Both the romantic films that portray two mature adults gradually falling in love - Brief Encounter by David Lean and In the Mood for Love by Wong Kar Wai - illustrate the tension and liberation the lovers feel of breaching social conventions as well as the repressed yet intense desire of their love. However, the …
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In one of his most iconic films, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick elaborates on the various aspects of human evolution in a three-phase journey through time and space. The three sections of the plot - Dawn of Man, Jupiter Mission, and Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite - are centered around how humankind perceives, reacts …
The most compelling aspect of the introductory chapters of The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is the surprising complexity of relationships for a house devoid of any female members. The author describes the relationships between Baba, Ali, Amir and Hassan in parallels. Amir and Hassan form an intimate yet unequal relationship nearly identical to the …
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In Ralph Ellison’s most renowned bildungsroman, Invisible Man, the unnamed protagonist guides the readers through the journey of reclaiming his individual identity through an agonizing realization of the hypocrisies of racial stereotypes or ideologies. Although the narrator is oblivious to the destructive treachery of the white supremacists or ideological institutions at the beginning of his …
Les It Be! 1 Minsuh and Emily’s First and Final Episode: Les it be! And when the broken hearted people living in the world agree, there will be an answer. Let it be. 2 M: Last week, I went to Everland with my female friend to celebrate the end of midterms. It was the weekend …
Love in Romeo and Juliet and Pride and Prejudice Both William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet and Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice elaborates on the complex aspects of love through the views and experiences of the characters. As two of the most famous romance works of English literature, Romeo and Juliet and Pride and …
Inspired by Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte This pen drawing was a creative project for my British Literature course, where we read, discussed and analyzed various classical works including Jane Eyre. I wished to portray the alienation Jane must have felt during her early childhood. As much as the family refused to treat her as a …
The Occupants of the Moor House A deprived organism, when provided the resources, grows with speed unrivaled by any other. Likewise, the titular protagonist of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre flourishes under the auspices and love of the occupants of Moor House, who for the first time in Jane’s life provided her with a place and …
An old Korean proverb states “the transparent are the easiest to color”. Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray is the exact novel that portrays the theme of influence and corruption through the moral downfall of the titular protagonist; Dorian, once a naive and innocent young man, is lured by Lord Henry Wotton down the …
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Mary Shelley, in her novel Frankenstein, gives insight into the paradoxes of life, death, and knowledge. Throughout the changing narratives, connections between these paradoxes and ‘ice’ recur again and again; Shelley uses ice as the setting, symbol of death, isolation and unexplored area to portray the main themes in depth. The motif of ice looms …
Erin's Pensive Pen 