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The Taming of the Shrew, a comedy written by William Shakespeare, is full of irony and lust. Between Katherine’s shrew-like nature, Bianca’s popularity among the men, and Baptista’s business like personality, questionable marriages are formed causing both physical and emotional transformations. The Taming of the Shrew exhibits marriage and gender of the Renaissance through Katherine’s…

Shrek is a movie which has become ill-famed for conveying the trade grade fairy narrative characters together into a common universe. It is no hard to place the alterations that have been made to the traditional genre of faery narratives and these alterations in bend. creates a lampoon of all the narratives included and takes…

The Lord of the Hunger Games It may come as a surprise that a novel taught in a tenth grade english class is strikingly similar to a currently popular book of the teenage population. A common theme relates William Golding’s classic novel, The Lord of the Flies, and the very popular teen heart-throb, The Hunger…

The play Macbeth, by William Shakespeare illustrates how greed for power and wealth can result in the destruction of oneself as well as others. The play’s central character, Macbeth is not happy as a high-ranking thane – leading him to assassinate Duncan to become King, while unknowingly dooming himself. Throughout the play many examples are…

First of all, the scarlet letter stands for Hester’s sin. By forcing Hester to wear the letter A on her bosom, the Puritan community not only punishes this weak young woman for her adultery but labels her identity as an adulteress and immoral human being as well. “Thus the young and the pure would be…

Good morning/ afternoon Mrs xxx and fellow schoolmates. Today I will be carrying to you that I strongly believe the function of a possible leader would be most suited for Benjamin the donkey. In my address today I will be converting that Benjamin is the best campaigner for a new leader. I will be discoursing…

            The ancient Greek myth of Phaethon and the sun chariot gives a dramatic account of the intense global heating that resulted from the combined effects of the activated Sun and the dust-congested solar system.             Keeping this in mind, let us now see what the ancient Greek myth of Phaethon tells us about conditions…

In his famous work Utopia, Sir Thomas More describes the society and culture of an imaginary island on which all social ills have been cured. As in Plato’s Republic, a work from which More drew while writing Utopia, More’s work presents his ideas through a dialogue between two characters, Raphael Hythloday and More himself. Hythloday…

In “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin, the theme is based on the evolution of two suppressed brothers. The story is written in 1957 and shows how two black brothers struggle to be brothers or understand one another. The narrator is the older brother, and an accomplished algebra teacher. The younger brother is Sonny, a heroin…

Through the perspective of Nick, the innocence represented by a daisy is explored. All flowers have their own meanings, and one such meaning is linked to the innocence that a daisy symbolizes. The origins of this significance can be traced back to maidens who used to pick and adorn their hair with daisies. These maidens…