Themes of love, nature, God, death, and insanity in contemporary literature
This paper examines the theme of beauty in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and in T. S. Eliot's "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." The two authors examine the lack of beauty in characters of the modern world, and show how they suffer as a result of not having found or possessed anything truly beautiful or good in their lives.
Dante, Boethius, and Christianity Dante Alighieri, Author
Dante Alighieri, author of the Divine Comedy, of which the Inferno is the first of three books, called Boethius, an early Christian, "The blessed soul who exposes the deceptive world to anyone who gives ear to him." But…
Chaplin's Modern Times and prewar cinema: directors, messages, and social representation
A comparative analysis of Fritz Lang's Die Nibelung: Siegfried, a 1924 silent film, and Quentin Tarantino's 2012 Django Unchained. In the paper, the films' similar themes are compared; the differences and similarities between mise-en-scene and narrative structure are also analyzed to determine the effect they have on the film and the extent to which they are successful.