Father-daughter relationships are of the most central issues examined in many plays. ... In comparing these two plays, many differences are evident. ... In the first act of the play, Catherine chooses to admit that it was she who wrote the proof. ... In the second scene of act two, Catherine realizes that in admitting that she wrote the proof, she is accepting her father's heritage. ... It is because of this technique that these plays achieve a poignant father-daughter connection as they set out to do....

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Euripides wrote the play Medea. ... Medea is the central character in this play and a very unique one at that. ... For the majority of the play, Euripides emphatically focuses on intense emotions just like this. ... Another human emotion that gets distorted in this play is pride. ... Medea is a wonderful play and a great example of the complications of the human psyche. ...

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William Shakespeare was a famous playwright. He wrote lots of famous tragedies. He wrote about things like love and hate. One of his most recognized upon was the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet was an epic story. It was all about two star-crossed lovers. It shows two different themes. ...

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{Guterson's novel interweaves realistic interpretations with romantic accents to fuse these subplots, together with a role-playing setting, into one watertight mystery romance.} ... Subplot, as well as underlying qualms instilled by difference in cultural influence, plays an imperative role in the full understanding of David Guterson's novel, Snow Falling on Cedars. ... " "He hated her with everything in his heart, he wrote, and it felt good to write it in just that way. I hate you with all my heart, he wrote, I hate you, Hatsue, I hate you always. ... Satiated with unde...

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Duke Frederick is one of the antagonist of the play. ... Orlando de Boys is a protagonist of the play. ... The opening scene of the play is set in the orchard of Oliver. ... The play is a merry one. ... Celia tells her that Orlando wrote the poems and Rosalind is excited. ...

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Henrik Ibsen wrote A Doll's House, a dramatic play, in 1879.The play takes place in a Norwegian town. ... Yet when it is discovered that Nora only plays the part of the good typical housewife who stays at home to please her husband, it is then understandable that she is living not for herself but to please others. ... Nora had to understand that she could not rely on Torvald for her identity the rest of her life, and Torvald too had to understand that Nora was a person and he had to treat her as an equal Doll House - symbolizes the tendency of the characters to play roles. ... Chr...

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Children and adults were playing and conversing. ... I played recreation football and she was a cheerleader for the same team that I played for. ... "It's a poem that you wrote and gave to me after our middle school graduation" she responded. ... Sad thoughts evolve when nerves have been trampled on, but the feeling plays on and on. ... A lot of pictures and letters that she wrote were still in there. ...

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William Shakespeare often described the women in his plays as being strong, confident individuals, much different from the stereotypical roles of the time period in which he lived. ... From the beginning of the play, we see that Desdemona is a courageous and decisive woman who pursues Othello, falling in love with his intrigued stories of adventure, seeing "Othello's visage in his mind, and to his honors and valiant parts..." refusing the attempts of other suitors such as Roderigo. ... When Shakespeare wrote Othello, women had few rights and little power in society. ... She is aware of th...

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Strong Women of Othello William Shakespeare often described the women in his plays as being strong, confident individuals, much different from the stereotypical roles of the time period in which he lived. ... From the beginning of the play, we see that Desdemona is a courageous and decisive woman who pursues Othello, falling in love with his intrigued stories of adventure, seeing "Othello's visage in his mind, and to his honors and valiant parts..." refusing the attempts of other suitors such as Roderigo. ... When Shakespeare wrote Othello, women had few rights and little power...

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The play is classified as a comedy for a number of different reasons. ... The play also involves two pairs of lovers. At the time Shakespeare wrote this play, at about 1599, Elizabeth I was queen of England. ... This is the main love story of the play. ... The impact which act 4, scene 1 has on the rest of the play means that there is a lot of tension to be let out in the remainder of the play. ...

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Through the collection of letters that Celie wrote, the reader could see the development of a frightened young woman who had little regard for herself and of another, Shug, who struggled to become a successful woman. ... Shug taught her how to laugh and play and showed Celie a whole new perspective of life. ...

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Also she begins to play soccer again which she gave up over the year because she didnt like being the best on the team. ... Throughout the summer each gurl takes turns with the pants and at the end of teh summer they all met up and exchanged stories from their summer and wrote all the good things on the pants. ...

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All of Jack London's stories are baser on personal experiences, which shows that he is fascinated by pain and nature. He was the child of Flora Wellman and William Henry Chaney. However, Chaney refused to acknowledge London as his own. Afterwards, "Flora married John London, a Civil War veteran, ...

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"The diction and syntax were consciously unliterary" (Benet pg 37) is a description of one of the many ways Anderson wrote. ... Anderson furthermore "rebelled against what he termed the "poison plot"--that is, fiction written according to standardized formulas, readily marketable but unrealistic as portrayals of actual human beings and human experience - in favor of stories which developed their individual shapes "organically" out of the play of the imagination over observed reality" (DISCovering). ...

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Garden Of Love is one of William Blake's poems from his "Songs of Experience and Innocence" era. I think the content of the poem has both innocence and experience portrayed throughout it. This piece consists of three stanzas and all have their own focal point and meaning, yet are tied in to give a...

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Willem Dafoe who plays the role of Peter Van Houten was cold hearted and cruel, the part that was completely terrible was when he told Hazel and Augustus that they needed attention because they had cancer. ... Keila Marie Smith wrote this book review, she is currently a junior in high school, plays volleyball, and runs track and field. ...

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Othello, the Moor, experiences all of these complicated emotions throughout the play leading not only to his death but the death of his beloved wife, Desdemona. ... Garner wrote, "It is unusual, that an editor who has argued so carefully should speculate so carelessly here.... Iago's hatred for Othello would play a part in bringing Desdemona to death's doorstep. ...

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In The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, the famous British poet William Blake wrote that "without contraries there is no progression - Attraction and repulsion, reason and imagination, and love and hate are all necessary for human existence" (Blake 122). ... He is, from the very beginning of the play, hopelessly in love with Hero, but that love is a relatively superficial thing. ... Throughout the play, Hero is a model of speechless modesty. She has very little to say or do in the play except live up to the expectations of the courtly lover. ... At the beginning of the play, Beatrice and Ben...

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Wilde studied the classics at Trinity College, Dublin, with distinction (from 1871 to 1874), and at the Magdalen College in Oxford, (1874-1878).He wrote "The importance of being Earnest- in 1985. ... In the play nine actors take part: John "Jack" Worthing: Jack is the play's protagonist; he is the most sympathetic, plausible character, whose love for Gwendolen is far more believable than the other desires we witness. ... Lady Bracknell: Lady Bracknell is the major antagonist in the play, blocking both potential marriages. ... You can read this play without problems. ... She shows hi...

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Menander wrote over 100 plays only eight of which won awards at the Athenian dramatic festivals. ... Love is the powerful emotion that dominates the play "Dyskolos.... The main female character in the play, in which the play is ultimately centered around posses the name of Girl. In the play she is addressed as "the girl" or "free girl" throughout the entire play by both her father and the man who loves her. Even though the play is centered around this girl the playwright feels like it is not important to give her a name in the play. ...

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This was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards. Like bridge you had to pretend you were playing for money or playing for some stakes. ... He wrote in great detail what these soldiers went through in the frontlines of battle. ...

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What is the role of a father? My viewpoints are: involvement, affection and influence are always the three keys to a father-child relationship. Fathers play an important role in a child's development from birth through adulthood. In fact, numerous studies have reached the same conclusion: Children w...

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He made a few demos with himself playing the guitar parts on a six string bass, with help from a friend, Mige, playing the bass parts, and random friends playing on the drums. ... Ville and Mige brought their friends Linde to play guitar, Mika Karpinen to play drums, and Juska Salminen to fill in as keyboards. ... In the verse, where the song is at a calm setting, they change it, and at the end there are polyphony sounds from the guitarist who repeats the same notes that the keyboardist was playing for the chorus, except he wasn't using chords like he was doing in the chorus, and the ke...

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Music was played loud enough that it involves the listener whole heartedly. 60's and 70's rock and roll refused to be background music. Shakespeare wrote; " If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die." ... There was a popular belief that, if a person played certain records backwards one would hear messages from the Devil. ...

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But I feel that since Twain wrote the novel back in the time of slavery, or near the time of slavery, that it is surely not racist. ... Love and violence is clearly shown in the play, "A Streetcar Named Desire", especially with the characters Stanley and Blanche. ... Blanche and Stanley do not get along at all, and as the play goes on, there hate towards each other grows. ... The American play "The Death of a Salesman" shows us that success should not be measured by wealth. In this play, by Arthur Miller, the main character Willy Lowman is married and he has two sons. ...

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