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Hell Hath No Misery… Like A Teenage Girl
Hell Hath No Misery was an experiment with the hermit crab essay.
The Metaphor of Roman Fever in “Daisy Miller”
Malaria, or Roman Fever, literally translates to “bad air.” It is caused by the bite of a mosquito that has been infected with a malarial parasite. As the exact vector of the disease was not known in Henry James’ time, it was believed that it was transmitted by a miasma that spread through the air in dank dark places. This fits with the depiction of the Colosseum in “Daisy Miller.”
Postpartum Psychosis in “The Yellow Wallpaper”
“The Yellow Wallpaper” is a short story written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Told in the first person as a series of journal entries, it tells of a woman who has recently given birth and her husband, a physician, after they lease a country estate for three months to provide the woman with doctor-ordered rest.
The Irony of Religious Conversion in Enslaved People
Christianity has often used its beliefs and practices to underpin slavery. The very foundational text of Christianity, the Bible, nowhere condemns slavery and often supports it, offering specific instructions on how to obtain slaves, how to treat them, and how to beat them. In using the Bible to indoctrinate slaves, Christians are offering them spiritual guidance on being a “good slave” and encouraging them to passivity.
Tradional Morality and Hurstwood as Fallen Woman
In his 1900 novel Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser tells the story of a young woman leaving her small town and coming to Chicago. At first blush, the poor girl from the country seems ripe for the role of the Fallen Woman. But this does not happen.
The Unreliable Narrator in Postmodern Fiction Richards
A look at The New York Trilogy, The Crying of Lot 49, and The Handmaid’s Tale
Imperator Furiosa
Imperator Furiosa is a strong Female Action Hero whose task, her mission, is to save the Wives of Imperator Joe from a life of sexual and reproductive servitude, and to that end, she must battle against the bloodthirsty minions of Joe in order to lead the Wives to freedom, to liberate women and defeat patriarchal structures.
The Duality of Disability: Environment, Perception, and Identity
Disability, in its broadest sense, operates within a dual framework: it can be perceived as either an asset or a disadvantage, depending on the environment and societal context.
The Boys: All 6 Times Hughie Gets Covered In Blood
The Boys is a pretty gory show, but no character has unintentionally gotten covered in blood as many times as Hughie, and here are all six times that it has happened. Throughout the four seasons of The Boys, Hughie has found himself in all sorts of terrifying situations, with many scenes often involving characters exploding, getting ripped apart, or otherwise dying in an incredibly gory fashion. These frequent deaths have left Hughie covered in blood and guts far more times than any normal perso...
How GoT Would've Ended Differently If Jon Snow Was The "Mad" Targaryen
Game of Thrones' final seasons would have been very different if Jon Snow, also known as Aegon Targaryen, was the Targaryen to "go mad" instead of Daenerys. Game of Thrones' final season was met with outrage from fans of the show. The writers' character assassinations of beloved players, such as Tyrion Lannister, the dropping-the-ball plot maneuvers with Missandei, Arya, and Bran Stark, and the good/evil simplification of Jon Snow and Cersei Lannister rendered Game of Thrones' season 8 disappoin...
How GoT Would've Ended Differently If Jon Snow Was The "Mad" Targaryen
Game of Thrones' final seasons would have been very different if Jon Snow, also known as Aegon Targaryen, was the Targaryen to "go mad" instead of Daenerys. Game of Thrones' final season was met with outrage from fans of the show. The writers' character assassinations of beloved players, such as Tyrion Lannister, the dropping-the-ball plot maneuvers with Missandei, Arya, and Bran Stark, and the good/evil simplification of Jon Snow and Cersei Lannister rendered Game of Thrones' season 8 disappoin...
Every Battlestar Galactica Cylon Model Explained
Ronald D. Moore's Battlestar Galactica re-imaging was a big hit, and it owed a lot of that success to the mystery around humans and the Cylons. The Battlestar Galactica of the early 2000s took what had been a heavily mechanized sentient race of robots in the 1978 Battlestar Galactica series and turned them into humanoid Cylons that were indistinguishable from human beings. This led to dramatic reveals when the humans learned that someone they previously thought to be one of them was actually a C...
The 100-Year-Old Movie That Inspired A LOT Of Your Favorite Directors
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, a silent German film from 1920, was completely innovative for its time and continues to influence filmmakers to this day. Emerging out of German Expressionism, a modernist movement in which reality was distorted for emotional effect, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari utilizes a set made of painted canvases positioned at improbable angles. Every element was crafted to bring about a feeling of threat and impending doom. It was the first movie to create a mindscape, a subject...
Hannibal Wouldn’t Have Worked Without One Small Real-Life Detail
NBC's series Hannibal set itself apart in the way it used visual world-building to accentuate its story. Many viewers may not have noticed these subtle details, but they elevate the show by adding an extra level of nuance and care to the overall series. Showrunner Brian Fuller drew from Thomas Harris' gothic, psychological novels rather than the well-known movies The Silence of the Lambs, Red Dragon, and Hannibal. The result was surreal horror, layered with a multisensory, stylized beauty. Th...
House Of The Dragon Brutally Broke 1 Major Game Of Thrones Character Rule
House of the Dragon brutally broke a major Game of Thrones rule with the death of Lucerys Velaryon. The Game of Thrones showrunners took great pains to avoid placing its young actors, and thus characters, in violent or sexually-charged situations. It largely accomplished this by aging up the characters from the books to the show, whereas House of the Dragon employed four strategic time jumps to move the story forward, and more importantly, age the characters to where they needed to be at the tim...
Ring Of Power's Huge Timeline Retcon Was Unnecessary (& HOTD Proves It)
The Rings of Power has condensed thousands of years of Tolkien's canonical timeline in sweeping retcons that could have been handled the way House of the Dragon managed time jumps. Both shows are based on written source material that covers quite a bit of time, but their approaches to dealing with this couldn't have been more opposite. The Rings of Power showrunners avoided time jumps in season one and introduced the major players immediately, so everyone was in place for the action. House of th...
The Rings Of Power's Canon Changes Mean Legolas CAN Appear In S2
The Tolkien canon changes in The Rings of Power have been massive, which makes an appearance by Legolas in season two a possibility. Of course, the show won't add characters who physically could not be alive, but the writers have been stretching the meaning of "could." Given that The Rings of Power only has so many hours of programming to work with and that Tolkien didn't flesh out the Second Age as the First and Third Age, dramatic license is understandable, but retconning the birthdates of key...
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