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Continuing Drama Surrounding Abortion

like to talk about it, infanticide also has a long social history. How did Romulus and Remus meet the wolf? Why was there a pre...

Creative Writing Exercise on Beating Hearts and Flowers

In five pages this exercise in creative writing explores the drama of a hospital room with the utilization of grammatical elements...

Overview of Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

In 5 pages this paper presents a critical overview of Miller's social drama that includes the heroic role of Willy Loman, foil cha...

Elizabethan Drama and the Role of Chrisopher Marlowe

In 8 pages Elizabethan drama is considered in terms of the influence of British dramatist Christopher Marlowe. There are 7 biblio...

Protagonist Brick Pollitt in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams

In five pages this paper explains why Brick is the protagonist of this award winning drama by Tennessee Williams as his character ...

Comparative Analysis of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie

In four pages this paper analyzes human dreams in a contrast and comparison of these two award winning American dramas. Two sourc...

Life of Tennessee Williams Reflected in The Glass Menagerie

In seven pages this paper discusses how Tennessee Williams' own life and family pain was reflected in the drama The Glass Menageri...

Cannibalism in Suddenly Last Summer by Tennessee Williams

In three pages this paper discusses Suddenly Last Summer in terms of the fantastic and metaphoric nature of cannibalism in this da...

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...

A Search for Meaning in A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee

In a paper consisting of five pages an analysis of religious references featured in this domestic drama as an effort to infuse mod...

Battle of the Sexes in Lysistrata, Medea, Antigone, Oedipus, and The Oresteia

In five pages this essay examines gender conflict within the contexts of these 5 dramas from ancient Greece. There are no other s...

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen and Personal Empowerment

In five pages this paper examines the personal empowerment that transforms heroine Nora Helmer in this social drama by Ibsen. The...

Drama as a Literary Genre

In six pages this paper examines how to define drama as a literary genre. There are many sources cited in the bibliography....

Social Power and Gender Themes in Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

In five pages this paper examines the themes of social power and gender as they are represented in the drama by Henrik Ibsen. The...

The Importance of Geography In Braveheart

This paper examines the importance of geography in the historical-drama, Braveheart, which detailed the life of William Wallace. ...

Greek Mythology and Literature and the Gods' Incestuous Relationships

contribution to the image in Greek mythology is the story of Chiron, who was born of a union between Zeus and Ixion, the son of Ar...

German Theatrical Contributions of J.W. von Goethe

In six pages this research paper examines Goethe's German theatrical contributions in a consideration of his 18th century dramas. ...

Fences by August Wilson and Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

In five pages the differences and similarities of these plays are discussed in an examination of whether Wilson's work is an Afric...

Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House and Marriage

When he comes back out he says "Has my little spendthrift been wasting money again?" (Ibsen). From this simple beginning we alre...

An Article on the Influences of Shakespeare Summarized

Rather Dionysus, Falstaff is his "Silenus, the fat, old drunken companion...(who) lends humor to Dionysian celebration" (367). Acc...

Family Theme in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

excuses for that sons pathological misbehavior; he virtually ignores his second son; hes a real bastard to friends, neighbors and ...

Images and Symbols in The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

With Amanda and Laura however, it is the way into reality (Symbolism in The Glass Menagerie). In the case of Laura the fire escape...

Mature Playwrights Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller

clearly tied to Puritan religious practice, it nevertheless also has a political dimension that was particularly apt to the era in...

Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie and Staging

we look at the content of the play and how it may be staged we have a better idea of how to interpret the work. It is after lookin...

Hedda Gabler by Henrik Gabler, Sterility and Fertility

her position of being pregnant. Through this pregnancy, her ability to be incredibly fertile, she is truly trapped in a world that...

Hunger by Knut Hamsun, Antigone, and Stubbornness

pushes away all the people that she loves, or have loved her, in her stubbornness related to the burial of her brother. She pushes...

Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and the Thematic Importance of Setting

and two shabby suitcases" (15). In all honesty, this is all this author states concerning the staging of this play. However, we ca...

Oedipus the King by Sophocles, Family and Marriage

devastating plague that has been killing many of his subjects. He speaks as if he is an anguished father: "My children, I am fill...

The Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe

a "filmy" eye, and in the narrators mind, it became an "evil" eye (Poe). The narrator, who is obviously mentally ill, decided he ...

Aristotle, Avenue Q, Joe Turner's Come and Gone

Thought is Aristotles third category. McManus (1999) speculates that this category can be associated with what modern critics woul...