CELIAS ELECTRA COMPLEX In Shakespeares As You Like It Celia the only daughter of the usurper Duke Frederick is a secondary participant in the central plot and so appears to lack the fullness and three dimensionality in character possessed by her cousin Rosalind However upon closer examination it can be seen that Shakespeare does bequeath Celia with a certain level of complexity In Celia Shakespeare shows his prowess in crafting fictional characters no matter how minor that possess a great deal
Chinese Cinderella is a heartbreaking story of a young Chinese girl who is disgraced and unwanted all her life by her own family Adelines mother died shortly after her birth due to complications bought on by Adelines delivery So from birth she has been considered bad luck Life doesnt get any easier when Adelines father remarries a seventeen year old French woman She and her siblings are subjected to the disdain of her stepmother while her stepbrother and stepsister are spoiled Since their stepm
Compare and contrast the ways the playwrights show the unstable central characters in A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams and Making History by Brian Friel How far do you agree that Williams portrayal of an unstable central character is more convincing than Friels Tennessee Williams wrote one of the greatest American plays known A Streetcar Named Desire The play portrays a tale of a broken woman torn apart by societys men and treated as an object not as an individual In post war Amer
Both Mental Cases and Disabled are anti war poems evoking vivid and sometimes shocking emotions Owen shows a less pleasant side to The Great War in his typical fashion Disabled paints a vivid picture of a young mans misfortune and shows the contrast between his old life full of hope and his new life in which he has no hope Mental Cases on the other hand outlines the mental effects of the war with strikingly vivid images Disabled begins with a description of a man in a wheel chair He is describe
Comparison of John Keats To Autumn And La Belle Dame Sans Merci John Keats wrote many poems in his time two of his most famous pieces are To Autumn and La Belle Sans Merci However he uses different styles for his works An example of his different styles is the fact that he uses an ode and a ballad respectively for these poems The fact that he uses an ode for To Autumn means it is addressed to somebody or something It contains classical features written in stanzas and containing pentameters It i
The Theodore Dreiser novel Sister Carrie can be viewed from a critical standpoint as a critique of conspicuous consumerism which pervaded metropolitan Americans during the late nineteenth century The central figure in the novel is one Carrie Meeber an eighteen year old girl traveling to the big city of Chicago in order to experience life A Wisconsin farm girl Carrie dresses true to her ordinary circumstances She wears a plain blue dress and old shoes and observes a demure lady like disposition
In Harper Lees To Kill a Mockingbird there are three types of prejudice shown The three I will be dealing with in this essay are gender prejudice racial prejudice and social class prejudice Firstly gender prejudice was shown throughout the book by most folk of Maycomb County For example the book shows Scout was ridiculed by the Finch family because of her lack of being lady like and because she was a girl she was expected to act and wear lady like clothing 79 For further proof in To Kill a Mock
Though Brutus and Antony had the same rhetorical strategies Antonys speech was more effective in winning over the audience Brutus and Antony both used the strategy of ethos the image and character that they portray to the audience Brutus started off his speech with Romans countrymen and lovers Hear me for my cause and be silent that you may hear Believe me for mine honor and have respect to mine honor that you may believe 126 Brutus appeals to the audience with his honor and calls them fellow r
Explore how Shakespeare dramatises Richard III attitudes towards women Shakespeares Richard Duke of Gloucester is multifarious personality with his ambition to gain the crown of England driving his actions throughout the play Richard is a viciously self interested man seemingly uncaring about the pain that his plotting causes others Richard III follows Richards rise to power and the trail of betrayal mistrust and destruction he leaves in his wake A key theme throughout is the struggle for power