The Piano addresses racial tensions in a more nuanced manner than it does gender politics.
Picnic at Hanging Rock establishes itself as a drama centered on the act of looking, both physically and metaphorically, from the very first scene.
Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde explores the concept of duality in human nature and society, examining Dr. Jekyll’s struggle to suppress his darker instincts symbolized by Mr. Hyde.
The setting of Bloodborne is a fictional reader’s sweat-drenched fever dream.
In such areas of abstraction, Eggers often applies material effects to chaos, causing a real time jump between explosions and motivated characters.