Ian Holm

“The Three Golden Hairs” by Parker Fillmore, is a Czechoslovak folktale which is about a charcoal-burner’s son’s fate in marrying a king’s daughter leading him to eventually rule. The story revolves around the king doing everything in order to keep his daughter free from this marriage. However, in the reading, there is a great deal of emphasis on power. This leads to the conclusion that power through monarchy’s in the culture of Czechoslovakia are a great deal of importance. Throughout the story

Ian McEwan’s Atonement 3.1 Plot summary: “Atonement” is a book divided into three main parts. Part one started on hot summer day in 1935, the young girl Briony Tallis at the age of thirteen years old, a talented young writer, live with her family Tallis. She has prepared a play to celebrate her older brother return, which is preformed by her and the three cousins Lola, and the twins Jackson and Piorret Quincey. Whose parents are getting divorced and they are sent to visit Tallis family on summer

simply misconceptions, has progressed intriguing plots for centuries. Often, confusion follows one seeking to find transparent, black and white truths where they don’t exist. In modern literature, a prime model of the effects of confusion can be seen in Ian McEwan’s Atonement. Atonement, being a novel founded upon a principle of varied versions of reality created through misunderstandings triggered by adolescence and a lust for control, shows how the act of seeking clear black and white answers in a gray

The implications of the war in Ian McEwan's ‘Atonement' and Wilfred Owen's poetry go far beyond putting their work into a historical perspective. The war's true importance in ‘Atonement' is to help delve deeper into the psyche of a character that has lost all consciousness of reality in this way Owen uses war as a symbol of the tragedy of human life. Both texts reflect on the idea that suffering, waste, violence and evil are the necessary conditions of human life and more importantly they shed light

This story is about two children, Zach and Gray, that go to visit their aunt at a amusement park of dinosaurs, that is known as Jurassic World 22 years after the park, before it failed. The park has been going great until the scientists decide to break the rules about how to make the dinosaurs, and create a completely new hybrid breed of dinosaur, called the Indominus Rex, that can also camouflage. Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) is a dedicated velociraptor trainer, he has spent so much time with this creatures

King Lear by William Shakespeare consists of many themes that affect the way the play is told. Shakespeare incorporates the themes of authority and order, family relationships, loyalty, and blindness to build the play upon. King Lear starts off exhibiting authority and order with Lear asking his daughters how much they love him in order to decide how he will divide his lands. As expected, Regan and Goneril respond with what he wants to hear. Cordelia, however, responds by saying, “Unhappy that

Ian Fleming and On Her Majesty’s Secret Service You can always tell the power of an incredible artist by the amount of people influenced by their work. Ian Fleming’s works have touched people from all ages, from children to the elderly, he has a book that could entertain them all. Risk Taking is common theme that comes up in many, if not most of his novels. By looking at On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, one can see that Ian Fleming included the theme of risk taking because he himself enjoyed and

the notion of literary delusion and great social awareness in the domain of contemporary literature. One of the most interesting aspects of a successful novel is its reference to events and texts beyond its immediate universe. Atonement, written by Ian McEwan, is a novel that transcends literary boundaries by commenting on the narrator’s egocentrism, while simultaneously exploring human sexuality and subverting Victorian Puritanical mores of sex. Atonement incorporates numerous literary allusions

In Ian McEwan’s novel Solar, the audience must suffer through the perspective of the obese, self-centered, womanizing main character Michael Beard whose interest in climate change stems from a desire to reap economic benefits and a boost to his reputation. Far from a novel that presents a scientific protagonist with a desire to save humanity rather than make a fortune from a catastrophic future, Solar failed to live up to the high expectation held by ecocritics. The satirical nature of the novel

Briony Tallis is a girl who desires to have control over everyone around her, she is “one of those children possessed by a desire to have the world just so” (McEwan). Briony is determined to shift characteristics of people that she knows in order to create a lifestyle that suits her. Through Robbie, Cecilia, and even herself, this negative aspect is portrayed. Briony ruins three lives, including her own, due to her dependence on creating the world that fits perfectly into her naïve imagination. The