Essays on Family Page 53

The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, is a study in the mass hysteria which led to the 1692 Salem witchcraft trials. Themes of the play include deceit, love, secrecy and paranoia. These attributes can be given to the play itself, but can also be given to certain characters and their relationships; these have been used…

Irvin Alfalfa Mrs.. Fearer English 1 (College Prep) April 26, 2013 Marriage in the Renaissance Era Marriage customs today are very different than those of the Renaissance era. During this era women had limited options in marriage and life. In Michael Best’s article, “The Age of Marriage,” he indicates that although people did not get…

The relationship between the mother and child in the play is also very interesting. There is a great comparison between the relationship of Mrs. Johnstone and Mickey, and Mrs. Lyons and Edward. Mrs. Johnstone and Mickeys relationship is very close and understanding even though Mrs. Johnstone hasn’t actually spent a lot of time with Mickey…

Mrs Johnstone is uncomfortable about the agreement and questions about it to Mrs Lyons, ‘why did we have to do that?’, this shows that Mrs Johnstone is afraid and discontented about this pact because she knows that it will be hard on her to keep such secret, this also creates tension because the audience know…

But it was scary too. If it was true and he was right it would mean that I hadn’t really got anyone. Tania was someone on whom I could always rely. She never let me down. I was ashamed that my side of our friendship was bit darker. I had let her down really badly…

Dickens wanted to put across this idea of rich people being selfish, un-compassionate people. As in Victorian society a blatant social divide of the rich and poor was evident. A sense that people in high society had was that they were more important than those poorer than themselves, and so they’re greed kept their money…

Compare and contrast the accounts of childhood in ‘Half-past Two’ and ‘Leaving School’. How successful is each poet in depicting a child’s experience of the world? ‘Half-past Two’ and ‘Leaving School’ both explore the thoughts and feelings of young boys. There is a theme of fear evident in both poems. This engages an experience endured…

“Poems can capture important moments in our lives” Discuss how the poets have described the ending of childhood innocence in at least two poems you have studied. I am going to analyse two poems which share the theme of the end of the era of childhood and children growing up. The poems are Mid-term Break…

The four poems that I have looked at are all based on the poets’ memories of their childhood. Two of the poems are of loving memories, while the other two are based on not so happy memories. ‘Autobiographical Note’ by Scannell is the first poem. It is based on the loving memories of going to…

“The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1), to be Spanish, (2) to be called Salvador Dali. “Even today, Salvador Dali is considered one of the most influential and successful surrealist artist in history, yet not much is known about his childhood; and what we do know is incredibly…