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Macbeth is one of the many plays that were written by William Shakespeare. It was written in 1605, it is based on a true-life story of ‘The History of Scotland’. Shakespeare mainly wrote his plays to entertain royalty. Shakespeare’s play is much more than a dramatic re-writing of the historical facts. He made many changes…

Juliet Capulet is portrayed as a young girl who is on the verge of maturity. At the beginning of the play, she is seen as a obedient child who tries to love Paris, a man arranged for her by Lady Montague. However, her ways of being obedient and her understanding of love are quite childish….

Anne Bradstreet was a woman in conflict. She was a Puritan wife and a poet. There is a conflict between Puritan theology and her own personal feelings on life. Many of her poems reveal her eternal conflict regarding her emotions and the beliefs of her religion. The two often stood in direct opposition to each…

In Homer’s The Odyssey, man y people change in result of the Trojan War. One man learns to respect the god s and another to stay close to family because family and friends are greater then any monetary value. Telemachus’s adventures and experiences cause him to mature to realize his potential. Telemachus was left alone…

A person’s outcome in life is often a reflection of their childhood, or how they grew up. The different ways a child is treated by their parents may later affect the amount of grit he or she has, therefore affecting their later success in life. In the book Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller,…

Introduction Although Michael Foucault is highly respected as a philosopher, Camus is routinely eliminated from prominent discussions of last century’s philosophical developments. In William Barrett’s Irrational Man, for example, Camus is mentioned only once, in passing, on page eight; and in Vincent Descombes’ noted commentary Modern French Philosophy, Camus is not mentioned at all. Yet,…

The Wild Duck The theme of The Wild Duck is that inflexible idealism can prove dangerous. Gregers in this play is an idealist; he is a seeker after truth; he hates deception and lies. This man preaches to other people what he calls “the claims of the ideal”. Gregers’ idealism compels him to break his…

“Without Commercials” Without Commercials by Alice Walker is an intriguing poem that describes the characteristics of a natural born human being. Alice Walker does a staggering job of describing what humans do these days to themselves and their bodies. Her words and similes tie it all together for this remarkable poem describing the way people…

White 2HopeStephen King published his novella Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption in 1982. In 1994 this novella was turned into a movie called The Shawshank Redemption. Frank Darabont wrote the screenplay. A good adaptation will capture the same overall essence of the written book or novella. Darabont did a wonderful job of adapting this…

Suspense and Irony in “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Gift of the Magi” The two short stories “A Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe and “The Gift of the Magi” by O’ Henry were two short stories that showed the writing skills of their authors. O’ Henry and Poe were two writers from different time…