Cymbeline Nobility Geography and Perception Shakespeares play Cymbeline is set in three locations Britain Wales and Rome The characters he creates to develop the plot within these specific geographies are complicated often deceptive sometimes virtuous and each has a unique relationship with the lands through which they travel live and fight Because of the deceitful nature of many of the characters in the text it is often difficult to know not only who is right but what is right This question of
A Streetcar Named Desire is a play written by Tennessee Williams and is about the two basic humans drives which are death and desire The two main drives could be representative of the state of America after WW1 a country wavering between a dying past and the adolescent new world The reader viewer of the play will experience these two basic drives through the characters culture background imagery music and symbols For the characters to have the direct effect of representing the texts underlying
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
Christina Rossetti was one of the most profound literary poets during the Victorian age Alleyne The style of writing that she used was typical of many other writers during her time Most of her poems consisted of a songlike use words and short irregularly rhymed lines Although she was known for being a devoted High Anglican most of her work was not about religion In fact most of her work deals with the feelings of love which is ironic because she actually was never married the limited amount of
A Fatal Decision Middlesex by Jefrey Eugenides is an astonishing tale of a gene that passes down through three generations of a Greek American family and flowers in the body of Calliope Stephanides Calliope Stephanides grandparents Lefty and Desdemona Stephanides are left alone high on the slope of Mount Olympus in Asia Minor without the guidance and the presence of any parents Desdemona and Lefty are siblings confused about the truth behind their abnormal emotions towards each other Desdemona
Blanche Dubois is a wealthy upper class old style American woman from Mississippi who has come to a rough part of New Orleans to stay with her sister Stella Before we even get to know anything about Blanche from her first appearance we get a good impression of her vulnerability and implied innocence Williams proposes that Blanche wears clothes that suggest delicateness such as a white suit with a fluffy bodice and Blanche is described as being uncertain like a moth Williams also mentions that B
Let us further suppose that our writer is Canadian and that they wish to set their drama or poem in Canada Lets now throw caution to the winds and imagine they want to use real historical material Now they have problems These problems are connected with the pattern of Canadian history and the related and even resultant patterns of the Canadian psyche That is their subject will depend on what kinds of figures are made available to them by their countrys history and their approach to their subjec
The short story The Necklace by Guy De Maupassant follows the life of a woman and her husband living in France in the early 1880s The woman Mathilde is a very materialistic person who is never content with anything in her life Her husband a lowly clerk in the Ministry of Education is not a rich man but he brings home enough to get by He enjoys the simpler things in life yet his wife Mathilde cannot Nothing is good enough for her Her selfish ways are evident in her attitude toward the material t
Anything not taken in moderation can be damaging In one of Edgar Allen Poes best known tales of horror The Cask of Amontillado he suggests that pride can be a very dangerous thing when one is overwhelmed with it Through the use of foreshadowing irony and symbolism Poe presents a horrific drama of two men One who will stop at nothing to get the revenge that he deems himself and his family worthy of and another whos pride will ultimately be the fall of his own death Fortunato falls prey to Montre
The Tale Within the Tale An analysis of the Cask of Amontillado When a man is pushed to his limits or goes to extremes in the sake of pride disaster can ensure Edgar Allen Poe explores these dilemmas in his short story The Cask of Amontillado Poe who is known for the dark and murderous short stories and poems he had produced in his lifetime starts the story off by introducing the reader to Montresor a man who is more than fed up with his friends disrespect The leader never learns how Fortunato