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Introduction      At the heart of many dramas are the raw human emotions of the characters as they interact with both other characters and their own inner demons.  Undoubtedly, one of the most intense character studies in this sense of the 20th century is Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman”, and within that play, one…

Paraphrased and Unified Text: The poem “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning is a dramatic monologue in which a duke shows a servant the portrait of his deceased first wife, the duchess. Through this form of speech, the speaker unintentionally exposes his own personality traits, such as self-centeredness, arrogance, control, chauvinism, and extreme jealousy. Despite…

Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway is a modernist novel. which shows new techniques to show a different point of position with respect to the impression of clip. It is non without importance to observe that the novel has no chapter headers. Nevertheless it is instantly obvious that the involvement of the novel is non merely in…

In Flowers For Algernon a main theme that is conveyed in the story is abuse of the mentally ill. Throughout the story, Charlie gets mistreated several times mainly from his co-workers or what he soon finds out his fake friends. As we know, Charlie is a mentally ill person. He tries very hard to make…

In this essay I will explicate what Ralph Waldo Emerson and Miguel de Unamuno independently understand to be the nature and function of humanism. American philosopher, essayist and poet of the early Modern period, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote an essay titled “Self -Reliance” in 1841. In his essay, Emerson focuses on thinking for yourself as…

The two books I read were The Last Lecture, by Randy Pausch and Tuesdays with Morrie, by Mitch Albom. They’re both about how a professor has cancer: but that’s pretty much the end of the similarities. The Last Lecture is from the professor’s point of view, while Tuesdays with Morrie, is from a students point…

Elia Kazan’s film adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize winning play A Streetcar Named Desire, won rave reviews from film critics and big audiences at the time of its 1951 theatrical release. Its box office success translated into twelve Oscar nominations and four Oscars at the 1952 Academy Awards. (1) The film has travelled well…

Helen Keller was an extraordinary person with many accomplishments that helped and empowered people with disabilities. Her focus was on the blind but as a deaf person she intersected into many different lives, helping those in the deaf and mute communities as well. Her tutor, since the age of seven and through the rest of…

After the meatpacking plant closed, farms started going out of business, and people began leaving Oelwein, Iowa, the town was left in a state of economic distress. To fill the gap, workers began using and/or selling methamphetamine in what would be known as “mom and pop” meth labs. Biker gangs like The Sons of Silence,…

More than ever I sensed a deep and sinister wisdom behind the author’s incredible assertions as I read of the unseen worlds of unholy dimensions which Von Junzt maintains press, horrific and dimly guessed, on our universe, and of the blasphemous inhabitants of those Outer Worlds, which he maintains at times burst terribly through the…