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The Tragic Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

In ten pages this report discusses the play's tragic characteristics that exist despite its twentieth century setting and the ways...

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and Society's Morals

In eight pages this paper discusses how the play's plot and characterization focus on moral values of society. Four sources are l...

Discussing The Shadow Box

The Shadow Box was a 1977 Michael Cristofer play. This paper summarizes it in terms of theme, characterization, dialogue, setting ...

Four Essays On Literature

This paper bundles four essays into one. In five pages the writer separately discusses specific questions regarding Eliot's The L...

Dysfunctional Marriage in American Beauty

joy in my life" (Mendes, 1999, p. PG). II. CONSIDERING SYSTEMS APPROACH What would it take to put Lester and Carolyns marriage b...

A Consideration of William Shakespeare's “King Lear”

bent, has produced in him that blindness to human limitations, and that presumptuous self-will" (282). It becomes readily apparen...

Comparing Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest

reigns supreme, The Tempest is more contemplative and probes the more sinister side of humankind. The mood, setting, and themes a...

Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' Third Act

and nothing to do with the prank that Oberon is playing through Puck. They happen to enter into the midst of the chaos however, an...

Queen Gertrude and Ophelia in Shakespeare's Hamlet

thrown into chaos. The roles of Gertrude and Ophelia within the plays construct were painstakingly designed by the Bard to reflec...

Shakespeare's Use of Emotion in Othello and Macbeth

emotion, to act. But what is Iagos motivation? It could in fact be that he is envious of Othello. At the same time, in reviewing...

Tragic Themes in Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, Sophocles' Antigone and William Shakespeare's Macbeth

Shakespeares characters that the audience (or the reader) immediately understands will not have an easy time of it. The story of "...

Moral and Intellectual Impotence of Shakespeare's Hamlet

father, as he speculates that the specter could have been a devil that assumed the shape of his father in order to lure him into s...

Comparison of Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Richard III and The Tragedy of King Lear

realistic representations of his daughters love for him. Eldest daughter Goneril begins this love fest, pledging, "Sir, I love y...

Disorder and the Chain of Being in Shakespeare's "Macbeth"

and "too full of... kindness" (I.ii.77, I.v.18). Once Macbeth steps outside the bonds of the social order by killing Duncan, howev...

Considering Shakespeare’s Poetry

first case, the uniform will become old and tattered; if its the second meaning, then Shakespeare is commenting on the fact that a...

Bassiano in Shakespeare's 'The Merchant of Venice' from a Freudian Perspective

Id is associated with the immediate gratification of the unconscious. In other words this level is the most primal and does not co...

Two Critical Views of Shakespeare’s Comedies

from disarray to order; and marks a victory of "Us over Them" (Levin 14). He further argues that 20th century critics have tended ...

Women's Subservience in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, and William Shakespeare's Othello

In six pages this report compares women's subservient status in each of these literary works. Eight sources are cited in the bibl...

Shakespeare's Heroines Compared

In portraying Beatrice in this manner, Shakespeare shows insight into female psychology in that he realizes that women are frequen...

Elements of Tragedy in The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, Hamlet by William Shakespeare, and Oedipus the King by Sophocles

This paper examines 3 tragic elements in an analysis of Amanda Wingfield, Prince Hamlet of Denmark, and King Oedipus of Thebes fea...

Comparing Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and Hamlet

in The Merchant of Venice proves to be quite willful, openly defiant of her Orthodox Jewish father Shylock in her elopement with t...

The Personification of Arch Romantics by Shakespeare's Orsino, Jay Gatsby, Gilbert Markham, and Emma Bovary

In five pages this report argues that the literary views of longing and love have long shaped conventional attitudes and examine t...

Shakespeare's Richard the Third and Hamlet in Cinematic Cross References Deconstruction

In five pages this report considers how famous literary works such as Shakepeare's plays must be deconstructed in order to be cine...

Literature v. Film in William Shakespeare's As You Like It and While You Were Sleeping

In four pages comparisons between the two heroines are made with emphasis upon plot, theme, and characterization in a consideratio...

William Shakespeare's King Lear and Conflicts of Divine vs. Earthly Justice

In six pages the types of justice as defined in this Shakespearean tragedy are considered with the human 'earthly justice' compare...

The Bumpy Course of True Love in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

In this paper consisting of five pages the star crossed lovers of Hermia and Lysander, Demetrius and Helena, and Hippolyta and The...

A.C. Bradley vs. S.T. Coleridge and Differences of Opinions Concerning the Character of Iago in William Shakespeare's Othello

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares the criticisms of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Andrew Cecil Bradley regarding the ch...

Act II, Scene II of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

and Oberon are the sovereign spirits of the woods and in their own right are exotic royalty. Yet again, the issue of appearances ...

Revelation and Mystery in William Shakespeare's Othello and Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice

"extracts" on scholarly subjects, is encouraged to be outgoing; the fretful Kitty is encouraged to stop coughing, because people f...