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Introduction: Relatives are thought to be there for one another and whatever you have. The relations of nowadays are more or less typical but in the novel The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams the Wingfield family is very dysfunctional. The components of this family unit, Amanda (Mother), Tom (Son) and Laura (Daughter), make this family…

Colors symbolize a great deal in The Great Gatsby, and different colors symbolize different meanings and motifs. In the book, the color gold presents money and even more, “Old money. ” In the book, Nick Caraway talks about how even the turkeys at Gatsby parties were, “bewitched to a dark gold. “ Also, Jordan Baker,…

In classical drama, plays followed the three unities of place, time and action. Each unity had its own set of specific rules. Othello follows these unities more closely than many of Shakespeare’s plays though the play does contain an interesting trick involving time. This “double time” as it has come to be called occurs when…

William Shakespeare’s tragic play, “Romeo and Juliet”, was written in 1597. This tragedy is based on the passion of love, including images of fate and death. – Elizabethans strongly believed that fate controlled their lives and everything was planned out. Most people believed that the power of the stars could foretell the future. In the…

Arthur Dimmesdale, the priest and holy figure in The Scarlet Letter, captivates me as the most intriguing character. Despite his revered status, he carries the burden of a hidden sin that consumes him from within. Irony prevails as he passionately condemns this very transgression in his sermons. Hester’s husband, Chillingworth, continuously inflicts pain on Mr….

During the late 19th century rapid industrialisation paved the manner for utmost economical wealth of many concern. In conformity with the overruning wealth in the 19th century many persons held similar but yet contrasting positions toward the wealth that was created in the United States. Among these persons were Andrew Carnegie. Eugene V. Debs. and…

Cold. Lonely. Scared. The three words that sums up how I’m feeling right now. I’ve never really been so close to death as I was earlier on today, and hope I never do again. I only decided this morning to visit my deceased parents and brothers, not knowing that this visit to the graveyard would…

Frank Addante got his motivation to work from financing his college life in the first years. He worked on his own, sold and installed car alarms and automatic starters. From this time on he continued to earn money through ad-hoc jobs to make his way through college, but he was always conscious for good ideas,…

“The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe is about a lonely man who tries to ease his “sorrow for the lost Lenore” by distracting his mind with old books. The narrator is then interrupted by a tapping on his chamber door, which he hopes will be his lost love, Lenore. He opens the door to finds…

In the light of this comment, compare and contrast the presentation of central female characters in the two novels you have studied. Both Plath and Fitzgerald effectively present female characters in “The Great Gatsby” and “The Bell jar,” In The Great Gatsby female characters are presented via social class and relationships with other characters. The…