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George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion

she must attend an ambassadors party and again pass as part of Englands elite. These hurdles seem small in comparison to the hurdl...

Character Transformation in Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

the play, for example, as Eliza becomes more independent and rebellious as she gains her polish and veneer, Higgins becomes more b...

Film Adaptation of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie and the Mood Function of Music

scene begins Laura Wingfield (Karen Allen) and her gentleman caller Jim OConnor (James Naughton) are looking at Lauras "glass mena...

Richardson and Fielding as Critics of British Society

rather than allowing her marriage to Tom. From the onset, Fielding makes it clear that his sympathies are with the young lovers an...

Psychological Realism and Henry James

reflection. The concept of psychological realism is based on the belief that man reacts in certain ways that are a direct extensi...

Utopian Society and Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

that it was necessary to vote. He felt that it was not the duty of the individual to try to make governments better or to try to...

Society and the Individual

diet preference and sexual activity. Two classic works are extremely useful in allowing us to understand the role of societ...

3 African American Authors on Class and Race in the U.S.

liberals and conservatives traditionally take with regard to black issues, that isnt the focus of the piece: West is really discu...

Patrick Henry and George Washington

George Washingtons early life, leading people to speculate that it was typical for a boy of his class and status (George Washingto...

True Life Stories, Literature, and Issues of Gender, Sex, and Race

end, giving us a young woman who was never able to come to terms with her race, her sexuality, or her gender. She is the character...

An Article on the Influences of Shakespeare Summarized

Rather Dionysus, Falstaff is his "Silenus, the fat, old drunken companion...(who) lends humor to Dionysian celebration" (367). Acc...

Chapter 7, 'The Bean Field,' in Walden by Henry David Thoreau

446). Since it has only been around fifteen years since the land was cleared, Thoreau judges that the soil should still be rich, s...

Miles' Death in Henry James' The Turn of the Screw

alternates between believing him an angel and, conversely, possessed. Thus, Krieg, in his criticism, suggests: The governesss per...

Entrepreneur Henry Ford

to be innovators -- and they build things and ideas that are substantial and different (Thompson, 2004). Ford wasnt an entrepreneu...

Twenty First Century Transcendentalism

to be called "transcendentalism" (5). The individuals who wrote about this faculty referred to it by different names -- e.g., "sp...

The Antebellum Economy of the United States

until the outbreak of the War Between the States during the middle of the century), the country almost seemed to be two polar oppo...

Civil Disobedience and Abortion

"That government is best which governs least....For government is an expedient by which men would...

Princess Casamassima and Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

time period has no choices, that she cannot freely move around and do many things before marriage. Society restricts what she can ...

Master Student Dr. Henry Lee

person, a person who strives to do his best in his given profession. Lee writes: "There are tens of thousands of professions in ...

Male Protagonists in The Rover by Aphra Behn and The Life of Henry the Fifth by William Shakespeare

deck our kings, / Carry them here and there, jumping oer times, / Turning th accomplishment of many years / Into an hour-glass" (2...

An Analysis of Henry James' Story, The Real Thing

thinking about making a living. But a predominantly capitalist economy meant that all goods and services, including works of art,...

Film Review of Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas

the voiceover. According to reviewer Patricia Kowal, this inclusion of a female perspective furthers the gangster genre because it...

Renaissance Culture: Donatello, Michelangelo and Shakesepare

spirited figure of St George in armour, expressing in the head of this saint the beauty of youth, courage and valour in arms, and ...

Lives of Quiet Desperation

other people, and from the conventions that bind us together. We might also consider the way in which Thoreau considers his hous...

Characters in Shakespeare’s Work

of Cassio. Cassio was given the position, by Othello, that Iago wanted and so Iago employs the usefulness of Cassio, pretending to...

The Benefits and Dangers of Using Personalities to Promote a Brand

(Reyes, 2006). Alan Sugar has been used to marker National Savings (Ashworth, 2005), Anthony Stewart Head and Sharon Maughn advert...

Henry Giroux/Dangerous Minds

academic as being relevant or meaningful to their lives (Giroux 46). The plot of this movie is obviously the story of a plucky, ca...

Critiquing the Critic: Henry Mackenzie on "Hamlet"

Mackenzie is also correct in attributing his hesitation to an overly sensitive nature; Claudius remarks on this when he says that ...

Plantation Society in the Antebellum South

retained a spirit of independent belief and worship. 3) How does the work pattern resemble that of the religious arrangements? Ag...

Transcendental Abstracts

that is, rather than a creature called "Man" who had to do everything, Man became priest, scholar, farmer, and so on (Emerson). Th...