... vivid setting descriptions, sometimes with hidden meanings, which contribute to the intelligence of the novel. "It was precisely the sort of home Carl would build, he thought - blunt, tidy, gruffly respectable, and offering no affront to the world, though at the same time inviting nobody. It sat back fifty yards ... , blinded by his own fanatical interpretation of true love and abandonment, developed almost a homicidal abhorrence for this forsaken destiny. " "He hated her with everything in his heart, he wrote, and it felt good to write it in just that way. I hate you with all my heart ...

• Word Count: 950
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Graduate

... the play "Romeo and Juliet" and this movie, are parallels of each other. Through the scenarios that happen in William Shakespeare life in sixteenth century England, he draws from these and reintegrates them into his play (ex. The man crying out the window: "A plague on both your houses." and when Viola and Shakespeare ... first meet at the palace that night, when William was not supposed to be there and he saw Viola dancing and fell in love with her is exactly the same as Romeo going to the ball the night he met Juliet and fell in love.) The movie, "Shakespeare in Love", is very unique be...

• Word Count: 1874
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Graduate

... responsibility of protecting. His insistence on Madeleine drinking his coffee and calling him "Scottie" or "John,"" as opposed to Mr Ferguson, as well as the brusque, interrogatory manner with which he directs questions at her showcase his growing confidence in his own masculinity. Her submission to his requests and apparent appreciation of him, evident when she glances up through her eyelashes ... hopelessly obsessed with. It is his inclination for romantic delusion that leads him to fall prey to Judy's trickery, readily rejecting real love in favor of the illusive, dreamlike love he f...

• Word Count: 868
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Graduate