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Pohl and Kornblum's Space Merchants and Edward Albee's The American Dream

In five pages these two texts are discussed in terms of their themes and presentation of social issues. There are 4 sources liste...

Stage Direction in The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

In six pages this essay analyzes the thematic importance of props, lights, setting, and stage direction in Tennessee Williams' The...

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...

Hypocrisy in A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

In eight pages this paper discusses the theme of hypocrisy as it is portrayed in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire part...

American Theatrical Realism in the Plays of Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams

In nine pages American dramatic realism is discussed in an analysis of Eugene O'Neill's play Desire Under Elms and Tennessee Willi...

Tolerance Perspectives of Mary Shelley and William Godwin

In five pages a protagonist analysis of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and The Adventures of Caleb Williams by William Godwin serves...

Shepard, Ibsen, Hare, and Shakespeare Character Sketches

is certain he will. Nora then discloses how she borrowed the money for their trip to Italy and has been struggling to pay it back ...

Perspectives on Authority in Renaissance Drama

The writer examines several of Shakespeare's plays (King Lear and The Tempest), as well as Fuente Ovejuna by the Spanish playwrigh...

Five Tales of Anti Feminism

In five pages the anti feminist handling of female characters in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and Hamlet, Chaucer's The Wi...

A Streetcar Named Desire Film by Elia Kazan

is still a little to doubt that the cover up of her impending death is just not another part of her overall facade. Yet, because ...

Magic In The Works of Goethe And Shakespeare

This paper examines the ritual use and significance of magic in Goethe's Faust and Shakespeare's Midsummer Nights Dream. This fiv...

King Lear, Beowulf, the Concepts of Kingship and Hero's Downfall

In five pages these literary characters are contrasted and compared in terms of their deaths with the concept of kingship and what...

Poetry of William Blake and William Wordsworth and the Theme of Poverty

smooth stone/ That overlays the pile; and, from a bag/ All white with flour, the dole of village dames,/ He drew his scraps and fr...

Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra

Rome itself is portrayed as moving from a society dominated by heroes, such as Julius Caesar and Pompey, to one which is more frag...

Critique of British Poets

et al, 1996, p. 1251). Robert Burns Robert Burns was the eldest of seven children, the son of a hard-working farmer (Anonymous, ...

Nature Perspectives

employs descriptive words to create in the reader an appreciation for the reality of nature. This is not to imply that these poets...

William Wordsworth and William Blake's Childhood Themes

this particular poem the first four lines seem to offer us a great deal of foundation for understanding the symbolic nature of you...

Relevance of Macbeth in Modern Society

truly untested man. He has recently been incredibly successful in a battle and is, to some degree, full of himself. We can envisio...

Shakespeare's Othello and Racism within Renaiisance England

of perspective came about. Though various ploys were attempted to regain old sorts of power, in the end, there was a rise in the m...

Bard's Personality as Reflected in His Plays

were specifically constructed to entertain royalty, it was the impassioned actions of his characters that leave little doubt that ...

Social Role of Poets

express themselves in ways that the majority could not. The poets role in part appears to be to get one to think outside of the bo...

John Locke on Working and the Working Condition of Ned Williams in Stud Terkel's Working

Ned Williams It becomes quite obvious in looking at the story of Ned Williams that he was searching for nothing of value in his ...

Romeo and Juliet, Take Two

titled William Shakespeares Romeo + Juliet (as if there were another author?) that starred Leonardo DiCaprio and Clair Daines in t...

Poetic Portrayals of Icarus's Fall

the tale of Icarus. We do know that Auden visited the sixteenth century painting by Peter Breughel when it was displayed in the M...

A Feminist Reading of Shakespeare's Hamlet

conflict, whereas Gertrude and Ophelia are blatantly constructed to subordinate and to submit to all of the whims and desires of t...

Modernist Theme in 'The Waste Land' by 'T.S. Eliot

is mocking our hopes, and at the same time the teasing promise of Spring is false. With the coming of this Spring we can also envi...

Analyzing the Prose of Ophelia in Act III, Scene i, Lines 155 to 166 of Hamlet

whatever virtue she may still retain intact. Ophelia is naturally shocked and confused by Hamlets peculiar behavior and struggles...

Comparison of Jean Paul Sartre's No Exit and Thomas Mann's Death in Venice

life, which he describes as "solitary, without comradeship" (Mann 9). He makes a choice to experience beauty in his highest form,...

Midsummer Night's Dream and King Lear, a Study in Shakespearean Conflict

her standards and lie to her father. She is seen, therefor, as the evil daughter, not the righteous daughter she truly is: "Lears ...

Second Treatise on Government by John Locke

he means a state of equality, in which no one person possesses authority over another, and all people are free to live as they ple...