name Jack Torrance is mentioned people tend to think of his attributes such, as alcoholism, high tempered and being an abusive husband/father. Jack Nicholson played Jack Torrance’s character in the 1980s, film “The Shining”, which is a seamless example of how not to get consumed with work. Jack is a hard worker, he believes in providing for his family passionately. Jack’s wife, Mrs. Torrance is wholesome and family orientated, she will do anything for her family. Throughout the film, Jack treats
trademark artistic flair to help visually aid in the horror and fright. The plot involves a struggling writer named Jack Torrance who accepts the role as winter caretaker at the grand Overlook Hotel, high in the Colorado mountains. Since the winters can be so unrelenting, the job involves living on the premises for the duration of the seasonal hiatus. Due to the hotel’s isolation, Jack, his wife Wendy, and young son Danny will live alone at the hotel from October to May. Early on, there is an underlying
viewers are never introduced on unfiltered view of "the real world" outside of the asylum. The only available information about reality beyond t... ... middle of paper ... ...els finds himself trapped in the island due to a hurricane much like how Jack finds himself trapped in the hotel due to a blizzard. Both Shutter Island and The Shining revolve around protagonists that are unreliable. The viewers are introduced to the "heroes” and then to their slow decent into madness. Isolation and insanity
something. The whisky bottles represent the alcohol Jack drinks continuously, making him an overall alcoholic. The woman in the image represents Wendy, Jack’s wife. The fear on her face shows the concern she has for Danny being around her psychotic husband. This is similar to the fear parents have today when their child is subjected to alcoholic environment. The location of the whisky bottles placed above Wendy represent how alcohol comes before family for Jack. The reason I gave the picture a dark tent was
Stephen King, 1977 3. Country: United States 4. Characters: Jack Torrance (Major)-A writer and former teacher who suffers from alcohol abuse and becomes the caretaker of the Overlook Hotel for the winter. Determined to make amends, he quits drinking and tries to finish his novel while working at the hotel. However, Jack slowly falls under the hotel’s influence and is constantly plagued by past mistakes and loses control. Danny Torrance (Major) - Jack’s five year old son with a special power called
The Shining is a 1980 horror film directed by Stanley Kubrick. The Shining starts with the Torrance family moving from their apartment in Boulder, Colorado, to the Overlook Hotel, located in the isolated Southern Rocky Mountains of Colorado. Jack Torrance, the father has accepted a position as the winter caretaker of the hotel in its off-season. His wife, Wendy Torrance and son, Danny Torrance move into the hotel with him. As the film unfolds the hotel becomes a place of tension and menace. It is
the book/film, and it previewed in 1997. A few of the main characters are Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson), Danny Torrance (Danny Lloyd), and Wendy Torrance (Shelley Duvall). Tony, Danny’s imaginary friend, also has a frightening part in the film as the boy that lives in his stomach. The Shining is a definite horror/thriller movie that messes with the viewers’ minds. 2) Plot Summary Hoping to cure his writer’s block, Jack Torrance and his small family agree to take care of an extremely isolated hotel
well-known horror movies written. It follows the Torrance family as they move into a hotel called the Overlook, which was built on an old Indian cemetery. Jack Torrance, a writer with alcohol addiction, needs isolation to write his new book, so he moves his family into the empty hotel. During their stay there, Jack acts as the groundskeeper. As the winter proceeds, all roads leading to the hotel become covered with snow so the family becomes stranded there. Jack becomes possessed by the evil Indian spirits
about an already dysfunctional family, that move into a hotel because the father, Jack Torrence, has gotten a job as the caretaker of the hotel. Before taking the job, Jack is informed that the previous caretaker got “cabin fever” and killed his entire family. His son, Danny Torrence, is psychic and telepathic and begins to see and be bothered by the spirits living in the hotel. These spirits eventually possess Jack and he too tries to kill his family, which also includes his wife, Wendy Torrence
The Shining is a 1977 horror novel by Stephen King that is based on events at the Overlook Hotel where the Torrance family is snowed in for the winter which leads to some unfortunate events. Maus I: a Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History is a 1986 graphic novel by Art Spiegelman about the story of his father during the Holocaust. Both of these novels are good stories that are filled with episodes and events that are demonstrated differently. Although the plots of The Shining and Maus 1 bear
they spend a winter in the haunted Overlook Hotel. Antagonist Jack Torrence, a recovering alcoholic with violent tendencies when under the influence, desperately searches for a job after losing his position as an English teacher at a local high school. Committed to proving to his wife Wendy and five-year-old son Danny that he has changed for the better, Jack agrees to work as the winter caretaker at the isolated Overlook. Though Jack and Wendy are unaware that the Overlook is haunted, Danny knows
begins with Jack Torrance being interviewed for a job as the caretaker at the Overlook a hotel in Estes Park, Colorado. The Overlook Hotel will close for the winter. Once the first snowflake falls Jack, his wife, and his son will be isolated in the closed down hotel. Which is why the interviewer, Ullman the hotel manager, is tentative to giving him this job, and he makes sure Wendy (his wife) knows that her and her 5 year old son will be there for the whole winter. Ullman tells Jack some of the Overlook's
the guilt encompassing his mother’s murder, resulting in the murder of anyone he feels sexually attracted to. The Shining explores Jack Torrance’s occupation of the isolated Overlook Hotel, as well as his wife, Wendy and son, Danny. As Jack’s writing continues to render unsuccessful, Danny’s psychic premonitions gradually become disturbing. This ends up resulting in Jack realising how much he loves Danny, letting him escape, and blowing himself up using the hotel boiler. Alfred Hitchcock and Stephen
the main character Jack Torrance. He is being interviewed to become the winter caretaker at The Overlook Hotel. From the very beginning it is stated in the novel that Jack has a drinking problem along with anger issues, and because of those issue Mr. Ullman (the manager of the Overlook) is resistant to hire him, were as in the movie Mr. Ullman is ecstatic to hire Jack. Mr. Ullman lets Jack know upon hiring him that the Now the biggest character deference in both versions is Jacks wife Wendy. Wendy
because of his violent outbursts. But before the Jack and his wife Wendy Torrance even move, their small son Daniel (Or Danny) has horrible visions about the hotel brought to him by an “imaginary friend” named Tony. He and his dysfunctional family move to the hotel, where visions continue to swallow the five-year-old boy. Wendy and Jack have their own bouts of trouble; but only spirals out of control once the spirits harm their son and when the dead have Jack drinking his gin martinis. This is when the
inconsistencies and pointless-seeming deviations from the book. Stanley Kubrick's The Shining spawned numerous discussions through multiple enigmatic, open-ended components and deep-reaching symbolism. The film exhibits American issues of 1920s chauvinism as Jack, slowly adopting the bigots' life philosophies, attempts to join an “exclusive and eternal Fourth of July costume party where the whiskey flows free of charge” (Smith 302). Slowly losing his sanity, the father enters a conversation with the ghost
see. It can raise question of what may cross the line into ghosts or "supernatural" territory. There could be tons of reasons as to why something could be portrayed as haunted. In the film The Shining by Stephen King, the Overlook Hotel calls to Jack Torrance to come back to the hotel and fulfill his duty as caretaker of that hotel. Jack's son Danny even experiences extrasensory perception within the hotel. There are several tales of angry spirits coming back to reap havoc among those who have crossed
1. Background: From Ideology to Problematic/Systematic Readings Louis Althusser) was a French Marxist philosopher who “revolutionized Marxist theory” with his own ideology theories and their influence upon politics and culture (Ferretter, 2006, p.i). Karl Marx distinguished the hierarchy found in society: the infrastructure or economic base, which consists of “a combination of the ‘forces of production’ and the ‘relations of the production’”(Storey, 2009, p. 60), and the superstructure that contains
that is done, it is still puzzling. Some certain small clues like the Indian stained glass, and the bKing powder cans leave the audience questioning every move. There were so many options they could have down with the ending, so why did they leave jack to die like that. Where was that scene of revenge that everyone wanted to see so badly? What is puzzling is the cross
The Shining The story take place in Colorado and begins with Jack Torrence, going to a place by the name of "The Overlook Hotel" to be the caretaker over the winter month's, because of coast of keeping a twenty-five mile road, in which it take to get to the hotel open, because of all the snow. To get the job as the caretaker of the hotel, he would be alone for five months, and have free food, and also free stay at the hotel, all Jack has to do is mantiance and handyman work around the hotel. He