James Murdoch

During the period of Bernard Shaw and John Bulls Other Island furthermore, John Millington Synge and the Congested District essays’ it has been observed that both writers made an effort to include “ a real Ireland”, an Ireland seen during the first decade of the twentieth century and a progression of Ireland, how Ireland would come to be known. Through further examination we are able to not only prove that this style of writing was seen in both of their works, but also provide some reasoning into

In the novella Frankenstein, Mary Shelley uses geography to further the plot, reveal the true intentions of characters and convey the novella’s theme of sublime nature. The theme of sublime nature is the idea that nature is comprised of a mixture of terror and beauty. One example of sublime nature supported by geography is the monster, which is truly a terror in appearance and spirit being born in Ingolstadt. Shelly contrasts this “terror” of Ingolstadt to the beauty of Geneva, Frankenstein’s birthplace

Ambition: The Real Villain Edna Ferber, an American novelist, comments, “Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little” (Ferber). The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Stevenson and Macbeth by William Shakespeare both illustrate this idea. In Stevenson’s novel, a scientist named Henry Jekyll experiments with the phenomenon of separating one’s dual nature, which unfortunately kills him because he is not able to take control of his evil side. In Shakespeare’s play, Macbeth, a

Titan or Theif In Greek Mythology, there is a tale where a Titan named Prometheus stole fire from the gods and put it in the clay to make man. Like in the Greek Mythology, Mary Shelley has Victor Frankenstein steal life from nature. As Mary Shelley states in the title of her book Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, she parallels Victor Frankenstein to the Titan Prometheus. As Mary Shelley states in Frankenstein the pursuit of unknown knowledge is dangerous. “ So much has been done… I will

Although The Turn of the Screw (1898) by Henry James is a century older than Margaret Atwood’s “Death by Landscape” (1990), it is not impossible to connect the stories to each other. The stories’ contents are different – The Turn of the Screw is a Gothic ghost story, whereas “Death by Landscape” is a more psychological story of a woman who tries to deal with a childhood trauma, namely the death of her friend –, but there are some aspects in which the stories are similar. Both texts have an open ending

Edith Wharton, a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer is markedly unique, insisting on order, form, standards and disciplines which curb the romantic individualism. In addition to her fifteen novels, she has to her credit, seven novellas, and eighty-five short stories, poems, books on design, travel, literary and cultural criticism, and a memoir. Her writing is classical and it reveals the instability of human nature, the impossibility of perfection of human beings and

John Milton is the lead protagonist in the John Milton series of novels by British mystery, thriller, and suspense author Mark Dawson. John Milton made his first appearance in the 2013 published title The Cleaner. The series of novels are best classified as mystery thrillers. John Milton was a ruthless killer who was the man that the government sent to eliminate targets that proved too hard to track or kill. Milton, killing was more of art and he considers himself a highly skilled craftsman. He

The novel tells the story of the scientist Victor Frankenstein, who loses touch with reality, while creating a new form of life, a monstrous being who nevertheless has human character traits. The nameless creature appears to be a representation of evil, a character representing unconscious, instinctual drives. Yet, the creature becomes only a monster due to denied love and rejection by Victor Frankenstein. Thus, he swears to take revenge, transforming into a monster. Thus, Frankenstein presents two

James Hilton wrote Lost Horizon in 1933, and it was an immediate success, selling millions of copies, influencing President Roosevelt to name what's now Camp David Shangri-La, and Frank Capra, a hot director after an Oscar sweep with It Happened One Night in 1934, made a movie of Lost Horizon in 1937. The book also makes a big impression at first reading, especially for younger readers (which is when I first read it, many years ago now), who are captivated by the atmosphere of mystery and mysticism

In the year 2009, James Cameron wrote and directed one of the most remarkable films I have ever seen ‘Avatar’. This science-fiction saga has a story line that is engaging and captivating for its audience. Avatar took place on a moon called Pandora. Humans discovered very valuable natural resources on Pandora and did whatever it took to obtain what they needed from Pandora. The people of Pandora are Na’vi’s, a 10 foot tall, blue-skinned humanoid alien group that lived in the rainforest or Pandora