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There are many factors such as: weather, attending friends, and reason for attendance, that go in to whether or not the audience member has a successful play going experience. Like a typical summer night in Florida, the dark sky was threatening to let forth an unforgiving storm. Being dropped off reduced much of the tension…

Oscar Wilde’s play, The Importance of Being Earnest, features many themes; one of the most prominent being conflict among the two social classes. Wilde’s play shows the differences in behavior between the upper and lower classes. The upper class have a great amount of pride, feeling as though they are entitled to their positions in…

The playwright, Tennessee Williams, achieves many different effects with the structure of A Streetcar Named Desire. Firstly, I will discuss how the general structure of the play (the layout and positioning of the scenes) affects the reader. I will also explore why it is structured the way it is – eleven scenes with no act…

In both stories ‘The Raven’ and ‘The Masque of Red Death’ by Edgar Allen Poe there were multiple examples of dark romanticism. Dark romanticism is a subgenre of the American Renaissance literary time period along with transcendentalist. Edgar Allen Poe was most known for his writings that he did in dark romanticism which had very…

Romanticism and Gothicism is a subgenre that focuses on important writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Edgar Allan Poe. Romanticism is a type of literature or art during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that highlighted the passions and emotions of the time. Gothicism is the use or imitation of the gothic…

The real romantics are mysteries, and Edgar Allan Poe is no exception. Poe’s life was marked by tragedy, most importantly with the deaths of four beloved women in his life: His mother, his foster mother, his best friends mother (with whom he was in love), and his wife. With most other people in his life,…

Within Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” poem, the speaker has positive character traits. For instance, the speaker is objective. The speaker is objective because he disregards whether the raven is evil or not and seeks to learn from this bird. Further, the speaker is respectful; he seeks permission from the raven for not responding quickly…

A wise and cunning man, Odysseus could outsmart his opponents and escape from any dilemma no matter how dire. When Telemachos inquired about his father, Sagely Nestor detailed that “… there was no man who wanted to be set up / for cunning against great Odysseus; he far surpassed them / in every kind of…

“To be free, a man must first be free of his brothers,” stated Equality on page thirty-eight. Yet, are we ever really free? Some people believe the answer is “yes,” that one day we will finally be one with ourselves and our thoughts.Others say “no” is a more truthful answer because we will always be…

Anthem, a book about self-discovery and enlightenment, has many significant scenes that help push the story forward and create the intended mood. One of the most momentous scenes is between pages 51 and 53 when Equality 7-2521 sees the man burning on the pyre for speaking the unspeakable word of the unmentionable times. As Equality…