Essays Tagged: "Grotesque"
Hello, My Name is Orson Welles
ents throughout his films. He liked a good deep focus shot. He liked low key lighting. He liked the grotesque side of life, blocking actors in groups of three, low camera angles and especially pointy ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
Kid in closet
sements for the rats to eat, getting sold on the street to dirty men, things to the degree only the grotesque mind could imagine such a horror.But when Wolfgang was really menacing or his dad was drun ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories
The following essay is an analysis of The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, using feminist criticism.
Reading of The Yellow WallpaperImages of women creeping around behind wallpaper that is yellow and grotesque, defiled by esoteric patterns with images of bulbous eyes and strangled heads sounds like ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
Foreshadowing in Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard To Find"
is Hard To Find", hints are given to the readers that foretell what is in store, foreshadowing the grotesque ending that is to come. These insinuations of the forthcoming become coincidences later in ... ry O'Connor uses foreshadowing to give the readers slight hints of what is to come, foretelling the grotesque fate of the family. Insinuations are made through titles, comments, clothes, and sites, se ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
This essay attempts to explain the message behind Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find".
position 1101Prof. R.M. StambaughFebruary 3, 2003A Good Man's MessageAt first glance, this story is grotesque, horrifying and very disturbing. The shock value of the story is not lost even though the ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors
"Allen Ginsberg." Gives a short biography, tells what elements of poetry he used,who impacted his life the most, and what I felt about his work.
Allen GinsbergAllen Ginsberg was a man known for his crazy, grotesque beats. He made many officials furious all over the world and not to mention he was a homos ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
Love and Death in Stephen King's "Pet Sematary"
s final (87). When Louis sees the Wendigo in the wilderness and again later in a nightmare, it is a grotesque, laughing god, a face with up-tilted, yellowish-gray, gleaming eyes, mouth drawn down in a ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
The gothic and the grotesque in Flannery O'Connor's depiction of modernity in her three stories: "A Good Man is Hard to Find", "A View of the Woods" and "Revelation".
h, unlike the Romantic Gothic literature that utilizes the supernatural, focuses on the sublime and grotesque found in reality. In her stories, the sublime is represented by the spiritual side of life ... und in reality. In her stories, the sublime is represented by the spiritual side of life, while the grotesque is symbolized by technique, material progress and disintegration of values; however, in O' ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Growing up, an analysis of isolation in winesburg, ohio.
onnected stories about an ordinary small town whose citizens struggle with extraordinary dreams and grotesque disappointments" (Back cover; Viking Critical Library Edition of 'Winesburg, Ohio' by Sher ... novel 'Winesburg, Ohio'. I will do so by showing how the characters from the book became so-called "grotesques" and by trying to define their failure of communication, resulting in isolation, followed ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Pirandello: Six Characters in Search of an Author -- analysis, dramatic elements, dramatis personae, themes (with textual reference), genre, synopsis, setting
Six Characters in Search of an AuthorBy: Luigi PirandelloGENRE: Italian Drama - theatre of the grotesqueSETTING: Daytime, the present, the stage of a theatreTHEMES: How does one define reality/tr ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Drama
How the poem "Saint Simeon Stylites" reflects Alfred Tennyson's interest in the 'Grotesque'
ly choose the 'free pass'.Show how the poem St. Simeon Stylites reflects Tennysons interest in the 'Grotesque'I believe that Tennyson is not interested in the grotesque but it would be more of a fasci ... more of a fascination to him (this is when the poem begins but as it continues his interest in the grotesque is apparent). In Tennyson's poetry it seems that instead of thinking about life or lives o ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
"Harry Potter" by J. K. Rolling.
are." The heir of Slytherin could only open the chamber. Before long, students who encountered this grotesque monster became petrified and literally stood motionless somewhat like a statue. Harry and ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
The cause/affect of Abortions.
The fear, anxiety, pain, and guilt associated with this procedure are mixed into this perception of grotesque and violent death. Many women who choose to have an abortion argue that it is their choice ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality
Critical essay on ambrose bierce and "an occurence at owl creek bridge".
his pieces, a life with no apparent ending but more of a disappearance. His style was ill-humored, grotesque, and very unorthodox. Throughout the story, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge", Bierce us ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors
Essay on Frankenstein and Paradise Lost
Mary Shelley has created a subversive and grotesque God/Man relationship in "Frankenstein." Shelly sets up Frankenstein and, at times, Man in ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
A Comparison and Evaluation of "A Good Man is Hard to Find" (O'Connor) vs. "The Death of Tommy Grimes" (Meaddough), focusing on characterization, atmosphere and the grotesque.
mmy Grimes" is far more successful due to its efficient use of characterization, atmosphere and the grotesque. "The Death of Tommy Grimes" is clearly the superior piece of art.Both "A Good Man is Hard ... Find" and "The Death of Tommy Grimes" both deal with the issue of obligation through the use of the grotesque, but "The Death of Tommy Grimes" gives an example better suited to accomplishing its goal. ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
"The Cast of Amitillo" by Edgar Allan Poe.
tresor seeks revenge against Fortunato by murdering him. The literary devices irony, arabesque, and grotesque are used to create a wide variety of feelings and emotions within the reader.One of the ma ... que are seen throughout the story to force the reader to become emotionally involved.There are many grotesque images introduced in the story to add the desired effects. Grotesque refers to physical su ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Flannery O'Conner and the use of grotesque character in "Good country people" and "a good man is hard to find"
"The representation of the grotesque is a characteristic of much 20th century writing" (Holman 61). Almost all of O'Connor's sh ... 0). In Many of her short stories, A Good Man Is Hard To Find for example, Flannery O'Connor creates grotesque characters to illustrate the evil in people.Written in 1953, A Good Man Is Hard To Find is ... t of view of the story.Good Country People, another one of O'Connor's much awarded stories, full of grotesque, was written in 1955. It's a story of a young girl named Joy (refers to herself as Hulga) ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Grotesque Tendencies: An Analysis of Flannery O'Connor's Misfit in the Short Story "A Good Man Is Hard To Find"
The grotesque writing published in American short stories in the 50's rarely stand up to some of the out ... morbid ideas, which are on par with some of today's storytellers. The Misfit in O'Connor's tale is grotesque in his politeness and consideration for his potential victims before he sentences them to ... nse of security before he kills them.One may not think of politeness and consideration as a form of grotesque behavior. Therefore, readers would also be surprised to read a story about a psychotic kil ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
The Great Gatsby and Capitalism
ts descriptions are grim, calling it a place "where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens." The only images we get are those of darkness; "grey cars" and "powdery air." On ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald