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Introduction The Glass Menagerie is a dramatic play about human nature and the conflict between illusion and reality. An illusion is pretense and not reality. In The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams has made use of both reality and illusion together using conflict between them. Illusion is a misinterpretation of the facts. It is an opinion…

Two stories that share several similarities and differences are Washington Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle” and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown.” Both tales follow a male protagonist who undergoes extraordinary experiences that significantly impact his life. Furthermore, the protagonists’ experiences in both stories transform their beliefs, principles, and perceptions about the world and people around them….

Life is occupied by waiting. In Waiting for Godot, Samuel Becket presents the suffering of the human condition. Godot is about two beings who talk about nothing, experience the drudgery of life, complain that they do not do anything, meet a few people, think about hanging themselves, and then do it all over again. The…

Have you ever been in a haunted basement? Well I have. I’m going to tell the story of when I was in a haunted basement. You shall be scared. I was just a normal boy brown hair, blue eyes, stout and I was on my way to babysit the neighbor’s children but I did not…

Revenge, which causes one to act blindly through anger rather than through reason. is based on the principle an eye for an eye. In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the struggle between justice and vengeance consumes Hamlet and eventually demonstrates that the pursuit of revenge ultimately leads to tragedy. Throughout this play, Hamlet contemplates whether it is…

Kate Chopin’s short story “The Story of an Hour” illustrates the dichotomy between the roles Victorian women enacted on the social stage and their inner selves confined within the walls of their thought process. Preconceived notions of conventional behavior are contradicted in the atypical conduct and consciousness of Mrs. Mallard. The texture of the story…

“Breakfast at Tiffany’s is a story by Truman Capote. In this story, the author focuses on a very attention-grabbing character called Holly Golightly. Holly is a woman who takes advantage of others, she doesn’t really care who she inconveniences in order to get what she wants or needs, and most of her personal relationships are…

Deception plays a big role in Arthur Miller’s, The Crucible, as many people were able to convince their fellow town’s members that witchcraft was being practiced. When someone in the small town of Salem, Massachusetts felt wronged by a neighbor, they had the opportunity of accusing them of being a witch and they would most…

Energy is one of the single most important concepts to keep in mind when writing, it can make even the most insignificant occurrences interesting. Energy plays with the reader’s senses combining subject matter, leaps/ spacing and words into one to create a fascinating piece of work. “Good writers choose a topic they know a lot…

Albert Einstein “The Menace of Mass Destruction “Everyone is aware of the difficult and menacing situation in which human society – shrunk into one community with a common fate – finds itself, but only a few acts accordingly. Most people go on living their everyday life: half frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragicomedy…