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View of Women, Two 1950s Romantic Comedies

This paper presents an overview of "Pillow Talk" and "Desk Set," which are two fifties' era romantic comedies. The writer relates ...

Various Approaches to Love in Literature

This essay presents an overview of how love is used thematic in various texts, which includes Dante's Divine Comedy, Chaucer's Can...

Howard Hawks' His Girl Friday (1940)

This essay provides analysis of several aspects of this 1940 screwball comedy directed by Howard Hawks. The analysis focuses on as...

Virgil as Dante's Father Figure in the Divine Comedy

This 9 page paper gives an overview of the book The Divine Comedy by Dante. This paper includes examples form the test to explain ...

Big Trouble by Dave Barry

that group of people "who, merely by existing, tended to violate laws that solid citizens never even thought about, like how long...

Mary Tyler Moore Show & Feminist Theory

photogenic, but air-headed newscaster. Additional cast members were Valerie Harper, as Marys best friend Rhoda; Cloris Leachman, n...

"What About Bob?"

good fit that does not easily occur, if indeed it occurs at all. For his part, Dr. Marvin is only a caricature of...

Shakespeare's Tempest/Reflections on His World

and now Prospero sees the opportunity to obtain justice. He charms Miranda into a deep sleep and summons the sprite Ariel, who is ...

17th and 18th Century Censorship of the English Stage and Jeremy Collier's Pamphlet, 'A Short View on Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage'

the name of Jeremy Collier (1650-1726) embarked upon his own personal crusade to censor these works on religious grounds. The pub...

Ben Jonson and His Influence

(Jokinen). He died on August 6, 1637. It has been noted that Jonsons best work is characterized by his "wide and penetrating ob...

Medieval Times and Attitudes About Women

the man is Ywain she is happy and tells him, "she ought not refuse to take as lord a good knight and the son of a king" which is s...

Literary Nature of Comedy

this suggests, comedy provides numerous benefits. When the famous Shakespearean actor Edmund Kean lay on his deathbed, it is reput...

Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri and Portrayal of Women

woman who is generous and selfless: "So much more dear and pleasing is to God/ My little widow, whom so much I loved,/ As in good ...

Shakespeare’s View of Father/Daughter Relationships

surprising that there is evidence in a number of Shakespeares plays that a female characters who is "self-aware" and "skillful" is...

Top Journalist Falters

Brian Williams, NBC news anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News, was one of the most trusted journalists in mass media. Ev...

Using Comedy To Explore Social Issues

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

The Bible, Koran, And Divine Comedy

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

Compromise of 1850/3 Speeches

perspective on the political realities of the era, reviewing the political climate and history of the South. He states that this h...

Oedipus and Lysistrata: Tragedy and Comedy

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...

Different Interpretations of Settlers in the New World

A great deal of insight about equality emerges, and later, this would be the basis for the creation of the United States of Americ...

3 Expert Tales of Death

later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...

Fire Symbolism in Barn Burning

had been older, he would have wondered why his father, would have witnessed the "waste and extravagance of war" and who "burned ev...

The Host by Heyen

a leech, which is the "host" (Heyen 24). "They would grow together, if the snapper lived" (Heyen 25). In this one can well argue t...

Othello Themes

really betrayed Othello. Iago is determined to manipulate Othello to his own desires, which are many. Throughout the play the re...

Tanks but No Tanks

Bradley and the M-1 Abrams tank (Feickert & Lucas, 2009). They would also be developing entirely new software consistent with thes...

Sociologically Implications of a Comedy

their acknowledged leaders and the only character that is not played for laughs. There are also Gordon, a middle-aged, loyal custo...

The Letter by Somerset Maugham and Characterization

to kiss her, but naturally, Proudlock was convicted of murder (PG). She received a death sentence but the the European community ...

Wordsworth and Coleridge on Human Inspiration

in writing and nature. The bulk of the poem goes on referencing the sky, the water, and all things natural, but it is the ending w...

Challenges in the Founding of Plymouth

them and speaking in broken English (Cline). Samost carried an empty quiver and two arrows, one with a tip and without, which is a...

The Four Zoas by William Blake

of them all, the Sumerian Gilgamesh. Its not that Blake copied anyone, but his poem tends to evoke some of the same feelings in a ...