The Shining Essays

Overlooking Sanity Can isolation be the cause of losing one’s sanity, or could there be other reasons? The film “The Shining” shows how this question can be answered.In 1980, Stanley Kubrick produced a film recognized as one of the best horror films of all time. The main character is Jack Torrance alongside his family, Wendy and Danny. As they take care of the “Overlook” hotel, Jack starts turning into a psychopath and lose his sanity by the day. Although Jack is going insane because of isolation

Stephen King's "The Shining" is a haunting exploration of the theme of isolation. The novel takes place in the isolated Overlook Hotel during the winter months, where the main character, Jack Torrance, takes a job as the caretaker. The Overlook is a sprawling, empty hotel that becomes a character in its own right, with its creaking floorboards and eerie silence. The sense of isolation is further emphasized by the extreme weather conditions outside, as the snow piles up higher and higher, making escape

Andrea Carolina Delgado Cinema 504-KPA-03 The Shining Presented to Mr. Francis Juteau-Rhéaume College LaSalle November 16th, 2017 The Shining One of the most curious things about The Shining is the fact that the scrip was not really finished and that it was changed many times during the production, which gives a lot of room for interpretation. The plot of the movie The Shining is about a Family of three in which the father Jack Torrance take a job as caretaker at the overlook

The analysis of “The Shining” directed by Stanley Kubrick The Shining is a horror movie filmed by Stanley Kubrick. It bases on the namesake novel written by Stephen King. The film tells a story of the Torrance family that included Jack, Wendy and their son Danny that shows signs of strange powers from the beginning of the movie. The trio went to the Overlook Hotel where the husband would work as a caretaker during the winter. It appeared the building was possessed by some evil power (Kubrick suggested

The Shining, by world-renowned author Stephen King, is one of the greatest horror novels ever to be written. The book interweaves psychological and physical violence, is easy to comprehend, and provokes complex emotions, making it a must-read novel. The Shining is the story of Jack Torrance, a writer, and alcoholic, who accepts a job as a caretaker at a hotel in Colorado and takes his wife, Wendy, and his son, Danny, who seems to have psychic abilities. The hotel is not ordinary, as it terrorizes

Kubrick's The Shining does not do justice to Stephen King's novel, because it changes the focus of the story from Danny's ability to shine to Jack's evilness, the Overlook Hotel looked much less creepier than it was perceived as in the text and it revisions the whole ending of the story. This movie made it clear there was another author in the making of the story and that is the director. The main ideas were clearly modified in the movie by the director. The name of the novel is The Shining. The reason

Let me start off by saying this: The Shining by Stephen King is the scariest and most terrifying book I have ever read. My favorite time and place to read is usually in my room before I go to bed. Not for this novel. I had to read this book during the daytime to insure that I had no nightmares the following evening. The Shining takes place in a haunted place named, “The Overlook Hotel” in the extremely isolated Colorado Rockies. The main characters of the fictional book are all a part of the Torrance

Jack’s Character Development in The Shining Imagine a small family going out to stay in an empty hotel, all alone in the deep Rocky Mountains. The Torrance family began to caretake a hotel in the middle of winter in a hotel far in the Rockies. Jack, who was the recovering alcoholic father, thought it was the perfect way to get his life back in order; he jumped at the opportunity to have some free time because he was a writer and he wanted some time to be able to continue his writing. By him taking

“The Shining” is a novel written by Stephen King in 1977 and a horror movie directed by Stanley Kubrick in 1980. The novel and movie tells a story about Jack Torrance, who becomes the off-season winter caretaker of the Overlook Hotel. Although the movie and the book have some similarities; there are many differences from the adaptation of the novel. In the book, the main characters are Jack Torrance, Wendy Torrance, and their son Danny Torrance. Jack is a recovering alcoholic who struggles with

Stephen King’s Insight to the Supernatural: The Shining and Carrie Stephen King is often known for his horror stories and sometimes the source of that horror is supernatural. Two stories that deal with the supernatural written by Stephen King are The Shining and Carrie. The Shining follows one man’s journey to insanity. In the 1970’s Jack Torrance and his family spend the winter in the Overlook hotel in Colorado. Due to the hotel’s isolation from the rest of the world, Jack begins to

One of my relatively favored films that engrosses me every Halloween season is the 1980 horror film The Shining. This movie consists of drama, horror, mystery and suspense, produced and directed by the legendary Stanley Kubrick himself and novelist Stephen Edwin King. The Shining focused on the broad strokes of the original Stephen King story, while the visuals, atmosphere, tone, and sheer terror of the moments Stanley Kubrick caught on film were more than enough to scare most people

Behind the Curtain of Mental Illness “...because if you couldn’t stop crying it meant you had LOST YOUR MARBLES…” (King 443). This is a common quote mentioned in the novel The Shining, written by Stephen King. This line describes the main character Jack Torrance. In the novel, Jack Torrance plays the father and husband of a quaint three person family. Throughout the duration of the book, the family lives in the deep mountains of Colorado at The Overlook Hotel. King uses this hotel to create the plot

T The Mist Compare and Contrast In 1980, the book The Mist, written by Stephen King, was released. It got very popular later on, so they decided to make it a movie 27 years later. The book is a horror tale following the life of David Drayton and a large group of civilians trying to survive a thick mist that has ‘enveloped the entire town. Not only can you barely see through it, but it contains some of the most out of this world creatures. Overall, the movie tells the same story as the book, but

1) Three elements that are of great importance to a successful screenplay are sex, patriotism, and violence. These three elements are what brings in the audience to the movies. Sex is an element which sells very well and has a huge audience already. For instance, the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy is surrounded by sex and captivates a huge audience to come in the theatre. Patriotism is also a great element because the audience is already rooting for somebody in the film. Patriotism also drives the

The Fisher King (1991) is a film that uses a subtle combination between comic moments and tragic drama, and it is successful in touching to the audience by tragedy and depression. The film starts with Jack Lucas, a New York deejay, shows the major symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder, comes into the mix because he talks to the killer before his rampage. There is a mass shooting at a restaurant. He feels meltdown, depression and unknown how to deal with it. Jack intends to commit a suicide

Pulsfort Honors Western Literature 21 May 2023 Transformational Journey Throughout the short time Jack, Wendy, and Danny spent at the Overlook Hotel, Stephen King illustrated worldview topics that people presently face today. In his novel, The Shining, The Torrance Family undergo supernatural events that only highlight the families’ pre-existing internal struggles. The novel unveils many hidden connotations as the horror novel progresses, leading the reader to compare the struggles faced by the

The Kid Who Saved Summer Story by Ben Burie Summer was the best time of year in Jelter, the Capitol of Jupiter. Summer meant that kids could go on vacation to earth, or Mars. In Jupiter the last day of school was June 10th, and it was May 17th. Zim Bim lived on Earth Road. They tried to build it so it looked like Earth. Jupitariens were not aliens, in fact no aliens were allowed in Jupiter. Aliens lived on all the other planets except for Jupiter and Earth. Zim Bim's nickname was Zimmy and

They are many foreshadowing in the beginning of the film. The author has little things in the beginning of the film that set up major parts of the film at the end. For example, when Jack is told that the previous owner of the hotel went absolutely mental at the start of the movie. Firstly, it is revealed that the hotel has a dark past filled with evil and murder. Then later in the film, you can tell that Jack is on the verge of losing it when Wendy visits him in his office and Jack yells at her and

“Officious little prick” Those are the thoughts of Jack Torrence as he talks to Ullman. Jack is trying to get a job at the Overlook Hotel as the winter caretaker and he gets it. During his time as winter caretaker, while he is alone with his family, things don’t go as planned. Jack goes on a downward spiral until he eventually snaps. This book explores many different things but the main theme is that loneliness can be dangerous. In the beginning we learn the importance of Jack Torrence as a person

Throughout the history of motion pictures and Hollywood, there have been many revolutionary changes, transformations, and shifts within the industry in order to keep with the times, stay relevant among the competition, and keep it’s national and international audiences both continually interested and captivated by Hollywood and it’s films in an ongoing effort to generate huge amounts of profit. Within the last 20 years specifically, Hollywood has made a focused effort to reproduce, or remake foreign