Essays Tagged: "Wall"

Paper analyzes diction, dry style, theme and mood in "The Wall" by Jean-Paul Sartre, using textual references. (page numbers refer to pages in MODERN SHORT STORIES)

existentialists, Jean-Paul Sartre wrote about human existence as a series of blind choices. In "The Wall," three men sharing a cell receive the same sentence; death by shooting. As the story tracks th ... ction and a dry, existentialist style as a means of creating mood and developing characters in "The Wall."Diction is a way to develop a strong theme and mood for a short story. Sartre uses words with ...

(2 pages) 55 0 4.6 Jan/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

The Wall by Jean Paul Sartre.

"The Wall" by Jean Paul Sartre'sRegardless of a student's academic abilities, there always seems to be a ... udent's academic abilities, there always seems to be a struggle to achieve. Jean Paul Sartre's "The Wall" is about a different kind of struggle - the struggle to accept the worst fate, death. Although ... r will outline the comparisons I have made in greater detail.There are four main characters in "The Wall". I have chosen to view the Doctor (or the Belgian) as the teacher figure. The three prisoners ...

(2 pages) 64 0 4.1 Nov/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy

Title: Another Brick in The wall: Adaptation Proposal **Assignment description in essay body.

me. The band continued to release "concept" albums up until the point of the release of 1979's "The Wall." The album was packaged as a double CD rock opera which depicts the story of a burnt-out rock ... nt-out rock star whose mental being demonstrates itself as an emotional (and symbolically physical) wall between himself and the cold, cruel world. The tale begins with the birth of the fictional char ...

(9 pages) 37 0 4.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

Jean-Paul Sartre and Existentialism

is what makes the difference between a coward and a hero. Pablo Ibbieta a character in Sartre's The Wall is an existential hero.Freedom is the ability to exercise choice; to have free will. Actually u ... of choosing to act, not merely waiting for circumstances to act upon one.The three prisoners in The Wall demonstrate the attributes of an existential hero in varying degrees. Juan Mirbal clearly is no ...

(3 pages) 91 0 5.0 Apr/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Poetry on missing your children.

themselvesaround my neck, no little kisses or hugs were mine.And I prefer today.Handwriting on the Wall.A weary mother returned from the store,Lugging groceries through the kitchen door.Awaiting her ... er had done."While I was out playing and Trent was on a call,J.J. took his crayons and wrote on the wall!It's on the new paper you just hung in the den.I told him you'd be mad at having to do it again ...

(1 pages) 19 0 4.7 Oct/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories

Cogs In The Machine And Bricks In The Wall

vior. However, their words fail to create imagery as powerful as that of the film "Pink Floyd - The Wall," which presents disturbing, yet strangely comic, visuals of children being broken down and rem ... do not simply tend the machine - they have become a part of it. The movie "Pink Floyd - The Wall" rails against uniformity with its imagery. There is very little dialogue in the film. Instead, ...

(4 pages) 1571 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American