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Search results 1871 - 1880 of about 4850 matching term papers
- 1871: Great Gatsby
- ... dream. In order to achieve his dream, he must have wealth and power. Fitzgerald was wrong in the way he presented Gatsby's American Society because of the way Gatsby made money, found love, and lived his life. The way in which Gatsby made money was a despicable practice. Gatsby's bootlegging business made him millions. The time during Prohibition in the 1920's was a opportune time to take advantage ...
- 1872: A Street Car Named Desire
- ... sister Stella and her coarse Polish husband, Stanley. With her nervous and refined nature, Blanche is a clear misfit in the Kowalski's apartment. Blanche represents a deep-seated attachment to the past. She has lived her whole life in Laurel, a small southern town; her family had aristocratic roots and taught Blanche about some of the finer things in life. Unfortunately, she cannot cope with life outside Laurel. Her life ...
- 1873: Candide- A Contrast To Optimis
- ... Eldorado, Candide stated that “there’s no comparison between this country and the castle where I was born”(70). The fact that Eldorado was the perfect city revealed the flawed world in which Candide lived. Martin’s ability to focus on the evils in the world and the contrast between reality and Eldorado reflect Voltaire’s criticism of Leibniz’s belief that this world is the best possible. To emphasize ...
- 1874: William Faulkner
- Aulkner By: Anonymous An American Writer: is viewed by many as America's greatest writer of prose fiction. He was born in New Albany, Mississippi, where he lived a life filled with good times as well as bad. However, despite bad times he would become known as a poet, a short story writer, and finally one of the greatest contemporary novelists of his ...
- 1875: Huck Finn
- ... for meat. “ We shot a water fowl now and then that got up too early in the morning or didn’t go to bed early enough in the evening. Take it all around we lived pretty high.” (p.71) Huck is completely satisfied with this life style. He has everything a free spirit needs; a good companion, enough food and water to comfortably survive, and of course a swift ...
- 1876: William Shakespeare
- was a great English playwright, dramatist and poet who lived during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Shakespeare is considered to be the greatest playwright of all time. No other writer's plays have been produced so many times or read so widely in ...
- 1877: The Role Of Enobarbus In Acts
- ... character should be; he relays information between characters, exposes other characters and their traits, gives background information, and lets the audience in on his surroundings and the general moods and beliefs of the times he lived in. He is not just used as a database however, through his speeches and his actions we find a fully developed person, someone with thoughts, motives, and feelings all his own -- a character who can ...
- 1878: Tamed Shrews And Twelfth Night
- ... the female characters in his plays as two-dimensional and unrealistic portrayals of subservient women. Others have asserted that the roles of women in his plays were prominent for the time and culture that he lived in. That such contrasting views could be held in regards to the same topic is academic. It is only with close examination of his works that we are able to suppose his intent in creating ...
- 1879: Macbeth - Character Changes
- ... end of the play when Macbeth’s wife has died and the battle is drawing closer Macbeth shows some good which may have been. He wishes for a normal life for which he would have lived to an honourable age but he recognises that he has denied himself of this. Even when Macbeth hears that the prophecy has become true of Birnam Wood coming to Dunsinane, he rejects this idea and ...
- 1880: Life Of Shakespeare
- ... not recorded. And as with most remarkable men, the power of myth and symmetry has proven irresistible. So April 23 it has become. Parents and Family. Shakespeare's parents were John and Mary Shakespeare, who lived in Henley Street, Stratford. John, the son of Richard Shakespeare, was a whittawer (a maker, worker and seller of leather goods such as purses, belts and gloves) and a dealer in agricultural commodities. He was ...
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