Author Archives: karma623

Cronberg’s M. Butterfly film adaptation, Act 2 Scene 2, has been changed from the original text in both setting and script. There is no direct addressing of Gallimard to the crowd, which is not necessary anyway, as the action and … Continue reading →

My post is about Iago’s speech from Act 2, scene 3, lines 262-272. This entire speech of Iago’s is saturated in irony. First there is the idea that he is acting this out on a stage, at the same time … Continue reading →

Sorry friends, whatever place I copied the sutra from, won’t let me type normal anywhere, so Sunflower Sutra, by Allen Ginsberg, a poem filled with imagery, trashed by it, to show how America was trashed by mobilization and industrialization. Sutra … Continue reading →

Sunflower Sutra I walked on the banks of the tincan banana dock and sat down under the huge shade of a Southern Pacific locomotive to look at the sunset over the box house hills and cry. Jack Kerouac sat beside … Continue reading →

Select one figure of speech eh? Well at first reading of these poems I was sucked in to After Arthur Rimbaud. After reading Corbett’s Rhetoric guide, well it’s actually kind of amazing how many examples of figures of speech I can … Continue reading →

Philadelphia Fire is a trying book, and nothing quite like I had expected. I was imagining a story about a fire, how it happened, why it happened, and maybe what happened after. This book instead is a puzzle. It seems … Continue reading →

“ The play’s really about Prospero’s guts. Everyman. The inner drama. The war of light and darkness within our souls.” (P145) Philadelphia Fire was nothing like I expected.  The story itself deals with battles. There is a battle of voices, … Continue reading →

It is the characters in Tar Baby and their consistency to identify themselves and each other that hold precedence in this story. Each character has his or her developed background story and is deeply rooted in it. Valerian (valerian-also the … Continue reading →

Omniscient point of View- Winesburg, Ohio By Sherwood Anderson Anderson as the narrator tells the story of the small town of Winesburg, and all the peculiar characters in the town. He relates to the reader the thoughts and feelings of … Continue reading →

The definitions and ideas of race and ethnicity are still being argued over today. The Modern world is having trouble-defining race. In times now people feel uncomfortable using the word race because of racism and the inability for everyone to … Continue reading →