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Title Significance of A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

In two pages this essay analyzes the play's title significance and how it influences both plot and characterization....

Tragic Elements of Hamlet by William Shakespeare

In five pages this paper analyzes the play's tragic elements and then applies them to the experience of the contemporary world....

She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith

This essay focuses on the 1773 play by Oliver Goldsmith, "She Stoops to Conquer," which is an eighteenth century play that is stil...

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett and the Two Halves of One Identity Represented by Didi and Gogo

In five pages this paper discusses the complementary aspects of protagonists Vladimir and Estragon in a consideration of how they ...

Les Bonnes by Jean Genet

In five pages this 1947 Existentialist drama is analyzed in terms of its complexities and plot twists. One source is cited in the...

Stephen Crane's Open Boat from a Christian Perspective

An essay of 5 pages that considers the worldview of Christian writer James W. Sire. After defining the worldviews of Existentiali...

Personality Psychology and Existentialism

In five pages this paper examines existentialist ideas and then they are related to the development of personality with psychoanal...

Relationship Between Man and God According to Soren Kierkegaard

of what it means to lead a Christian life. Kierkegaard identified three stages, or modes, of life?the aesthetic, the ethical, and...

Martin Heidegger

In six pages this paper discusses Martin Heidegger and his philosophy as both are represented in Nathan Oaklander's Existentialist...

The Seventh Seal and Cinematic Symbolism of Director Ingmar Bergman

In five pages this paper analyzes the symbolism Ingmar Bergman employed for existentialist effect in his 1957 film The Seventh Sea...

Moral Certainty and the Existentialism of Jean Paul Sartre

In five pages this paper examines how moral certainty is attacked by the existentialist philosophy of Jean Paul Sartre. Two sourc...

Existentialism and Phenomenology

In nine pages this paper discusses how a philosophy class would teach phenomenology and existentialist theories by answering quest...

E.B. White, John Cheever, and Existentialism

In four pages this paper discusses how existentialist thought manifests itself in the short stories 'The Door' by E.B. White and '...

The Wall by Jean Paul Sartre

In one pages this short story by Existentialist philosopher and writer Jean Paul Sartre is summarized. There are no sources inclu...

Perspectives of Ideology, Postmodernism, and Existentialism

the distinction between good and evil that is recognizable and notable. In order to understand the link between Nietzsches prem...

Choice and Value in the Views of Jean Paul Sartre

of human undertakings," saying that if they reject Gods commandments, then life itself becomes nothing but an exercise in capricio...

Jean Paul Sartre's Existentialism Revealed in His Play No Exit

difficult to define as it is a philosophy that originated with one philosopher (Kierkegaard) but has been embraced by a good numbe...

The Meaning of Life: Existentialism

for those who would adopt the notion of existentialism it is important to note that their perspectives and faith in religion and G...

Responsibility and Freedom According to Jean Paul Sartre

individual can choose who he or she is to be and how they will act. That freedom is simply and fundamentally implicit in being a h...

Designing a Production of Miss Julie by August Strindberg

in the play. The statement is in regards to women, and their place in the world: "She (Miss Julie) is the victim of false belief -...

Classical Detectives and Existentialism

the tall gangly Holmes. He was short, bald and sported a rather large mustache. He was a bit of a clothes horse and more than a bi...

Algerian War and Albert Camus

the limited liberty that they offered was not sufficient to the majority of Arabs in Algeria (Gildea 17). Albert Camus wrote, in...

Melville's "Le Samourai" - A Portrait of Existential Values

single, concise action, one cannot help but recall the inherent ambiguity and independence of Camus Mersault, the protagonist of "...

Examining Existentialist Thought a Book by Ronald Grimsley

literary genre and includes writers such as Sartre himself but also Ibsen, Kafka and Ionesco (Crowell); these writers are usually ...

Absurdity and Existentialism in Adams' Hitch Hiker's Guide

arise out of unexpected and irrational contradictions faced by the main characters on virtually every page. The absurdity is not j...

The Use of Play for Therapy with Children

activities have been created as a part of therapeutic play; a process of introducing play activities through which children can pr...

Alice Walker and George Orwell

of these introductory lines the reader is made privy to who the individual is in some way, where they are, and ultimately what the...

Where is Daniel Dennett?

is located in the brain, shouldnt he be thinking, Im inside looking at my body (Dennett). Unfortunately, he cannot make that switc...

Getting Old is Not for Sissies

to toss older people onto the scrap heap. This paper considers the way in which reactions to phrases about aging inform a persons ...

Study Proposal/Will Placing an NP in EDs Help Overcrowding?

concerns the how NP practice has been implemented in countries other than the US. The majority of research articles available in v...