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Transcendent Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

The character of Laura and the purpose she serves in Tennessee Williams' play The Glass Menagerie are analyzed in a paper consisti...

3 Operas Inspired by The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare

the open air seems odd. And yet, the opera version gave Falstaff a swagger and an attitude that one suspects was close to the t...

Comparing Daisy from The Great Gatsby and Amanda from The Glass Menagerie

quicksand. Daisy hide a deeper meaning to her character, and that character is evil due to the unthinking nature of her superficia...

Cinematic Analysis of What Dreams May Come Come

In five pages this paper examines the innovative camera techniques featured in the Robin Williams' film What Dreams May Come. Fou...

3 Perspectives on London

In five pages this paper examines three viewpoints of London as revealed in such literary works as Howard's End by E.M. Forster, S...

Freudian Analysis of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams

associated with the complexity of the sexual relationship, and its importance as a factor in the lives of human beings, just as Fr...

Analyzing Dream Worlds Mass Consumption in Late Nineteenth-Century France by Rosalind H. Williams

In thirteen pages this paper features a chapter by chapter book analysis on William's examination of how the evolution of consumer...

Jon Williams' 'Taking Care'

Jon Williams' story 'Taking Care' is analyzed in terms of the story itself as well as the character development in five pages. Th...

Romantic Era Poetry and the Child

This paper considers the child as conceptually represented in the Romantic Era poetry of Charlotte Smith, William Blake, and Willi...

Literary Depiction of Human Nature

In six pages this paper examines how literature depicts human nature in a comparative consideration of Hamlet by William Shakespea...

Tragedy in The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

have so much to offer is a sad state of affairs. Laura is Amandas daughter. Laura also is forced to...

Comparative Analysis of the Romantics and Sigmund Freud

In seven pages this paper compares the Romantic perspectives articulated in the poetry of William Blake, Walt Whitman, and William...

Tennessee Williams' Cat On a Hot Tin Roof Play and Film Versions

severity of the Bricks grief at Skippers death causes his relatives to speculate, but this is dispelled in the crucial scene that...

Comparative Analysis of A Streetcar Named Desire and A Doll's House

the norm. It was something that perhaps stemmed from the authors fear, but for whatever the reason he created this female monster ...

Substance Dualism: Descartes, Spinoza and Berkeley

and escalate directly to the top to absolute knowledge. Step one in his groundbreaking compilation of scientifically conscious th...

Philosophers on God's Existence

experiences were possible (Gogan, 2006). This author indicates this in the following: "Kant gets rid of the usual foundation for r...

Art According to Philosophers Descartes, Barthes, and Foucault

know as the scientific method, which is still used today for ascertaining reliable facts about the natural world. To accomplish hi...

Philosophers on Religious Ethics

right or correct, or is there something about that action itself that God recognizes, and for this reason declares the action corr...

Early Greek Philosopher Parmenides

as a problem (Frost, 1962). However, later philosophers, as they pondered the nature of the universe, began to see the fact of cha...

Ethics of German Philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer

held the belief that morality was performed because of the will of an "other," rather than driven by the beast within (The Philoso...

7 Major Philosophers

discoveries of this philosopher? Has this person made a significant contribution that has led to the discovery or founding of some...

Philosophers on Life's Meaning

one looks at a variety of lifetimes via reincarnation, its purpose explained by knowledge. In other words, people are born and liv...

Philosophers on Moral Theory

a store, and decides that he will not do it again but keeps the merchandise anyway to avoid prosecution, he is being reasonable. H...

Cinematic Portrayal of Greek Virtue and Philosophers

84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...

Socrates and the Need for Philosophers

this pint he is, in essence, pleading for his life and states, "I dare say that you may feel irritated at being suddenly awakened ...

Philosopher David Hume's Ideologies

considerable empirical consideration but one which has yet to be either proved or refuted. Such as statement, therefore is not a ...

Great Philosophers on Freedom

Hence, it is not unexpected that philosophers throughout the ages have also had different thoughts on freedom. While many people,...

Philosophers of the Romantic Age

philosophers and artists, and included figures such as Rousseau, Goethe, Hegel and Kant. One of the major elements of Romanticism ...

Arguing Against Reality's Static Absolutism and Indian Philosopher Nagarjuna

with the absolute. Nagarjuna disagreed with this sense of absolutism. Nagarjuna philosophy can also be distinguished from mainst...

Knowledge as Conceptualized by Philosophers

it comes to knowledge leads one to believe that people are much more likely to act out in such a manner that is motivated only by ...