In the short story "The Ballad of the Sad Café,"" Carson McCullers utilizes distortion of literary reality to impart her lessons and thoughts concerning love to the reader. McCullers usage of distortion ultimately moves the story from a simplistic narrative about social misfits to an allegory dealing with very complex and abstract emotions. Once the reader comes to realize the lessons embedded in McCullers' distorted characters and narration, it ... one of his or her digressions, goes into depth about the loneliness of love. The narrator describes love as a selfish, horrible experience, detr...

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... , as well as underlying qualms instilled by difference in cultural influence, plays an imperative role in the full understanding of David Guterson's novel, Snow Falling on Cedars. Many perspectives are possible in interpretation of the piece: for example, interpretation as a romance versus a mystery. Credited with instigating the versatility of the novel are countless trivial and more importantly three prevailing subplots: interracial tension, a love affair forsaken ... by the race gradient and obstructed by Hatsue's marriage to Kabuo, and finally Ishmael's twisted contemplation to aveng...

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... gravity and pertinence. The characters in the movie, as well as in the performance of "Romeo and Juliet", are very consistent with staying in character and have to be to keep the believability of the performance for the audience that is watching both from the audience of the play's viewpoint and the audience of the movie's viewpoint. The consistency of the play and the adding of believability to the characters adds to the plays credibility and ... makes the audience curious as to what is going to happen next. The ability to take the emotion, love and desperation of these two ... ...

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... century San Francisco, Alfred Hitchcock's film "Vertigo," is a hypnotic tale of one man's struggle for power, his hopeless search for his ideal love and his abandonment of reality for an illusion. In particular, the scene in Scottie's apartment after he rescues Madeleine from the bay is significant in illustrating these central themes, which is made especially effective through Hitchcock's use ... , haunted persona, yet they also represent the unattainable qualities of an ideal woman that Scottie becomes hopelessly obsessed with. It is his inclination for romantic delusion that leads him...

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