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- 2441: Henrik Ibsen
- ... story line. Through this Ibsen carefully forewarns his audience of the themes he will develop in later acts. The protagonist, Mrs. Alving is shown to have somewhat of a dual personality. Although she reads controversial literature she continues to conform to the wishes of the church and community. She also speaks about her husband and his reckless life and how she hid the truth from her son, Oswald. Despite her husbands ...
- 2442: A Classic Hero
- ... the viewers as an ordinary man, living an ordinary life, in an ordinary town. Conversely, he was given the extraordinary supernatural ability to revive a number of celebrities from both the world of baseball and literature who had been dead for many years. Kinsella related to common people, but possessed powers that are not only uncommon, but ultimately inhuman. Although not a fool, Ray Kinsella was also not invincible. For example ...
- 2443: Miadventures Of Don Quixote
- The Adventures of Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes is a long novel that will give you a different perspective on madness and the curing of it. This is not a work of literature for those who like to read a book quickly because I cant see someone just skimming through Don Quixote. In medieval times, knight-errants roamed the countryside of Europe, rescuing damsels and vanquishing evildoers ...
- 2444: The Lottery
- ... for a shocking and deadly end. What seemed like a wonderful, joy-filled day ended with an unfortunate, tragic death. This is what makes this story so disturbing and horrifying but a wonderful work of literature art.
- 2445: Birthmark
- ... in Eternity, to find the perfect Future in the present (Birthmark, 1273); therefore, he was forced to spend eternity without the one that truly loved himunconditionally. WORKS CITED Michelson, Bruce. Norton Anthology of American Literature. The Birtmark, pp1261-73.
- 2446: Tamed Shrews And Twelfth Night
- It is curious to note the role of women in Shakespearean literature. Many critics have lambasted the female characters in his plays as two-dimensional and unrealistic portrayals of subservient women. Others have asserted that the roles of women in his plays were prominent for the time ...
- 2447: Enduring, Endearing Nonsense O
- ... the best known artists in England, to provide illustrations. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through The Looking Glass were enthusiastically received in their own time, and have since become landmarks in childrens' literature. What makes these nonsense tales so durable? Aside from the immediate appeal of the characters, their colourful language, and the sometimes hilarious verse ("Twas brillig, and the slithy toves/did gyre and gimble in the ...
- 2448: Othello 4 - Fixed
- ... to corruption. It is common knowledge, among political scientists and historians, that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. William Shakespeare's "Othello, the Moor of Venice" (reprinted in Laurence Perrine and Thomas R. Arp, Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense, 6th ed. [Fort Worth: Harcourt, 1993] 1060-1147) contains several themes, but one theme in particular supports the truth of this knowledge. In "Othello, the Moor of Venice," the theme of ...
- 2449: Othello 3 --
- ... Multimedia Encyclopedia. Rel. 6. CD-ROM. Online Computer Systems Incorperated. 1993. Scott, Mark. Critical Interpretation of Othello. Shakespeare for Students. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Incorporated, 1992. 411-457. Shakespeare, William. Othello, The Moor of Venice. Literature and the Writing Process. McMahon, Day, Funk. Prentice-Hall Publishers: New Jersey, 1996. 864-947.
- 2450: Medea By Euripides
- Love and Deception There are many pieces of literature that may entail more than one theme throughout the story. The tragedy, Medea, by Euripides is very good example of this. Throughout this story, the themes of betrayal and love, revenge, and women s rights ...
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