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In five pages this paper discusses the author Dante Alighieri and his fictional alter ego Dante the poet in his epic in terms of t...

on society and human interactions. Even in family situations on evening sitcoms, the depiction of men and women and their roles ...

do. "With Ozzie and Harriet, everyone felt guilty," said Barbara Cadow, a psychologist at U.S.C. School of Medicine. "With these...

In fourteen pages this paper discusses TV sitcoms during this time period and how they portrayed the American family with past and...

In three pages the aggressive, superiority, and cognitive humor theories are applied to this ABC television sitcom. There is one ...

expectations of the movies plot. The believability of characters is directly proportionate to the credibility of the plot. If a ...

_Comedy in particular can be a window on social mores and history. This paper looks at the 1960s play A Funny Thing Happened on th...

between a life in the theater and the offer of a stable marriage to a sensible stockbroker. Fanny Cavendish is the family matriar...

and one-time suitor Oliver sell her stock in his company. Carlotta does not consider returning to the stage as an option to her fi...

it any longer and sign a peace treaty. "The Merchant of Venice" is much more complex and somber: there are many subplots, but th...

great deal of the humor arises from the plays comic premise, which calls tends to suggest that the title of the work is something ...

they can stop the men from going off to war and would ultimately bring some peace. The premise of the story is a tragic one, in th...

the Bible - the Ten Commandments, the so-called Golden Rule, what civilized societies consider moral and immoral behaviors - all f...

be a relative of Geoffrey Chaucer. The poem features as its protagonist Sir Gawain, a nephew of King Arthur, who is revered by hi...

most famous lovers. The "merry war" referred to in the title is that which is waged by this pair; as Leonato says, "There is a kin...

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

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...

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

your tongue: look like the innocent flower,/ But be the serpent undert" (Shakespeare I v). This is a very powerful example of how ...

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

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

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...

described as an "identity crisis" (Mulrooney 227). They are both seeking solitary solace in nature as they grapple with professio...

central conflict involves Claudio, who had been living out of wedlock with his lover, Juliet, prior to her marriage and she subseq...

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

In twelve pages this paper examines how the theme of homoeroticism manifests itself in the Shakespearean plays Twelfth Night, As Y...

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

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

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

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