James Cain's Life and Mildred Pierce
Five Works Cited James M. Cain's biography produced different events that reappear in
Mildred Pierce. The son of James and Rose Cain, James M. Cain was born in
Annapolis, Maryland. He was the oldest of five siblings. James mother was
a opera singer and this is one of four distinct pieces of his life that
reappears in Mildred Pierce. When Cain had grown up he entered the labor
force, where he failed at a variety of jobs. He eventually became a
editorial writer, who enjoyed and excelled at writing articles about food.
Later James Cain became script writer, moving to Hollywood in the process.
This brief outline of James Cain's life provides excellent insight into
why he wrote Mildred Pierce the way he did.
People and events that have to do with the opera spring up through
out Mildred Pierce because opera was a big part of Cain's life. James Cain
had first hand experience with singing and the opera taking lessons at one
point in his life. This is probably why James includes two instructors,
Mr. Hannen and Mr. Treviso in the story. Mr. Treviso in particular,
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"Raising Cain with the censors, again: The Postman Always Rings
Twice(1946)." Literature/Film Quarterly 28.1 (2000): 41-48.
Skenazy, Paul. James M. Cain. Frederick Ungar A Book, 1988.
It is well known that slavery was a horrible event in the history of the United States. However, what isn't as well known is the actual severity of slavery. The experiences of slave women presented by Angela Davis and the theories of black women presented by Patricia Hill Collins are evident in the life of Harriet Jacobs and show the severity of slavery for black women.
name was Gian-Carlo Minotti. This man was trained in the Italian Opera and he was
...tion through voice selection and harmonic function. Hasse has returned to his celebrated status as we remember him in modern times for his influence and formation of the classic opera form.
“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words,” Robert Frost once said. As is made fairly obvious by this quote, Frost was an adroit thinker. It seems like he spent much of his life thinking about the little things. He often pondered the meaning and symbolism of things he found in nature. Many readers find Robert Frost’s poems to be straightforward, yet his work contains deeper layers of complexity beneath the surface. His poems are not what they seem to be at first glance. These deeper layers of complexity can be clearly seen in his poems “The Road Not Taken”, “Fire and Ice”, and “Birches”.
Jaffrey Pyncheon. He framed him and sent him to prison for killing their uncle so that he could have
Wagner’s early years were filled with turbulence. Opera seemed an inevitability from the start with several of his older sisters becoming opera singers and his own life never lacked operatic drama. However his first all-consuming passion was not music but literature. Wagner was only 11 when he wrote a drama, influenced by Shakespeare and Greek drama, in which 42 characters died in the first four acts, and a lucky few reappeared as ghosts in the fifth act. Four years later Wagner decided to become a compo...
Through out the film, Mildred has shown that she is a mother that would do anything for her children, she is strong, and independent. Even though she comes from a middle class, she does everything in her power to provide for her two daughters, especially for the eldest daughter Veda. At first, I thought Mildred was femme fatal because of the first scene but turns out that Veda is femme fatal, based off her values and behaviors. Mildred is a very attractive woman, and had a lot of men liking her but not once did she gave them the wrong idea or go after their money. The only time she married someone that she did not love was Monty, her second husband, and that too was for Veda so she would come back home. What stands out to me about Mildred
Frost is far more than the simple agrarian writer some claim him to be. He is deceptively simple at first glance, writing poetry that is easy to understand on an immediate, superficial level. Closer examination of his texts, however, reveal his thoughts on deeply troubling psychological states of living in a modern world. As bombs exploded and bodies piled up in the World Wars, people were forced to consider not only death, but the aspects of human nature that could allow such atrocities to occur. By using natural themes and images to present modernist concerns, Frost creates poetry that both soothes his readers and asks them to consider the true nature of the world and themselves.
Frost’s sentence structure is long and complicated. Many meanings of his poems are not revealed to the reader through first glance, but only after close introspection of the poem. The true meanings contained in Frost’s poems, are usually lessons on life. Frost uses symbolism of nature and incorporates that symbolism into everyday life situations. The speaker in the poems vary, in the poem “The Pasture”, Frost seems to be directly involved in the poem, where as in the poem “While in the Rose Pogonias”, he is a detached observer, viewing and talking about the world’s beauty. Subsequently, the author transfers that beauty over to the beauty of experiences that are achieved through everyday life.
Slavery is a term that can create a whirlwind of emotions for everyone. During the hardships faced by the African Americans, hundreds of accounts were documented. Harriet Jacobs, Charles Ball and Kate Drumgoold each shared their perspectives of being caught up in the world of slavery. There were reoccurring themes throughout the books as well as varying angles that each author either left out or never experienced. Taking two women’s views as well as a man’s, we can begin to delve deeper into what their everyday lives would have been like. Charles Ball’s Fifty Years in Chains and Harriet Jacobs Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl were both published in the early 1860’s while Kate Drumgoold’s A Slave Girl’s Story came almost forty years later
Women who were enslaved during the slave period endured much suffrage. Not only were they the subject of chattel slavery, but some were also molested by their masters, for their own personal pleasure. In some cases, masters would pair “good breeders” together so their farm would benefit and they would have more slaves. This behavior would lead to force rape. The purpose of the book is to demonstrate how slavery crippled African American slaves from defending themselves due to oppression, particularly women. The trial of Celia, A Slave opens a gateway where people’s morals and actions were put into question after the death of her master. Themes such as gender oppression, chattel slavery, race, prejudice, revolt are some themes present in Celia,
Nathaniel Laurence Clarke. No one but he and his older brother William knew of the name. They had no memory of their parents, besides the fact...
I know that my view of the piece is not the only true way to go but I also know that this is poetry and it is meant to be looked at from different angles. I wouldn't be surprised if someone took the angle of saying that Frost was drunk and couldn't find his way home. There is no real answer to what this poem is about and I'm just taking the realist approach and saying that "The Road Not Taken," is not about life's ultimate choice but rather simply about a walk in the park.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is often referred to as the greatest musical genius of all time in Western musical tradition. His creative method was extraordinary: his writings show that he almost always wrote a complete composition mentally before finally writing it on paper. Mozart created 600 works in his short life of 35 years. His works included 16 operas, 41 symphonies, 27 piano concerti, and 5 violin concerti, 25 string quartets, and 19 masses.
Frost uses nature as a reflection of human experiences; just like humanity it can have seasons and life cycles. He uses different scenes to depict a certain mood for readers to step into the psychological happening of a man. The idea of how seasons change, Frost compares it through the life cycles that humans encounter. Contrary to popular opinion, I believe that nature is not Frost’s central theme in his poetry; it is about the relationship that man has with nature in which can be seen from “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, “The Road Not Taken”, and “An Old Man’s Winter Night.”