Don LaFontaine

Don Juan, the Trickster of Seville, his name says it all. Don Juan is a charming, seductive, ladies man who thrives off of seducing women and will do anything and everything to do so. His love for romance and women and his lack of moral obligations make him a guy that parents warn their daughters about. Don Juan is the ultimate bad boy when it comes to love and getting what he wants. Not only is he a womanizer, but a true representation of the wages of sin. Don Juan lives his life as if he is untouchable

Don Delillo utilizes satire of the postmodern novel to critique issues which continue to plague American society. Although Don Delillo’s novel White Noise is complex and full of implicit meaning, the protagonist Jack Gladney communicates the central idea of the narrative, “All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots (Delillo 26)”. The novel does not take on a linear storyline for most of the novel but there is more impact in its collection of vignettes. The majority of the novel

The Unusual Relationship Between Don Quixote The Knight Errant and His Squire Sancho Panza: For many years, the Spain tried to reconquest its territory from the Muslims Moors who had invaded and conquered it. But, in 1492 the monarchs of Spain at that time, Ferdinand and his queen, Isabel de castile, eliminated the Muslims of Spain by conquering the Moorish Kingdom of Granada and established the religion of Christianity. Therefore, Spain used to be pluralistic with three religions and the three

Why is death feared, and what should be done to assuage this fear? White Noise, by Don DeLillo, focuses on Jack Gladney, a professor, as he traverses America in response to a huge man-made disaster, the Airborne Toxic Event. This stress pushes Jack to his limit, and in doing so, DeLillo exposes the masked and pernicious tropes that underlie American society. Fleeing from the Airborne Toxic Event, Jack reveals a crippling fear of death, which both paralyzes and motivates him. This fear of death is

Pie’ was written in 1971 and topped the music charts in 1972. Don Mclean wrote it partly as a biography and partly as the story of the evolving America through the 1950’s, 1960’s, and 1970’s. Don Mclean wrote the song to tell a story about his generation and how it had and continued to change since he was younger. It took Mclean over ten years of work and with the combination of many ideas American Pie was born. In American Pie by Don Mclean, he shows America’s lost innocence in the song after the

A Quinceanera is a hispanic coming of age ceremony. The preparation of the young ladies is based on the future role they would take as members of their family and community. This celebration includes music, food, and a dance performed by the Quinceanera and her court. This is a celebration in the hispanic culture that transforms young girls into young ladies, it acknowledges the ending of childhood and a new beginning but yet over time, it has lost it’s tradition, history and it’s purpose. It

Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote is grounded in past records on a figure by the name Don Quixote. While it is unclear from the text itself to what degree Cervantes had embellished the so-called history, it is certain by his own admittance that the work is “inventive” (Cervantes, 446). From this it is immediately apparent that it is not truthfully a history in an Aristotelian sense. Yet still it maintains that grounding in reality, and to call Cervantes’ Don Quixote a “truthful history” is perfectly

prevalent today with the concepts of “white knighting,” fathers walking their daughters down the aisle to be given away to another man in a wedding, a father’s approval for a daughter’s partner, and many other cases. In Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote, Don Quixote works to save various damsels in distress as his patriarchal white knight position and is always working to please Dulcinea through his efforts of gallantry. In the case of the Captive, the Captive ultimately tried eloping with Lela

Don Giovanni is a one-of-a-kind character, yet so predictable living a certain lifestyle, almost to the point of being mysterious. It is the enlightenment era however, where a lot of impossibilities were being explored, and presented to the public in different forms, including this opera, Don Giovanni. Although Don Giovanni seems like a total embodiment of immorality, he nevertheless carries some admirable principles, sparkling the enlightenment idea through the story of Don Giovanni. As we all

The novel Don Quixote, written by Miguel de Cervantes, is a very unusual and very descriptive novel about an older gentleman, Don Quixote, who reads so many books that one day after reading so many books, he decides to live out his adventures from his books. When reading this story, many will just see a crazy and delusional old man who is “chasing windmills” for he sees them as giants he must conquor. However, I see a much different kind of delusion that Quixote is going through; which not only