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Based on a Stephen King novel, The Shining is a film directed by Stanley Kubrick surrounding the Torrance family. Jack Torrance gets a job caretaking at the Overlook Hotel for one winter and moves there with his wife, Wendy, and young child,...

In the Arab World, women’s rights, gender equality, and feminism have always been a concept that is challenging to the authorities of the society and the social norms established under the Islam and the Arab culture. Although there has been the...

The play Wit by Margaret Edson follows Dr. Vivian Bearing, an English professor diagnosed with stage four ovarian cancer, during her treatment at the university’s hospital. Throughout the text, Bearing uses her impressive vocabulary to express...

When Stars Wars was first released in 1977 (without the subtitle A New Hope but simply as Star Wars) it was greeted with instant adoration by movie fans and surprisingly robust (if nowhere near universal) critical acclaim. And why not? It was the...

Courage is defined as strength in the face of uncertainty or intimidation, the choice to confront uncertainty and danger even when feeling fear. This concept of showing bravery during difficult situations ranges so much it is categorized into 6...

The comic The Killing Joke is written by Alan Moore and drawn by Brian Bolland. It portrayed the events happened between the two rivals: Joker and Batman. When Joker broke out of jail again, he bought an amusement park to fulfil his sick desire of...

From p. 210, line 25, “Man of errors!” to p. 212, line 20, “they must continue to hover in my sight.

”I am reliably unreliable.”― Steven Magee

The eighteenth century was a period where reason and rationalism were privileged over fanaticism and...

Raiders of the Lost Ark contains many spectacular and memorable scenes that linger in the memory and provide a better education in the art of cinematic storytelling than a four-year degree at some lesser universities. What is often lost amid all...

“... on or about December 1910, human character changed” asserts Virginia Woolf in her landmark essay Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown. Along with this metamorphosis in human character, a parallel change was occurring, a change in the Empire. A couple of...

According to Audrey Lorde, “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change.” However, it seems that Alan Paton...

Jonathan Edwards was a brilliant speaker and writer who inspired contented churchgoers to re-devote themselves to their god. He was passionate in his belief that mankind was inherently loathsome and sinful, and that the only way they could escape...

Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan is a saga of brotherhood and bloodshed. Set against the backdrop of the 1947 partition, it narrates the collective tale of the millions of people who suffered blows – both emotional and physical as friend turned...

Ogden Nash is famous for and beloved for always an enjoyable poet to read for his humor. When it comes to writing comic verse, among 20th century American writers there simply is no equal. And that extends even to names which might otherwise top...

Literature is often used to portray some of the most concealed flaws in our society, giving us a vantage point from which to view ourselves. Agatha Christie is one of history's most esteemed authors because she points out these idiosyncrasies with...

In "The Projectionist's Nightmare," Patten crafts q depiction of a 'projectionist's nightmare' through the very vivid and graphic as well as aural imagery in a short free-verse poem. Thus, this text perfectly manifests the sense of horror and...

‘The Steelworks’ by Owen Sheers and ‘From the Journal of a Disappointed Man’ by Andrew Motion are both poems that focus on a stereotypical male-dominated occupation (the repair of the pier and the manufacture of the steel) and can thus be said to...

Rabbit-Proof Fence is a 2002 Australian drama directed by Phillip Noyce. The film is based on the book, Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence written by Doris Pilkington Garimara. It is based on a true story regarding the author’s mother and two other...

Lady Mary Wroth masterfully conveys a deep sense of loss and betrayal in her poem ‘Song’ through her perspective of a jilted lover, using several literary devices like metaphors and similes to further communicate her heartbreak.

The poem speaks of...

Until the eyewitness testimony, tell-all books, and recorded conversations by former intimates revealed to the world the way Donald Trump ran his business, the strongest evidence drawing a parallel between “legitimate businessman” and Mafia bosses...

As a novel of manner, ‘Sense and Sensibility’ perfectly encapsulated the paradoxically frivolous yet ruthless zeitgeist of Regency England. Austen periodically manipulates the aura of gossip and secrecy that pervades the novel not only to...

The poem, “A Complaint” by William Wordsworth presents the solitude and sorrow of the speaker after experiencing the loss of a loved one. The feelings of love and affection that the poet once felt for his friend is now leading him into reminiscing...

It is not the worst thing in the world to assume that a poem about an obvious subject is actually about that subject. In fact, it is not only perfectly natural, it is sometimes preferable. Sometimes, but not very often. And it is even worse is...

Like the gun that Scarecrow brings to a witch fight, one of the things that usually goes unnoticed about The Wizard of Oz is that out of all the major characters whom Dorothy encounters in the Technicolor dream world the only one without a...

Among the history of the greatest opening title sequences in film history, Sunset Boulevard is rarely even mentioned. Certainly it lacks the panache of L.A. Confidential, the understated elegance of Raging Bull, the typographical aesthetics of ...