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Stanley Kubrick’s film Full Metal Jacket (1987), captures the harsh
... Full Metal Jacket (1987), captures the harsh reality of war through the perspective of Private Joker, a Marine Corp soldier. Based ... periods of the war soldiers who were fighting in the jungle terrain of Vietnam had to deal a different type of battlefield ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
Stephanie Navarrete The Red Badge of Courage Throughout the book
... confident his comrades are. Through the understanding of war only first hand experience can bring, Henry no ... of himself was here of no avail. He was an unknown quantity." Presently his realization that everything he had learned up to that point in reality ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Macbeth
"Not So Quiet" as representative of gender in WWII The novel "Not so Quiet" as representative of gendered experience during WWII
... of the war years as they try to maintain what society has always told them is feminine behavior in an increasingly bloody reality. The nature of ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
My Perception of William Shakespeare's Othello
... for example, in a bit of boasting, Iago says that ' in the trade of war I have slain men,/ ... reality. It is this misinterpretation of reality that leads to the erroneous perceptions that each character holds. After reading this tragedy, the depth of ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare
Discuss the effects of Francis Spufford's 'The Child that Books Built' on readers of Ian Serrialer's 'The Silver Sword'
... of war from a child's points of view. It gave me a concise understanding of the Nazi occupation of Europe and the state of the continent after the war ... about war, unable to distinguish between the imaginative adventure and the grim reality. Serraillier ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors
Comparing Dulce et decorum est and the charge of the light Brigade
... reality of the slaughter. Tennyson creates a feeling of exhilaration, of the nobility of warfare with his use of poetic devices, such as rhetorical repetition: 'Cannon to right of ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
Transformation of Shakespeare's "othello" to Tim Black Nelson's "O"
... western country) treats sport as a form of "war", which has been derived from the play's war with the Turks. Tim Blake Nelson ... in human society include racism, jealousy and also appearance versus reality. Shakespeare's choice to set the play in Venice was ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare
Dulce et decorum est
... that challenges old conventions in its portrayal of the realities of war. As a writer of some good, some bad, and mostly mediocre poetry ... of what is ahead for them. Using graphic terms such as "blood-shod", Owen is not merely telling us of the hell of war ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
Postmodernism and Irony within Sally Potter's appropriation of Virginia Woolf's "Orlando"
... this concept of war is that human beings have fought in countless wars throughout history, but still have not learnt of the idiocy of war, the ... seek to own everything, the will to power, but in reality human beings own no one and nothing other than their ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
An Analysis of William Wordsworth's "The Female Vagrant"
... despair' (143). It removed the reality of her situation from her mind; 'And oft, robbed of my perfect mind, I thought / ... they reached America the women's experience of war was worse. Wordsworth excels in describing war action:When the dark streets appeared ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry