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…        In his story "The Black Cat," Edgar Allan Poe dramatizes his experience with madness, and challenges the readers suspension of disbelief by using imagery in describing the plot and characters. Poe uses foreshadowing to describe…

…"I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again."~William Penn An underrated…

…People often spend a majority of their lives searching for acceptance. To be loved and admired by family and friends seems to be a priority. In this respect, the characters in Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie are no different from the rest…

…Tennessee Williams’ entire life was about escape and so it is not surprising that he should choose to emphasize this theme in many of his major works. “The Glass Menagerie” is an autobiographical story about his life and the struggles that he faced…

…The Styles of William Faulkner William Faulkner, one of the foremost American novelists in history, is also one of the most heavily criticized. Many critics feel that his style displays brilliant originality, while others complain that his writing…

…About the author Sir William Golding (1911-1993), was an English novelist who wrote exciting adventure stories who deal with the conflict between mind and instinct. William Gerald Golding was born in St. Columb Minor, in Cornwall. He was knighted…

…Due to its quality, William Shakespeare's classic play Hamlet truly embodies his ingenuity as a literary artist. Despite the fact that the play seems very unlikely, because it is a Shakespearean tragedy, meaning all the main characters die, it does…

…to the negative stigma placed on the male species by the quickly expanding realm of female poets. Thomas Gray was quite possibly evoked to write the "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes" as a response to the attack on patriarchal ideals…

…William Blake: Sane or Mad? "[There] is no doubt that this poor man was mad, but there is something in his madness which interests me more than the sanity of Lord Byron and Walter Scott," William Wordsworth said in reference to William Blake…

…William Roy's conception of the contemporary corporation focuses on the merger wave of the 1890's during which which many large firms turned to public capital markets to facilitate mergers. The change that occurred in corporations was when they went…