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This essay offers summary and analysis of four poems which begin by offering a comparison of two companion poems from Songs of Inn...

be an enduringly popular play. Not as sensational as A Streetcar Named Desire, it offers just as bleak a portrait of a family stru...

his life with his sister and his wife and their children, and wrote his poetry. There is, however, focus in much critical assessme...

historiography of Penn scholarship to-date. However, it would have been enlightening and perhaps made his text more appealing to h...

explores the seamy side of city life. In fact, the novels central theme is the horrible treatment endured by the poor and those wh...

hopefully connect with the real world enough so that he is not mired in the dysfunctional and fantasy world that his mother and li...

the intricacies of the situation to take a higher-level view and make higher-level decisions. Relevance of Culture and Diversity i...

narrative voice relates how his mother died when he was quite young and his father sold him before he could cry "weep." In the Nor...

In the beginning of the play one sees how Willy has no respect for his son Biff. He argues with his wife saying "Biff is a lazy bu...

spring of renewal, for the person that has died. This fact is emphasized in the final metaphor, which is addressed in the next fou...

to by Jim in very earthy, concrete terms that nonetheless indicate that she is pretty. When she says that blue "is wrong for-roses...

In many ways the social failure of America as a whole at this time in history is symbolized by the personal failure experienced...

Within these tragedies, the unfortunate fate of the hero or heroine is usually determined by some type of sexual desire. The them...

wall, "deserted his wife and children sixteen years earlier" (Koprince and Bloom). Tom describes him as a "a telephone man who fel...

number and must join the rat race. Individuality is not prized and someone who has opinions, especially if that person is a woman,...

path to happiness. When Jim comes over for dinner on that fateful evening, he is in several instances cold and behaves selfishly....

"Faith, hard won, has taught me how to value the gains, losses, stand-offs and victories in my life" (ix)...

and makes his way to her dressing room. He knocks, but then quickly enters the room, knowing that she is expecting him. The dan...

memory of past events. He explains that he will not be a narrator, "I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion t...

decides rather early on that each of them would be better off without the other to feed, fuel and nurture the dysfunction of their...

the additional mouth to feed will put the family into jeopardy. The audience knows that she is considering abortion. To end all of...

Mississippi and later St. Louis Williams was teased about his deep southern accent and changed his name to Tennessee. Because of f...

around the characters. Through the decaying setting, and also a setting that is quite dreamlike, the story begins on a very allusi...

"real" (insofar as theater can ever be said to be real) happenings, but a carefully selected group of scenes that illustrate the i...

the one who is primarily the main focus of the play and it is her collection that bears the title of the story, as she collects gl...

scene begins Laura Wingfield (Karen Allen) and her gentleman caller Jim OConnor (James Naughton) are looking at Lauras "glass mena...

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...

In five pages the reasons why character Blanche Du Bois announced, 'I have always depended on the kindness of strangers' at the co...

In seven pages this paper contrasts and compares how the authors utilize symbolism in these respective works. Seven sources are c...

In five pages this paper discusses the witch trial of Abigail Williams as depicted by Arthur Miller in his play The Crucible. The...