotions onto phenomena in the natural world” (Lodge 85). By using this effect sparingly and only to exemplify the negative emotions

Wuthering Heights The book, “Wuthering Heights,” by Emily Bronte was written during a time in which social structure and culture was very important. People fell into a specific class depending on wealth and what you were born into. Depending on relationships you were to make, the social structure and class would either help you or tear you apart. A good example would be Heathcliff and Catherine’s relationship in Wuthering Heights. To start off with, Catherine was considered to be a higher class

Wuthering heights is all about relationships and about the people in them. In chapter 7 Catherine leaves Heathcliff for a few weeks and that changes everything, but in a way their relationship is still the same. Their similarities are what makes them inseparable at this point in time in chapter 7. In the passage, when Catherine firsts encounters Heathcliff after not having seen him for weeks, she kisses him while he just stands there doing nothing. This suggests that Heathcliff does not seem to

In the poem, “A Noiseless Patient Spider”, the poet, Walt Whitman, is trying to connect his life with the Heavens, truth, and much more like how a spider creates, connects, and intertwines a web in nature. In the poem, the author, also the speaker, is describing an isolated spider weaving its web on a little promontory, and then he goes off into his mind and thoughts connecting the spider’s detachment to his detachment. First, the speaker describes how his soul is “surrounded, detached, in measureless

By comparing the two poems Porphyria’s Lover and My Last Duchess, explore how Browning deals worth the theme of jealousy. Jealousy is a theme that occurs quite regularly in Browning’s poems. This was particularly noticed in both of the poems ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ and ‘My Last Duchess’ where in both cases, the male protagonists were jealous of the extra attention that their lovers received from other admirers. When studying both poems, the reader can create in their mind a vivid picture of