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Madness as a Common Literary Theme

This paper examines Shakespeare's play, King Lear, as well as Ibsen's work, Ghosts to discuss madness and delusion as common theme...

William Wordsworth and William Blake's Childhood Themes

this particular poem the first four lines seem to offer us a great deal of foundation for understanding the symbolic nature of you...

Modernist Theme in 'The Waste Land' by 'T.S. Eliot

is mocking our hopes, and at the same time the teasing promise of Spring is false. With the coming of this Spring we can also envi...

Racism in William Shakespeare's Othello

connection between Iagos perception of race and the cultural perception that "black" equates with "evil." This perception of race ...

Comparing Three Works Thematically

This research paper/essay discusses parallel themes in three works: Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet' and his poem "The ...

A Film Adaptation of Romeo and Juliet

This research paper/essay offers a critique of Baz Luhmann's adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The writer discusses ho...

Analysis of Lord of the Flies by William Golding

In ten pages this paper presents an analysis of Lord of the Flies by William Golding in a consideration of humankind's evil as a p...

Hypocrisy in A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

In eight pages this paper discusses the theme of hypocrisy as it is portrayed in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire part...

Shakespeare's Hamlet and Iago As Icons of Madness

that evil, corruption, guilt, lust, and avarice can all cloud the mind of a good man. Consider another of Shakespeares characters...

King Lear, Disguise and Deception

In a paper consisting of 6 pages the themes of deception and disguise as they manifest themselves in Shakespeare's play are consid...

Lingering Power of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

dysfunction goes far beyond the limits of the household, hinting at a world that is itself out of sync and in a state of disarray....

Tragic Heroism of Prince Hamlet

theater itself, and his own background upon the stage. Hamlet plays the clown with the other actors who arrive to perform ...

Othello Questions and Answers

In a paper consisting of twelve pages study questions pertaining to Shakespeare's tragedy are answered in break downs according to...

Thematic Elements of Tragedy in Shakespeare's Macbeth

will be the real winner in the scheme. Macbeth talks to himself about his desire to murder. He is tortured by it, thinks...

Othello by William Shakespeare and Enduring Love

the only thing they share: "Othello reveals a more detailed acknowledgment of Desdemonas sexual appeal. As he discusses her death ...

Playing in Hamlet: Ophelia

who are listening can better estimate if he is mad or not. Ophelia is essentially being used by the leaders for their own gain but...

Hamlet & Oedipus

consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...

Sonnet CXVI: “Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds”

the accent will change the meaning of the poem. Instead of stressing the syllables like this: Let me NOT to the MAR-riage of TRUE ...

Jealousy in Othello

tells Desdemonas father that he must act quickly else "youll have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse" (I.1.112-113). As p...

Shakespeare's Theme of Homoeroticism in a Trio of Plays

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

Poetry of William Blake and William Wordsworth and the Theme of Poverty

smooth stone/ That overlays the pile; and, from a bag/ All white with flour, the dole of village dames,/ He drew his scraps and fr...

"I'm Sexy and I Know It" - An Examination of Feminist Themes

more aware of themselves than they are of one another. Finally, at the behest of their leader, they begin to walk down the boardwa...

Early Feminist Literature - An Examination of Themes

to emerge in the stories to be analyzed. The first major theme to emerge in the stories to be analyzed is the effect of power ineq...

The Sound and the Fury Novel Analysis

father -- by playing creatively on and within its margins" (239). According to Gwin, in the patriarchal order Faulkner has establ...

African American and Feminist Themes in Walker's The Color Purple

This paper addresses the ways in which Alice Walker's, The Color Purple portrays different feminist points of view, as well as tho...

Patriarchal and Feminist Themes in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

To say that women had to fight for their existence throughout history would be a gross understatement and one that would also be s...

Feminism in Shakespeare and Aristophanes

This paper examines various forms of feminism seen in two works by Shakespeare's, Midsummer Night's Dream, and Aristophanes', Lys...

Judaism and Feminism in Marcie Piercy's, He She and It

This paper details the theme of Jewish Feminist theory interwoven throughout Marcie Piercy's book, He She and It. This five page ...

'The Wife of Bath's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer and its Feminism Theme

In five pages this tale is examined in terms of how the feminist theme is conveyed through symbolism, tone, and language literary ...

Thoughts on Marriage

the woman reaps any benefit at all from her matrimonial vows. "If marriage be such a blessed state, how comes it, may you say, th...