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    Tim Burton

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    Tim Burton There are many cinematic techniques that help a movie become entertaining. So everyone uses them. Different elements can create many different moods during a movie and every director has a different way of making a movie. Tim Burton uses lighting and different angles to contrast fantasy with reality and show the strength of all his different characters. Tim Burton uses lighting to show fantasy and reality in his movies. In the film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory high key lighting

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    Grendel as a Bully or Grendel as Pleasant Have you ever heard the same story twice and had a different view on the story the second time you heard it? This is what happened in the novel Grendel by John Gardner; it was a retelling of the epic poem Beowulf just Gardner gave the reader an insight to what it was like to be in Grendel’s shoes. Although these two stories had a similar background‚ a main difference in the two was the perception at which each of the stories was told. Grendel was told

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    carrying emotion and life lessons in which may never has occurred to the average thinker. Tim Burton’s films are like music‚ each one a slightly different tone yet just as meaningful. The appeal Tim Burton has on its audience through the use of imagination‚ characterization‚ and animation. Tim Burton is a creatively dark inspirational movie director and producer‚ he’s simply an artist. His work is gothic and quirky‚ causing it to appeal to a broad audience. From children to adults‚ Tim Burton’s

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    events. This idea is never more evident than through the disparity between Burton Raffel’s translation of Beowulf and John Gardner’s Grendel. Both novels are based on the idea of Beowulf killing Grendel. However‚ the two different points of view telling the story create vastly different novels. Beowulf highlights the heroic and positive world in which Beowulf lives. Whereas Grendel elucidates on the miserable life that Grendel is circumscribed to. The consistent variance in tone skews the events in

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    Grendel - Sympathy

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    Grendel – Sympathy When Beowulf is retold from Grendel’s point of view many different assumptions can be made when evaluating and comparing Grendel to Beowulf. The sympathy‚ which Grendel withholds‚ represents his innocence and how he isn’t just a “monster.” Due to this reason‚ readers feel very sympathetic towards Grendel compared to Beowulf due to the fact that he is incoherent to the many actions humans perform. Readers who have read Beowulf notice the different in Grendel’s character

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    Who is the Real Grendel? “Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.” (Phaedrus) This quote applies directly to man’s perception of Grendel in Beowulf as translated by Burton Raffel. The true character of Grendel is revealed in Grendel by John Gardener. These two works show Grendel as a bloodthirsty monster that murders warriors within King Hrothgar’s hall. Grendel is characterized in very different ways in these two depictions. They agree that Grendel led an angry unhappy

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    Byrne British Literature 26 October 2012 “All evils are equal when they are extreme.” This quote by Pierre Corneille explains the natural evil humans have. In the novel Grendel by John Gardner‚ a monster named Grendel‚ who was once depicted as a complete evil creature in the epic poem Beowulf‚ tells the monster’s side of the story through it’s own eyes. By reading the text in the novel Grendel a person can realize that the monster Grendel was seeking attention and acceptance from the Danes

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    Grendel Analysis

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    Grendal is an evil monster‚ or maybe that is what the poet wants his readers to think. The poet’s use of sensory images‚ emotive words‚ and kennings to paint a picture that Grendal is a monster‚ but this is only an illusion. To begin with‚ tone helps the poet display Grendal as a monster‚ not a human. The first example is from lines 407-8‚ “He strode quickly across the inlaid/floor‚ snarling and fierce.” This quote shows Grendal making snarling noises‚ only those a monster would make. This only

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    Macbeth and Grendel

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    The Face of Evil Although the definitions of evil vary‚ as well as its motives and causes‚ one who possesses characteristics of profound immorality‚ sinfulness‚ and corruption could be described as an evil individual. Evil is typically perceived as the dualistic opposite of good. While many characters in literature throughout history are conceived as evil‚ two distinct characters stand out from the rest; Macbeth in Shakespeare’s definitive tale Macbeth and Grendel in the legendary masterpiece

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    Research Paper Good Vs. Evil Beowulf is an Anglo-Saxon epic poem. The poem was written in England but it is set in the Scandinavian country. The time period is between the 5th and 6th centuries‚ but was written between the 8th and 11th centuries. Beowulf is noted to be the most famous of epic poems‚ especially in the Anglo-Saxon works of literature. All things in the world boil down to being either of the two‚ good or evil. In the story Beowulf good and evil are portrayed in a very black

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