Jean Racine (1639-1699) is French dramatist whose works represent the pinnacle of French classic theater. Thus, we are going to discuss his life and some details of his art in this paper. Jean Racine was born on December 20, 1639 in La Ferté-Milon. He was born in a family that belonged to the upper bourgeoisie, but was raised by his grandmother, because his mother died in 1941 at birth of a second child, dramatist's sister Mary, and his father also died in two years later. So, the boy was orp...
Coach Carter is a 2005 drama film released by Paramount Pictures, and directed by Thomas Carter. The movie is based on a true story, in which Richmond High School (California, USA) head basketball coach Ken Carter, became famous in 1999 for benching his undefeated team due to poor academic results. At the beginning of the movie, Coach Carter (Samuel L. Jackson) takes a part-time, low-paid job coaching the basketball team at his old high school, Richmond, California. At the start, the boys, no...
I think the story is round 1943, because that's the time about the Second Worldwar. Also the birth of Bruno is 15 April 1934, but in the story he 9 years old, so it must be in 1943. In the quote that I found, you can make clear that it's happening around the time of Hitler. "He opened the door and Father called him back for a moment, standing up and raising an eyebrow as if he'd forgotten something. Bruno remembered the moment his father made the signal, and said the phrase and imitated him e...
Hyperreality is the theoretical incapability of the consciousness to differentiate reality from fantasy. For instance, Baudrillard's example from Jorge Luis Borges's "On Exactitude in Science" about an empire in which the cartographers designed a map so detailed that it covered the exact things it was designed to represent. When the empire declined, the map faded into the landscape and neither the representation nor the real remained but hyperreal. Carlos Fuentes's "Aura" is a story about a y...
The story, "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty is one of the most significant and frequently studied works of short fiction. This story is taken place in the South. This region is often characterized by their speech and habits. Eudora Welty's skillful use of tone and diversity in the story adds action to make it seem more real. Symbolism in "A Worn Path" shows Phoenix Jackson going through a series of obstacles that represent her struggles to achieve her goal. First, the time of year in which the s...
Dunstan Ramsay carries the weight of Paul Dempster's premature birth on his shoulders his entire life. If it was not for Liesl, an extremely elegant and intelligent woman confined inside a deformed and gigantic body, Dunstan would not have experienced happiness and ultimately a life well lived. Liesl's surname is "Vitzliputzli", which means "devil". In Jungian terms, one's "devil" refers to one's shadow, the "suppressed part of the personality, the dark or more primitive side of the conscious...
In Arthur Miller's critically acclaimed play, "Death of a Salesman," lies the tragedy of the American Dream. Though the meaning of the American Dream has changed over the course of history of achieving a number of things such as prosperity or success, either way the American Dream can inevitably becomes one's drive for a better life or man's greatest fall. In the late 1940's, Willy Loman, a 63 year old salesman that is obsessed with achieving greatness by coming out on top of this world as a ...
The play titled Antigone, written by Sophocles is a Greek Tragic piece that emphasizes the use of power and mortality in opposition to the law. In every tragedy there is a tragic hero. A tragic hero is a character of noble stature that is considered pre-eminently great. Tragic heroes are characters who embody nobility and virtue as part of their innate character, and although they have greatness, they are essentially humans like any of us. A true tragic hero possesses a character flaw usually...
The Nora and Torvalds Relationship "A Doll's House" is a play written by the dramatist Henrik Ibsen in three acts. Throughout the play, his effective use of the minor character, Dr. Rank, his illness and death serves a symbolic purpose towards Nora and her husband, Torvald's relationship. The play is set in the 19th century which makes it out to be controversial and critical of the marriage norms of the time due to the way Ibsen chooses to portray certain characters' values and morals towards...
'We Wear the Mask' by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1895) is a fantastic poem written by a fantastic poet that is well worth reading. Dunbar's purpose in this poem was to: (a) convey his views on racism; (b) infer themes regarding the African American's masquerade; (c) criticise White America for racial discrimination; and (d) accomplish a, b, and c by bypassing the restrictive generic conventions of African American literature. 'We Wear the Mask' tells of how African Americans choose to wear the mas...
