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Was Hamlet Sympathetic or Unsympathetic?

lost her mother at an early age, was brought up in a very sheltered environment, with her father Polonius - one of Claudius best f...

The Glass Menagerie and Tom’s Many Roles in the Play

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

Macbeth and the Corruption of Power

his darkest. It is concerned with power, ambition, and the exercise of pure evil. This paper examines the characters, setting, plo...

Ibsen and Shakespeare/Doll's House and Much Ado About Nothing

in order to obtain the loan. At this point in the nineteenth century, married women were not allowed to own property or carry out ...

Downfall of Othello

well as a "Barbary horse" (I.i.111). As this indicates, the two men are particularly repulsed at the thought of Othello and Desd...

Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet = Production Effectiveness

decision to transform a personal tale of forbidden love into a social commentary on increasing teen violence and decreasing morali...

Comparing Romeo and Juliet with West Side Story

ever see a production of the original play. In light of such information we can assume that, in their original context, both stori...

The Merchant of Venice, Henry V and the Quality of Mercy

him, he will show "great mercy" (II.ii.50). Henry then turns the discussion around to the real point of the scene. He asks the me...

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

for fear Creep into acorn-cups and hide them there" (Shakespeare II i). This is a very magical surreal image, but also a very fun ...

William Shakespeare's Coriolanus

men pitted against one another. As a reader, and as an audience member, one does not have any sort of emotional attachment to any ...

2 Papers on Romantic Poets

opens "Marriage" delivers a millenarian prophecy that identifies Christ, revolution and apocalypse and, in so doing, "satanizes" a...

Spiritual Fulfillment and Poetic Function

is, of course, contrary to the view of the Christian belief system. In the Christian system of belief, it is the other way around....

Game of Chess Represented by William Shakespeare's Hamlet

soliloquy, to be or not to be. Even as early as this, there is a good argument for Hamlets strategy unfolding. His motivation for ...

How Petruccio Successfully Woos Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew

In seven pages this paper examines Shakespeare's play in a consideration of how Petruccio is eventually able to force Katherine to...

Analyzing Hamlet's Act II, Scene ii

his fathers murder was Claudius elaborate conspiracy to become King, but he lacked sufficient proof to support his theory. When t...

Thematic Elements of Tragedy in Shakespeare's Macbeth

will be the real winner in the scheme. Macbeth talks to himself about his desire to murder. He is tortured by it, thinks...

The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman

try" (207). As this exposition suggests, Marshalls presence as an outsider to the dynamics of the Hubbard family and as an outsi...

The Poet’s Use of Shakespeare’s Themes in the Sonnets

but in actuality, its how to preserve beauty, which is still another favorite of his. The Poet is actually saying that comparing h...

Grease and Westside Story

Many Splendid Thing" which is very innocent and then the viewer is presented with the images of a young woman and young man on the...

Wang's The Joy Luck Club Film and the Mythological Approach

forced to make an inner journey that she was loathe to make. This is often a key component in the mythological heros quest. He or ...

Oedipus in Zeffirelli’s Hamlet

Hamlet is fascinating because he is so psychologically rich and complex; hes a real person, and no one has quite managed to figure...

Abused Child and Historical Abuses of the Irish in The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe

This is clearly seen in "Patrick McCabes novel The Butcher Boy, published in 1992" for it "is a complex working through of the eff...

The Lost World by Michael Crichton Novel and Film

The film has Malcolm being lured to the island by millionaire John Hammond, the mastermind behind the development of the dinosaurs...

Historical Accuracy of Brian De Palma's Film The Untouchables

also gave rise to greater criminal activity. Coupled with the decree of prohibition on alcohol, many took advantage of this easy m...

A Comparison of the Book and Film Versions of Alcott's Little Women

the only ones allowed to have money, only serve to reinforce the institutions which helped them rise to power in the first place. ...

The Literary and Film Versions of Alcott's Little Women

are pleasant individuals who go through many different dilemmas, relatively simple dilemmas in the beginning. They become friends ...

Social Implications of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

An analysis of the social implications of the novel and film versions of Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit are e...

Feminism and Gender Issues During 1950's & 60's

a group of radical New York women who aggressively sought change (Mainardi, 1969). Others chose to work patiently behind the scen...

The Prince of Tides and the Character of Savannah Wingo

In five pages this paper compares the novel and film versions of The Prince of Tide in a consideration of how Savannah Wingo and o...

Book and Movie Versions of The Natural by Bernard Malamud

stories in that it takes the form of the medieval morality play. In this discussion we will examine the contrast between the nove...