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Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri and Portrayal of Women

woman who is generous and selfless: "So much more dear and pleasing is to God/ My little widow, whom so much I loved,/ As in good ...

Aeneid vs. the Divine Comedy

The Aeneid of Virgil and Dante's The Divine Comedy are similar in style and format, both being produced by poets. This paper compa...

The Element of Tragedy as Presented in Literature

in his society. Sometimes he is one who has been displaced from it, sometimes one who seeks to attain it for the first time, but ...

Portrayal of Women in Merchant of Venice and As You Like It by William Shakespeare

of Orlando sets in motion the complex maneuverings that form the core of the plot (Kinney 299). The poems of Orlando are a mirror...

The Uncommon Man's Tragedy and Aristotle

nations, and they did not attract the attention of the gods. In the past few centuries, on the other hand, we have ample examples...

Willy Loman's Tragedy in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

In five pages Miller's contention that 'tragedy is the conscience of a man's total compulsion to evaluate himself justly' is analy...

Two Critical Views of Shakespeare’s Comedies

from disarray to order; and marks a victory of "Us over Them" (Levin 14). He further argues that 20th century critics have tended ...

Ismene as the Foil in Sophocles’ Tragedy Antigone

Antigone is a rebel who is willing to defy King Creon in order to accord her brother Polynices with the proper burial his twin Ete...

Katharina v. Petruchio in William Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew

In five pages these leading characters in Shakespeare's comedy are contrasted and compared. There are no other sources listed....

Shakespeare's Dark and Festive Comedies

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares the dark and festive comedies of William Shakespeare and includes considerations of...

Slapstick Masters Woody Allen and Charles Chaplin

machine. The idea is that this feeding machine will cut down on the time needed for lunch breaks and, thereby, make the factory mo...

Underlying Issues Behind the Ford Explorer and Firestone Tire Deaths

This paper addresses the recent tragedy caused by the defective Firestone tires on Ford Explorers that blew out causing over one h...

Current and Past Styles of Parenting Styles

In eight pages this paper compares contemporary styles of parenting with those of three decades ago as they were represented in te...

Analyzing Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare

a manner that Cleopatra bears his children. At one point Antonys wife dies and for the audience this would offer the option of ...

Aristotelian Tragedy of Oedipus Rex

of tragic flow Aristotle also stipulates that the plot of a tragedy should follow a logical tragic flow. Aristotle writes that "a...

TV Situation Comedies Home Improvement and Everybody Loves Raymond

love one another. They give each other things, and try to understand one another as best they can. The audience feels that they do...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet and the Characters of Ophelia and Queen Gertrude

have a woman who does not necessarily understand what is going on with Hamlet. Both of them are deeply concerned with Hamlets ment...

Feminist Analytical Comparison of Sophocles' Antigone and Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House

father who controlled every aspect of her life. When she married bank employee Torvald Helmer, she was merely exchanging a father...

Mexican Drama and Xavier Villaurrutia

to Pirandellos play. Villaurrutia was obviously interested in the Italian playwrights concepts and this preoccupation becomes clea...

Comparison of Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

his mother Amanda, and his sister Laura retreat into their own safe havens of illusion. As one critic observed, "No matter how ur...

Tragic Characters in Macbeth by William Shakespeare and Antigone by Sophocles Compared

In five pages the tragic characteristics these plays' feature in terms of such conflicts as male and female, good person or monarc...

Shaw’s Pygmalion, Euripides’ Medea

expert, Henry Higgins, makes a wager with a friend that he can masquerade a lower-class girl, Eliza, as a member of the upper clas...

Using Comedy To Explore Social Issues

great deal of the humor arises from the plays comic premise, which calls tends to suggest that the title of the work is something ...

Comparing Medea and Lysistrata

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares these plays by Euripides and Aristophanes in a consideration of the similarities a...

Women's Roles in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen and Tartuffe by Moliere

In four pages female characters Nora and Pernelle in these two plays are contrasted and compared in an examination of the role wom...

Adolescent Suicide and Romeo and Juliet

This research paper analyzes Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and compares its narratives to instances of adolescent suicide and fam...

Roman and Greek Tragedies Compared

Thyestes and his brother were rivals for the throne of Mycenae. Atreus was married to Aerope. Thyestes seduced Aerope. He was a...

Failure as Depicted in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

In five pages the relationship between Willy Loman and his sons is compared with other real life relationships and discussed withi...

Michael Keaton and the Romantic Comedy's Social Value

job with an advertising agency. This sets the stage for marital difficulties born out of Butlers self-imposed inferiority complex...

Man of All Seaons/Robert Bolt

This essay discusses Robert Bolt's play that relates the life of Thomas More, A Man For All Seasons. The writer compares More's he...