Genre Essays

Michael Cunningham’s The Hours, is the1998 Pulitzer Prize-winning recreation of Virginia Woolf’s novel, Mrs. Dalloway. In this adaptation Cunningham does not retell the same story, but follows a day in the life of three separate women who are living in different time periods and dealing with issues that parallel those in Woolf’s novel. Although their […]

Recently we have been studying the film Sleepy Hollow. In this essay I am going to explain how the genre of Sleepy Hollow is established in the opening sequence.The opening of any film is important for many reasons. One is that it sets the tone of the film. In Sleepy Hollow there is a “scary” […]

The movie ‘The Matrix’ is a science fiction movie. The genre ‘science fiction’ is a paradox. The word ‘science’ comes from the Latin meaning ‘to know’. So this means that it is factual, or true. The word ‘fiction’ means ‘untrue’ so the two words together contradict themselves. Fiction pushes the boundaries of science.Science Fiction movies […]

Terry Gilliam helmed “Twelve Monkeys” in 1995, which featured Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, and Brad Pitt. The movie centers around a deadly virus that eradicated five billion individuals in 1996, leaving only one percent of the population alive by 2035. As an underground survivor, James Cole, a prisoner, consents to travel back through time to […]

I will be looking closely at matrix a 1999 science fiction film that illustrates the future, and refers to the present world that we live in as the ‘matrix’, based on an imitation of reality created by machines and artificial intelligent. The brief story outline of the film is that Morepheus is a human freed […]

The book “One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich” by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn gives a detailed account of a labourer who is forced to serve a sentence of up to ten years in a work camp situated somewhere in Russia. The book follows Ivan from the time of getting up in the morning to the […]

Start the story with “Once upon a time” enclosed in a tag. “It has been said…” or perhaps “In a galaxy far, far away…” Long ago, it is believed that ancient people gathered around a fire to entertain each other with tales. As each story was told, someone was inspired to tell another, each one […]

Oroonoko was Aphra Behn’s most published work, being noted to have a character of it’s own. It has become well known due to it hybrid and idiosyncratic nature. It is a novella that is best read and understood as a fusion of genres, between travel writing and French romance, but also with an undertone of […]

Colin is a very strong character in both film and book. He is made to think that he is going to die so he spends all his time in his bedroom throwing tantrums and not letting anyone get close to him. Colin’s father, Lord Craven, is very ill himself, he has a lump on his […]

In “The management of grief”, a story by Bharati Mukherjee the function of the narrator Shaila Bhave’s journey from Canada to Ireland and through India is a phase of transition from the feeling of denial of the tragic death of her husband and two sons in a plane crash to the slow acceptance of reality […]

Toni Morrison’s Beloved exemplifies the importance of both narrative methods and structure, in addition to the story itself. The opening line, “124 was spiteful,” introduces the reader to a unique approach where the story is started in the middle. Toni Morrison intentionally filled Beloved with “baby’s venom”1 to create a confrontation with the incomprehensible2. Her […]

James Baldwin’s “Another Country” and Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” both portray to the reader the experiences of isolated individuals. Despite their dates of publication being nearly one hundred and fifty years apart, the two novels share numerous similarities in their depiction of the “outsider”, as the characters of Rufus and Victor both seem to isolate themselves […]

“I exist! ” So begins the novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum. Ruby Lennox has literally just been conceived and is already starting to narrate her life story. Although many of the chapters in the book are told from Ruby’s perspective, commenting on the present, there are others that follow called footnotes. These depict […]

Throughout chapters five and six Golding shows how the society and civilisation of the boys deteriorates. Golding illustrates the inhospitable parts of the island and the violent sea effectively by describing the “darkness of the island” and the “tide coming in”. The setting of the discussion is eerie because it is late at night and […]

Having considered my own expectations of Act 4, scene 1, I expected it to be a turning point for Macbeth and to highlight Macbeth’s lack of control at this time.The scene creates an eerie atmosphere from the beginning with the witches round a cauldron. This atmosphere and sense of what is going to happen draw’s […]

The Alden children are known for their love of mystery and adventure, and their latest escapade involves the beloved Piccolo’s Pizza. Despite being orphans, the children are blessed with a wealthy grandfather, James Henry, who supports them on their adventures. The eldest of the children, Henry, is away at college, leaving Jessie to care for […]

Throughout the novel, I will analyze the relationship between Huck and Jim in this coursework. The focus of this analysis is the development of the relationship in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The story takes place in 19th Century America, particularly in the southern states where slavery was prevalent among black individuals. In that era, […]

PLOT The story “Lilies of Yesterday’ revolves around a 12-year-old girl named Lily and how she goes about in her everyday life. The beginning of the plot is simply an introduction. She is at the point of her life where she is between a child and a young adult. She lives with her mother, her […]

In an effort to convey the theme of isolation and madness, Jean Rhys utilized various quotes and scenarios throughout the first and seventeenth pages of her work. The character Mr Luttrell’s initial actions served as a precursor to the many berserk scenes to come, while the quote “and no one came near us” at the […]

During the time he does not work he builds rocking chairs to sell to people. Every year John takes all his money and tries to by his freedom, but Master Charles says, “no! ” because he knows the first thing he will do is buy his wife’s freedom. Augustus is Ann’s oldest brother. When Augustus […]

Throughout the narrative “Story of an Hour” there are a few elusive cases of prefiguration and sarcasm. These cases explain the some of the scenes throughout the narrative. The gap sentence foreshadows Mrs. Mallard’s decease at the terminal of the narrative as it explains how serious Mrs. Mallard’s bosom problem truly was. as great attention […]

Araby. by James Joyce is a narrative about a immature male child sing his first feelings of attractive force to the opposite sex. and the manner he deals with it. The story’s immature supporter is unable to explicate or warrant his ain actions because he has ne’er dealt with these kind of feelings before. and […]