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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...

Shark Slayer

and so on. But what really sets Oscar apart is his style-or lack thereof. He wants to be cool and hip, but hes actually pretty sil...

Individuality According to the Perceptions of John Stuart Mill and Oscar Wilde

The individuality concepts of Wilde and Mill are contrated and compated in a paper consisting of six pages....

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

"beetle" and the "moping owl." The narrator walks beneath "rugged elms," where the turf is rounded into "many a moldering heap" (...

Mr. Death Film and The Picture of Dorian Gray

In many ways, the evil and rotten-ness which the portrait comes to represent are exemplifying the monstrousness of society as a wh...

Fayum Portraits

as to whether or not they actually resembled the deceased to any greater degree. Analyses of the paintings shows that they are oft...

Romantic Period Artistic Beauty

ability to allow us the opportunity to interpret the rational through the concrete forms presented in art. Hegel believed that ...

Comic Effects in The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Court are called Algernon" (Wilde 76). Here, Wilde is clearly poking fun at the aristocracys preoccupation with names and appeara...

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde and The Misanthrope by Moliere

This paper contrasts and compares the characters of Cecily and Alceste in five pages. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

Eavesdropping in Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare and An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde

In twelve pages the importance of eavesdropping and written communications to these two plays are examined. Three sources are cit...

Culture and Crime in the Works of Oscar Wilde

In five pages this paper discusses the lack of incongruity between crime and culture as this theme pertains to Wilde's An Ideal Hu...

Power in the Works of Oscar Wilde

In five pages this paper examines how power is portrayed by Wilde in his poem 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol' and in the plays A Woma...

19th Century Comic Techniques of Oscar Wilde

In five pages this essay compares An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest in a discussion of the comic techniques the...

Whistler: "Portrait in Black and Gray"

found in the womans tightly clasped hands, in the handkerchief that she is clutching tightly, and in the fact that her hair is cov...

The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart

"a perfect bell, with a perfect pitch" calling worshipers to mass (11). On arriving in Canada, Father Gstir simply changes the loc...

Paint and Art

one author that Hubert is "Credited with inventing oil painting" and "was so idolizes for his discovery that his right arm was pre...

The Lamps Are Going Out…

carry long after its completion and into World War II" (Duchateau, 2009). The changes brought about by WWI to Europe, changes that...

Grey's Anatomy: A Semiotic Analysis

the community of the hospital, many of the narratives that make up each episode come from examining the characters private lives o...

A Look at The Medical Drama

Mercy, is in its sixth season and has only introduced a solider in recent months. Owen Hunt arrived from Iraq in the fifth season....

Role of Women in Society: The Rover and The Importance of Being Earnest

to the plays because they were written during the time of the British Commonwealth, a time when the very nation has lost its Empir...

The "Elegy" of Thomas Gray

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at Thomas Gray's "Elegy". Themes are analyzed through various discussion questions. Pap...

"Helas" and the Victorian Hypocrisy

by comparing his own life to a "twice-written scroll", bearing marks from both a pursuit of intellectual virtues, and a pursuit of...

Two Paintings from the Wadsworth Antheneum Museum of Art

rich with character. Apparently Courbet was from a very wealthy family and yet this picture presents him very much as a common man...

Female Plantation Slaves and Deborah Gray's, Aren't I a Woman

the world. Their identities were constantly negated and they were devalued for nearly everything which they were. Contra...

Comparison/Contrast: Art: Harmensz, Velazquez, and Hals

face and bust, with no other activity taking place, as the background is very dark and inconsequential, it is clearly a portrait. ...

David Bailey, Photographer

as one of the principal influences and inspirations on him as an artist ("David Bailey, Biography"). According to Bailey, "The fir...

John Gray's Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus A Practical Guide for Improving Communication and Getting What You Want in Your Relationship

whether "everything" needs to be "explained," Gray developed an interesting working premise: if you learn what the other side is ...

Happy Prince by Wilde

wonders why the statue is crying. Why, when this prince is so happy does he cry after death? The gist of the explanation comes fro...

Pope and Nobleman Renaissance Art Distinctions

In eight pages this paper contrasts and compares Renaissance art in terms of the similarities and differences between noblemen and...