The Maltese Falcon By Dashiell Hammett Essays

Women have different personalities and motivations, and they form relationships with men for many different reasons. Some of these reasons include love, money, and even lust and manipulation. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett is a novel about Sam Spade, who is a huge figure of the hard-boiled detective genre. Sam Spade goes on a quest to find a valuable falcon, solve murders and jump over the obstacle that surround him on a daily basis. The novel is also about the three women who surround Spade during his quest. The names of these women are Iva Archer, Effie Perine, and Brigid O’Shaughnessy, and they all have different roles in Sam Spade’s life. In The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett, Brigid O’Shaughnessy plays the role of femme fatale, Iva Archer plays the role of Spade’s unfortunate future, and Effie Perine plays the role of Spade’s right-hand woman.

Humans are a very self-centered creatures. Humans often choose what they believe is best for them. When they do this though, humans often chose what is best for them for the time being. With this being said humans chose what is best for them at that very moment. This often gets us into trouble down the road. If humans could chose what is best for them in the long term the world would be a much different place. This idea is very evident in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. When the large group of children land on a island things are good, at first. But very soon there becomes a power struggle because people are choosing what is best for them short term not what is best long term.

For example, Capote uses witnesses’ statements to achieve a sense of historical accuracy. Capote describes Mr. Ewalt’s reaction to the Clutters’ murders by quoting the man himself: “‘I couldn’t make head nor tails,’ Mr. Ewalt subsequently testified. ‘I thought maybe the child was hurt’” (60). Capote reports the immediate reaction of one of the first people to see the murdered Clutters through the man’s witness statement in order to emphasize the novel’s basis in fact and its historical accuracy. By quoting Mr. Ewalt’s exact statement in court, Capote reports an important turning point in the story from a historically accurate point of view. In addition, Capote uses fictional aspects to evoke specific emotions. To illustrate, Capote concludes the novel by describing Dewey’s return home from Nancy Clutter’s grave: “Then, starting home, he walked toward the trees, and under them, leaving behind him the big sky, the whisper of wind voices in the wind-bent wheat” (343). The fictional devices within this quote, such as imagery, contribute a sense of closure by creating a peaceful and final conclusion to the story of the Clutters. As Dewey was the chief detective in the Clutters’ case, the idea of Dewey leaving provides a sense of finality, while the idea of the calm wind and the bent wheat contributes to an overall tranquil and relaxed mood. The fictional devices evoke specific emotions, creating a more compelling story that captures key features of fictional writing. By combining journalism and fiction, Capote is able to provide a more creative take on historical

Dashiell Hammett who worked for a detective agency, wrote the novel The Maltese Falcon in 1929. In this novel the protagonist is a fictional character that Hammett created and named Sam Spade. Sam is a private detective hired by another character in the novel named Brigid O' Shaughnessy. Being a detective comes with many job responsibilities and being a private detective becomes even more complicated. In Hammett's novel there are many conflicts throughout his writing. Most conflicts have to do with Spade in some form considering he is the detective and also the protagonist. Are the conflicts in the story relating to Spade within himself; man versus self, or caused by another character; man versus man?

Hard-boiled detective fiction sets the scene for a cold and harsh reality. Dashiell Hammett’s, “The Girl with The Silver Eyes” is no exception to this rule. In this short story Hammett paints a picture of a brutally realistic urban center filled with characters that not many people would want to call friends. The realistic qualities of Hammett’s story are drawn from his own life’s experience working as a Pinkerton detective. The detective in “The Girl With The Silver Eyes” works for the Continental Detective Agency and is, therefore, known simply as the Continental Op. In the beginning of the story the Op professes, “a detective, if he is wise, takes pains to make and keep as many friends as possible among transfer company, express

Khaled Hosseini’s novels, The Kite Runner (year), and A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007) both explore the idea that a significant individual can inspire a course of action, which may result in a change of self.

Readers who have never picked up on the Dashiell Hammett detective novel The Maltese Falcon 1930 or seen the classic 1941 film adaptation, which follows the novel almost verbatim, can feel a strong sense of familiarity, faced for the first time in history. In this book, Hammett invented the hard-boiled private eye genre, introducing many of the elements that readers have come to expect from detective stories: mysterious, attractive woman whose love can be a trap , search for exotic icon that people are willing to kill the detective, who plays both sides of the law, to find the truth , but it is ultimately driven by a strong moral code , and shootings and beatings enough for readers to share the feeling of danger Detective . For decades , countless writers have copied the themes and motifs Hammett may rarely come anywhere near him almost perfect blend of cynicism and excitement.

“There is a way to be good again” (2). This is the line that rolls through Amir's mind over and over throughout Khaled Hosseini's novel, The Kite Runner. This is the story of a mans struggle to find redemption. The author illustrates with the story of Amir that it is not possible to make wrongs completely right again because its too late to change past. In this novel Hosseini is telling us that redemption is obtainable, and by allowing us to see Amirs thought process throughout the novel, Hosseini shows us that it guilt is the primary motivation for someone who seeks redemption. Hosseini also uses not only the main character, but other secondary characters to show how big of a part that guilt plays in the desire for redemption. In this

In traditional hard-boiled American detective fiction there are many themes that seem to transcend all novels. One of those themes is the concept of power and the role in which it plays in the interaction and development of characters. More specifically, the role of women within the novels can be scrutinized to better understand the power they hold over the other characters, their own lives and the direction of the story. Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon exemplifies the varying ways in which female characters attempt to obtain and utilize power in hopes of influencing, manipulating and succeeding.

The Maltese Falcon, was not only a detective film, but a film that displayed many different aspects of the female and the male character in the movie. The film was more than a story, but a story that explored the ideas of the detective genre and the different characteristics of femininity and masculinity. It also brought forth subjects of sexual desires and the greediness of money. The characters and the visual motifs in the film contributed to the developing of the plot and assisted in creating a more detective and gender oriented film. In the film, The Maltese Falcon, the role of men and women are portrayed in different ways in the film to show the distinct functions of masculinity and femininity

“The Gutting of Couffignal” is a detective fiction short story written by Dashiell Hammett that focuses on the mystery surrounding the attack on the town of Couffignal by an unknown gang, and more specifically, the robberies and murders that ensue. Hammett’s story is classified as hard-boiled fiction, which Encyclopaedia Britannica defines as a “tough, unsentimental style of American crime writing” (The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica). Due to its hard-boiled nature, “The Gutting of Couffignal” mainly focuses on the issue of large-scale crime in the city. However, throughout the story, Hammett uses gender stereotyping of both the protagonist and the antagonist by the readers

In society today, you see a lot of barbaric acts. On February 24, 2018, an article was posted about the Turpin family going to court. Mr. and Mrs. Turpin had tortured and abused their twelve children and are currently facing more than forty charges. People see Mr. and Mrs. Turpin as extremely barbaric people, and for good reason. This is just one case of parents abusing their own children. In society's eyes parents who mistreat their kids or favoring one kid over the other are seen as barbaric. In Les Miserables by Victor Hugo and The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini it is clearly shown.

This bitterness and sarcasm is revealed as strong characteristics of the narrator. Throughout the majority of the story, the narrator continues shows his distaste for any "happy" situation. Much like the hyphenated asides, Carver implements fragmented sentences behind description, to show the narrator pausing for a moment of color commentary.

A veil of dark caramel brown hair fell forward, shielding Azhair’s eyes. “Uh-uh, don’t you dare. Don’t think, for one second, that my shortcomings are at fault here. They are blackhearts, who enjoy profiting off an Angel’s trusting nature.”

``Finist the Falcon is another story translated from Alexander Afanasiev work by Robert Chandler. It begins with three sisters, the older ones who put too much value in things especially clothing, and the youngest named Mary, who is humble, and loves helping her father around the house. She eventually acquires a magically feather that she uses to call a Tsar to her bed at night, who comes in the form of a falcon, and to dress her up like a princess on Sunday for church, where no one recognizes her in fancy clothing. The older sister become suspicious and jealous of her behavior, and attack the tsar while he is in falcon form. The tsar can no longer return to her house, so she travels to his kingdom. On the way, she meets three Baba Yaga, who gives her magical trinkets, and send her on her way. Using the trinkets, she convinces the princess to let her see the tsar, but the princess used sleeping potions, so Mary could only talk to his sleeping body. The tsar eventual remember the dreams, and marries Mary instead of the princess, due to her fortitude, and the princess’s contentious nature. All the basic fairytale needs are met, full spectrum of good and evil, characters relatable to emotion, thoughts, and people, and morals. Many of the Russian fairytale elements are there also. The common plot of quest, which Mary takes to find her Tsar. Many of the common characters such as the humble daughter, a person who can turn into a bird, and the infamous Baba Yaga. The major moral