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… Brett Question: Women are always victims because it is men who determine social organisation. Consider the ways in which the representation of men and women in Shakespeare's Othello supports or challenges this assumption. Shakespeare's tragic…

… Heart of Darkness, may be read as racist. Write an assignment on Conrad?s representation of indigenous Africans from your reading of the novella. By: Ainsley Brett The issue of race within modern and classic literature has always been and will continue…

… do you make one of the toughest decisions in life when you're as lonely as a distant planet? Callisto May knows a lot about planets. She could name all the moons of Jupiter, or tell you the dimensions of the Great Red Spot, but she doesn't know much…

… to the final tragedy in Romeo and Juliet, the two lover's death. Willingly or unwillingly, these people's words and actions caused Romeo and Juliet to take drastic measures, and feel that there was no way out for them in the trapped environment they…

… often used in many genres of literature. One might say that evil might triumph and be shown victorious at one point, but in the end all the problems you tried to get rid of, fall back against you anyways. Shakespeare's Hamlet, a work filled with this…

… wrote a masterpiece named "Frankenstein". Surprisingly, she was very young and a woman. At that time, it was inconceivable that a woman, the age of a girl, would even dare to envisage a story like this. However, unlike most women that wrote, she used…

… to write the first English epic. The result was 'Paradise Lost'. His awe-inspiring poem tells the indescribable story of humanity's 'first disobedience', the 'original sin'. However the most intriguing element of the poem is his character representation…

… determined by one single cause. It was rather caused by a combination of three dark forces: supernatural, external and internal. The three witches represent supernatural forces and dark powers behind them. Lady Macbeth is an outer force that pushes…

… and Prejudice: The Effects of Context Time is an unchangeable force, which alters every aspect of human life. All spheres of life are affected by time and are changed forever. In the case of Literature and Art, it is expected that a contemporary…

… therefore it is important in examining his individual persona to account for his contrasting personality. The tragedy of the play relies heavily upon his character development from confident to insecure, logical to irrational, calm to temperamental…