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Essays 1981 - 2010

How Circumstances Influenced Gus McCray, Dr. Jekyll, and Hamlet

seek vengeance for the father. Hamlet goes through many different changes because of the realities he has been told, and becaus...

Beckett: Waiting for Godot

fits well with the argument of another who states that Becketts play belongs to the Theater of the Absurd: "This implies that it i...

Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler and A Doll's House and the Theme of Confinement

The ways in which confinement in its various forms such as psychological, social, financial, and emotional are thematically repres...

Works of Playwright Lillian Hellman

thoughts of people, drawing on their most hideous features. These points come through clearly in both The Childrens Hour and The L...

Civil Rights Movement and the Role of African American Women

century after the turning point events of the 1960s, it is time to give the black women of the civil rights movement the credit an...

Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter, William Shakespeare's Hamlet and Dramatic Irony

In five pages the representation of dramatic irony in these plays are compared in terms of their similarities. There are no other...

The Transformation of the Family Culture Changing Family Concepts

5 pages and 8 sources. This paper relates the changing views of the family in modern culture, including the redefining of the fam...

Acid Rain and the Roles of Sediment and Vegetation

In ten pages nonpoint pollution and its contributing factors are examined in this consideration of the roles played by sediment, v...

Henry the Fourth, Part One and Henry the Fifth by William Shakespeare and Historical Accuracy

In 6 pages ths historical accuracy of these plays by William Shakespeare is assessed. There are 3 sources cited in the bibliograp...

Shakespeare's Villains, Iago vs. Shylock

Othello's Iago and The Merchant of Venice's Shylock are villains who drive much of the action in the plays. This paper examines Sh...

Performance of the Baroque Cello

physical differences between a modern cello and the typical eighteenth century instrument. For one thing, there is a wedge under ...

Iago and Claudius as Villains in Othello and Hamlet by William Shakespeare

In 7 pages this paper analyzes the evil represented by villains Iago and Claudius in these Shakespearean plays. There are 3 sourc...

Lorraine Hansberry's 'A Raisin in the Sun' and Eternal Hope

fact deliberately so. Hansberry does not leave it there, however. Though the play seems to be going headlong in that direction fo...

The Escape or A Leap to Freedom by William Wells Brown Analyzed

days schooling in my life, I owe the public no apology for errors" (ii). Escape; or, A Leap For Freedom is a five-act play featur...

Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and Jungle Fever

takes place between Stanley and Jungle Fever in New York The wealthy elite of Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanans world were the peo...

Government's Role in Poverty

the effects of poverty. Galbraith states that the politicians are mislead into believing that poverty is caused by inadequate envi...

The Enduring Popularity of Antigone

honor and integrity into the courtroom as well as to the attention of the public (Conte 26). These are the issues that should con...

Protagonists' Waiting in Waiting for Godot

up life. Most people will not do this, although there are some who are willing. Some of the kamikaze pilots who crashed into build...

Children's Dramatic Roles

own. As a result of their inability to take responsibility for the prophecy they suffered at the hands of their son. Oedipus pu...

Media Representation of the Vietnam War

readily comprehend the seemingly insignificant difference between the two thoughts, inasmuch as some believe that mass media has l...

William Shakespeare's Henry IV Part I

will (Shakespeare PG). It has been said that Hal is felt to be Shakespeares version of the ultimate Machiavel, based on Machiavel...

Culture Clash in The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

as intimate terms, yet knowing little about their culture, has always seemed a shame. But, there were no individuals who this read...

Shakespeare's use of Clowns

one author, his "role in this Illyrian comedy is significant because Illyria is a country permeated with the spirit of the Feast o...

Education and Literature's Role

is the well read that appear to succeed in life, they have a broader base of knowledge from which to make judgements and decision....

Predictions of the Trio of Witches in Macbeth by William Shakespeare

almost always determined to meddle in the business of the divine or the immortal. As a result, there is never a truly positive out...

Macbeth by William Shakespeare and Kingship

price because, as author Isaac Asimov observed in his consideration of Shakespeares works, "To kill a king... was to commit the hi...

William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, Macbeth, and the Presence of Oracles

matters into his own hands, a reality perhaps perceived by the oracle. He believes the predictions of the witches, and thinks that...

Superstition During the Renaissance

superstitious practices that were adhered to so rigidly, it should not be surprising that the citizens of the Renaissance also bel...

Employees and Management in the Plays How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and Death of a Salesman

Willy is worn out, aging, and nearly at the end of his rope. But, we also note that he has perhaps not gained any significant succ...

M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang

a deconstructivist Madame Butterfly immediately appealed to me. This, despite the fact that I didnt even know the plot of the oper...