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Have you ever wondered if there would be another writer as influential as Shakespeare? Some may say it is a poet or novelist, but others, such as author John Lahr, say its Tennessee Williams. Lahr claims that Williams is influential and expresses talent in his works and that he is, “The world’s greatest talent since…

Do you feel sorry for Victor in Frankenstein”? Victor Frankenstein is the main voice in the novel ‘Frankenstein’ by Pat Barker and is a complex character. On the one hand, I feel sorry for Victor as he spent two lonely years dedicating his hours to making this monster, even becoming ill because he became so…

Many Howard fans consider his heroines such as Dark Agnes, Belit, Valeria and Red Sonya, with their swords and pistols, to be the only strong women in his fiction. But skill with weapons is not the only way for women to control the decisions and issues that shape their lives. Howard also created women with…

The Tempest is one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays. It was written in 1610 and it is also his last play. One of the main characters in the ‘Tempest’ is Prospero, an old wizard. The play opens with a mighty Tempest strikes the ship when Alonso the King of Naples, Ferdinand the prince of Naples,…

(Fear shouldn’t stop you from doing what you know you’re set out to accomplish) In “One Writer’s Beginnings” by Eudora Welty, she recalls early experiences that inculcated her deep passion for reading. The author invites her fearful audience to recapture the determination to become a reader (“willing”) (she knows they have,) which allows them to…

gs I Hate About YouChoose one of the various film versions of The Taming of the Shrew, the musical Kiss Me Kate or the recent film Ten Things I Hate About You, and critically evaluate the success or otherwise of this film as an appropriated text. The 1953 film of the musical Kiss Me Kate…

The narrative “The Happy Prince” has at least three subjects. The first subject of the narrative is that outward beauty is nil. It is merely a show. The existent beauties are love and forfeits. The 2nd subject is that love and forfeit are two salvaging forces. The 3rd subject is that there is great spread…

Chapter five of ‘Frankenstein’ is crucial to creating a sense of horror in the novel. How does Shelley achieve this? The gothic horror novel published in 1818 called ‘Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein’ consists of the major themes of life and death, love and sex and also how man challenges god. The alternative name for this novel…

Freud wrote in The Future of an Illusion that the idea of God has four functions: to exorcise the terrors of nature; to reconcile humanity to the cruelty of fate; to compensate humanity for the sufferings and privations of life; and to punish those, who fail to obey civilization’s laws. In Homer’s The Odyssey and…

Two of the main characters in William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Julius Caesar and Marcus Brutus, could both arguably be the tragic hero of the play. Julius Caesar is a powerful leader, but his love of power overcomes him and ultimately turns him into something far from a hero. Marcus Brutus, on the…