Shakespeare's influence in modern literature can be seen in evolution of today's dramas and plays. ... He wrote with fluidity of thought, word, rhythm, and sound, which are used to present his works in a complex manner, for any reader. ... However, if we look at what is known about his married life, we might be able to understand the portrayals of love in his plays. ... Also in the play Measure for Measure, the act of premarital sex is condoned. ... Either way, we could say that the events of Shakespeare's love life did somehow influence the things that he wrote. ...

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He also, wrote a number of children's stories, and probably was the first to write a science fiction book. ... One such eastern writer, if I may quote, also used a plot in the same fashion, he wrote a play called, "Anarkali". ... The character sketches, of the characters in this play are not very different in nature compared, to the characters, in "The Lady, or The Tiger". ...

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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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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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Wilde wrote many works that dealt with the suffering and loss of innocence, usually and particularly of females. ... In the play "Lady Windermere's Fan" (1893) Oscar Wilde introduces a woman named Mrs. ... Through the play "Lady Windermere's Fan" Wilde depicts society and the characteristics of men and women within it. ... It is very unlike Oscar Wilde to present a particularly strong woman that remains composed throughout the whole play. ... This play illustrates a status group mainly concerned with the admission of exclusion of people from its ranks. ...

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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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Desdemona Shakespeare's sweetest star A Outline of the role of Desdemona in the text : Desdemona is the sickly sweet innocent in Shakespeare's play Othello. ... As the play progresses I begin to see that Desdemona is extremely naive in the way's of world. ... D ) An Elizabethan Reaction : If I lived in Elizabethan times I probably wouldn't get the opportunity to witness Shakespeare or even care about his plays BUT I"m doing this assignment and I have to picture what I would feel. ... She is a good solid women of noble breeding and a good mistress maybe the her...

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Love Sick In Denmark The play Hamlet, because it deals with issues inside the main character Hamlet's mind, for instance the dispute of Hamlet's love for Ophelia, is without question, one of the most complex plays known to mankind. Whether his love for Ophelia is true is often unclear throughout the play because Hamlet has times, like when she rejects him, where he treats Ophelia unkindly. ... In act 2, scene 2 Polonius has Ophelia read, to the king and queen, the love letters which Hamlet sent her; Hamlet wrote in the letters what precious things reminded him of Ophelia. ... A...

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In As You Like by William Shakespeare the search for love acts as the primary motive behind the actions of the play's three characters - Rosalind, Touchstone and Orlando. ... The disguised Ganymede plays an instrumental role in helping Orlando clarify his mental condition. ... In the forest , Orlando posts verses he wrote about Rosalind on a tree. ...

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Danielle, my sister, and I spent countless hours together playing games, watching movies, playing outside, but most of all enjoying each other's presence. ... As I was walking off the bus, the bus driver wrote "24" on my hand so I would remember what bus to get on at the end of the day. ...

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And thirdly, Boccaccio's personal beliefs must have played an important role in the construction of sex within the tales. ... The theme of lustful attraction and ensuing sexual intercourse is played over and over throughout the book without second thought from the characters, except on occasion only for the purpose of figuring out how to manage it without word leaking out. ... As Boccaccio "wrote the truth about friars (802)" we see that he is under the belief that even the religious cannot escape carnal desires like "putting the devil back in hell." ...

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Though Estha and Rahel are the central characters of the story Ammu also play a very important role in The God of Small Things. ... Instead she thought that "anything, anyone at all would be better than returning to Ayemenem" (P.39 Arundhati Roy) Even though she wrote to her parents about her decision they never cared to respond to the letter. ...

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Love plays an important role in Tess's life because love does not mean happiness to her but it causes her tragedy. ... The circumstances are against her because the letter which she wrote slips under the carpet and Angel misses to know the truth. ...

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A conventional book, or play, would have three parts, a beginning, a middle and an end, but "Enduring Love" Is not a conventional book and McEwan is not a conventional writer. ... To create the illusion that his characters do exist out of the novel McEwan wrote three endings to "Enduring Love", giving evidence of their continued existence. ...

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The character of Robert Cohn in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, is a compelling one for a host of reasons. Although Cohn is a central character in the novel, it is impossible for the reader to gain an unbiased depiction of his personality. Therefore, although his actions speak loudly for some of his feelings, Cohn is never fully understood. He is presented to the reader through the slanted eyes of the novel's main character and narrator, Jake. As such, Robert's true personality is never lucid or fully developed for the reader. ...

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Shakespeare's Elizabethan audience created what the setting looked like in their minds by listening to the elaborate description Shakespeare wrote. ... There would also probably been a balcony where musicians would play in the party scene but also probably where Juliet would have acted the famous balcony scene. ... Shakespeare wrote this scene for night as it continues from the party and it is more romantic. ...

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Zora Neale Hurston played a big part in the Harlem Renaissance, and being this she rubbed shoulders with many of the famous writers apart of it. ... Zora Neale was an anthropologist, and being this she wrote this novel based on her environment, human studies, and society. ...

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These norms of society and previous experiences with women surely played a large role in Dmitri's attitude towards women in the beginning of "The Lady with the Dog-. ... Chekhov wrote of the undesirable past with women Gurov had and it is no wonder that this experience has made him think about women in a totally different way. ...

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Every time I would hear Jesus Loves Me play in my heart tears would stream down my face, washing away the darkness. ... For therapy I wrote psalms as I fought against the overwhelming bitterness of my heart. ...

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In the untitled poem she wrote, we can see this suffering for the impossibility of being with the lover; she uses words like grief and woe to describe the intensity of the pain: "If grief for grief can touch thee, If answering woe for woe, If any truth can melt thee, Come to me now!... They played free in the moors, not under society or moral rules. ... She continues in a state of good humour until it becomes obvious that neither Heathcliff nor Edgar is willing to play their part in this triangular friendship. ...

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Humanism and Renaissance Europe: A Transition into the Self Throughout The Middle Ages, European society gradually progressed with minor advancements and various developments in religion, while simultaneously experiencing a number of international calamites. The Hundred Year's War between Engla...

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I. Southern Mail is a fictional book about a man, Jacques Bernis' journeys as a mail carrier, and is told by the author as the narrator. This novel can be categorized as a love story, however it is more like a sequence of confusing events with a love story intertwined throughout. But isn't that ex...

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She played rough with her father, riding on his back as if he were a bucking bronco. ... She wrote to Stephen, "The rumors that have reached me about you and Mary-certain things that I don't want to enter into-have simply forced me to break off our friendship." ...

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