Havelock Ellis

“It has been said that ‘For many, masculinity is a fatal burden’. In light of this statement, compare the ways Palahniuk and Ellis present modern masculinity. In the context of shifting gender roles and ambiguities, a ‘crisis’ in masculinity has been identified in both Bret Easton Ellis’ ‘American Pyscho’ and Palahniuk’s ‘Fight club’. This crisis is defined by the new uncertainty of what it means to be a man in a modern world no longer in thrall to traditional models of brutish machismo with the

Similarly to Ellis in American Psycho, Sloan Wilson suggests the harmful essence of the ambitious quest for riches in America first, by connecting money and material to violence in a more realistic and believable sense. Where Bret Easton Ellis uses bloody caricature of the wealthy to criticize the “American Dream,” Sloan Wilson takes a different approach, describing a realistic domain that more accurately reflects the lives of the middle class. In The Man in The Gray Flannel Suit, Tom Rath races

1) American Psycho, 2) American Beauty, and 3) Lion King. We came to the conclusion to choose the film American Psycho. I personally had never seen the film before this, while Andrew and Sydney have. The movie is based on the book by Bret Easton Ellis, which in an interview had written the book without the intent of it ever being filmed. I found this rather intriguing, since it made double the budget in gross revenue. To summarize the film American Psycho, it is about Patrick Bateman, a Harvard

American Psycho (2000) is a film by Mary Harron that stars Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman, a wealthy investment banker that strives to keep up appearances for the sake of success while having murderous tendencies. Bateman, the protagonist, represents American society to the extreme as a selfish and greedy consumerist who will stop at nothing and nobody to get exactly what he wants. The movie follows his egocentric life as he tries to portray perfection through his various accoutrements will while

In my opinion, in Bret Estern Ellis' novel, American Psycho published in 1991, I think that an important theme and idea of the novel is the society in which it is based in. Almost all of the characters in the novel, including the main character, Patrick Bateman, are largely concerned with materialistic possesions and gain, power, and how their superficial appearences appear to others. Patrick Bateman is shaped mostly by the society that he lives in, showing us the superficial and brutal sides of

In a dysfunctional society where the surface becomes the only thing, Easton Ellis heavily illustrates the self-obsessed and materialistic nature of humans in our society. American Psycho captures the epitome of a shallow society that has reached its state of oblivion. Although the book stirred many controversies with its publication releases, it nonetheless became a social phenomenon outrage. However, If we see beyond the violence and the murders, the book becomes a wild satire, where it can be seen

The film begins in the late 1980s with Patrick Bateman, a young wealthy businessman working for a Wall Street bank, and who lives in Manhattan. From the start, some of the characteristics that would describe Patrick are: alpha male, narcissistic, misogynist, self-absorbed, insecure, so wrapped up in his own life that is contingent on dining at fancy restaurants while keeping up his appearance. Throughout the movie American Psycho by Mary Harron (2000), we discover more about Patrick as well as

‘Culture’ can be a difficult term to define as many different people have different ideas of what the definition should be Raymond Williams (1983) calls culture ‘one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language’, the oxford dictionary defines culture as ‘the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively’. Whereas Williams believes there are three vague definitions. The first is referring to culture as ‘a general process of intellectual

perspectives on the issues faced by everyone, even those who do not acknowledge it. Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh portrays a drug addict who rejects any conventions of normalcy in the pursuit of an alternate reality. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis does the same through the depiction of a rich and greedy Wall Street tycoon. This essay will closely analyze the themes of illusion and reality in Trainspotting and American Psycho. The relationship between the fantasy world and the “real” world in

Lawyer to Killer “We serial killers are your sons, we are you husbands, we are everywhere. And there will be more of your children dead tomorrow.” said Ted Bundy, the mass serial killer whom found his killings as a passion, not a crime. With an unsteady childhood, not knowing the truth behind the secrets, and being obsessed with the media, these motives appear to be the drive behind the mass killings of Ted Bundy. Ted Bundy justifies as a human monster due to his crimes as a serial killer while demonstrating