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The Scandinavian Drama: Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts

The social and revolutionary significance of Henrik Ibsen is brought out with even greater force in "Ghosts" than in his preceding works. Not only does this pioneer of modern dramatic art undermine in "Ghosts" the Social Lie and the paralyzing effect of Duty, but the uselessness and evil of ...

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Achilles’ Actions Bring His Eventual Doom Closer To Reality

“To be, or not to be, that is the question. Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them.” Though written centuries after the death of Achilles, this quote from Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” ...

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Black Ellk Spears

Black Elk Speaks is a play about the history of the relations between American Indians and Europeans from the first contacts to the present. My first thoughts of being assigned to attend the show were not very positive. I expected to endure an evening of hell with my sanity preserved solely by ...

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The American 2

In America, a citizen expects a storybook life. A life which has a controlled destiny is ideal. The American dream is based on making enough money to own a house and finding a mate. Money becomes the main part of the dream, and is expected to make the dream become a reality. Europe, however, is ...

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Violence And Pornography

Pornography -- Sex or Subordination? In the late Seventies, America became shocked and outraged by the rape, mutilation, and murder of over a dozen young, beautiful girls. The man who committed these murders, Ted Bundy, was later apprehended and executed. During his detention in various ...

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Vronsky And Anna's Struggle With Love

Vronsky and Anna struggled with love from the day they met. Anna, who had come from a loving home, who had a husband and a child had the two greatest loves she could. It was it easy for her to show and feel love for Vronsky. Vronsky, on the other hand, seems to have come from a family that was ...

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MARGARET ATWOOD

IN 1970 , known only in small, mostly Canadian circles for her poetry, published a book entitled The Journals of Susanna Moodie, a persona poem sequence written from the point of view of a legendary 19th-century Canadian pioneer who had encountered the notorious murderess Grace Marks on a visit to ...

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Creon As Antigones Tragic Figu

Creon as Antigone's Tragic Figure In Sophocles’ Antigone, Creon clearly fills the role of the tragic figure. He fits all seven of the traits of a tragic hero as defined by Northrop Frye. Two of these traits stand out especially; Creon’s sense of commitment to his decision and his ...

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Shilo

Mabel Beasley, the Mother of Norma Jean, in Bobbie Ann Mason’s "h", has all the characteristics of a Marine Drill Sergeant. A Drill Sergeant will inspect living areas for cleanliness, demand everything be in its proper place, maintain strict discipline, and change certain ...

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Helen Keller

In 1882 a baby girl caught a fever that was so fierce she nearly died. She survived but the fever left its mark - she could no longer see or hear. Because she could not hear she also found it very difficult to speak. So how did this child, blinded and deafened at 19 months old, grow up to become a ...

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Hamlet: Notes

-1-Act 1 Scene 1 1. The atmosphere or tension is established trough use of ghost as the super natural, the mystery, the unknown. A wrong is known to have accrued or about to happen. This creates intrigue and suspense. 2. Many changes take place in Horatio's attitude towards the ...

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Gateway To Heaven" - Tiananmen

"Ouch, je je I'm telling mamma!" I yelled in agony, rubbing the imprint her book left on my head. "No you're not, she won't believe you; I'm older," snickered my sister, and with that she ran up the crowded walkway; which in the morning hour, looked much like a stampede of bulls. As I walked ...

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Al Capone

, the most famous gangster in history, had quit school at fourteen after he lost his temper and struck his teacher. He was soon after accepted into a notorious street gang, Johnny Torrio was the gangs leader. Later Capone was hooked up with a job at the Harvard Inn as a bartender and a bouncer ...

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Genocide

Wouldn’t it be scary if someone suddenly decided that you should disappear because he thinks you do not have the right to live because of your race or religion? Scary yes, but definitely possible. The word , which is also known as ethnic cleansing, is certainly not uncommon to anyone living in ...

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What's It Like…On The Other Side

"Perhaps she was both, both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death-all the opposites contained and reconciled in her (348)." This quote from Paule Marshall's article "To Da-Duh, In Memoriam" synthesizes one of the recurring themes throughout the story, contrasts. In ...

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William Shakespeare

English playwright and poet, is recognized in much of the world as the greatest of all dramatists. A complete, authoritative account of Shakespeare's life does not exist, but it is commonly accepted that he was born in 1564, and it is known that he was baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, ...

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How Literature Was Affected In The Victorian Age

The Year 1837 was very significant. It was not only the year that Queen Victoria acceded the throne, but also the year that a new literary age was coined. The Victorian Age, more formally known, was a time of great prosperity in Great Britain's literature(Keach 608). The Victorian Age produced ...

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I Know Why The Caged Bird Sing

s In her novel, “s”, Maya states “The black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time that she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and the lack of black power”. Fortunately ...

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To Kill A Mockingbird: Childhood Experience

Have you ever thought of an answer to reply to your children, when they ask you, “What was the world like when you were a child?”, “What things that happened that impressed you most when you were a child?” or “How interesting is your childhood experience?”. Everybody must have had their ...

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Curfews

What do you think of when you hear the word curfew? Is it a time that your parents have set for you so you don’t stay out late? Why should teenagers have ? Why does the law get involved with you curfew? When I think about the word curfew these are the questions that come to my mind. As a ...

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