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Amy Tan and Tennessee Williams on Mother and Daughter Relationships

the freedom and opportunities offered by America. In other words, this immigrant mother means well. She simply wants her daughter ...

Feminist Perspective of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire

her sister to save her marriage. Yet throughout the brutal violence and stereotypes, "Streetcar" is also a long story of s...

William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' and the Roles of Tradition and Myth

taught, by her father, those attitudes that provide them the social status they were born into, a class common to the traditional ...

Indians by Arthur Kopit

putting on a play for the President and the First Lady is obviously designed to make the viewer angry (i.e. this is the "most piss...

Communication in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof?-I wish I knew...? (Cat...Roof, Act one 25). The theme of lack of communication lies at ...

Past in Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner

This paper examines the important role the past plays in Absalom, Absalom! a 1936 novel by William Faulkner in six pages. There a...

Analysis of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams

In five pages this paper examines the characterizations, theme of mendacity, and the dramatic structure of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, ...

Germany's William II

(Columbia PG). In 1881, he married a princess by the name of Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (PG). He was a healthy man, fo...

Pilgrim Separatists and William Bradford

officials such as bishops and archbishops" (Carroll and Noble, 30). Nor was there just one group of dissenters. The Presbyterians...

Netherlands' Independence Struggles

In fifteen pages this research paper discusses the Netherlands' quest for independence in a consideration of the roles played by W...

Innovative Use of Symbolism by Playwright Tennessee Williams in The Glass Menagerie

part of the illusionary world. Laura, on the other hand, thinks of the fire escape as a way in and not a way out. This can be seen...

Life's Big Questions

that further illustrated many of his theories concerning men and their mothers, which is not a far cry from theories of Jung, sinc...

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...

Comparing Macbeth and A Doll’s House and the Appearance of Reality

the way the authors developed the theme of appearance vs. reality in their plays, I was trying to show the distinct difference in ...

Comparing Othello and A Doll’s House and the Appearance of Reality

the way the authors developed the theme of appearance vs. reality in their plays, I was trying to show the distinct difference in ...

Hamlet's Comedy Provides Relief

remark that Laertes and Ophelia had been discussing Hamlet, Polonius starts into a long dissertation on Ophelias lack of experienc...

Macbeth and the Supernatural

This paper in 9 pages looks at how Shakespeare uses the supernatural and superstition in particular in this play, concentrating on...

Protagonists and Antagonists Analysis in King Henry IV, Part I and Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare

In five pages the antagonists and protagonists from these respective plays are examined in a comparative analysis with references ...

Shakespeare's Use of Satire in Portraying the Frivolous Courtier

This paper addresses the ways in which Shakespeare satirized the frivolous courtier, or frivolous lover, in the plays, Taming of t...

Abigail Williams' Trial in Arthur Miller's The Crucible

In five pages this paper discusses the witch trial of Abigail Williams as depicted by Arthur Miller in his play The Crucible. The...

The Directors' Vision of Three Plays

This 9 page paper examines the way in which three different directors approach Shakespeare. It looks at Kenneth Branagh's producti...

Musical Shakespeare

or not music evokes images which have a significant impact upon mans conduct, in terms of virtue and morality. There is an old sa...

As You Like It, Twelfth Night and Cross-dressing

plays, the audience is also presented with descriptions that conjure androgyny, which was a prevalent idea in the Elizabethan era....

Tennessee Williams' Style of Writing

Within these tragedies, the unfortunate fate of the hero or heroine is usually determined by some type of sexual desire. The them...

'Hamlet' and 'Dr. Faustus'

tells him that he was murdered, and that it is his (Hamlets) task to avenge his death: "If thou didst ever thy dear father love .....

Relationship between Death and Sex in A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

does in the story. She arrives in the place filled with life and energy in relationship to her outward personality, yet she is als...

Uses of Pairs in Much Ado About Nothing and The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

In three pages this paper analyzes how Shakespeare uses pairs in order to create structural balance, to assist characterization, a...

The Use of Critical Sources in Understanding Works of Shakespeare

in joining such a group. By discussing books and plays with peers, an individual can hear other opinions on subject matter that h...

Love as a Theme In Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Night

This paper examines the various ways in which Shakespeare utilizes love as a theme in his plays. The author discusses Midsummer N...

Twelfth Night and Cymbeline by William Shakespeare and the Employment of Psychological Realism

In six pages this paper explores how poetic language is used by Shakespeare in conveying psychological realism in these 1601 and 1...