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interactions that make A Streetcar Named Desire a successful and memorable play. The columnist writes of Tennessee Williams, “He took the shiny, perfect surface of American life and turned it inside out to show the psychosis underneath.” The play…

Blake issued a two- volume collection of poems in a book titled Songs of Innocence and of Experience. This book included hand painted illustrations along with the poems mounted on copper plates. These poems have been called “the most remarkable…

fact that Miller uses language from the period in which the play is set adds to the authenticity, giving the characters more credibility and so are more believable – once again this is a device that Miller uses to perpetuate his flair for realism…

Lord of The Flies for AP English 11) I. Introduction Janada walks to her slum near the railway station in the piercing cold weather. She tries to remember her childhood but only blank pages appear. She runs her hand through her pockets and pulls…

by many experts a successful tragic play over all other Shakespeare’s tragedies. The play reveals a concept that ambition could lead a hero astray. In MacBeth we see the gradual change of MacBeth’s and Lady MacBeth’s characters that ultimately led…

Browning "My Last Duchess" and Porphyria's Lover". Browning's "My Last Duchess" and "Porphyria's Lover" have been very popular throughout the years because their dramatic monologue styles require interaction between the reader and the character.…

Arthur C. Clarke always tries to offer the audience a few suspenseful moments in his novel. The key for such success lies in the human’s perpetual appetite for mystery. It doesn’t take long for a writer to create an enigma, but it does take a long…

Age was the Victorian Age which began, according to well-esteemed scholars, in the year 1832 and ended in the year 1900. The Victorian literature inherited numerous qualities from the Romantic literature. Yet, the Victorian writings expanded to…

Ignorance of Education and the Media’s Influence “The Vietnam War was a conflict between the United States and Vietnam, not a war,” these words swam irritably in my head as I cursed the arrogant Americans who denied the truth and never looked…

always won the sympathy of his audiences despite all his evil deeds. The audience most of the time believes that MacBeth had an inner good, and that if it hadn't been for the witches' prediction, MacBeth would not have died. Evidently, MacBeth had…