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Myths From Ancient India and Mesopotamia

The controversy over the federal funding of stem cell research is outlined in an article titled "Stem-Cell...

Tennessee Williams and His Glass Menagerie

of the American theater; it is also one of the first to combine realism and symbolism successfully. This paper discusses Williamss...

“Buried Child” and Ancestral Rites

Shepard a household name and it features his trademark balance of humor and ghastliness. This paper considers the role of ancestor...

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams and the Isolation of the Pollitt Family

in the direction of other family members. Outside their own room and their private conversations, however, the subjects they rais...

Experience of The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare

in ego-stroking, and Lears youngest daughter, Cordelia, will have none of it. She tells her father quite simply, "I love your Maj...

Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and Jungle Fever

takes place between Stanley and Jungle Fever in New York The wealthy elite of Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanans world were the peo...

Ancient Egypt's Political System

In five pages this paper examines Ancient Egypt's political system and structure in a consideration of viziers, the role played by...

Othello by William Shakespeare and the Character Emilia

or weak, good or evil, redeemed or condemned, honorable or chicken-hearted? The climate of the human condition is what spurs on m...

William Shakespeare's The Tempest Featured in Tar Baby by Toni Morrison

as he, also, is an exile from civilization (12). Also like Prospero, Valerian exerts control over the rest of the characters (Walt...

Overview of Christopher Isherwood's Play Cabaret

the books character uses the phrase: "I am a camera with its shutter open" to underscore the fact that he was simply a passive obs...

Maternal Focus of Eugene O'Neill

In ten pages the materal focus that is found in many of O'Neill's plays is examined in a consideration of Moon for the Misbegotten...

The Cuban Swimmer by Milcha Sanchez Scott

In five pages this paper critically analyzes Milcha Sanchez Scott's one act play The Cuban Swimmer. Three sources are cited in th...

Legal Changes and Their Influence on the Roles of Sports Agents

In twenty three pages this paper discusses how legal restrictions will influence the roles played by sports agents and how they se...

Tragic Hero's Journey in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and William Shakespeare's King Lear

In five pages this paper examines how the tragic hero's journey is thematically portrayed in these plays. Three sources are cited...

Allegory and the English Morality Play Everyman

of them all. The allegory of "Everyman", which may also be defined as a parable or a metaphor, is based on what it is that "Everym...

Count Basil by Joanna Baillie

of 1790s advocated the reformation of the traditional femininity in their works and provoked female readers awareness on female st...

Macbeth by William Shakespeare and Kingship

price because, as author Isaac Asimov observed in his consideration of Shakespeares works, "To kill a king... was to commit the hi...

M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang

a deconstructivist Madame Butterfly immediately appealed to me. This, despite the fact that I didnt even know the plot of the oper...

Time and Attitude in The Iceman Cometh, Waiting For Godot and Death Of A Salesman

Hickey appears to bolster his comrades by encouraging their pipe dreams, yet in reality he is merely placating their ignorance. S...

Alcestis by Euripides

In five pages the political issue involving identification of gender roles is examined within the context of the play and a compar...

Would Aristophanes Be Offended by a Feminist Recasting of The Birds?

In six pages the writer considers how Aristophanes would regard a feminist interpretation of his play and includes his feminist le...

Child Fantasy and A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

In six pages this paper examines how the play of children is metaphorically depicted in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen. Three sou...

Laws and Athletes

In twenty three pages this paper examines whether or not laws ensure that there is an equal 'playing field' for athletes regardles...

Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, Tragedy and Economics

In six pages Miller's play is examined in terms of the tragic consequences that resulted from the American Dream of economic prosp...

Oedipus the King by Sophocles and Fate

murder, Oedipus remarks, absentmindedly, "Strange, hearing you just now . . . my mind wandered, my thoughts racing back and forth"...

Comparative Analysis The Winter's Tale, Macbeth, and King Lear by William Shakespeare

In five pages the portrayal of moral issues in these three plays is analyzed. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

'Funnyhouse of a Negro' Play by Adrienne Kennedy

This is a research paper that contains five pages and presents the theme that the play is intended to convey the protagonist's lif...

The Impact of Great Men During Times of Revolution

This paper addresses the revolutions that took place in France, Russia, and the US. The author argues that brave individuals play...

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Money's Role

In three pages this paper considers the role money plays throughout Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice. There are no other s...

'Untrue' Polonius in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

In five pages this paper assesses Polonius's advice to his son Laertes 'This above all: to thine own self be true' with in the con...