What does Harwood say about change and changing self in her poems "In the Park", "Prize-giving" and "The Glass Jar"? How does she communicate her ideas?Change is just and ordinary event that every individual encounters many times over throughout their life's journey. Whether this change is as drama...

The sociopolitical climate of Shaw's England appears to have offered the playwright the subject of his conflict. In his 1895 essay on the problem play, Shaw states the primacy of social issues in modern drama, expressing himself in dramatic rather than directly sociopolitical terms. One cr...

Dealing with reality is a profound and difficult obstacle to overcome, but in life everyone is faced with it. Although it may come in any shape or form such as death or a breakup in a relationship, it has an important theme in many stories throughout literature. Katherine Porter's short story...

As it is often said in the media "Sex Sells", in fact sex sells so well that television media has deposited sexuality into virtually everything. A problem is incurred when the vulnerable are touched by these societal norms that should only impact adult or at least those who are able to rea...

Although destroyed by the volcanic eruption of Mt. Vesuvius on August 24, 79AD, the remnants of the Villa of Mysteries remain full of Pompeian artifacts. The famous mural featuring the cult of Dionysus is amongst this 55-room villa. Villa of Mysteries was once flourishing with plant life, bronzed st...

Many readings of Ibsen's play, A Doll's House, attempt to show thatthere was great change within one character in particular, Nora. It isfairly easy to see that Thorvald, her husband, is a wooden character,imposing and seemingly without humor or compassion, both at the beginningof the play an...

L. A. Confidential The Bad Cop I was not really interested in seeing LA Confidential since everyone I knew who went to see it had bad things to say-too long, too boring, too confusing. After watching the movie, I became very interested in the movie. It's rare to see a movie with great actin...

The nineteenth-century American poet, Emily Dickinson, is best known for her short, cynical lyrics riddled with death and her personal reclusion from the outside world and even her family. Of course, as a recluse, Dickinson never married or had any significant romantic relationships, often wearing w...

Males and Females face gender stereotypes everyday of their lives. As we are brought up into this world we are taught to be unique individuals with our own ideas of how things should be, but society breaks down the uniqueness of each and every one of us and seems to blend us all as one. Emotional ro...

WOMEN IN SOCIETY IN HENRICK IBSEN\'S \" A DOLL\'S HOUSE \" Henrik Ibsen was born in 1828 at Skien in Norway. He was from a wealthy family who soon after his birth lost their money. Ibsen worked as a pharmacist\'s apprentice, but at the age of twenty-two he had written his first play, a pro...

The dramatic and thematic concerns presented in scene five of, Box the Pony, by Scott Rankin and Leah Purcell, are important to the overall structure of the play. In scene five, we learn about the main character Steff, the fictional retrospect who plays Leah, who yearns for physical and spiritual es...

A Doll House Rabbi Hillel quote "If not now, when?" is what Nora basically said to Torvald when she finally said enough and decided to leave him. Even though he couldn't understand or believe that she was going he also asked "If not now, when?" will there ever b...

This article is of a fictional matinee performance of the 'Doll's House', in the West End Theatres, London, late 1893, post the period where the play was drumming up quite as much scandal due to Ibsens other contributions, such as 'Ghosts', which provided fresher objects for the public's ire. T...

Myth, mystery, and passion work together to create powerful creatures of deception in John Keats' poem, "Lamia" and Samuel Coleridge's "Christabel." Each poem is an allegory that depicts females possessing disdainful qualities to illustrate the power of women. This paper will examine charact...

American theatre owes a great debt to Susan Glaspell...for she dared envision and bring to life onstage her own New Women. These women experience their own anarchy, challenging and rejecting male-defined norms, including such concepts as woman's honor, abstract justice, and the male's right to domi...

Sean de Lacy Professor DinolfoMay 3, 2001Hamlet once stated, "Frailty, thy name is woman"(qtd. in Starr 225). An idea that women are weak is not a new idea to society; it is one that has been examined and documented by sociologist all over the world. Sociologists have studied the idea that men c...

1.DefinitionSexism, set of attitudes and behaviors towards people that judge or belittle them in the basis of their gender, or that perpetuate stereotypical assumptions about gender roles.Nowadays, the term is most often used to refer to men's attitude towards women.2. HistoryTraditionally, rights t...

1) What was the play about? (brief synopsis) Mr. Kipps, the protagonist, has engaged a professional actor to help him learn to act out and reveal his play onstage to his family and friends. By the second act, a shy, timid, and nervous Kipps transforms into the superior actor. At this point, t...

Women are often defined by their ability to successfully juggle a careerand family life. This fact is evidenced by the film Mildred Pierce.Though women's roles have changed significantly over the last severaldecades, certain facts related to women's roles remain the same. Thisincludes society's vi...