Heroin Essays

I watched this film years ago and to this day compared to all the anti-drug PSA’s drilled into me throughout my childhood, this film was my biggest deterrent. It is directed by Darren Aronofsky who’s known for making films that are often dark and disturbing. It takes place in New …

A heroine or hero is a boy who is brave, honest, selfless, and trustworthy and will possibly risk their life for someone else. My book is Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. It is set in 1803 and portrays every mother’s worry of trying to marry off her daughters. This …

In Elizabethan times, when William Shakespeare wrote the play, the conventional heroine would have been Hero. This is due to the fact that in the 1600’s women were expected to be co-operative, modest, virginal and placid. Beatrice on the other hand is a heroine, but an unconventional one at that; …

Amanda Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie is an example of the woman who is vacillating between illusion and reality. She is obsessed with the past and its memories. This obsession leads her to recall her past days to stand as a shelter from the harsh reality that surrounds her. She …

Linda is on her way to the local pawnshop to get a loan on her son’s video game console so she can get her daily fix of heroin. Linda cannot not function because she is not feeling well; Linda is vomiting, nose running, has stomach cramps, and muscle aches. Once …

Despite tradition, Sophocles chose a woman to lead his story. Strong willed and quick witted, Antigone proves to be a loyal sister and pure wife. Antigone is noble of birth. Her hamartia is she shows hubris, a classic tragic hero trait, when telling Creon, “And I, whom no man’s frown …

The Aristotelian tragic hero is defined as a “lifelike” person who demonstrates both good and bad qualities through speech and action in a consistent manner. Moreover, the tragic hero, due to a personal error in judgment or tragic flaw, is the cause of the tragedy in a play. In Jean …

Walt Disney is responsible for creating some of the world’s most well-known animated feature films. With classic movies such as Cinderella, Pinocchio, and Bambi, the production company has entertained the public for many generations. The heroine characters in Disney movies are all different in their own ways, and there is …