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Tenets and Conventions of the Romantic Film Comedy

"screwball" romantic comedies, a man and woman of differing social standing and temperaments. In Frank Capras classic 1934 film, ...

A Tour of the Louvre

In five pages this research paper celebrates the passions of art and politics revealed in various displays of Romantic and Neoclas...

Jean Jacques Rousseau, Moliere, Romanticism and Rationalism

In eight pages this paper discusses the rationalism of Moliere reflected in Tartuffe and the emotional appeal of Rousseau's romant...

Music During the Romantic Era

swung between the desire to keep emotion under the control of reason and the desire for free, uninhibited expression (Machlis, 197...

Twelfth Night and Themes of Romantic Love and Friendship

William Shakespeare's comedy is analyzed in terms of how the relationships of Olivia and Orsino, Cesario/Viola and Orsino, and Ces...

Annie Hall, An Unromantic Comedy

This essay pertains to Annie Hall (1977), which was directed and co-written by Woody Allen. The writer maintains that this was a g...

View of Women, Two 1950s Romantic Comedies

This paper presents an overview of "Pillow Talk" and "Desk Set," which are two fifties' era romantic comedies. The writer relates ...

Blake, Dickens and Wilde and their Eras

This essay looks at representative works of William Blake, Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde in relation to the eras in which they w...

Comparison of Poems by Keats and Blake

William Blakes "The Divine Image" have little in common, as the first poem relates a mystical enchantment of a knight with a super...

Artists Joseph Mallord William Turner, Henry Purcell, and Robert Schumann

In five pages this paper considers Baroque and Romantic music and visual arts from a social perspective with the music of Purcell ...

Candide by Voltaire and Romance

In five pages this paper discusses how social hypocrisy is satirically represented by Voltaire in the romantic behavior of the cha...

Values of the Enlightenment and Romanticism

In seven pages this paper discusses the Enlightenment and Romantic values in a consideration of 'The Tyger' by William Blake and '...

Mary Robinson, Charlotte Smith, and Jane Austen on Romantic Love

In twenty pages this paper examines how female authors portrayed romantic love in the late 18th century in a consideration of Robi...

'Don Juan' by Lord Byron

In eight pages the romantic 'Don Juan' is contrasted and compared with the hero's poetic satirist, Lord Byron. Five sources are c...

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...

1820 to 1900 Romantic Era

In five pages this paper examines the important social and political events that characterized the Romantic era with the Industria...

Reason, Romance, and the Enlightenment

In seven pages this paper considers the seemingly opposing views of romantic emotion, reason principles, and the Enlightenment, wh...

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

In a paper consisting of five pages the love between Darcy and Elizabeth is examined within the context of Austen's romantic comed...

Controversy and Kudos -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

One of England's foremost poet and philosopher-critic during the Romantic Movement, Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote some of the grea...

Comparing the Poetic Styles of William Wordsworth and Percy Bysshe Shelley

A paper consisting of five pages compares and contrasts the Romantic poetic styles of Wordsworth's 'A Complaint' and Shelley's 'A ...

Emma Bovary's Lack of Intellectual Stimulation in Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

In five pages this paper examines how Emma was motivated by the lack of intellectual stimulation from her marriage to country doct...

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare and Fencing

In seven pages Elizabethan style fencing as it is featured in Shakespeare's romantic tragedy is considered. Six sources are cited...

Romantic 'Perfection' in Literature

In 3 pages this paper considers how a few Romantic authors managed to offer a glimpse that life and men were flawed in their writi...

Coleridge vs. Byron

Romantic poets Lord Byron and Samuel Taylor Coleridge were contemporaries who viewed the world through different perspectives. Thi...

Arthurian Romantic Characters Cei and Gawain

This paper examines Arthurian romantic character featured in Sword at Sunset by Rosemary Sutcliff and Lancelot and Erec and Enide ...

Classical, Neoclassical, and Romantic Music and Literature

In five pages this report contrasts and compares literary and musical distinctions as illustrated by Voltaire's Candide neoclassic...

The Eighteenth Century Novel The Italian by Ann Radcliffe

writes that there was "something too extraordinary in the figure of this man, and too singular in his conduct to pass unnoticed by...

Romanticism in King Lear by William Shakespeare

In five pages this paper discusses the Romantic qualities that are featured in King Lear, a hundred years before the genre was eve...

Romantic Literature and the Idealization of Children

In ten pages this paper examines how children were idealized in the romantic writings of Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, Charlotte...

Desdemona in William Shakespeare's Othello

In five pages this paper presents the argument that Desdemona's love for the Moorish Othello expands romantic love to include fide...