by Alexis Jennings | Apr 23, 2024 | Literature
In both Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl and Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, webs of deceit are spun through various characters misrepresenting the truth. Gender is frequently used as a tool to advance the characters’ ability to deceive, or...
by Alexis Jennings | Apr 23, 2024 | Literature
When we talk about life, we may always think life is a drama. Dramatism is a theory that compares life to drama. Kenneth Burke was the person who founded Dramatism Theory and he claimed that it was a way to analyze people’s relationship with each other. Dramatism...
by Alexis Jennings | Apr 23, 2024 | Literature
Following the narrator’s perspective along the tale, it’s possible to sense he is a worrying man, who is scared of reality after everything he went through. As he faces the reality of something unpleasant yet familiar, we catch a glimpse of who Sonny is through...
by Alexis Jennings | Apr 23, 2024 | Literature
According to ADAA, “40 million adults deal with suffering and only 36.9% of those individuals receive treatment.” Sonny’s Blue by James Baldwin, circles a character named Sonny who uses jazz to escape suffering. The narrator and Sonny are both siblings who were raised...
by Alexis Jennings | Apr 23, 2024 | Literature
In the film Fight Club, Edward Norton plays the role of the Narrator, who is a white–collared insomniac. The main character Edward Norton in the film applied himself the Ego defense mechanism namely displacement and reaction formation. The main character adopted a...
