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The Thing From Another World (1951) - Film Analysis
A Conveyed American Fear of Early 1950‘s that Resonated With Audiences Throughout The Cold War The film opens with the words “The Thing” melting or burning their way through the blackness of the screen. After the credits, the scene opens...
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10 Questions To Ask When Critiquing Poetry
Poetry can be one of the hardest forms of literature to critique properly because of its abstract forms and expression of personal feelings from the author. Poems can express a description of a physical object of the emotion behind an obscure yet...
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Shakespeare's Twelfth Night - An Envelope of Sacrifice, or An Embodiment of Self Indulgence?
It would not stir one out of countenance to presume that characters from William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night show exuberant, yet divergent, presentations of love. This can be discerned within the love triangle of Viola, Olivia and Orsino. On the...
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Waiting for Godot - An Optimistic Play Through Vladimir’s Cognizance
Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot discusses the optimism of awareness through Vladimir’s memory. Memory is a person’s power to remember things from the past. It arranges our understanding of the world and time. Memory can change the shape of...
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Sir Lancelot and Sir Gawain: A Contradistinction Among Chivalrous Beatitudes and Courtly Love
Honor and chivalry, principle and kingship, servitude and courage: These are the foundations of the knights depicted throughout medieval literature. The essential difference among the knights however, is often spread throughout the medieval works as...
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Alien (1979) - Film Analysis
“Alien” was released in May of 1979 by 20th Century Fox with the tagline, “In space, no one can hear you scream.” The film was directed by Ridley Scott, produced by Gordon Carroll, David Giler, and Walter Hill and written by Dan O’Bannon,...
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The American Asylum in the 1700s and its Haunting legacy
“Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence whether much that is glorious, whether all that is profound does not spring from disease of thought from moods...