Human Maturity William Saroyan's The Human Comedy, deals with ravages of life. Due to these trials, Homer is forced to mature. How he matures is a result of facing the challenges. Two very import themes that help homer mature are family and death. Homer represents the men of the house because he ...

There were many topics to choose from in one of Shakespeare's play by the name of The Taming of the Shrew. This play was a very funny play with many characters with many dilemmas that were just funny. Overall this was a comedy...and when I say a comedy that is exactly what I mean. Th...

Beginning with acts such as Abbott and Costello, and episodes of \"I Love Lucy,\" humor is often the result of a misunderstanding. In the movie, \"Arsenic and Old Lace,\" the plot combines murder and insanity. \"Arsenic and Old Lace,\" seemingly outlines a mystery or drama, however with the additi...

It is 1942 and Eddie, a widower, is forced to face his mother and persuade her to take care of his two sons for a year while he travels to his new defense job to earn money for his family. There in Yonkers we meet Aunt Bella, who seems to be absent-minded, but still has a good heart. Also, Uncle L...

Shakespeare KING LEARThere are a lot of similarities in two Shakespeare stories HAMLETand KING LEAR. I guess its because of the style in which Shakespearewrote. William Shakespeare wrote three kinds of stories: comedy,tragedy and history. Both of these books are tragedies and they arevery similar...

Shakespeare KING LEARThere are a lot of similarities in two Shakespeare stories HAMLETand KING LEAR. I guess its because of the style in which Shakespearewrote. William Shakespeare wrote three kinds of stories: comedy,tragedy and history. Both of these books are tragedies and they arevery similar...

In Shakespeare's comedy, Taming of the Shrew, Katherine and Bianca are different in their own ways. Katherine is the protagonist of the play and the shrew referenced in the title. She is the daughter of Baptista and the older sister of Bianca. She has no suitors because of her plain appearance and s...

The Other Sister, produced by Mario Iscovich and Alexandra Rose was a romantic comedy. The characters staring in this film were Carla Tate (Juliet Lewis), who was a slightly mentally challenged young woman. The overprotective mother Elizabeth, played by Diane Keaton. Carla's father was played by ...

" Cheaper by the Dozen", based on a real-life story of the Gilbreth family, is a fantastic book. This hilarious comedy about a family with a dozen children kept me in stitches until the end! This family, run like a well oiled machine, took me on Sunday rides through the country, battles in the...

Signor Leonato in Much Ado About Nothing Each character in Shakespeare's plays, whether he is a prominent figure or someone who is not even present, serves to add a significant meaning to the plot. All of the characters lend to the variety of emotions present, sparking anger, betrayal, hat...

Several works by contemporary writers (Kissling, 1999; Lafky; 1999; Owen, 1999; Wayne; 2000) contrast the reading by Mellencamp (1986). Although written with almost two decades of intellectual development in feminist writings, there are parallels between the writings demonstrating that some things h...

Dad & Dave On Our Selection As time goes back we begin to see just how hard it was to live then. Dad and Dave On Our Selection demonstrates how the good old Aussie family coped with the harsh, dry conditions in the outback. This dramatic comedy, illustrates the pleasant and repulsive character...

Shakespeare was no contemporary of the twentieth century and he had no idea that feminism was going to breathe into existence long after his time and scorn him for his injustices toward the women in his plays. Honestly, I cannot fathom how he worked Kate's speech and the notorious wink into T...

It is true that there are an abundant number of entertainment choices offered to us as college students. But which one do a majority of college students enjoy most often? The commonly preferred choice is watching television. Yes they go out and have a wonderful time doing things there not supposed t...

The Easy to Fool Orgon in Tartuffe In Moliere's comedy Tartuffe, the central character is not the title character, but Orgon, a reasonably well to do man of Paris who is married to his second wife, Elmire, and has a son, Damis, and a daughter, Mariane, from his first marriage. He's a ...

The Taming of the Shrew begins with two sisters, Katherine, viewed as a shrew, and viewed Bianca, as the perfect one. However, as the play continues, we start to see the true personality of each of the two sisters and their roles and personalities completely turn around. Shakespeare introduces the t...

The award winning play, "Lost In Yonkers", written by Neil Simon is a tragicomedy focused on the lives of the Kurnitz family and their days in Yonkers, New York. Neil Simon gives the audience a hint of what the play's about through its title. With the characters "lost" not physically,...

Flanner O'Conner's writing Similarities The main characters and surrounding flat characters are comic in that they are inferior characters whom the reader judges as deserving a comeuppance of some kind. In "Good Country People," Joy- Hulga "[believes] herself to be of superior ...

The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), written and directed by Wes Anderson, is a wry comedy about a father, Royal Tenenbaum, who leaves his three precocious child geniuses (Chas, Richie, and Margot) and their mother, only to return twenty-two years later. However, his abrupt absence was the beginning of two ...

III: Television and the American Culture The Development of Love Relationships Within the Standard TV Sitcom and the Exclusion of True Gay Relationships For 25 years now, gay and lesbian characters have been appearing here and there on prime-time television. It all started when Billy Crys...

My Wife and Kids is a family sitcom blended in with serious drama because serious and realistic issues and presented. It is based on an American-Afro family following the customs of western style families. Even though the stereotypical view of a family in sitcoms is white, average middle class peopl...

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." – Jane Austen This opening line of Pride and Prejudice could well describe the whole point of her book. With this single short statement, Jane Austen declares a coup...

First Experience With Television Could you imagine the excitement that must have filled my father's house the day that the family's first TV set was to be delivered? It was 1951 and my father, then five-years-old was sitting in his living room anticipating the moment that the deliver...

I watched the movie "Spanglish" about the cultural groups of the Mexicans coming to America and a single parent's experience of 'becoming' American. I choose this movie for two main reasons, first being that a friend recommended it, and second I wanted to watch it for pur...

Lot's of different kinds of people read children's literature. They expect a great story that is fun and exciting. The Boxcar Children is just one out of many great stories. This book is full of adventure, drama, mystery, and even a little comedy. I choose this story to be one of the be...