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The Character of Amanda in The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

she clearly lives in the past. At the time in which the play takes place Amanda has apparently raised her two children to adulthoo...

Simile and Metaphor

arms off and place them somewhere, nor did she wage a real battle on the high window. Even the terms high window and shadow can be...

William Wordsworth, William Blake, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

important, yet we are not really told who it is. We are puzzled at one point for the narrator uses the word I in such a way that i...

Williams' Is and Ought

only in the perception of the one who desires it....

Literary Realism and Social Problems

a very unexpected place: her fears. She is so terrified that life is simply going to pass her by that the thought nearly paralyze...

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams and the Isolation of the Pollitt Family

in the direction of other family members. Outside their own room and their private conversations, however, the subjects they rais...

Society's Influence on Fitzgerald and Williams

and a truly brazen attitude - were in vogue, as was drinking. Although Prohibition was in force to try to prevent people from imbi...

Issues of Stereotypes and Prejudice

of a belief concerning that type of individual, something discussed often in Jones book "Social Psychology of Prejudice." A black ...

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 ...

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...

Nature Perspectives

employs descriptive words to create in the reader an appreciation for the reality of nature. This is not to imply that these poets...

Romantic Poets Wordsworth and Blake

This sentiment is further echoed in London, in which Blake contends that all people have their own sadness and anguish inside, and...

Spiritual Fulfillment and Poetic Function

is, of course, contrary to the view of the Christian belief system. In the Christian system of belief, it is the other way around....

Dead Poets Society Film

was no evidence of peeling paint on anything. Schools like Welton do exist in the United States. They are generally very clos...

Clinical Supervisor Trainees and Therapy

counter-transference can take place. The supervisor must work very closely with the supervisory trainee and the dynamics will most...

Paterson by William Carolos Williams

and it is something that may be thought peculiar to his Paterson experience, but it is something that many people around the world...

'The Great Figure' by William Carlos Williams

Clearly represented in Williams poem are wonder, anticipation, fear and uncertainty, his words providing an avenue for the author ...

Richard Skolnik's I Am the American

relatives. It was the 1930s and change was in the air socially, politically, and internationally. Where they lived in Brooklyn Sko...

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams and Symbolism

of Blue Mountains finest male suitors. She makes frequent mention of Blue Mountain and Blue Roses, and one can assume this symbol...

Second Treatise on Government by John Locke

he means a state of equality, in which no one person possesses authority over another, and all people are free to live as they ple...

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...

Poetic Portrayals of Icarus's Fall

the tale of Icarus. We do know that Auden visited the sixteenth century painting by Peter Breughel when it was displayed in the M...

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...

John Locke on Working and the Working Condition of Ned Williams in Stud Terkel's Working

Ned Williams It becomes quite obvious in looking at the story of Ned Williams that he was searching for nothing of value in his ...

Social Role of Poets

express themselves in ways that the majority could not. The poets role in part appears to be to get one to think outside of the bo...

Love, Life, and Humor in The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer

In six pages this report considers the characters, their relationships, and how they are portrayed humorously and satirically by C...

Literature, Humor, and Morality

In four pages this paper discusses how morality is humorously depicted in Goldoni's Servant of Two Masters, Machiavelli's Madragol...

Depression Humor

Comedy was even more important during the Great Depression than at most other times in history, when entertainment was most people...

Robert Frost's Irony and Humor

In 5 pages this paper discusses how Frost humorously employs irony in his poems 'The Secret Sits,' 'A Cloud Shadow,' 'Mending Wall...

Erma Bombeck's Humor

In six pages the career and stylistic changes of humorist Erma Bombeck are considered. Seven sources are cited in the bibliograph...