… It is set in Italy, during the Roman era. The plot revolves around the murder of Julius Caesar and the power struggle between Caesar's friends and enemies. In this essay I will compare and contrast Brutus and Antony's speeches after Caesar's…

… son, a deadly bet, robbery, attempted murder, and much deception all contribute to the allure of the Grimm Brother's folktale, "The Master-Thief". While the folktale appeals to the human romanticism of crime, specifically of excellent criminals, the…

… Dickens was concerned that social problems in England, particularly those relating to the condition of the poor, might provoke a mass reaction on the scale of the French Revolution. A Tale of Two Cities opens in 1775, with a comparison of England and…

… romantic/horror film that takes place in Egypt and is a perfect setting for this movie. The monuments foreshadow the movie through symbolism with various Egyptian temples. The first time the movie warns the viewer through a monument is when Jackie,…

… Generally features strong elements of the supernatural, psychotic, sexually perverse or a combination of all three. - Gothic usually featured dark, brooding setting: Damziels in distress. - When Shelley wrote "Frankenstein" Gothic had gone out of…

… thinking that people could change he was soon to realize that he himself was changed. Javert grew up with a prostitute as a mother and a father as a thief, and he saw all this and he realized that he didn't want to become any thing like them. He hated…

… novel Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, the relationship between a young man that commits a murder and his friends and family is explored. The characters that Dostoevsky creates are filled with beautiful contradictions that make them all the…

… strange, unnatural twists in many different stories and plays. In William Shakespeare's Macbeth the involvement of the supernatural creates a mood of eeriness which is used to foreshadow future events where the decisions of the characters are deeply…

… attempts to lighten the atmosphere by introducing a verbal duel,eg whenever lady Anne says something cruel Richard plays her words making something good of it.he also uses flattery whilst anne is bitter about her husbands death richard intention is…

… us to do many things no matter if they are right or wrong. In the play Macbeth it was fear that was the main motivating factor that influenced the outcome of the play. This can be proved by the subsequent murders that followed after Duncan's, why …