YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Artist William Gropper
Essays 1741 - 1770
often "little more than a litany of abuse echoing and amplifying the indictments men level against her" (Corum 183). She is accus...
with the civilized manner of a Venetian court, he is clearly out of his element. "If stirred to indignation, as "in Aleppo once"...
Shylock loses. He loses, however, perhaps because he was unable to truly and adequately argue his case, and because he was a Jew, ...
as opposed to being naturally inherited. This poem typifies the poems that are included in Blakes, Songs of Innocence, in...
man who feels isolated and alone in that he is different than those around him. He truly has no real friends and thus his wife ser...
the speaker--and the reader -- know that the answer is God. By using a question, Blake is questioning why a benevolent deity would...
for the deaths of her husband, Edward V, and her father, Henry VI. Nevertheless, he demonstrates himself as quite capable in prov...
/ Is an unlessond girl, unschoold, unpractisd; / Happy in this, she is not yet so old / But she may learn; happier than this, / Sh...
of the aristocrats. Although Cathy took to Heathcliff immediately, her brother Hindley was not nearly so receptive, and had taken...
for goods, and describes how the country moved into a liberalized, powerful company that became involved in foreign affairs and th...
try" (207). As this exposition suggests, Marshalls presence as an outsider to the dynamics of the Hubbard family and as an outsi...
clearly tied to Puritan religious practice, it nevertheless also has a political dimension that was particularly apt to the era in...
Macbeth was elected King in preference to Duncans own son, who was considered...
both politically as well as personally. For Brutus, virtue was a trait that could never be compromised for it was synonymous with...
of the Compson family, the offspring of the pioneer Jason Lycurgus Compson" (Classicnotes [1]). Within the family we see a very Fa...
we see Roderigo and Iago discussing the fact that this Moor, Othello, exists and is now in a position of power within the masters ...
the characters talk and interact creates a very different setting for the story. It also limits how we envision the story that unf...
of as gold, silver and slate. Gold is the level where there is a situation for a man where the girl loves him wholeheartedly. He...
African American vernacular (Crowley, 1997). One can easily drawn parallels between the linguistic construction in many West Afric...
reinforced by the companion article by William Raspberry called, Its Not Easy Being White. His satirical outlook on being white do...
observed between blacks and mainstream society. What we are observing in modern day society in regard to the refusal of cer...
a rare and precious gem. Ferdinand does fall in love with Miranda, as was Prosperos plan all along, and is willing to stay with th...
and rainfall again. References to wetness and of being soaked with water seem to refer to the state of the men, that they are abou...
verbal appearance and actual reality that Othello addresses throughout the play, wavering back and forth as a means by which to es...
wronged, as Philomela was . . . (IV. I. 52). The book is also mentioned in Act V, scene three, when Titus asks Saturninus" the...
history itself. "As with many of his plays, Shakespeare drew on classical sources for the plot of The Comedy of Errors. The bare b...
(I.iii.118). Banquo replies with a warning. He tells Macbeth that "instruments of darkness" frequently tell the truth in order to ...
his carefully crafted public persona. For an ambitious couple like Lord and Lady Macbeth, in a monarchy like Scotland, there was ...
emphasis on "mind-forged" shows that these are mental attitudes rather than physical chains, but their effect on human freedom is ...
confidant. Of course, the tragedy is, Iagos intent is to destroy Othello. Secondly, the tragic hero holds fast to his ideas and ...