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Shakespeares Macbeth is a story taken from Scottish history and presented to the Scottish king James I. Shakespeare took this gory tale of murderous ambition, however, and transformed it into an imaginative tale of good and evil. Shakespeare brought about this transformation by relying upon imaginative verbal vigor that imbeds itself in the brilliantly concentrated…

Madame BovaryIn Gustave Flauberts Madame Bovary, Emma Bovary is a victim of her own foolish disposition, and fueled by her need for change. Emmas nonstop waiting for excitement to enter into her life and her romantic nature eventually lead her to a much more realistic ending than in her romantic illusions. All of these things,…

Character Analysis of Olivia Throughout all of Shakespeare’s plays, he incorporates complex characters that add depth and a deeper significance to the overall plot of the literary work. In William Shakespeare’s comical play, Twelfth Night, his character, Olivia, surfaces as a very particular young lady who has no desire for love in her near future,…

Play It Again Rita The play Educating Rita by Willy Russell gained great popularity especially during the early eighties. There has also been a movie made from it starring Julie Walters and the more famous Michael Caine. As so often the case, the movie was more elaborate with additional scenes, some of which were spoken…

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is Mark Twain’s way of writing down his childhood in lively detail. The characters and settings were dear to him and he chose to depict the American Boy’s childhood as fun and fancy-free. The story is told trough Tom’s eyes and is enchanting and adventurous, just as any young boy’s…

One fact about this book should be established from the start – this is not a children’s book. The “littluns” and “big guns” represent members of the human race. The conflict between law and barbarism would have, I believe to be the same had the island been inhabited with adult survivors instead of children. The…

July’s People is a story of a white family who experience life as black people would in South Africa at the time. They leave their home and their jobs in the United States and follow their servant, July, to live in an African tribe. The whole time that they are living in Africa they depend…

Story are two very similar movies. Though they are alike in many ways, they arealso very different as well. The two movies mirror each other all the way untilthe fight in West Side Story and until Mercutio dies in Romeo and Juliet. WhenTony dies in West Side Story and Maria, acting as a Juliet, the…

“” Common Attitude”I’m breathing. Are you breathing too? It’s nice, isn’t it. It isn’t difficult to keep alive, friendsjust don’t make troubleor if you make trouble, make the sort of trouble that’s expected. Well, I don’t need to tell you that. Good night: If we should bump into one another, recognize me. ” (p. 94-95)…

Everywhere you look there is prejudice, you may be the wrong colour, worship the wrong God or wear the wrong thing. No-one fits into our idealistic world perfectly. This prejudice has been around for thousands of years because it is just human nature not to accept people for who they are. In Of Mice And…