American Studies

Trends in technology, merchandising, and a shift in the business of culture causes Bond’s abilities to adapt to the new cultural trends and developments. Technological advances in modern society, the growing prevalence of surveillance, scientific devices, consumer electronics, high technology, and gadgetry has contributed to the construction of the new Bond image. Modern updated film techniques enable the transformation of James Bond to reach a new level. In this respect, the boundaries betwe...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the way the narrator interacts with the objects in the story, but also to reveal its destroying influence upon the narrator, and her reaction to it in the context of Victorian period. The narrator perceives her environment in the house, not as it is, but the way she feels herself, namely deprived and depressed. The wallpaper becomes a major element in the story, a metaphor for the narrator’s mental disorder. Additionally, the creative writing in the diary of...