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William Shakespeare's Use of Fools in Comedies A Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Night

In five pages the characters featured in these plays are contrasted and compared. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

Comedy Filmmaker Charles 'Little Tramp' Chaplinker

The filmmaking career of Charles Chaplin from the 'little tramp' movies to Modern Times in 1936 is explored in five pages. Six so...

Political Influences in Canto XXIV of The Divine Comedy

This article examines the influence of Florence, Italy's politics on Dante's writing, specifically in Canto XXIV of The Inferno. T...

Political Reflections in 'The Inferno' and Divine Comedy of Dante

the Renaissance was actually a period in which practically every aspect of European life from art to religion would experience a r...

Historically Accurate Staging of William Shakespeare's Comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream

Athens and the Amazon Queen Hippolyta. Although the setting is Athens, Shakespeare originally staged the production at the Globe ...

Comedy and Tragedy of William Shakespeare

her husband in their youthful days. She loves Polixenes as a brother because he is the best and oldest friend of her husband. In t...

Flannery O'Connor and Comedy

in complete truthfulness, "a man" (OConnor, 1972, p. 255). When the pair become hopelessly lost in Atlanta, they find themselv...

Dante the Poet and Author in The Divine Comedy Part I

In five pages this paper discusses the author Dante Alighieri and his fictional alter ego Dante the poet in his epic in terms of t...

The Theater and Its Use of Comedy

Funny women with a prominent role in the narrative are shared by many plays. This paper examines The Cherry Orchard by Chekhov, he...

Faith of Dante Alighieri in Divine Comedy

In five pages this paper discuses how within the poetic narrative Dante reinforces the Christian faith attitudes and also embraces...

The Divine Comedy, Man's Search for Understanding and Truth Represented by Dante

also called La Commedia (The Comedy) by Dante. In the poem, the poet Dante, travels to hell (Inferno) then purgatory (Purgatorio) ...

Beowulf, Tempest, Don Quixote/Their Lasting Appeal

size," who attacks it nightly (Kennedy xiv). Beowulf, in particular is described in heroic terms: Of living strong men he was the...

Milton/Satan in Paradise Lost

who displays unconquerable courage. In this manner, Milton portrays Satan as a heroic figure, and elicits sympathy for him. As Sat...

In What Ways Is Reading Literary Works of Another Age Of Value To Understanding History And To Understanding One's Place In History?

age help to dispel myths and mistruths about the past that have erroneously been passed on as fact. Sometimes history is portraye...

Ralph Ellison

mention the civil war in Spain and the Communist state in Russia as instances in which people grew "tired of seeing the rich have ...

Browning's Last Duchess & Her Fatal Misstep

creating a believable psychological portrait based on this duke, which is largely considered to be accurate according to Renaissan...

Comparative Analysis of Evelyn Lau’s Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid and the Anonymously Written Go Ask Alice

she had no particular interest in helping or educating others. For Lau, her diary represented the ultimately self-expression her ...

Non-Literary Evidence from the Ancient World

considered to be a study of the process of recording history, may be as important as history itself (Crawford, 1983). In other wor...

Discovering the Ancient World

be a study of the process of recording history, may be as important as history itself (Crawford, 1983). In other words, we might w...

Detailed Analysis of Kate Chopin’s Short Story, ‘Desiree’s Baby’

of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...

Virginia Woolf and E.B. White: Essays

a background. Woolfs imagery concentrates on light and dark, and various colors. She mentions "dark autumn nights," a "yellow-und...

Roland Bathes and S/Z

the reader is the consumer. A writerly text is at the other end of this spectrum, as in these texts the reader is also a co-produc...

Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself and Explication

actually ever addressed. The author states, for example, towards the beginning of the article, how "No gesture of style so prono...

Language as a Key to Inner Landscapes

another persons mind and perception. We each live isolated lives with only language as a bridge to understanding the worldview and...

American Renaissance

This is not to say that the influence of European authors was not discernible in the work of these authors. For example, Melvill...

Literary Themes

a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...

Would Aristotle Label Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman as a Tragedy?

audience" (66). The reversal refers to a reversal in fortune, which Aristotle believed was classically represented in a fall from...

Hebrew, Greek and Roman Values in Ancient and Medieval Literary Works

of specific interest, and which concern morality in the context of war, are those that argue for and against putting the Mitylene ...

Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and the Blues of the African-American Experience

a subtle reminder particularly to African-American women of how far they had come as a race and how much further they needed to go...

Power of Language in Langston Hughes’ Poems ‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers’ and ‘Mother to Son’

human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my ...