Responding to Clover’s work on the alleged pleasures of horror films,Footnote45Read addresses the issue of agency within the rape-revenge genre.Footnote46She sees such films as transforming the victim into heroine.Footnote47Given the dominant nature of the sexploitation trope in such films, whethe...
The tragedy of Darth Plagueis"Is it possible to learn this power?""Not from a Jedi." ―Anakin Skywalker and Palpatine[3]The Supreme Chancellor and Anakin Skywalker in Palpatine's private viewing box at the Galaxies Opera HouseAt the Galaxies Opera House in the Uscru District, Anakin joins...
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the downfall of two, and the rise to power of one. Since the Heads of the three major families were each murdered, the eldest sons of these families swore vengeance, and two of the three sons died while exacting their acts of vengeance, revenge is a major theme in the Tragedy of ...
Revenge in the Elizabethan drama was an elaborate and protracted business. In Henry Chat-tle's The Tragedy of Hoffman (1603), the protagonist Clois Hoffman employs a storm, a curtained cave, his father's skeleton, an iron crown, sundry accomplices, disguises, and stratagems to appease his ...
In 2008, a community was shocked by the brutal stabbing deaths of Tom Hunter and Shirlee Sherman inside the Hunter family home. Police found no DNA, no signs of a robbery and little motive for someone to want them dead. Five years later and six miles away, tragedy struck again when Dr...
I don’t think that there’s a single person that doesn’t know someone who was affected by this tragedy. So, it kind of makes you think about how to answer the most basic questions of how are we, how are we feeling? This is the craziest thing in this situation. We’re mainly ...
But try telling that to the Bush Administration or to World Bank president (and former White House trade rep) Robert Zoellick, who’s busy exploiting tragedy to promote trade liberalization. “If ever there is a time to cut distorting agricultural subsidies and open markets for food imports, ...
The romance was a tale or ballad of chivalric adventure whose emphasis on individual heroism and on the exotic and the mysterious was in clear contrast to the elegant formality and artificiality of prevailing Classical forms of literature, such as the French Neoclassical tragedy or the English ...