Color Your World employee of the month Donna Lukas made the impression on her bosses and co-workers as the "paint lady." Donna will add yet another piece of her work this month to the Toronto Gallery of Art. She has earned the reputation of being the lady to go to when in doubt of colo...

Great Expectations Let desire be your destiny ... Director: Alfonso Cuarón Producer: Art Linson Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki Production Designer: Tony Burrough Music (score & soundtrack): Patrick Doyle Artworks: Francesco Clemente Writing Credits: Mitch Gl...

To most people, analyzing The Sorrows of Young Werther is a simple task. Relying on the worldview of a pragmatic, technology-driven, and self-assured society, they look at Werther and see a young, romantic who, because of personal weakness, developed an obsession with a woman probably because he kne...

The relationship between sex and love has changed and evolved from ancient to modern times. In the Old Testament sex in itself was not considered a sin. There is nothing in Hebrew scripture that condemns sexuality. Even from the very "beginning" we see with Adam Eve that they weren&apos...

As an enjoyable play, "Dinner With Friends" delivers to audiences a very prevalent situation in relationships during this decade - divorce. Set in an area of New England, "Dinner With Friends" shows a difficult period in two fourty-year-old married couples and long-time friends' lives. The ch...

Love and hate, such small words for the amount of power that they possess. Both have the capacity to change individuals as well as the capability to ruin lives. It can be shown that William Shakespeare, in Romeo and Juliet, is attempting to point out the intensity of both love and hate alike. ...

What is love? What does it feel like to fall in love or to be in love or to love somebody? These questions are pondered by many people for many centuries. There are obviously many types of love, the love that a person has for his or her parents, siblings, relatives, and pets, would be different t...

Love, hate, and violence are all emotions that are experienced by people at one or more times during their lifetime. Othello by William Shakespeare and "What We Talk about When We Talk about Love" by Raymond Carver are stories in which love, hate and violence fulfill an important role amo...

" I am a man more sinned against than sinning," this is Lear's evaluation of himself when he is at his weakest. To sin is to contravene the rules of God, as this play is set in times before the church played an active role in running the state the king was the only one who could say what is wrong or...

James Agee was born in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1909, the son of a postal worker who was killed in an automobile accident. The loss of his father marked James Agee both short term and long term(James Agee p.30). Thirty years later it would form the basis of the novel which is the cornerstone of his f...

The Hopeless Romantic Hopeless romantics are people who find romance in every situation, who love being in love, or even only a resemblance of that overwhelming feeling. Frances, wife of the mindless nitwit Michael, is just another victim to the hopeless romantic list. In Irwin Shaw's short s...

Twelfth Night is one of Shakespeare's most famous comedies, involving complex plots, which result in hilarious culminations. In addition, Shakespeare has created an equally confusing subplot involving Olivia's servant Malvolio and the other members of Olivia's household. The main plot and subplo...

Sonnet 149 By: In William Shakespeare's sonnet number one hundred and forty-nine there is a very clear case of unrequited love. In a somber tone he outlines the ways in which he selflessly served his beloved only to be cruelly rejected. His confusion about the relationship is apparent as he refl...

A young woman by the name of Josephine Rose-Marie Tascher arrived in France from the tropical island of Martinique in the midst of the greatest political and social up heaving. With her innate grace and charm she secured herself a position of prominence that enabled her to capture the affection ...

Maturity falls into two categories, physical maturity and psychological maturity. For most people, physical maturity occurs in any case, whereas only those who quest for self-identity achieve psychological maturity. James Baldwin depicts this kind of maturity in Go Tell It On The Mountain via the pr...

In Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne seems to intimate that what Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmsdale shared wasn't quite as sinful as is supposed. The real sin seems to lie in the marriage of Hester with Chillingworth. Similarly, "A Pair of Eyes; or Modern Magic" by Louisa May Alcott also por...

1 Love, hate, truth, deception, manipulation, self discovery and murder. Janet Fitch covered all of this and more. White Oleander is an epic tale about a young girl, Astrid, who was ripped away from her mother, Ingrid, at a very young age and forced onto the path of self discovery all by her...

Jane Eyre, a novel about an English woman's struggles told through the writing of Charlotte Brontë, has filled its audience with thoughts of hope, love, and deception for many years. These thoughts surround people, not just women, everyday, as if an endless cycle from birth to death. As me...

A comparative study of Sydney Carton in Dickens' novel, A Tale of Two Cities, and Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet in Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet, requires the reader to analyze various aspects that the transforming effect love can have on a personality. As we study each charac...

Hadrian and Antinous There were many relationships that changed the course of history forever. Most have one thing in common, one in a high position being influenced by their significant other. The effect of Cleopatra on Antony, Josephine on Napoleon, and Ann Boleyn on Henry the Eighth changed ...

Ballads are poems, usually expressed through musical stanzas that tell a story. Readers and listeners from children to adults, all socioeconomic classes and education levels enjoy ballads from the Middle Ages to the present day. Ballads tell stories of a time in which the composer lived. They may be...

The heroine in the Scarlet Letter is Hester Prynne. Even though Hester sins against God, she is a woman who survives the horrendous trials of a "Puritan" society-the society that wants to be a Utopia among imperfect people. From her horrendous trials, Hester gains strength, courage,...

"For here lies Juliet, and her beauty makes/ This vault a feasting presence full of light"(V, iii, 85-86). "Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath,/Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty"(V, iii, 92-93). These are the words of Romeo as he stands beside of his beloved J...

What does Malvolio contribute to the play? 'Twelfth Night' is often described as a good-humoured comedy, which features entertaining and humorous characters, like Malvolio. Throughout most of the play Malvolio is seen as a figure of laughter and his contribution to the play is to add e...

My Dearest Emelye, You have only just left my chamber a short time ago, but I can still smell the essence of you lingering in the air. I can still feel your caring hands caressing my face and arms as you tried to bring comfort to me in these last hours. The ghost of your presence soothes my soul ...