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Cannibalism in Suddenly Last Summer by Tennessee Williams

In three pages this paper discusses Suddenly Last Summer in terms of the fantastic and metaphoric nature of cannibalism in this da...

Tragic Irony in Othello by William Shakespeare

In five pages this paper examines how irony heightens the tragedy in William Shakespeare's Othello. There are no other sources li...

Comparing Daisy from The Great Gatsby with Amanda from The Glass Menagerie

flower, hence the name chosen for her by the author; however, a brightly appealing as she might be on the outside, she harbors the...

William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' and Themes of Pride and Loneliness

In five pages this paper discusses these themes presented in William Faulkner's short story with also literary elements including ...

Amy Tan and Tennessee Williams on Mother and Daughter Relationships

the freedom and opportunities offered by America. In other words, this immigrant mother means well. She simply wants her daughter ...

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams and Female Objectification

noted that a number of other characters, including Big Daddy, create the social perspective through which Brick and Maggies relati...

Notorious Scopes' 'Monkey Trial'

In twelve pages this paper discusses the intense creationism v. evolution debate this trial sparked in a consideration of evolutio...

Shakespeare's Comedy No Error

for supper. Meanwhile her REAL husband returns home, but is denied entry by Antipholus slave. During the course of the meal, Antip...

Innovative Use of Symbolism by Playwright Tennessee Williams in The Glass Menagerie

part of the illusionary world. Laura, on the other hand, thinks of the fire escape as a way in and not a way out. This can be seen...

David Mamet, Sam Shepard, and the Dramatic Idiom

plight of small-time con-men, dubious real estate salesmen and other marginal types, explore a desperate, obsessed landscape that ...

Contemporary Antihero in The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

Tom is central to defining the family stratification in the play, and also shapes a distinct view of the way familial associations...

Irony in 'The Chimney Sweeper' by William Blake

Encyclopedia, 5th edition, and notes that irony is: ". . . figure of speech in which what is stated is not what is meant. The user...

Iago's Devices in Othello by William Shakespeare

also aware that Desdemona is not one of his soldiers, obliged to obey orders; she is her own person and if she chooses not to love...

Literature and Characterization

fears, and in doing so leaves behind his childhood and begins the journey toward young adulthood. One of the earliest devices ...

The Theme of Self-Reliance is found in Emma, Huck Finn and My Name is Asher Lev

swayed by the setting to which he is born. In fact, it seems that Emma and Huck learn those lessons too. The self-reliance they ea...

Williams, Melville, and Jackson

offers a very powerful image of the lives these people live trapped in a tiny apartment and in their individual lives. Melville...

Depiction of Tom Wingfield in the 1987 Film Adaptation of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

Tom, then, is the central male figure in the family. Their father has abandoned them some many years before, and so it has fallen...

Mature Playwrights Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller

clearly tied to Puritan religious practice, it nevertheless also has a political dimension that was particularly apt to the era in...

Moliere's Works Compared - Plautus, The Miser and The Pot of Gold

of Harpagon is the counterpart to Plautus Euclio, but in many ways Harpagon is far preferable. Where the character of Euclio exhi...

Literature and the Theme of Appearance versus Reality

see the beauty in one who does not like reality, while Walkers story offers up, in many ways, a negative look at one who is not wi...

Irony as a Literary Device

You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. AT LENGTH I would be av...

Imagination Library and Family Literacy Improvement

Program Sevier County contains a tourist town that has been popular as such for several decades. Gatlinburg rests on the b...

Rural Community Development Issues

by their larger neighbor, in fact if not in name. Those rural communities further away from metropolitan areas or positioned in a...

Wilkerson, Inc. Operations Management

(2002) reports on another company that faces the same kinds of problems as Wilkerson, where the sales function also has led the co...

Quality Initiatives and Customer Service Employee Retention

After implementing quality initiatives and becoming the first service organization to win the Baldrige Award, the company realized...

State of Tennessee: Education Report Card

that Pickett County is a white county in relationship to students. This is not necessarily something that can be fixed for it is n...

Education: State Averages: Tennessee

In Reading/Language/Writing, in 2005, the students were 8% below, 51% proficient, and 41% advanced. Those who were economically di...

Defining Irony

and its complexities. If everything were taken at face value - that is on a very literal level - then language would be extremely...

The History of Fishing at Douglas Lake

Douglas Lake is nestled well into the foothills of the Smokies, with public access areas in some of the most attractive places aro...

Industrial Urban Recycling Areas

In five pages this paper considers how to revitalize such areas as Durham, North Carolina's tobacco warehouses, Knoxville Tennesse...