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    remarkable films. From Edward Scissorhands‚ where the main character has scissors for hands instead of real hands‚ to Alice in Wonderland‚ where the main character is thrown into a strange land with gruesome creatures and maniac queens‚ Burton’s unique talent of twisting innocent stories into darker‚ more sinister versions‚ is evident. To do so‚ He often incorporates the use of specific cinematic techniques that help

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    outsider. Tim Burton’s films fall under the outcast category. His films are unusually unique. In his films Alice in Wonderland and Edward Scissorhands Burton takes an original idea from his childhood and a common fairytale and pulls out the grim side of the story‚ yet still keeps the film’s child-like feeling. Alice‚ from Alice in Wonderland‚ and Edward from‚ Edward Scissorhands‚ are both characters that are treated as social pariahs and also see the world differently. Tim Burton uses multiple cinematic

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    Jonathan Edwards was strictly focused on wicked Puritians and thier belife on their almighty God. Edwards wanted to persue his audience that all wicked people should repent from thier sins or else they would face the consquences of angry God. Thougout this sermon Johnathan Edwards incorpriates retorical devices to persue his audience that they need to repent from thier sins. The retoical devices Edwards uses to emphasize his point are illusions‚ similies‚ and analogies. Jonathan Edwards utilized

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    techniques in order to enhance the fact that his characters are dark in many scenes and also to make the viewer feel scared of them. Tim Burton in Edward Scissorshands uses low angles in order to create suspense. For example when Jim yelled at Edward and told him to leave‚ Edward stormed off in rage‚ and started to cut everything in his path and while Edward was on a destructive rampage‚ the camera was getting lowered at the same time. This use of angles makes

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    The experience of moving into the world can challenge individual’s beliefs and attitudes. The texts The Story of Tom Brennan and Edward Scizzorhands illustrate this through their featured themes of belonging and the introduction to a new world. The Story of Tom Brennan illustrates that the introduction to a new environment can force an indiviual to rethink their beliefs and attitudes. The plot takes Tom and his family‚ the Brennans out of their home town after tragedy strikes and they are forced

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    Roosting" is one of the many poems published by Ted Hughes during his literary career dealing with animal and nature. In this poem we have a Hawk who thinks that everything in nature is inferior to him and he will allow no change in his life. The stylistic devices used by Hughes make this poem harsh and dynamic showing us an aggressive‚ unsentimental and gloomy image of the Hawk and at the same time realistic‚ which help to mirror the character of the Hawk. The poem is written in six regular stanzas‚ each

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    Rhetorical Devices used by Jonathan Edward In “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” During the Great Awaking on July 8‚ 1741 a minister named Jonathan Edwards preached a sermon of warning to all sinners called “Sinner in the Hand of an Angry God”. Edwards’s sermon brought people of all kinds to tears and to collapse in dread. In Edwards’s sermon he preaches the greats fear of all sinners‚ full of hellish metaphors‚ loaded diction‚ and vivid imagery to scare all sinners into being reborn. One

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    Long periods of isolation can transform one into an unordinary member of society. In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and the film Edward Scissorhands directed by Tim Burton‚ the creature and Edward are unable to evolve into ordinary members of society due to the effects of long periods of isolation. The isolation that both the creature and Edward experience from being alienated by their creators leaves them oblivious when trying to abide by the rules of society. The creature is abandoned

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    STYLISTICS In Stylistics Richard Bradford provides a definitive introductory guide to modern critical ideas on literary style and stylistics. The book includes examples of poems‚ plays and novels from Shakespeare to the present day. This comprehensive and accessible guidebook for undergraduates explains the terminology of literary form‚ considers the role of stylistics in twentieth-century criticism‚ and shows‚ with worked examples‚ how literary style has evolved since the sixteenth century. This

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    get the crown. He seems to have gotten used to the idea of killing because the body counts has risen drastically. * Since the first prophecy of the witches came true Macbeth feels that he must kill Banquo and Fleance so that the second part from becoming realized. * Fleance survives which suggests that there is no escape from the witches’ prophecies. * Macbeth and Lady Macbeth trade roles. * Macbeth adapts the same rhetoric that lady Macbeth used to convince Macbeth to murder in Act

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