Analyse how the strengths and/ or weaknesses of one or more characters reinforced a message. Strengths and Weaknesses Message Evidence Character Weakness: VFDangerously acquires knowledge + pushing the limits of nature due to his need to know Obtaining knowledge which the human frame cannot acquire will mess with the balance of life. “One secret which […]
Produce an essay of fluent and coherent writing which develops, sustains and structures ideas and commands attention. Tim Burton has a very defined style as a director. Analyse how he uses visual and/or verbal features across two or more of his films to fulfil the common conventions of Gothic fiction. Gothic conventions/ elements are represented […]
“I am that very witch. When I sleep my spirit slips away from my body and dances naked with The Devil. That’s how I signed his book.” “The Witch”, a 2015 horror film directed by Robert Eggers, is set in 1630s New England, when a Puritan family is banished from their colonial settlement and forced […]
“And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall.” “Masque of the Red Death” is a Gothic short story written by […]
Aspect Visual Techniques Verbal Techniques Tone and Mood -Monochromatic colour palette: grey, white and black -Tone: There is a supernatural tone to how Sweeney cuts hair, the only supernatural element in the film. Sound effects of the sloppy pies squishing are unnerving. Character – Lovett Submissive, powerless over Sweeney, high camera angle during her discussions […]
“No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience” Above is a quote is from John Locke, an English philosopher and one of the most influential ‘enlightenment thinkers’. Emphasized in his essay ‘Concerning Human Understanding’ is the exploration and understanding of the acquisition of knowledge. According to Locke, us humans shouldn’t cross the limit of […]
“There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart -an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading imagination could torture into aught of the sublime.” “The Fall of the House of Usher” is a gothic short story written by Edgar Allen Poe, which tells the tale of the narrator’s unnerving and discomforting visit […]
John Locke (1632-1704) is an English philosopher from the United Kingdom whose theories contributed greatly to the age of enlightenment. He contributed to the social contract theory and also famously developed the theory of mind, revolving around the concept of ‘tabula rasa’ which meant that when born,one’s mind is a blank slate. He is most […]
Geneva (House and surrounding woods): Ingolstadt (The loft/lab): The North Pole (Walton’s ship):
Types of Conflict Internal or External? Evidence Man vs Self Internal (A conflict that occurs within the mind of a single character.) ” I was tempted to plunge into the silent lake, that the waters might close over me and my calamities forever. But I was restrained, when I thought of the heroic and suffering Elizabeth, […]