Helena Bonham Carter Essays

with not a batted eye nor consideration of why this would be wrong. In this day and age, such blatant disrespect for women would be greatly frowned upon by a modern and discerning audience, no doubt filled with cultured women who would take offence. Bonham-Carter’s Ophelia is far from the frail and tragically beautiful flower that she is often interpreted as; “ she's like a rag doll losing its stuffings” (Hinson). With ratted hair and wild eyes, and a voice that shifts rapidly between soft and biting

Film Analysis 1: Fight Club (2001) Plot Summary- Fight Club is about man whose name is unknown that works at a car insurance company. The narrator leads a consumerist lifestyle; decorating his bachelor pad with unnecessary furniture and having a fridge full of condiments but no real food within. He suffers from chronic insomnia, and expresses very low enthusiasm in his job due to his lack of sleep condition. It all began when he went to a prostate cancer patients support group where he met cancer

In Mary Shelley’s iconic gothic novel, Frankenstein, Romantic themes are strongly represented in order to propagandize Romanticism over the elements of knowledge and the Enlightenment. In her novel, Shelley uses gothic nature settings to foreshadow dark events that are about to happen in the novel. She also uses nature to intensify the effect that is brought during significant scenes, a strong example being, when Victor Frankenstein’s monster approaches him after a long period of time. Nature and

Alice's adventures in wonderland is a fantasy book wrote by Lewis Carroll in 1865. The author wrote it due to his friend's daughter, Alice Liddell's request. But Carroll sent the book to publication before handed it to Alice. The book is about a girl named Alice and her weird but fun encounters in the wonderland, everything happens there is disorder. She met a serial of strange things, surely those are fun adventures, and other characters like the white rabbit, Caterpillar, the Cheshire cat, The

The extract is from Macbeth written by William Shakespeare in the year 1606. It is from act 4 scene 2. The extract primarily deals with the frustration and anger of lady macduff for her husband who fled away to England and betrayed her and their children. Lady macduff and her son have a serious talk in this scene in which she argues about how will they survive without the main pillar of their family i.e. macduff. The context starts with the conversation between Ross and Lady Macduff. Her tone reflects

Men and women both have the capability to deceive each other; yet, in the fifteenth century, a patriarchal society would blame women the most when it comes to dishonesty. In “The Wife of Bath's Prologue” and the “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” of The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer gives women the opportunity to defend their gender against the dominating male sex. Both texts describe the negative social views of women and how the Wife intends to correct them through her own gender perceptions plus the

William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark has many deaths in it, emphasizing the title’s claim as a tragedy. Most of the deaths in the play can be traced to a certain act of violence. Any given act of violence in this play has a meaning attached to it. The main act of violence that starts the chain of events to bring about the end of the play is when Prince Hamlet stabs Polonius. Polonius was spying on a meeting between Hamlet and the Queen to measure Hamlet’s sanity and to see

In the play “A Midnight Dream” composed by William Shakespeare, he ponders on a quote, “that course of true love never did run smooth” (I.I.134), emphasizing that love is complicated and is not easy. The idea that love is complicated is shown through the many plays that Shakespeare composed like “Much Ado about Nothing.” In Much Ado about Nothing one can correlate the quote from “A Midnight Dream” to the love scenes between Claudio and Hero and Benedick and Beatrice. Those scenes contain the desire

What happens when the point of no return has been passed for a fixing detrimental problem? There are two interpretations of this: through novel and lecture. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a novel about an eighteenth century scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who creates life from a dead body and cannot handle the consequences of his action. Immediately after his creation comes to life, Frankenstein abandons his creation due to pure disgust of its appearance. In a time of loneliness and rejection, the

The Maze Runner “If You Ain’t Scared… You Ain't Human” (Dashner) The Maze Runner books as you may all of as a science-fiction novel, is a thrilling series with twists and turns throughout the whole story with a mastermind plot and climax written by James Dashner, but have you ever taken the time to think about what makes the books and movies so thrilling? In this essay, I will try to convince you to read the books and watch the movies made by this incredible author.To start off I would like to

Top 20 Classic Climactic Movie Quotes With all the movies that you have watched, not all of it you will be able to remember. Even though you don’t fully remember the movies, you will still remember these climactic lines that had caught your taste, interest and attention when being said in the film. These lines are not only popular to the place where it was produced but also to other people in different countries who were able to see the movie. Below is the list of the most classic climactic quotes

Response to Big Fish I recently attended a performance of the musical Big Fish at the Hale Centre Theatre in West Valley City, Utah. Big Fish was originally released as a novel by Daniel Wallace in 1998, then made into a motion picture by Tim Burton in 2003, and finally adapted as a Broadway musical by Susan Stroman in 2013. While there are minor differences in every version, the general theme remains similar in all. As opposed to film or traditional drama, music drama is often criticized for its

takes her through interesting adventures with love. One can infer that Helena is hurt by love when she reacts to love in a foolish manner and remains skeptical about it even at the end of the play. The strong effects of love makes Helena a bit foolish and blind in the ways she reacts to it. In scene one of act one, the readers learn that Helena still loves Demetrius even though he loves her friend, Hermia, now. When Helena is first introduced, she demonstrates her jealousy and insecurities by

him to fall in love with Helena. Demetrius goes from loving Helena to hating her, and loving Hermia to loving Helena because of the influence of the love potion. Helena and Hermia used to have a platonic love, but because of Lysander and Demetrius loving Helena, not Hermia, they feel hatred towards each other. Puck 's confusion over who is Demetrius causes Lysander to fall in love with Helena. Oberon trying to fix Puck 's mistake causes Demetrius to love Helena, and Helena to be distressed. Using

It seems for Phoebe that there is no possible hope to find the true pastoral view of love, because it is simply ridiculous. However, there is an ironic twist when Phoebe falls for Ganymede, who himself is a pastoral character from myth. Ganymede has shown nothing but disdain for Phoebe, even outwardly pointing out her “foulness”, which made Phoebe “fall in love with” Ganymede’s “anger” (3.5.67-69). Despite Ganymede’s pleas for Phoebe to “not fall in love” with her because she is “falser than vows

cannot wait until their wedding night, but she is far better at hiding it. It, however, is not the case that women are forced to hide their sexual wants due to it being considered ‘unsuitable’ for women, as can be seen in the case of Helena and Demetrius. Helena is far from afraid of announcing her affections for Demetrius to him. It is a form of sexual harassment, and Demetrius is far from giving into her wants, and even goes about warning her from spending too much time with him unsupervised:

Raging Desires In A Midsummer Night’s Dream Shakespeare leads us through an abnormal love. The environment occurs in the distinguished kingdom of Athens, where all decisions are conducted by superiority. The four lovers are constrained by the traditions and unable to convey their extensive love for one another they seek for liberation. Meddlesome forces, but magical, taunt their love as they rival their relentless passion driving them apart, but bringing them closer still. William Shakespeare was

Author of Confessions of a Sociopath, M. Thomas, states that “When you grow up as a girl, it is like there are faint chalk lines traced approximately three inches around your entire body at all times, drawn by society, particularly other women, who somehow feel invested in how you behave, as if your actions reflect directly on all womanhood” (Thomas 150). This statement exemplifies the influence and manifest of social construct in society. Construct is the basis for all social structures with gender

couple’s memories as a happy day. Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.- Joy gentle friends! Joy and fresh days of love accompany your hearts.” The river also represents the relationship between Lysander and Hermia, as well as Demetrius and Helena. The river is everflowing, and although there might be rapids and muddy waters, the river continues to run going over and around the problems or “speed bumps” in the way. In, The Climb by Miley Cyrus, she says “always gonna be another mountain,

somehow be explained as they are believed to be deeply enchanted. The reader expects that the lovers would form two couples; however, nonparallel situations occur since both men love Hermia. In addition, the dramaturgic suggests that once Demetrius and Helena were lovers, they could be together again. All of the four lovers are deeply preoccupied with their own feelings, chasing love and the true nature of contentment. To further emphasize on the main motif in the play-the complicated matter of love, we