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John Proctor in "The Crucible": Moral Dilemma

strikingly beautiful girl, an orphan, with an endless capacity for dissembling" (Miller, 1959, p. 487). She is convinced that she ...

Questions on Hedda Gabler

suicide. When Judge Brack discerns Heddas role in Lovborgs suicide, he threatens blackmail and Hedda, too, commits suicide. Why ...

Royall Tyler/The Contrast

fianc? was away, Maria restricted her social contacts, read a great many books and focused on letters from Dimple. Letitia explain...

Miller’s Death of a Salesman/A Greek Tragedy

of the play supports the concept of Willy as someone who is "stuck" emotionally at an immature level. Conclusion : As this indica...

Soyinka: "Death and the King's Horseman"

deeply offends the District Officer and his wife, Britons named Simon and Jane Parkinson (Scott, 2006). Things are further compl...

Battle of the Sexes in “Midsummer Night’s Dream”

that Hermia wants to marry Lysander but that he has forbidden it and told her she must marry Demetrius (Shakespeare). Theseus unde...

Willy Loman, Not a Tragic Hero

of Willys character shows him to be a highly flawed man, who makes innumerable mistakes and brings about his own tragic demise by ...

Analysis: “Six Characters” Author

writer create something unless it comes at least partly from within? Trying to provider a brief synopsis of the play is impossibl...

Shaw’s Pygmalion, Euripides’ Medea

expert, Henry Higgins, makes a wager with a friend that he can masquerade a lower-class girl, Eliza, as a member of the upper clas...

Women's Participation in Traditionally Male Sports

of the females role in society, which confined women exclusively to the home and the roles of wives and mothers, lingered well int...

Death of a Salesman, Hamlet, as Aristotelian Tragedies

This essay offers a comparison between "Hamlet and "Death of a Salesman," which draws upon the Aristotelian criteria for tragedy....

Hamlet - A Jungian Reading

In a paper of ten pages, the writer looks at "Hamlet". Jungian archetypes are used to analyze the play's themes. Paper uses one so...

Hamlet - An Existential Reading

In a paper of seven pages, the writer looks at Hamlet. Using textual evidence, an existential reading of the play's themes is give...

Hamlet/The Ruse of Insanity

ghost is the specter of his father, condemned to suffer "sulphurous and tormenting flames" (I.v.7) because he died without having ...

Romeo/His Characterization

This essay describes the characterization of Romeo and the role that this plays in the tragedy, referring to both the original pla...

Hamlet, the Influence of Chance and Fate

This essay pertains to the theme of chance and fate and their influence over the chance events that result in much the motivation ...

Impact on Those Who Play Computer Games

There has been a debate about the impact of action and violent video and computer games on those who play them. This especially pe...

Legalizing Marijuana Compared to the Prohibition

Special interest groups and propaganda played a strong role in Prohibition and they have played a strong role in drug laws today, ...

Feminist and Legal Elements in Trifles.

This 3 page paper gives an overview of the play Trifles and how it relates to the rights of women at the time. This paper includes...

Analysis of Agamemnon by Aeschylus

First, the author wanted to convey something political. It was a time when democracy was rising and this type of government was at...

Innocence and Guilt in 'Oedipus Tyrannus'

he was the victim of an unspeakable crime: it was prophesied that Laius would die by his sons hand, and so when Oedipus was born, ...

Reflective Essay on Hamlet by William Shakespeare

to have an impact open Hamlet and his self critical guilt. The well known quote that shows the motivation for the play is "the pla...

Miles Gloriosus Play by Plautus

"heavy father ... [who] is often led into the vices and follies which he has reproved in his son" (Bates, 1906, vol. 1). These com...

Literary Values in Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun

as they face the discrimination with the power of togetherness, as a family. Much of the play also focuses on embracing on...

Othello and Gender Roles

rebellious for "she chose the man who she wanted to marry and felt it unnecessary that her father intervene in their relationship....

Climaxes in William Shakespeare's King Lear

there, she might have added a dose of common sense to the proceedings, and pointed out to her husband that dividing the kingdom am...

A Review of the Eighteenth Century Play The Love Suicides At Sonezaki

only option it seems is for him and Ohatsu to commit suicide. In the last lines of the poem he laments:...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet and the Characters of Ophelia and Queen Gertrude

have a woman who does not necessarily understand what is going on with Hamlet. Both of them are deeply concerned with Hamlets ment...

An Article on the Influences of Shakespeare Summarized

Rather Dionysus, Falstaff is his "Silenus, the fat, old drunken companion...(who) lends humor to Dionysian celebration" (367). Acc...

Stage and Screen Adaptations of Hamlet by William Shakespeare

identity. It is interesting to note that as he pulls on his "cloak of madness" that his true intellect becomes completely clouded ...