Essays Tagged: "blinds"

The Theme Of Blindness in King Lear

In Shakespearean terms, blinds means a whole different thing. Blindness can normally be defined as the inability of the eye ... is battle, but he lived to remain the ruler of what was once Lear's kingdom.In Shakespearean terms, blinds means a whole different thing. Blindness can normally be defined as the inability of the eye ...

(7 pages) 154 0 4.2 Aug/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

Antigone or Creon the protagonist in "Antigone", written by Sophocles

the products of that union. When Oedipus learns the true identy of Iocaste, his wife and mother, he blinds himself and leaves Thebes. His two sons, Polyneices and Etocles, wage war over the control of ...

(4 pages) 260 0 3.7 Jun/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

This is about the greek tragidy Oedipus. Includes quotes. About one of the themes From ingorance to knowledge.

ssness"(P. 1.342). Oedipus also blames Teiresias and Kreon for plotting against him. Oedipus' pride blinds him from the beginning of his own mystery.Kreon and Oedipus argue about the acquisitions from ...

(2 pages) 49 0 3.7 Nov/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

a piece about a murder, written for my advanced writing class

mountain, his clothes piled in mounds, like foothills, around it. The moon light shown through the blinds of his window in tiny slivers across his floor, little slash marks on the carpet, the ivory c ...

(3 pages) 61 1 4.7 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Human Development and Growing Older

ngstanding best friends John and Max. The two grumps are neighbors in houses so close that when the blinds are up, they can eavesdrop on each other. The movie focuses on the struggles and issues the m ...

(4 pages) 141 0 3.7 Apr/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays

I a short descriptive essay about feeling like you don't belong.

Everynight a I close the blinds in my room and pull back the heavy quilt that covers my bed, a fly buzzes around my face. Eve ...

(2 pages) 83 0 5.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Memoir.

ed by the dazzling sun that was shining through the glass, creating a shadow on the wall due to the blinds that were slightly open. I could smell the delicious cooking of hot buttery pancakes sitting ...

(4 pages) 68 0 4.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Descriptive Essays

Humor essay about a bedroom

rs and disciplinary notes that I have yet to show my parents and then there is my dusted and broken blinds that cover my large window which is right above my bed.I am only a temporary tenant in the ho ...

(3 pages) 38 1 3.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Present a detailed textual analysis a the short (2-3 minute) film extract from 'Casablanca'.

within the room, and many horizontal and vertical lines - especially within the shadows and on the blinds and slated doors. The horizontal lines feature mostly when Ilsa is in shot, possibly suggesti ... ne, and we see Isla standing by the window and turning towards Rick, with horizontal shadows of the blinds across her. The camera then makes a sharp cut to a close up of her face and shoulders, which ...

(6 pages) 63 0 4.7 Apr/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

Compare and contrast three films by give your own definition to film terms such as distortion,montage and expressionisitic.

nd infiltrate deeper into one of many windows in a cheaper, high-rise hotel building - the window's blinds narrowly conceal the dingy interior. There, the camera pauses at the half-open window - and t ...

(4 pages) 52 0 0.0 May/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Rear Window Alfred Hitchcock (Critical Analysis).

an idea as to what we can expect. Behind the credits of 'Rear Window' we can see three bamboo style blinds rising very slowly. Already we can draw a lot from this; The blinds conjure images of the the ... heme of drama and a 'theatrical reality' is one that we can pick up at many points in the film. The blinds are translucent, we can make out general shapes and colours, but can't see the true image of ...

(8 pages) 126 0 5.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

The Crystal - story with a moral

h using the crystal to refract light and watch as the rays of sunlight through the gaps between the blinds shine onto the crystal and create a rainbow across one side of my room. I was convinced that ...

(5 pages) 26 0 2.3 Oct/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

How does W.W.Jacobs make "the Monkey's Paw" an effective ghost story?

. He describes this as a warm and cosy home. This description includes these following quotes; "the blinds were drawn", "the fire burned brightly" and in the last quote the writer tries to send across ...

(3 pages) 22 0 3.7 Jan/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Becoming one with nature

The sun, strikes the naked eye, blinds, makes me squint, yet insulates from the chilly fall breeze. I continue walking until I enter ...

(6 pages) 38 0 5.0 Feb/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

A day as a parlour maid in the victorian times

hair placing it into a bun.At half past six I went down stairs and put the kettle on, pulled up the blinds, opened the windows and cleaned the fireplaces.At seven o'clock I made early tea and took it ...

(1 pages) 3113 0 3.0 Sep/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Comparing Flannery O'Connor's short stories: "A Good Man is Hard to Find" and "Everything That Rises Must Converge"

. O'Connor's characters are tragically unaware of their own egoism. The characters' excessive pride blinds them to their own flaws. When characters finally acquire some level of rationality, it is alw ... they consider themselves as good, but soon after they realize otherwise. The characters' own pride blinds them to their own reality and makes them egotistic. Eventually when they do realize their sho ...

(5 pages) 79 2 4.5 Jan/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Christmas

etter than to wake up and come down to see the Christmas tree shining so bright in the dark that it blinds us all for a minute. Then we start peaking through the mounds of gifts hoping that the bigges ...

(1 pages) 1076 0 0.0 Feb/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Thoughts Of A Serene Domicile

ir school bus. I awaken every morning before the alarm goes off, from the bright sun that enters my blinds. When finally deciding to get out of my bed and get ready for my day, there is a constant sme ...

(3 pages) 1020 0 0.0 Aug/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Trip

red our room a rich vanilla fragrance spread through the room. The evening light peered through the blinds that covered the French doors. In the middle of the bathroom sat a light blue Jacuzzi with la ...

(2 pages) 1146 0 0.0 Sep/2001

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

THe Sheet

serves as a necessary moving tool. When moving into a new house, sometimes a house is left with out blinds for numerous days. Any family would fell without privacy. A sheet is then easily tacked up to ...

(4 pages) 1140 0 1.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers