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English Literature of the 17th Century

In A Modest Proposal, also, he looks at the way in which dehumanisation results in a situation where the logical next step is one ...

Catholic Church Corruption and The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

In six pages the corruption that existed in the Medieval Catholic Church as reflected in the text in the irony of the characters i...

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 ...

Directions for a Birth Day Song by Jonathan Swift and Irony

Laureate whose job it was to provide annual New Years and birthday poems. It was considered to be a competition, and obviously a c...

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...

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...

Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Irony

depicting what he discovered about each of the victims. The first of these characters is the Marquesa, who is the daughter of a we...

Williams' Is and Ought

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

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...

James Dickey's Deliverance

said that it eventually becomes the story of the city versus the country. On their first night to make camp, Ed Gentry and Bobby g...

Rudyard Kipling's Language and the Novel Kim

Kiplings earliest works were first poems and ballads. The sense of rhythm, it can be said, is found in the book, Kim. The sentence...

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...

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...

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and Dramatic Irony

In five pages Twain's use of dramatic irony in Chapter XXXI is examined in terms of Huck's decision regarding Jim's mistake and it...

Single Women in Toni Morrison's Sula and in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire

In five pages this paper considers the portrayal of single women in this comparison and contrasting of Morrison's novel and Willia...

Tennessee Williams, Eugene O'Neill and Alcoholism in Their Plays

In twelve pages the ways in which alcohol represents an escape from reality is considered in O'Neill's Touch of the Poet and A Moo...

Contemporary Poetry, Symbolism, Naturalism, Realism, and Romanticism

In five pages this paper discusses how the elements of symbolism, naturalism, realism, and romanticism are found in works by Willi...

Irony in 'A Modest Proposal' by Jonathan Swift

In five pages this paper discusses the author's use of irony in the essay 'A Modest Proposal.' One source is cited in the bibliog...

Symbolism and The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

the stage flooring(Escape http://home.powertech) . The setting of the Wingfield apartment sets the tone for the understanding of t...

The Character of Tom in The Glass Menagerie

This research paper examines the character and dramatic function of "Tom" in Tennessee Williams' play The Glass Menageri...

Works of Tennessee Williams and the Theme of Sexuality

In five pages this paper discusses how sexuality is thematically portrayed in Tennessee Williams' short story 'Desire and the Blac...

Journey's End A View of the Conflicts of War by R.C. Sherriff and Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw

In five pages these works are compared in a consideration of peace and issues of heroism along with war irony and symbolism as ref...

George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man and R.C. Sherriff's Journey's End

In five pages these plays are compared and analyzed in a consideration of irony and expectation as well as appearance versus reali...

'A Father' by Bharati Mukherjee and Irony

In five pages this paper examines the importance of irony to Mukherjee's story with other thematic components considered as well. ...

America's Revolutionaries' Hostility

that is the most threatening aspect of revolutionary behavior. A large percentage of Americans are content with their lives an ar...

Transcendent Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

The character of Laura and the purpose she serves in Tennessee Williams' play The Glass Menagerie are analyzed in a paper consisti...

Social Criticism and Irony in Plays by Anton Chekhov and Henrik Ibsen

In five pages this paper discusses how in Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and in Ibsen's Ghosts the playwrights are able to convey so...

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen and Irony

In 3 pages the uses of irony in this social drama are examined. There are 4 sources cited in the bibliography....

Freudian Analysis of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams

associated with the complexity of the sexual relationship, and its importance as a factor in the lives of human beings, just as Fr...