Donal Gibson

Hamlet, one of the most intricate and influential plays by Shakespeare, debatably of all time. It has inspired not only appreciative readers and writing critiques but continuous generations of people. The inspiration led to the fabrication of many great movies, which wasn’t achievable until the 20th century. Before cinema was the prevalent method of sharing appreciation and spilling emotion for a specific subject, art portrayed what would fly through our minds such as the many interpretations of

The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey is a first person, fiction book about a girl trying to survive during an alien attack. The book switches from Cassie’s point of view to Zombie’s throughout the story, but always remains in first person. The main character of the book is Cassie Sullivan. In the beginning of the book Cassie explains the first, second, and third waves of the Other’s attack. She also explains that the silencers, who are aliens that look exactly like humans, have come to shoot, and annihilate

The opening line in Neuromancer by William Gibson sets the tone for the whole book, “The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.” (Gibson, pg.3) The very first thing we see in Neuromancer is a dead, static sky, and already the natural has been replaced by technology. This image starts the book with a dead landscape. The lack of a natural landscape in Neuromancer shows that in this futuristic age, technology has become all encompassing. Due to this the natural world

Is there honor in war? Most people take a long time to answer this question, and more often than not, they answer is in a negative way. Indeed, World War II was a global war. It was the deadliest of any war in the human history. The war ended after six years of tough fighting and hardship. About 17 million people in the military were gone, and almost three times that number of civilians were dead. Millions more were injured, imprisoned, starved; and some were even deported and became refugees subjected

Neuromancer came up with a novel approach towards science fiction, and was instrumental in spawning multiple movies of similar genre. One of such movie is “The Matrix”. The reason I chose this movie for the review is the very concept of stimulated reality in this movie being quite analogous to the one slowly budding towards the end in the Neuromancer. The Matrix is a sci-fi heavily reliant on the theme of cyber culture and cyber punk. Like Case, Neo too is a computer hacker, but the similarity ends

Braveheart doesn’t solely focus on William Wallace's passion in combat, it shows more of his passion for his dead wife and his friends and country. This is shown through Williams love in Braveheart which is exceptionally sentimental and powerful.Wallace courts his soon to be wife by sneaking her out of her house, without the consent of her father who is indifferent towards Wallace. He brings her around on his horse to the beautiful landscape of Scotland; they ride around the rigid highlands of Scotland

Sanity: Boundaries of the Mind      The mind is a beautiful thing. The boundaries that someone can extend their rationality is different in each and every person. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the balance of sanity and madness is tested. Hamlet’s way of thinking is changed, but in a way that his personality is only a front. By looking at the different events that Hamlet overcame, we can observe the passion for acting that many readers do not come across; knowing the importance

Federico Garcia Lorca’s “Romance de La Luna, Luna” is a Spanish poem that tells the story of a young gypsy boy and the moon. His love and infatuation with the moon leads to his death. This poem not only tells the story of this young child’s demise, but also shows the effects when someone is lured in by an appealing temptation. The poem uses many literary devices to enhance the meaning the words provide. The poem starts at the beginning of the story as the moon comes to visit the forge. The moon

“I’ll take the Ghost’s word for a thousand pound” (3.2.263-4). Claudius’ reaction to the play of running out and then going to confession makes Hamlet believe that Claudius did, in fact, murder King Hamlet. In the final two acts of the film, Mel Gibson rarely descends into fits of rage and depression. Instead, he puts on the act of madness by appearing playful or irrational around other characters to help him in the process of revenge. Hamlet abuses Polonius’ assumption that Hamlet

Hamlet is often seen as one of the most well known examples of an Oedipus Complex presented in literature. The reasons for this is probably because of the plot that resolves around the revenge that Hamlet has against his step-father Claudius and because of the relationship that Hamlet has with his mother that is loaded with sexual energy. Hamlet's love for his mother is especially exemplified by the Mel Gibson's interpretation of the infamous closet scene. Traditionally a Queen's closet was not