Essays 1 - 30
retelling of the Faust legend; the story of the man who sells his soul to the devil in return for success and love in this world. ...
business without impertinence" (Shaw). He has never exhausted his store of "spiritual enthusiasm and sympathetic emotion," qualiti...
year, Brecht was assigned to work in a military hospital, a problematic placement that helped Brecht understand the traumatic issu...
panacea when it came to womens rights. Liza was caught in this time period where she wanted to strike out on her own but was held ...
who committed suicide in 1979 at age 40, is a tragic figure in world cinema. Shes probably best known for ? bout de souffle (Breat...
expert, Henry Higgins, makes a wager with a friend that he can masquerade a lower-class girl, Eliza, as a member of the upper clas...
hes making a bad joke (similar to President Bushs idiotic remarks at the recent environmental summit) or that hes writing a Swifti...
that there is little, if any, true relationship or familial feeling between the two women, as Vivie tells Mr. Praed, "I hardly kno...
This essay provides a hypothetical example of how a student might report on a jazz concert. The works summarized and analyzed incl...
is served by an earthy, half-demon by the name of Caliban and a sprite named Ariel. In the course of the play, we learn that Prosp...
In eight pages this essay analyzes the text's complexity in terms of Bunyan's uses of setting, allegory, and characterization with...
In a paper consisting of six pages the individuality concept and its conflict with capitalism are considered through such works as...
In five pages the 'Pygmalion effect' is among the topics considered in this discussion of the treatment of class differences in Ge...
In five pages great works of literature written by esteemed authors are examined in order to reveal the crucial elements that cont...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the similarities and differences between George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion and ...
In nine pages capitalism in its many forms are examined in terms of Oprah Winfrey's philanthropy, G.B. Shaw's play Major Barbara, ...
In five pages Zwick's film based on Col. Robert G. Shaw's letters is analyzed in terms of how a multiracial setting addresses auth...
the play, for example, as Eliza becomes more independent and rebellious as she gains her polish and veneer, Higgins becomes more b...
In five pages this paper compares the similarities of the turning points in each of these stories. Four sources are cited in the ...
she must attend an ambassadors party and again pass as part of Englands elite. These hurdles seem small in comparison to the hurdl...
deems necessary to improve her speech and position. We gain a very powerful understanding of what Shaw presents in his work thro...
many women who watched this play and related well to Nora, though they were perhaps in a position where they would never speak out...
In seven pages this paper compares protagonists in each play in a consideration of what they reveal about women's roles. Two sour...
In five pages these plays are compared and analyzed in a consideration of irony and expectation as well as appearance versus reali...
poverty and very dependant and aware of the dangers associated with honest work such as the dangers of lung disease and premature ...
social role themes in Shaws Mrs. Warrens Profession are both subtle and overt. To say that women had to fight for their existence...
impossible for women to live independently. One of their options was to become successful and financially independent prostitutes....
entire union rests upon whether or not she has an abortion. Something as life-altering as aborting a baby - especially in an era ...
applied to the characters at different times, but the two that seem most effective are Merton, and Shaw and MacKay. The term "Amer...
In nine pages this paper examines how war's compelling themes are depicted in the literary works the Bhagavad Gita and the writing...