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- 1781: Death Of A Salesman
- ... Evidence of this statement is seen during Willy's next flashback, when the drug he has been using for so long to avoid his problems backfires, giving him a "bad trip", quite possibly a side effect of overuse. This time he is brought back to one of the most disturbing moments in his life. It's the day that Biff had discovered his father's mistress while visiting him on one ...
- 1782: Dead Poets Society
- ... All too often, however, individual thoughts are crushed by the powerful weight of conformity. In the film Dead Poets Society, conformity exercises it’s influence and the results prove disastrous for some. For others, the effect of conformity compels them towards individual strength and the discovery of one’s true self. Modern education is one of the largest "offenders" when it comes to conformity, and that point is illustrated repeatedly in ...
- 1783: Cry, The Beloved Country
- ... so they resorted to other ways of getting food and clothing. A lot of these miners resorted to stealing and even murder to get morsels of food and a few shillings from white people. In effect, white men had brought this violence on themselves. In the story Steven Kumalo, a black reverend, sends his son, Absalom, to Johannesburg to find his sister who's husband had gone looking for work in ...
- 1784: Crime And Punishment
- ... when they love humanity they despise humans because of their own inability to achieve or to create paradise on earth. His novels The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment are best examples of the poisonous effect of such ideals on the common human. The rebellion of these humanists against the system and the reality of human life becomes more important, thus love becomes the filter and the servant of pride and ...
- 1785: Connecticut Yank
- ... to obtain power. It is this lack of willingness to share his knowledge that will destroy him in the end. Medieval society is a place where things just happen, and are not explained. "Cause and effect…don't exist in Camelot. Things happen to people in Camelot without purpose, plan, or coherence; God twists and turns the road whenever and however he pleases."(George 60) Hank's world is finally destroyed ...
- 1786: Coming Of Age In Mississippi
- ... he has built for them . This house seems like a mansion compared to what they had been living in . Throughout her late childhood and teenage years she tells about the jobs she had and the effect they had upon her . She talks of Mrs. Claiborne and Mrs. Johnson and how they encouraged her to learn . She also talks of the Jenkins , the young white family she worked for , and how Linda ...
- 1787: Cloudstreet
- ... himself into the water, knowing that it has been his one desire and destiny for twenty years. In essence the four hundred page saga of the two families which makes up the novel, is in effect, a flashback which occurs the instant before Fish’s death. The life of Fish, flashing before his eyes as he reunites with himself and dies. As this aspect of the novel is its structure it ...
- 1788: Citizen Kane By Orson Wells
- ... sets the mood of the film by the numerous scene transitions. Throughout the duration of the film, there were a few points where the scene transitions and changes of camera angles almost had a chaotic effect. I think this is done purposely to parallel the chaos in Kane’s life at certain points throughout the film. Other camera techniques that made the film as great as it is are the unconventional ...
- 1789: Chaucer
- ... the Duchess; the book of St Valentine's Day of the Parliament of Birds; the tales of Canterbury, thilke that sowen into sin...". Yet this Retraction serves to publicize Chaucer's works and had no effect on their later publication and distribution. The Canterbury Tales has always been among the most popular works of the English literary heritage. When Caxton introduced printing into England, it was the first major secular work ...
- 1790: Charles Dickins
- ... the fleeting moment, creating a degree of wooliness in his canvasses which have not been interpreted with any certainty"(Taillander 8). In Monet’s paintings, his interest "lies not in details, but in capturing the effect of the whole scene as it would be perceived in a fleeting glance" (Welton 14). The term Impressionist was first given by a critic when reviewing Monet’s painting, There were many important developments that ...
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