Bent is an influential postwar play about Max, a gay man in 1930s Germany who is arrested along with his partner Rudy and taken to a concentration camp. Max denies his sexuality, pretending to be Jewish instead, and is forced to murder Rudy. While in the camp, he meets another gay inmate, and two begin a relationship in which they can never touch each other for fear of being caught. Shockingly graphic for its time, this play explores the themes of sexuality, identity, and unconventional rebellion.
Natures transcendental quality is described in Robert Frosts poem Birches The speaker of the poem is an older man who recalls the memory of being a swinger of birches The overwhelming aspects of his life cause him to yearn for the trouble free and undemanding times of childhood Although the poem is written from the speakers viewpoint the perspective of a specific boy is introduced These two outlooks offer contrasting perceptions of what the birch tree and act of climbing and swinging represent
William Shakespeare intensifies the emotion of love and foolishness in the epic tale of four lovers and an enchanted forest in his classic Midsummer Night s Dream Early in this work we learn of two young maidens Hermia and Helena and their unfulfilled passions Hermia the daughter of a gentleman is cast into the burden of marrying a suitor Demetrius chosen by her father for which she does not love Instead she has fallen for Lysander To agitate further Helena is madly in love with Demetrius who t
Every novel needs an overly eccentric character to add a splash of color and spontaneity to the plot In the case of Wuthering Heights Heathcliff is that character But instead of a splash of color Heathcliff adds a shroud of darkness He may be spontaneous and eccentric but unlike the common person his mind is twisted and his actions are evil Throughout the novel he is portrayed as a madman Brought up as an adopted child from the streets Heathcliff always had a strange and unnatural disposition A
Life and death are opposing forces of nature that one can not escape In the poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight the poet uses natures forces to represent procreation which is the giving of life and destruction which is the dealing of death The poet expresses through out the poem how these two forces life and death are interconnected In the beginning of the story King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table were celebrating the New Year until the Green Knight sent by Morgan Le Fay Arthurs sis
Moby Dick 1 is an 1851 novel by Herman Melville The story tells the adventures of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage on the whaling ship Pequod commanded by Captain Ahab Ishmael soon learns that Ahab does not mean to use the Pequod and her crew to hunt whales for market trade as whaling ships generally do Ahab seeks one specific whale Moby Dick a great white whale of tremendous size and ferocity Comparatively few whaling ships know of Moby Dick and fewer yet have knowingly encountered
Isabella Bella Swan moves from sunny Phoenix Arizona to rainy Forks Washington to live with her father Charlie while her mother Rene travels with her new husband Phil Dwyer a minor league baseball player Bella attracts much attention at her new school and is quickly befriended by several students Much to her dismay several boys compete for shy Bellas attention When Bella is seated next to Edward Cullen in class on her first day of school Edward seems utterly repulsed by her He disappears for a
Have you ever had a sibling that has picked on you or push you to the limit of no end The Scarlet Ibis written by James Hurst shares the struggle of two brothers using flashback conflict and symbolism The short novel takes place in the narrators flashback of World War one and the struggles he faced with his mentally challenged little brother His flashback reminds him how much he pushed his younger brother Doodle to walk and be like every other normal child They spent every day down by Old Woman
The New American Dream Hollywood aside from being a metonym for the American film industry has come to symbolize Manifest Destiny and the American Dream Hollywood also carries an implication of pace not just of the fast wild lifestyles that people in the film industry lead but of the quickness with which dreams are made and just as easily dashed Despite the high risk high reward nature of Hollywood it still epitomizes the rags to riches story that America has dubbed the American Dream In What M