T.S. Eliot wrote "The Waste Land" using a different type of poetry style and organization than was typical at the time. It follows the flow of its own themes, jumping from time to time and place to place as quickly as a thought comes and goes. Eliot uses opposites juxtaposed with each o...

Marion and Arnold: A Comparison and Contrast 1. In On Tidy Endings, Harvey Fierstein writes of the devastation and effects on the people close to Collin Redding when he dies due to complications of AIDS. Marion Redding, the ex-wife of the un-seen Collin Redding, whose character makes the pla...

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...

Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner is the story of a man who outraged the land that then turned and destroyed the man's family (Serafin 356). Growing up as a poor mountain white, Thomas Sutpen yearns for more than what he has ever had. He marries a young woman and fathers a son, bu...

Today a reader might find it hard to imagine how daring Nora Helmer was a hundred years ago. The theme of women's liberation makes this story seem almost contemporary. This was considered a controversial play featuring a woman seeking individuality. "A Doll's House" was the ...

How many Old Testament worthies do we tend to examine and realize by way of their family! The Old Testament is in fact a family literature. We have read about the family relationships of almost of all of its important dignitaries, and out of them the description of family life of Hosea is the most h...

One of the subjects that has remained of interest throughout the years is love. Love is a subject of a wide range of poems and themes relating to love occur again and again. Yet, as time changes, the approach to love also changes. This is especially clear when the changes that have occu...