Lovely People Do Stupid Things How is love to influence our lives? Love-struck people do crazy things to express how they care for that particular person yet it is a long and windy road to these actions. It is down this path that experience spawns and trouble and happiness are felt. Janie Crawf...

The principles of the modern world are variable to every individual. William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night celebrates the idiosyncrasies of misplaced love and ends happily with every worthy character finding joyful resolution. On the other hand, Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot illustrate...

''Good Country People'' addresses themes of good versus evil, the possibility of redemption achieved through an encounter with violence, and the foolishness of intellectual pretensions.Manley Pointer, a young disillusioned country boy who sells bibles, is an illusion of appearance versus reality.He...

While some people seem to be exact opposites, we often find that they have more in common than what we realize at first glance. This is a lesson from which we could all learn because nothing is as it seems. Two stories that illustrate this fact through choices and stark realizations are "Eve...

Jane Austen, unlike other famous authors of her time, wrote of the people who belonged to the upper middle class of English society. Albeit exceptional, her works dealt with the woes not of the common but the privileged man. Her characters in the novel Persuasion are set in the early 1800s, in Somer...

Anne Bradstreet's poem, "To My Dear and Loving Husband," is a relatively short poem in which she expresses her undying love, affection, and gratitude for her husband. It is Puritan culture for women to remain reserved, regardless of how they may truly feel; however she makes it her obligation to mak...

Although they are physically united in an erotic partnership, Tomas and Tereza possess very different attitudes about love and relationships. Their differing perspectives are summed up in the subtitle of Section 2 of Kundera's novel, "Body and Soul." Tereza wants to possess Tomas, bo...

Jeanette Winterson's Written on the Body, is an artistically written examination of love. The plot line, however cliched, is not the point. Winterson does a masterful job of allowing us to skip gender labels, and contemplate love at a level of depth that most of us never reach. The two elem...

In "Romancing the Stone," heroine Joan Wilder is a successful romance novelist, secure in her career but not in herself. She is very attractive, but plays down her looks by not dressing well at times. Her career dominates her life, and she has become well known around the world for her books. She...

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is about the life story of a single character in his middle age, who is rather fearful of holding relationships. The epigraph is an emotional speech taken from Dante's "Inferno" that describes Prufrock's nature in depth. Prufrock describes his emotional s...

Going to school Monday thru Friday and having fun with your friends on the weekend is something every teenager does, but it can be a troubling situation when you are a Christian? Most teenagers find it very difficult to be accepted by their peers once they find out that they attend church. I feel...

The play "Changes of Heart" reflects the irony and surprises of love in an entertaining story about broken hearts and new interests. The period of the play is set in the early eighteen hundreds and deals with the temptations of love compared to the temptations of money and material wealth. The co...

CAL By Bernard Mac Laverty Characters: Cal: He is a typical 19-year-old Irish boy. He has had a hard life because his mother died when he was 8. Now he is living together with his father Shamie. But the relation between them is not like a father and son relation, they are more like friends. C...

Going to school Monday thru Friday and having fun with your friends on the weekend is something every teenager does, but it can be a troubling situation when you are a Christian? Most teenagers find it very difficult to be accepted by their peers once they find out that they attend church. I feel...

*Although "Araby" was a very short story, the author James Joyce did an impressive job of discussing very deep issues through his skills in using light, vision, and beauty. He is able to discuss things like religion, infatuation, and inner human feelings simply through descriptive words and what se...

Throughout one's lifetime many relationships are established between people that result in either a negative or positive influence on a person, shaping how they form new relationships with others. Throughout D.H. Lawrence's classic novel Son's and Lovers, the character of Paul Morel i...

Age of Innocence took place in the 1870's in New York City. It starts out with the announcement of engagement of Mae Weland and Newland Archer. Each of which comes from the sturdiest part of their family. Mrs. Manson Mingoll, Mae's grandmother is eager to give the wedding breakfast for the...

During Act One Scene Three, we are presented with the growing attraction between the young Hamlet, and Polonius' daughter, Ophelia. However, we learn of this attraction solely through the blunt advice that both Polonius and Ophelia's brother, Laertes, give heavily. Unfortunately for Opheli...

A Best Friend is... "Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never ever the same" (Unknown). What is a "best friend"? Almost everyone has one, and almost everyone is one. There's somethin...

Friendship is when they push when you need it, but never too hard and stand back when the time is right but never too far and the true test of friendship is if you're willing to do it all back in a heartbeat. It's when your life is so much better because your know them and they bring out t...

Abigail Williams vs. John Proctor After reading scenes one through three in act one, it became apparent to me that neither John Proctor nor Abigail Williams had any positive character traits. Both characters have hidden motives and seem to lie excessively. At this point, I can find no positiv...

Friends Friends. We all have many different types of friends even though you probably do not realize this. You encounter each of them everyday, whether in school, home, or at the gym. We rarely spend much time actually thinking about or classifying these people. There are your general acquai...

Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway Hills like White Elephants, written by Ernest Hemingway is a short story narrated from the objective point of view and is one of the brightest examples of this kind of narration. The author as if disappeared into a kind of a roving sound camera. He ...

Ernest Hemmingway used irony for almost every character. Some examples are Robert, Jake, and Brett. He doesn't make it very obvious but you can notice it in each character. He puts the irony in the way that it describes the character and also the way that they act in a crowd. First I want to look...

Taking place in Parfumeria in Budapest during the 1930s, this gem of a musical is based on the film, "The Shop Around the Corner," starring Jimmy Stewart and Maureen Sullivan. The premise playwright Miklos Laszlo puts to words in this work never fails to appeal to the romantic in all of us: while...