... 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 elicits a strong emotional response ... of personal satisfaction that can be bought with material goods. The characters in the story crave to love someone else but fear to be its recipient. Even the narrator, in...

• Word Count: 426
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Graduate

... 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 of camera angles, framing and background music ... 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 finds with Madeleine. As the two converse for ...

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

Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson's mystery-suspense novel, provides an immaculate interpretation of a small American coastal island's trial to conquer and expel the ongoing dogmatic narrow-mindedness synonymous with its inhabitants. A novel of love and destruction, Snow Falling on Cedars is satiated with underlying plots and morally exigent themes. {Guterson's ... thorny for these two cultures to co-exist. Hatsue, encouraged to marry within her heritage by family and Mrs. Shigemura, an instructor of social savvy, began to distance herself from the passionate relationship as time went on...

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

... is encouraged by his peers to create a comedy play called "Romeo and Ethel, the pirates daughter", because at the time comedy plays were a big success. Instead, William creates a tragedy play, about "two star crossed lovers" from two different worlds who will fall deeply in love with each other and suffer the consequences of society around them that does not let them choose who they ... be with each other, to defy their parents, friends, and society just to be with each other. The movie, "Shakespeare in Love" and the theatrical performance of "Romeo and Juliet" closely parallel each oth...

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