Don LaFontaine

Don Giovanni is an opera performed by Mozart where the main character Don Giovanni murders a man, seduces women, and in the end receives his awaiting fate. The sextet, which is when the remaining of the characters sing, takes place at the finale of the opera. “Everybody else runs onstage…and there is a quick lively finale, where each character announces what he or she will do next—find a new master, join a convent, get married. That, they sing, is the end for those who do evil.” (Pg. 199). This finale

In the fourth story, “The Last Single Days of Don Viktor Potapenko”, Almond once more utilizes different ways of describing a character to reveal important information. This story, told from the point of view of Pancho, a busboy at the bar where the story takes place, focuses on Don Viktor Potapenko, or simply “The Don”. The Don is a regular at the bar, and he is quite a character. He works at a hotel in the tourist beach town and during the peak summer months is a regular at the bar. He is, essentially

beloved literary masterpieces, Don Quixote during the early 1600s. Son of a deaf surgeon, Rodrigo de Cervantes, Miguel was born near Madrid, Spain in 1547. In 1570, Miguel fought for the Spanish army in the Battle of Lepanto, where he was wounded. Because he was captured by the Turks in 1575, de Cervantes spent five years of his life in prison, but the Turks freed him in 1580 to return back to his home country. Achieving Literary Success Publishing the first part of Don Quixote in 1605, achieved the

White Noise is a celebrated post-modernist novel by Don DeLillo. The background setting is a small town called Blacksmith and the College-on-the-Hill which is located in the town. The novel depicts Jack’s family’s and the townspeople’s day-to-day life and their performance in a cataclysmic event, vividly showing the life in a modern society. The relationship between man and nature is one of the focuses of the novel. “Simply defined, ecocriticism is the study of the relationship between literature

Throughout the novel, Americana, Don DeLillo develops the character of David Bell as a man who has both a very high opinion of himself and also low self-esteem. David narrates the story and will often describe his above-average attractiveness or his importance in the lives of others; while other times David needs gratification from others to prove his self-worth. As the story develops, we learn that much of this contradiction stems from David’s relationship with his father. A recurring theme in

childish ways and moving on to more mature things. The need for such a dramatic transformation is questioned by Miguel de Cervantes and Lewis Carroll in their texts, Don Quixote and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. While the texts follow two contrasting characters, they are brought together by the theme of fantasy. Cervantes’ Don Quixote is an old gentleman of noble lineage who becomes tired of the monotony and the lack of

Calendar, so they did not die on the same day, but they did on the same date, as Spain's Julian calendar correlated Cervantes' death to Shakepseare's). Shakespeare even read Cervantes' masterpiece The Delightful History of the Most Ingenious Knight Don Quixote of La Mancha, but it is probable that Cervantes never even heard of Shakespeare, let alone read one of his plays or

Moby Dick and Don Quixote as Self-Conscious Novels: The Issue of Language and Artifacts Writing against the grain of F. R. Leavis’s conception of English novel, expounded in his The Great Tradition, Robert Alter writes “the other great tradition,” as he suggests tongue-in-cheek in the preface to his Partial Magic. Leavis introduces the criterion of “seriousness” to the studies of English novel, keeping out of his story a whole line of novelists that do not meet the proposed expectations. Alter establishes

The phrase “the truth as is appears in Don Quixote,” is not as tidy a topic as it initially seems to be. The novel’s uniquely layered structure is arguably one of its most profound features, and a significant contribution to its status as a great book. Through overlapping and retelling, Cervantes creates an arena for questioning, however ultimately solidifies the textual integrity of his vast tale. By definition, the multiplicity of the text’s layers questions the notion that there is one universal

The Alter Ego and Ill-Advised Endeavors: The Antics of Cervantes’ Don Quixote Over the course of this semester, students of World Masterpieces by Amanda Drake have learned about “othering” and anti-heroism. Many of the central characters in the stories and plays that were assigned, exemplified anti heroism and othering. Anti-Heroes, by definition, are typically main characters of a story, play or movie, which lack classic “heroic” traits. Due to these characters lacking heroic traits, they are othered