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important, yet we are not really told who it is. We are puzzled at one point for the narrator uses the word I in such a way that i...

she clearly lives in the past. At the time in which the play takes place Amanda has apparently raised her two children to adulthoo...

takes place between Stanley and Jungle Fever in New York The wealthy elite of Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanans world were the peo...

a very unexpected place: her fears. She is so terrified that life is simply going to pass her by that the thought nearly paralyze...

in the direction of other family members. Outside their own room and their private conversations, however, the subjects they rais...

character of Laura is very illustrative of this, and she is somewhat reminiscent of such women as Ophelia, from Shakespeares Hamle...

employs descriptive words to create in the reader an appreciation for the reality of nature. This is not to imply that these poets...

smooth stone/ That overlays the pile; and, from a bag/ All white with flour, the dole of village dames,/ He drew his scraps and fr...

et al, 1996, p. 1251). Robert Burns Robert Burns was the eldest of seven children, the son of a hard-working farmer (Anonymous, ...

this particular poem the first four lines seem to offer us a great deal of foundation for understanding the symbolic nature of you...

Ned Williams It becomes quite obvious in looking at the story of Ned Williams that he was searching for nothing of value in his ...

express themselves in ways that the majority could not. The poets role in part appears to be to get one to think outside of the bo...

is mocking our hopes, and at the same time the teasing promise of Spring is false. With the coming of this Spring we can also envi...

he means a state of equality, in which no one person possesses authority over another, and all people are free to live as they ple...

the tale of Icarus. We do know that Auden visited the sixteenth century painting by Peter Breughel when it was displayed in the M...

of Blue Mountains finest male suitors. She makes frequent mention of Blue Mountain and Blue Roses, and one can assume this symbol...

unspoiled by either man or society? In "The Tiger," Blake appears to be pondering the marvels of the world while at the same time...

bodies in its past, the King confidently reassured his ailing people, "My search has found one way to treat our disease - and I ha...

inexperienced actors in the lead roles (Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey). The play opens with the servants, Samson and Gregory,...

as falsely inferred, would have good reason in the end to become distrustful of all thinking" (Nietzsche 821). Those who wished a...

conflict, whereas Gertrude and Ophelia are blatantly constructed to subordinate and to submit to all of the whims and desires of t...

slightly surreal way, youthful innocence. Juliets bedroom, for instance, is full of images of the Virgin Mary: an interesting vari...

mere lust, but sacred and precious. Therefore, he constructed a poetic dialogue that would "provide this decisive encounter with ...

titled William Shakespeares Romeo + Juliet (as if there were another author?) that starred Leonardo DiCaprio and Clair Daines in t...

devastation that occurred. I was only playing my part in the prophecy, a prophecy that would not have come to pass had I not pushe...

whatever virtue she may still retain intact. Ophelia is naturally shocked and confused by Hamlets peculiar behavior and struggles...

her standards and lie to her father. She is seen, therefor, as the evil daughter, not the righteous daughter she truly is: "Lears ...

of perspective came about. Though various ploys were attempted to regain old sorts of power, in the end, there was a rise in the m...

Rome itself is portrayed as moving from a society dominated by heroes, such as Julius Caesar and Pompey, to one which is more frag...

goading and nagging, contributed to Macbeths downfall; however, when one examines the play that the main impetus to Macbeths actio...