Analytical Essay of Rear Window Rear Window is a classic movie, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, about human curiosity, voyeurism and murder. The screenplay was written by John Michael Hayes and based on Cornell Woolrich’s short story, “It Had To Be Murder.” The movie tells the story about a magazine photographer named Jeff Jeffries, who while recuperating from a broken leg, was in a wheelchair and confined to his apartment. Feeling bored and caged in by the lack of anything interesting to do, and also feeling trapped by his supermodel girlfriend’s marriage proposal, Jeff sits next to his window every day and starts to spy on his neighbors in the other apartments. One night, he sees a woman having an argument with her husband. The next day, she disappears and Jeff notices that her husband is acting strange and suspicious.
The Prince then chases the stranger through six of the seven chambers, but when the masked stranger approaches and enters the seventh chamber, which is the black room, he falls dead upon the floor. The “lighthearted guests” remove the mask from the stranger and find nothing. One by one each of the prince’s guest and himself die as victims of the Red Death. Poe depicts death as an inescapable force by using allusion, symbolism, personification, and imagery. In the beginning Poe uses “Prince Prospero” as an allusion to The Tempest and the Bible.
COMPARISON ESSAY Abdi Nur ENG3U1 October 14, 2011 Comparison Essay Horror is a theme portrayed in many films and stories. According to H.P. Lovecraft “the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” Horror films and stories deal with fear of the unknown, revulsion and disgust. This is shown in the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” and the movie “Quarantine”. The purpose of this essay is to compare similarities between the two and contrast differences.
After that, future President Andrew Jackson promoted the wholesale slaughter and mutilation of natives in the 1830s, ordering his men to cut the noses off hundreds of slain natives to provide accurate body counts. This mentality of brutality isn’t limited to early American History. As late as the 1890, future President Theodore Roosevelt was declaring that in nine out of ten cases, the “only good Indian was a dead Indian.” All four of the individuals mentioned not only served as President of the United States, but three of them are celebrated with their likenesses carved into the Mt. Rushmore National Monument. That we describe the practitioners of such brutality as ‘heroes’ can only be described as shameful.
Mr. Columbus killed and raped Native Americans because in his eye they were less than humans. Lastly, I learned about the Gorilla gang leader, Bloody Bill Handerson. This man was known for robbing banks, people, and killing people for sport. Not only was a cold-blooded person but he was also made an idol by the media. The film explained the relationship between violence and racial prejudice by showing us that it is through racial prejudice comes violence.
In his essay, “Why We Crave Horror Movies,” Stephen King tells us that some reasons we like a good horror flick are: to prove that we aren’t afraid of things that go bump in the night, to make us feel “normal,” and to have some good old-fashioned fun. Upon reading these assertions, I began to reflect on my own attitudes about the horror film genre. I have never considered myself to be a horror film fan. I tend to shy away from movies with extreme gore, violence, and gratuitous blood shed. They aren’t fun.
In both the movie, as well as the book, a man is forced into a chamber and tortured. The man must endure the psychological torment of watching a giant blade from the ceiling above slowly make its way down to the chair on which he is strapped. In both the movie and book the man escapes at the absolute last second. There are many more differences in the two than similarities. The movie has a background story,
The R-word and Racist Native American Sports Team Logos Racial epithets have long existed and plagued our society, Native Americans throughout the country consider the R-word a racial, derogatory slur along the same lines of other hurtful, slanderous, and offensive ethnic insults including the N-word among African-Americans, the K-word for the Jewish and the W-word amongst Latinos. Above all, the portrayal of stereotypical Indian images is common in American popular culture (i.e. Jeep Cherokee, Land O’Lakes butter). Moreover, the use of Indian logos or mascots at both the professional and high school level in sports has become increasingly controversial. Thus, the removal of Native American mascots from sports teams is necessary to
Tragedy is an inescapable undertone in North American history. The word inescapable is appropriate because it is truly impossible to ignore or disregard the inherent sorrow and loss that accompanies so many historical events in the continent’s past. The history of America’s cultural achievements and geographic expansion must be tempered by constant reminder of the unseen or outright ignored costs it charged upon Native Americans. There are many sources that use of the term “Indian genocide” to describe the destruction of Indigenous peoples of the American continent since the arrival of Europeans. It turns out that the massacres of the Native American populations are not officially registered to date among the genocides indentified by the United
Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s shortest, but most enduring tragedies. It centers on the notion that the lust for power, and committing a betrayal has a profoundly negative impact on everything in the betrayers life. As one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays, Macbeth has been reimagined many times. However, Billy Morrissette's movie adaptation of the Macbeth, (Scotland , PA) is one of the most distant adaptations from the original Shakespearean tragedy. This film was written by a first-time director, Billy Morrissette, and depicts the familiar story in a surprisingly different form.