The Battle For Predator and Prey In Tennessee Williams A Street Car Named Desire Blanche DuBois is in a fight for the role of prey or predator Blanche is visiting her sister Stella who is married to Stanley Kowalski in New Orleans They live on the street of Elysian Fields Blanche has many sides to her personality When we first meet she seems to be a high strung but a socially refined woman As the plot unfolds we find that her past is revealing a total different woman Stanley is certain to get t
In the play A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams the word desire is used both literally and figuratively in many ways Each character has things that they long for such as love money or both and they cannot get what they want out of those things This play can be related to any persons everyday life because we too have things that we want or think we need and those things may be just out of reach The first example is Stella She has a kind heart but is blind to how Stanley treats her She
There is no love without money The novel The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald is a tragic love story of unwanted and unacceptable love Daisy symbolized everything that Jay Gatsby ever wanted Both Daisy and Gatsby had fallen in love while Gatsby was an officer stationed at Camp Taylor in Louisville Daisy was born into a wealthy family while Jay Gatz was born into a poor family who had to work hard for the little money they did earn When Gatsby had been re stationed out of Louisville he then st
The book A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer is a very strong and emotional autobiography of Dave Pelzer childhood He wrote in this book about his struggle as a child to stay alive in a home where he was treated worse than an animal or a slave I chose this particular book because as soon as I saw it caught my eyes and my attention especially because of the title Dave was treated very brutally by his mother while living at home with his father and brothers She would give him verbal and physical abu
A Child Called It paper David J Pelzers mother Catherine Roerva was he writes in this ghastly fascinating memoir a devoted den mother to the Cub Scouts in her care and somewhat nurturant to her children but not to David whom she referred to as an It This book is a brief horrifying account of the bizarre tortures she inflicted on him told from the point of view of the author as a young boy being starved stabbed smashed face first into mirrors forced to eat the contents of his siblings diapers an
It is not the strongest of the species that survives nor the most intelligent but the one most responsive to change These famous words were spoken by 19th century British scientist Charles Darwin By saying that the most physically fit humans will not survive Darwin describes that change is the key instance to survival in a world dominated by brutes These traits are shared by Tennessee Williams in the play A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams used Stanley as an example of Charles Darwins
Motives of Abigail Williams The Crucible is a story about a group of young girls who begin to accuse the innocent residents of Salem of committing witchcraft The girls came up with these accusations after being caught dancing in the woods by Abigails uncle Reverend Parris After several accusations of witchcraft against them Abigail Williams the antagonist of The Crucible began to lead the girls into denying the charges by pretending to be victims of witchcraft As a result of this deceitfulness
Erich Maria Remarque wrote All Quiet On The western Front The book focuses on the hardships of soldiers fighting on the Western Front in France in World War One in order to show the futileness of war The book is written in first person and it is written from a Germans point of view because the author Remarque was a German It is a story of comradeship of young soldiers fresh from school enrolling in the German army The main character in this book is the narrator Paul Baumer Paul Baumer comes fro
The American Dream embodies the belief that each person will be able to get ahead in life through their own effort This idea awakes and develops during the 18th and 19th centuries a period of rapid development in the United States The issues of growth progress and money become a major theme in American society which is the reason why Scott Fitzgeralds novel The Great Gatsby focuses on this problem Through the characters Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby the author impressively presents a failure in
Fitzgeralds dominant theme in The Great Gatsby focuses on the corruption of the American Dream By analyzing high society during the 1920s through the eyes of narrator Nick Carraway the author reveals that the American Dream has transformed from a pure ideal of security into a convoluted scheme of materialistic power In support of this message Fitzgerald highlights the original aspects as well as the new aspects of the American Dream in his tragic story to illustrate that a once impervious dream