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    What Is Blank Fiction?

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    expresses his own genuine opinions, as he does not have any due to his lack of personality, so instead reiterates magazine articles and reviews. This mirrors the fact that he has no authenticity and simply mimics popular culture in order to appear normal. Ellis portrays Bateman as a stereotypical “yuppie”, a carbon copy of every ideal rich Wall Street banker who tries desperately to own the right items and wear the right clothes so that he fits in with the rest of the dark dystopian society displayed in the

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    Have you ever felt a relationship you had just did not work out? Adele, a Grammy award-winning artist, is known for her popular love songs that express heartbreak, admiration, and many more topics related to love. So far, she has released two albums, “19” and “21” that showcases her many famous songs such as, “Someone Like You” and “Hello”. One of the most popular that is showcased is “Rolling in the Deep” in which she released on November 29th, 2016. Different from Adele’s genre of music is a band

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    American Psycho Analysis

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    American Psycho was adapted from the novel by Bret Easton Ellis in 2000. The film is narrated by its main character, the American psycho, Patrick Bateman. This man is a cunning Wall-Street socialite by day, murderous psychopath by night. The audience is told from the beginning of the film that Bateman is slowly losing control of his restraint, “Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don’t know why. My nightly bloodlust has over-flown into my days. I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy

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    Bone Voyage Summary

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    Stanley Rhine’s Bone Voyage The book Bone Voyage by Stanley Rhine describes, in stunning detail, the work of forensic anthropologists. The author works for the New Mexico Office of Medical Investigations. The OMI is in charge of investigating any death in New Mexico that is sudden, unnatural, untimely, unattended, or suspicious deaths. They work together with multiple agencies in many different jurisdictions. Bone Voyage gives a lifelike, almost sickly, reality to the important jobs dealt

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    American Psycho Patrick Bateman is a 26-year-old investment banker, living in the 80's New York. On the surface he's rich, attractive and charming. But behind his successful façade rests a soulless serial killer. When he's not committing murders or having sex, he's worrying about how the world perceives him. But is Patrick really a killer? He admits to his crimes to his friends, but everyone thinks he's joking or ignore him completely, and to Patrick's dismay the bodies seem to be disappearing

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    ideology is emphasised through the patent detached tone present throughout the novel. In addition, Bateman reveals that he “feels like an automaton”. This suggests that his depersonalisation has led to him living in a pseudo-reality. It is reasonable to suggest that Bateman has created a false reality in his mind that does not actually exist. It could be argued that this is probable as consequently, his depersonalisation eradicates his reliability as it hinders his ability to understand the surrounding

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    1991 by the daring author Bret Easton Ellis and was later adapted into a movie production in 2000 by the director Mary Harron. The novel endured nasty criticism to the point of rousing riots and the boycott of the publishing company, Simon & Schuster; who later dropped the publication of the book, due to the negative publicity. Bret Easton Ellis’ novel was convicted of national censorship, and remains censored in select countries. The disapproval of Ellis’ novel was based on the graphic sequences

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    Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Patrick Bateman Tien Nguyen Pasadena City College Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Patrick Bateman Overview For this psychological disorder analysis paper, I picked the movie American Psycho. American psycho is a 2000 American Canadian black comedy psychological thriller horror film directed by Mary Harron. The movie was based on Bret Easton Ellis’s novel with the same name. The movie was stars by Christian Bale playing the main character

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    In the novel “American Psycho” written by Bret Easton Ellis, the protagonist Patrick Bateman uses his wealth and violence which are exemplified in scenes involving the murder of his ex-girlfriend Bethany. As well as appealing to the idea to maintain his image by any means such as purchasing expensive merchandises and taking the initiative to attend upscale restaurants. His actions with the implications of those elements reveal the consumptions of status and privilege. The detailed narration of Bateman’s

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    The stories of Othello by William Shakespeare and American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis could not be any more different. But at the same time their characters are so much alike in some aspects. Fueled by things like anger and hatred leads Othello and Patrick Bateman to commit horrible acts. These two characters show the darkness that can reside in a lot of human beings. These two very different men somehow end up going down the sort of same path. These two characters show that even if people are

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