... been an influx of vampire folklore in popular culture. With the advent of television shows such as "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", fictional horror novels including Joel Schumacher's The Lost Boys and the series of vampire novels by Anne Rice, and movies ... LESTAT: You're sure? LOUIS: Sure... Louis rises to accept the first drops with his open mouth. Lestat gathers him up, as Louis clamps his hand on Lestat ... the best prime-time television drama series, and is currently the number 1 show in its time slot. "Into each generation a Slayer is born. One girl in swell of all the world, a Chosen...

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In the final book of Frank Miller's influential graphic novel Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, "Russia has taken the lead in the arms race" (Miller, 168). After a nuclear weapon forces Gotham into a frenzy, planes descend from the sky and destroy buildings, fires are started and mobs begin destroying the once lawful city. Escaping from jail, the Mutant Gang take to the streets claiming the night as their own. "Like in a western" (Miller, 175), Batman arrives once again to save Gotham city from destroying itself. Unlike other instances where he rides in the Batmobile, he gallantly arrives on ho...

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... human generations with the eternal survival of nature. The world endures, the sun continues to rise and set despite the inevitable passage of each human generation into death. Hemingway's juxtaposition of the two epigraphs produces an ambivalent tone. On the one hand, there is hope because there will be a new generation after the aimless generation that populates The Sun Also Rises. On the other hand, there is bitter irony in the contrast, since every generation is lost in one ... sense because they will eventually die. The following is an extract from the novel, "In the morning it was ...

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... of masculinity. Nevertheless, Jake fails to fulfill other requisites of the Hemingway man as he deviates from his own ethical standards. Still, Jake Barnes represents the best of the lost generation, the best that is lost. Barnes is the maimed knight of the lost. As Mark Spilka suggests, in his"The Death of Love in The Sun Also Rises," Barnes is uncomfortably similar to Cohn, the romantic knight in full flower; and he is sadly incapable ... of the self-sufficient manhood of Romero, the bullfighter, who has drawn the sportsman's independent contest to a point of steel ... ...

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... still have equally intense emotional bonds, as long as they remained nonsexual. An anxiety towards homosexuality and a feeling of inadequacy towards his own male character followed the soldier through peacetime. In a world changed forever, the male characters in Ernest Hemingway's, The Sun Also Rises, struggle to face their new role as a male, and prove to themselves and others that they are still masculine. Jake Barnes serves ... had to face society at large. A damaged masculinity was just one of the characteristics of the Lost Generation that caused a separation between them, and the ...

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... theme in Hemingway's work is heroism. Most of his novels are not primarily studies of death or simply researches into the lost generation. They are essentially the portrayal of a hero, the man who by force of some extraordinary quality sets the standards for those around him. Hemingway has always kept four subjects in his mind when writing. These four subjects which have always ... says, "[M]an is not made for defeat....A man can be destroyed but not defeated" (103). Ernest Hemingway is a renowned American author of the Twentieth century who centers his novels on personal experiences a...

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... War I, Hemingway returned to Michigan to write, hunt, and fish. In the 1920s he moved to Paris to work as a newsman. It was during this time that Hemingway and a group of ex-patriot American artists and writers became known as the "lost generation."" These people were devastated by the war and expressed the disillusionment and brutality of humanity in their works. Hemingway later moved to ... Key West, Florida and then Cuba following the outbreak of World War II. While working in Spain, Hemingway developed a love of bull fighting ... that Margot (in a desperate state of fear) is the on...

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... The all-seeing sun ne'er saw her match, since first the world begun" (Lines 94-95, Scene 2, Act 1). Romeo immaturity was further shown by the way he handled Tybalt's slaying of Mercutio. He thought nothing of the consequences of killing Tybalt which made his life crash down around him also trapping the ... feelings toward Hindley and Catherine hardened and she softened so much toward Heathcliff that "Hindley lost his last ally." Heathcliff "was the quietest child that ever nurse watched over. The difference between him and the others forced me to be less partial. Cathy and her brother har...

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