Could America's Favorite serial killer be experiencing real human emotion? And how will it affect his ability to maintain an average-guy facade while satisfying his need to kill? As Dexter's secret life and new responsibilities threaten to overwhelm him, his ability to remain focused — and undetected — are being tested like never before. Dexter Morgan, Miami Metro Police Department blood spatter analyst, has a double life (Showtime.com 2010). Showtime’s “Dexter”.
The movie Murder by Decree is a thrilling mystery movie about the case of Jack the Ripper. Solving the case is the great Sherlock Holmes and his trust assistant Dr. Watson. The director Bob Clark was able to bring the same Sherlock Holmes that we have seen in novels to the big screen. In typical Sherlock fashion he is a very keen and intelligent individual, who has a knack being extremely observational and seeing the bigger picture. Early in the film Sherlock is asked by 3 men to go about solving the murderers because the police aren't of help.
Red Harvest, published in 1929, is a paragon of the “hard-boiled” detective genre. In his work, Dashiell Hammett crafts a masterful tale of treachery, violence, and justice in the decaying and lawless city of Poisonville. Throughout the novel, Hammett poses an essential question to the reader: how can justice and truth be delivered despite moral consequences? Hammett demonstrates the uncompromising desire for justice and truth through setting, first person narrative, and dark figurative language. These devices help to establish the framework for the honest and coldhearted approach to solving a crime in such an immoral environment.
Chandler includes the element of crime because Marlowe’s life, born out of the alleys of The Great Depression and World War I, and by comparison our own lives are filled with crime, corruption, and pain; the mystery is simply the medium we use to view this tough and unforgiving world. The Long Goodbye while a masterpiece of hard-boiled detective literature, sought to explore the prominent theme of crime and corruption present not only in Raymond Chandler’s life, but a dominant presence in American culture. The genre of Noir, a French word meaning “darkness” or “of the night” stemmed from the roots of The Great Depression and World War I. The genre strives to emphasize the dark inhumane side of human nature, and the brutal, unhealthy, and sadistic sides of the human experience. The hard-boiled detective, in this case Phillip Marlowe, “serves as light in the darkness; an anti-hero that even when faced with despair and defeat, like murder and suicide, can find dignity and attempt to triumph over darkness through justice”.
Hester is a very realistic character as she goes through and experiences the same difficulties that people go through in their lives. Roger Chillingworth is the antagonist and the most evolved character in The Scarlet Letter. Chillingworth represents evil in Hawthorne’s novel. He changes from a man in disguise trying to figure out the man who did both him and his wife (Hester) wrong, into a twisted, deformed man. He tells Hester that he plans to become a “man who devotes himself earnestly and unreservedly to the solution of a mystery”(70).
This story is about a expert hunter using his skills to run from another expert hunter. C. The story is based on wits and cunningness it is a battle of the best. D. My paper will explain the book and give you a taste of what the story is really about. II. Historical Context A.
Sherlock Holmes, a hero of Christopher and a basis for chapter 107. Christopher utilises the story of ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ as a way to explain a murder mystery novel. The novel itself conforms to many of the rules of a murder mystery. In the chapter Christopher confirms the readers suspicions of this by talking of Sherlock Holmes and his investigations. We see Christopher admiring the way the detective works, detaching himself from the world and seeing things which many people don’t.
Hamlet, throughout the rest of the tragedy, contemplates exactly how he should kill Claudius. At the climatic end of the tragedy, Hamlet finally kills his nemesis; however, his actions lead to his death and the death of practically every other major character in the process. The theme of deception plays a major role throughout Hamlet. Every character seems to have a plan to trick or deceive their counterparts. In fact, deception can be linked to the downfall of every major character in the play, specifically the demises of Polonius, Hamlet, and Claudius.
Robert E Lee Ewell v. Robert E Lee Robert E Lee Ewell is an important character in Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird because of the way he helps to develop the plot. However, he is not actually a good person, in regards to “good” and “evil” in the story. On the other hand, Robert E Lee, of whom Ewell is the namesake, is seemingly completely opposite to him. He is considered an “aristocrat” (pg. 340) and “a marvelous fighter” (pg.
In this chapter Gatsby is presented as criminal, building a sinister character about him. The story has been structured to build a mystery around Gatsby so that the reader is unsure about what to expect when they meet Gatsby. There is only one narrative voice in this chapter, which is Nick. The fact that Fitzgerald has made him an intrafictional first person narrator, shown by the use of personal pronouns such as, ‘I think, created the effect of an unreliable narrator. The reader only finds out things in the story as and when Nick does, and we also get his point of view on everything, ‘stretched tight over her rather wide hips’.