... Stillman is able to capture some of the significant events in Mansfield but without the background, they have less meaning. Whit Stillman could not simply parallel his characters one-for-one with the ones in Mansfield Park, rather he had to concentrate on including the significant characteristics of Austen's characters, sometimes in more than one person. If he had tried to copy the nature of the Mansfield Park people the movie would not have been believable. Viewers would not like a perfect character like Fanny, in fact they would probably distrust her more because she was perfect. At the beginning of the movie Audr ...

... strength of the love felt by the two lovers Romeo and Juliet. The famous "pair of star-crossed lovers," are often affected by forces which cannot be explained except for the powers of stars. Romeo, speaking of Juliet in front of her bedroom after the party, talks of their meeting as something that is only going on in the heavens, not in real life. Romeo compares Juliet's eyes to twinkling stars: "... `Tis not to me she speaks./Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,/Having some business, do entreat her eyes/To twinkle…” Romeo also uses another image to show how the stars can't compare to Juliet's brig ...

... some of these beliefs were added but no one knows to what amount they were added in. There are comparisons that can be made from Grendel to the Devil and Beowulf to Christ that seem to suggest that the Christian influence may have been more than just a couple words changed around, but these could have been just coincidental. Throughout the whole poem there are non-Christian practices and beliefs told. Some are the offering of sacrificing to idols, the observations of omens, burning of the dead, the many references to fate, and blood revenge. These are all things that Christians are against and are often considere ...

... around the farm and the men are constantly nagging him to let them shoot the dog and put it out of it's misery. Curley is the boss' son. He's a thin young man with brown eyes and a head of curly hair. 's married and doesn't pay much attention to@his wife, which uses problems requently- Curley is insecure about his height and hates bigger men. He's all the time picking fights to try and prove whose the t. Crooks is a crippled blackman who envies Lennie and George. He"too/ would like to invest in their farm. The men are always picking on Crooks and Curley's wife threatens to have him hung all the time. The boss is alwa ...

... to look back at youth with a sad longing. Each of these three poems are alike in that they are all about woods and outdoors or an item in the woods. The word "wood" or "woods" is used in each of these poems, at least once. It is used to represent both literally the tree or trees, and figuratively, they represent a journey to peace, a climb to "heaven". In "The Road Not Taken", the "wood" is merely the setting. It is described as a "yellow wood". This is obviously fall. I can see the orange, yellow and red leaves, lying all around. The gray/brown bark of ...

... television, radio and conversation. Gordon has skillfully and honestly shown how irony is perceived and used in today’s society. He fully shows that people use irony incorrectly, and it is to their disadvantage. Gordon has a particularly negative view on how much irony is used today. The thesis in his essay is not clearly stated, but his implied argument is that the overuse of irony has made society cynical. This negative view comes across to the reader through sentences such as the following, after Gordon has explained the technical meaning of irony, "In today’s context, irony is a sensibility that valu ...

... him “back down the vista of years,� till he sees “a child sitting under the .� This child is the speaker. The child is “sitting under the , in the boom of the tingling strings,� and he is “pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings.� When the speaker was a child, he used to be under the where the strings were tingling since his mother was playing the . He used to press his mother’s feet, which were in balance. His mother was singing with a smile on her face. The speaker sees this scenery in his mind. As a reader, I can even imagine him standing in a dark room look ...

... lawyer. Judge Frederick Harkin - the presiding justice for this case. This story was about how two very smart and focused individuals who could manipulate a jury and the defense team in a multi-million dollar legal battle to receive a very large cash payment. The defense was Pynex, a tobacco company, and they had very deep pockets and were willing to pay for the correct verdict. A verdict for not guilty. The story starts with the very laborious job of jury selection. The tobacco industry has on their payroll a man by the name of Rankin Fitch. Fitch foresees the selection of the lawyers and consultants ...

... and not only that – a woman is a foreigner, a barbarian. Euripides’s "Medea" was created in a period of Peloponesian War. Each war, regardless of the century it occurred, not only destroyed and killed but also caused the reappraisal of the values in the society. Literature, in Ancient Greece, used to be a main reflection of what the society thinks what values and rules it has and what impact the war had on people’s minds. Obviously, the Peloponesian War has brought a lot of stress and chaos into the society, so during this time some poets have foreseen the intellectual revolution. Euripides, ho ...

... and it was within this sadness that Joseph turned to writing to ease his grief and carried his pain and suffering into most of his novels. After finishing his education in Krakow, Poland, Joseph went to sea, and from there sailed on and off for the next twenty years. These twenty years were the basis if not the absolute pure nautical theme that flows throughout many of his novels. Stories such as Lord Jim and are based upon true to life experiences that Joseph had while at sea. Another unique aspect of Conrad’s writing, would be the lack of simple romance within all of his novels. This lack of emotional p ...