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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 ...

Sin's Differing Degrees in Various Works of Literature

In seven pages this paper examines sin and punishment in a contrast of how they are portrayed in The Thousand and One Nights, Don ...

Analyzing 4 Important Plays by Tennessee Williams

In six pages this paper analyzes the plays The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Night of the ...

Analyzing Dylan Thomas, Robert Frost, and William Blake Regarding Death and Family Relationships

In six pages this paper analyzes the ways in which children and parental relationships within the context of death are depicted in...

For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls by Christopher Durang

Durang's satire of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie is considered in this report of five pages in which the author's succes...

Love That Does Not Last in the Films of Woody Allen

no matter how precious we may believe ours to actually be. Some of Allens films are more consistently filled with the idea of l...

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...

Puns in the Plays of William Shakespeare

In eighteen pages this paper discusses how Shakespeare's puns evoke irony, humor, and eroticism in The Taming of the Shrew, As You...

Comparing Elie Wiesel and Kurt Vonnegut's and Their Works about the Holocaust

outrage and sorrow. However, Vonneguts protagonist, Howard Campbell, is not precisely a victim in the Holocaust at all. He stress...

Themes of Loss and Restoration in The Plays Of Shakespeare

This paper examines the ways Shakespeare portrays the concepts of loss and restoration in his plays, Midsummer Night's Dream, Macb...

Comedic Mistakes in Two Shakespear

Merchant of Venice and Midsummer Night's Dream both deal with comedic mistakes. This paper examines how the comedic action is driv...

Andrew Lang as the Arabian Nights' Storyteller

In eleven pages this paper discusses how Andrew Lang becomes a storyteller in his vivid portrayal of the Arabian Nights' tales whi...

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...

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 ...

Poetry of Dylan Thomas and Robert Frost Compared

In seven pages these two poets are compared in terms of the differences and similarities in Thomas's 'Do Not Go Gently Into That G...

Lost Speech Symbolism in Damascus Nights by Rafik Schami

In five pages this text is compared in terms of similarities and symbolism with Arabian Nights' tales and the loss of speech is eq...

Attachment Among Shakespeare's Female Characters

of the common viewpoints regarding interpersonal interactions inherent in Elizabethan literature. The relationship between Hermia...

Comparative Analysis of Rulers in 4 Plays by William Shakespeare

trained to the arts of war and government, and not toward the finer sensibilities . Therefore, Theseus supports Egeus in forcing h...

Midsummer Night's Dream and King Lear, a Study in Shakespearean Conflict

her standards and lie to her father. She is seen, therefor, as the evil daughter, not the righteous daughter she truly is: "Lears ...

'The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality' by Bernard Williams

almost visceral, level. Whether or not the student agrees or not will generally be based on a personal belief system, ideology, re...

Two Different Viewpoints on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

and Titania, king and queen of the fairies, are introduced as well as members of an amateur acting troupe who are rehearsing the p...

William Shakespeare's Comic Take on Marriage

of the couple. As Shakespeare juxtaposes their feelings of love, we find that they have not even met. Ferdinand is awakened by the...

Congress Motel and Brown's Overnite Trailer Park

cutting operating costs. Though technically this is a strength, they have chosen to end virtually all advertising outside of the ...

Staging the "Dream"

and helps to keep the play from floating off into fairyland entirely. Likewise, when Egeus says that his daughter Hermia will ei...

Love madness in A Midsummer Night's Dream

famine as being the direct manifestation of her conflict with Oberon) and the madness itself is generated by the very human desire...

The Theme of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”: Things Aren’t Always What They Seem

run away, thus setting up the main action of the plot, because the man she loves, Lysander, agrees to run away with her. They end ...

Three Works by Mendelssohn

the Christmas hymn by Charles Wesley is drawn from "No. 2 (The Lied) of Mendelssohns Festgesang, for male voices and brass instrum...

Shakespeare’s “True Union”

(Foakes 23). Until this time, many directors seem to see the play as a literal fairy tale for children and staged it as such; Broo...

Sex and Violence in the Dream

popular comedy. The antics of Bottom and his friends, the eerie majesty of the fairies, and the mixed up relationships among the y...

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

for fear Creep into acorn-cups and hide them there" (Shakespeare II i). This is a very magical surreal image, but also a very fun ...