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- 1481: The Setting in "A Doll's House"
- The Setting in "A Doll's House" One work in literature that I believe the setting plays a part in is, A Doll's House. This is a play written by Henrik Ibsen. It tells a story of how two people's marriage was ended because ...
- 1482: Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire: A Reaction, Assessment of Literary Value, Biography of the
- ... play which keeps the reader fascinated in the realistic fantasy Williams has created in A Streetcar Named Desire. The symbolism, characters, mood, and events of this play collectively form a captivating, thought-provoking piece of literature. A Streetcar Named Desire produces a very strong reaction. Even at the beginning of the play, the reader is confronted with extremely obvious symbolism in order to express the idea of the play. Blanche states ...
- 1483: A Streetcar Named Desire
- ... sister, Stella, and brother-in-law, Stanley. By analyzing the symbolism in the first scene, one can understand what prompted Blanche to move. Her appearance in the first scene "suggests a moth" (Williams 96). In literature a moth represents the soul. So it is possible to see her entire voyage as the journey of her soul (Quirino 63). Later in the same scene she describes her voyage: "They told me to ...
- 1484: Hamlet: Chivalry
- ... emerge. One such regiment was the "practicing of mock warfare known as tournaments. Tournaments were central to the world of chivalry: they acted both as training grounds for knights….and as focal points for a literature and culture based on knighthood" (19). A knight had to be trained in all aspects of combat from horsemanship to fencing. The well equipped knighted that we tend to think of today did not appear ...
- 1485: The Crucible: Theme of Mass Hysteria
- ... such as sarcasm and repetition to turn the crowd in his favor, so that he might have people help him retaliate against Caesar's murderers. The phenomenon of mass hysteria strongly influences the events in literature, and parallels can be drawn between those events and modern events. The Crucible is a powerful example of mass hysteria invading a population like a rampant virus consuming its host.
- 1486: Measure for Measure - Critique
- ... poor performance - poor staging X = Waste of money and time...Do not see this play. If you are truly curious about the nature of this play, save yourself the money, visit the local library's literature section and read it...the printed word brings out the play's ironic intricacies far more than this unexciting rendition ever will. So, if you find yourself in a little town called Stratford, pay no ...
- 1487: Hamlet: Antiheroism in Hamlet
- Hamlet: Antiheroism in Hamlet Antiheroism has always been an interesting aspect of a character that authors have chosen to illustrate. In literature, there has been countless antiheroic characters, from Randle McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Allie Fox in The Mosquito Coast, to others as famous as Robin Hood and ... By literary definition ...
- 1488: Fate in King Lear
- ... outlast the various "... great ones that ebb and flow by the moon". In Lear, the death of hubris that gives rise to the humility of love This is as much a cycle in most of literature, Lear included, as is birth to death. In short death of the old precedes birth of the new. For Lear, it is a death of self-ignorance that gives rise to the birth of self ...
- 1489: Death Of A Salesman Vs. Hamlet
- Death Of A Salesman Vs. Hamlet Willy Loman and Hamlet, two characters so alike, though different. Both are perfect examples of tragedy in literature, though for separate reasons and by distinct methods. The definition of a tragedy, in a nutshell, states that for a character to be considered tragic, he/she must be of high moral estate, fall to ...
- 1490: The Crucible: Reverend John Hale - A Dynamic Character
- The Crucible: Reverend John Hale - A Dynamic Character In literature, there are different types of characters. There are the types of characters that change during the story and some that don't, dynamic and static. There is also how the character is described in the ...
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