Two obstinate and powerful women, Medea and Lysistrata, accomplish their goals with different methods but with the same intention; of love and happiness. Medea is a woman in Euripides' tragedy, who is driven mad by her anger towards her husband whom she had given so much for. Lysistrata is a wo...

"A Doll House" In "A Doll House," by Henrik Ibsen, Ibsen shows specific insights on what marriage is all about during the 19th century. Ibsen creates a character by the name of Nora Helmer. At the beginning of the play, she is the prototypical or the epitome of the 19th cent...

Revenge is one of the basic tools of human instinct. In the Encarta Encyclopedia, revenge is defined as "harming someone in repayment for harm they have caused another, a loved one, or a group you are dedicated to." (1) The theme of revenge in Medea is like the saying, "what goes arou...

The Pain of Going Unnoticed: Common Theme in Trifles and "The Disappearance" Susan Glaspell's Trifles and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's "The Disappearance" were written seventy-nine years apart, and yet they share common themes, and some similar technical styles even th...

The Zulues in Sout-Africa Nobody knows how long there have been people living in the southern part of the African mainland. Experts dates foundings of irontools in the Swaziland to the 4th century. Sailors who were shipwrecked outside the coast of South-Africa had contact with people ...