Set in the hauntingly secluded locations of mid-twentieth 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. ... Although Scottie's determination to protect Madeleine, which stems from a deep-seated sense of insecurity, contributes hugely to the spiraling circularity of love and loss in the plot-line, Scottie's attraction to the world of romantic illusion is what culminates in the film's tragic ending. ... It is his inclinati...

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A novel of love and destruction, Snow Falling on Cedars is satiated with underlying plots and morally exigent themes. {Guterson's novel interweaves realistic interpretations with romantic accents to fuse these subplots, together with a role-playing setting, into one watertight mystery romance.} ... The presence of setting, in its most transparent realistic form, swabs the otherwise blasé backgrounds and characters with hints or sponge-loads of romantic tinges, depending upon their corresponding importance in Snow Falling On Cedars. ... Credited with instigating the versat...

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The relationship is regarded as within the Creole social convention of an adoring young man expressing his love for a married woman, who remains faithful and chaste. ... The archetype feminist rebel, Edna Pontellier, even defies the traditional definition of a Victorian woman within the context of a romantic relationship. ... Rejecting the time-honored perception of the women being the romantic fixation, Edna instead chooses to seek out romantic partners herself, contrary to the popular belief of men being the ones that court and pursue. ... Edna's awakening, initiated during her summer a...

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In Frankenstein, Shelley explores the transgression of the natural order in the Romantic ideal by humanity's ongoing pursuit of progress and knowledge, a consequence of the Enlightenment Era and the Industrial Revolution. ... The connotation of "penetrate the secrets of nature" reflects the Romantic concern that specific aspiration was an exploitative violation of nature. ... At birth, Victor's creation reflects the Lockean "blank slate" concept as he begins in a state of innocence, exemplified in the metaphor "my soul glowed with love and humanity." He develops characteristi...

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Hamlet and Laertes are compared to each other in terms of their different kind of love for the same person, Ophelia, who is the lover of the former and the sister of the latter: they both reacted in a rather violently grieving way when they saw Ophelia's corpse in the grave. One major difference, though, is that the audience was never really sure of the trueness of Hamlet's feelings for Ophelia until the end of the play when he said "I lov'd Ophelia: forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum" (V, i, 277-279), where as Laertes' love f...

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While grief is a heavy and debilitating emotion, the convention remains that one shows an emotional response to the death of a loved one and this typical response is represented by the character of Thomas Perez, "fainting (like a dislocated dummy) " (Camus 12) at the funeral. ... If the other characters did not impose the social tags of "fiance'"" and "son"" on Meursault, he himself would not seek to initiate or sustain those ties, explaining why he continuously acts as the passive agent in both a filial relationship and a romantic relationship. ... (Camus 75), demonstrating his unorthodo...

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In fact, such values have influenced romantic and family relationships and traditions. For instance, most children at Christmas time expect to receive material gifts as a sigh of love, also today it is impossible to imagine a proposal without a ring- in many cases material objects represent and mean more than human relationships. ...

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To illustrate this, I will use a visual sign: if a young female character walked onto the stage wearing a lacy negligee, the different social implications are obvious; on a general level, most would appreciate that the it was evening time and that the character had retired to bed, whilst some may assume that she was having a "romantic encounter". To a younger, more idealistic audience this connotation would be romantic, erotic and mysterious. ... Yet, to a lonely widower, the connotations could cause painful reminiscence on her lost love and companion. ...

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Figure 1 -Oil on Canvas Oil on canvas was done by Robert Rauschenberg it contains JFK, as the most dominant image, Pop artists, often portrayed famous people into there paintings and show them in different ways "Icons of the new reality came to be provided by pop art" JFK was by now one of the most famous and loved people in America, two years after his death he was already becoming iconic, and paintings like oil on canvas only reinforced this. ... In this photograph Jackie looks beautiful and elegant, and John looks Handsome, Loyal and in love. ... Only beating Nixon by the smallest marg...

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Egeus doesn't choose the court on a whim; rather, he is hopeful that by taking Hermia to the literal and symbolic seat of the highest authority of the land, she will recognize and honor masculine authority and, by extension, will comply with traditional gender roles, which dictated that a woman should marry to either preserve or advance social ties and familial goals, not to gratify her own romantic or sexual needs or desires. ... Also like Hermia, Olivia is determined to love who she wants and on her own terms; for this reason she invents the excuse that she is mourning for her deceased ...

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The love stories that are typically embedded within traditional Western genre films are that of seemingly impossible circumstance - some kind of conflict preventing the two from being together, the leading male displaying his heroic qualities at the end by "rescuing" the comparatively weak female lead and all odds are overcome as the two characters ride off into the sunset. As viewers, we have come to expect these types of romantic plot lines from the Western genre. ...

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This extended essay question is mostly significant because the narrator is crucial in creating the reader's emotions about the protagonist that is shown throughout the text itself; it is important to know that the effects and limits of this type of perspective is used in order to love and cherish literature more and how it has been formed to make up Grenouille and produce the wanted reaction and to Grenouille and the reader them self, therefore allowing Suskind to share his observation of the social and immoral uselessness society that was beginning to grow predominately in the early eigh...

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