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A Romeo and Juliet Sociological Analysis

component. But were they all that different in Shakespeares original version? Many seem to think so and that high schools renditi...

'Tent Worms' and Tennessee Williams

In three pages this essay discusses this short story by Tennessee Williams in an analysis of techniques....

The Black West by William Katz

simply slaves. They were not simply second rate human beings but have constantly played a very vital role in the history of the na...

Yeats’ The Second Coming

that may speak of a lack of hope or direction. The reader does not really need to know what the poem is...

William Blake’s The Garden of Love

his unique nature he was, during his lifetime, "generally dismissed as an eccentric during his lifetime" although "posterity redis...

Racism in Othello

seem that Desdemona is having an affair with Cassio, the man that Othello favored for promotion over Iago. Convinced that Desdemon...

The Tempest/Appearance & Politics

better, he goes off on a tangent in which he imagines himself as the ruler of a utopian society on the island (II.1.148-156). Wh...

Kingship and Leadership in Shakespeare’s Richard II

years because he seems to care a bit for the father of Henry, John of Gaunt. In these respects one can see that Richard II may wel...

Sonnets and Poems

are not red as coral; her breasts are not white but dun colored; her hair is coarse and wiry (on her head; Shakespeare being Shake...

A Rose for Emily

the author and his works this short story holds a deeper and more historical position. In relationship to the story itself, anot...

Bennett: "The Book of Virtues"

responsibility; friendship; work; courage; perseverance; honesty; loyalty; and faith" (Muehlenberg, 1999). Bennett uses a number o...

Federalism and the Writings of William Manning

of the progress which the process of democratisation was making in America in the eighteenth century. It could be asserted that Ma...

Literary Application of Rene Descartes' Method

Goldings Lord of the Flies, for example, gives a view of civilised society which is by no means optimistic. He takes a group of ch...

Shakespeare Films

3 pages that compares two Shakespeare films. There are 2 sources....

Shakespeare's Tempest/Act III Scene 1

Milan (Sutton 224). To further exemplify these features, consider a close examination of one scene. As Act III, scene 2, opens, ...

The Second Coming by Yeats

that second coming, beginning with a sense of hope, but finished with a sense of fear or dread: "The Second Coming! Hardly are tho...

Wordsworth’s Nutting

his poem and essentially relying on words that are descriptive and are simply part of his experience with nature. In this it is pe...

Male Characters in Persuasion and Emma by Jane Austen

the novel, Frank Churchill, though a very important supporting character, for it is his contrast with the more refined George Knig...

Quest for the Purpose of Life in 'Absalom, Absalom!' and 'Their Eyes Were Watching God'

overrule her inherent independence as a strong, black woman by telling Phoeby she can "tell em what Ah say if you wants to. Dats ...

Lord of the Flies by William Golding and the Characters Jack and Ralph

"Ralph is the evenhanded, honest, thoughtful leader, while Jack is the exact opposite, an unjust, callous dictator. When Ralph is ...

Comparative Analysis of the Characters in Works by William Faulkner and John Steinbeck

kills them when hes trying to pet them, not realizing his own strength. His strength, in fact, is his downfall - when he first mee...

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...

Feminist Perspective of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire

her sister to save her marriage. Yet throughout the brutal violence and stereotypes, "Streetcar" is also a long story of s...

William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' and Other Examples of Eccentricity

are similar to Emilys. The characters discussed are Carrie, from the film "Carrie," Norman Bates from the film "Psycho," Eleanor f...

Characters of Blanche Du Bois and Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

see a subtle hint that Stanley, while something of a macho male, is one who is not ignorant about the ways of people. He sees thei...

'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner and the Character of Homer Barron

townspeople had actually seen her she still remained hidden until the appearance of a new character, Homer Barron. Homer is the an...

Character Analysis of 'Young Goodman Brown,' I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem and the Film Version of The Crucible

was irreparable. In I, Tituba, the Black Witch of Salem, the protagonist is the misunderstood Tituba, a real-life woman who had b...

Character Sketches Featured in William Wycherley's The Country Wife

tale that he is a eunuch, otherwise impotent. With the aid of his friend, Doctor Quack, he manages to land himself in the lap and ...

Eight Works of Literary Fiction and the Influence of Social Position

- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...

Faulkner, Poe, and Chopin Bringing Characters to Life

did not allow her to be an individual. This offers us a subtle vulnerability that all people possess to some extent. And that vuln...