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…to Hermia, is in love with Demetrius after a one-night stand with the man. She pines pathetically for her beloved, and, in her tormented quest to win Demetrius' favor, lies to and betrays her friend Hermia. Shakespeare paints Helena as a little promiscuous…

…As with every play we read this quarter, we started A Midsummer Night s Dream with only a text. Reading the script is the foundation of Shakespeare, and the least evolved of the ways that one can experience it. There is no one to interpret the words…

…>LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT< For many generations now, dysfunction, for whatever reason, has been a more common dynamic in the relations of the modern family. Many writers have captured this dynamic in their work for a plethora of reasons. Some…

…The Time is Night is a short novel by Liudmila Petrushevskaya. It is one of the few stories that I enjoy reading over and over again. The reason is that each time I re-read it, I perceive it in a slightly different way. The complicity of characters…

…they are both hate and to watch them moving scares me worse than shadows, worse than the wind."                  This description shows the absolute essence of the preacher's character in Davis Grubb's The Night of the Hunter. The preacher's real…

…In William Shakespeare's comedic play, "Twelfth Night", a recurring theme is deception. The characters in the play used deception for a variety of purposes. Viola's use of deception involves her disguising herself as a man in order to obtain a job…

…Twelfth Night Ben Bonoma As a comedy, Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, is not only meant to entertain its audience but also bring attention to problems in society. One must let go of several realistic concepts before they can truly understand Shakespeare's…

…William Shakespeare intensifies the emotion of love and foolishness in the epic tale of four lovers and an enchanted forest in his classic Midsummer Night’s Dream. Early in this work, we learn of two young maidens, Hermia and Helena…

…In the play, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, Thoreau examines several different ways in which individuals interact with society. One of them is individualism. Individualism is the idea that all values people hold…

…"The Short History Of Night" by John Mighton fervently seeks to expound upon the idea that societal disorder will eventually affect all levels of society despite any purposeful attempts to be detached, whether physically, using status…