… an author is to grab the reader's attention and keep them interested in what they are reading. This pushes the author to write with a theme that all readers can relate with. The usage of love is a perfect example. It allows readers of all ages to relate…

… Trust? Communication? Love? What happens when these vital components are missing? Could a marriage survive the absence of these extremely important elements? In the novels Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy and Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert, there…

… between psychologists in his play Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Hamlet does such a good job feigning madness there are times that it is almost believable. The reader is frequently reminded that the apparent madness is just an act, which is obvious…

… Deep Inhibition of Pleasure" (Michael Goldman). Consider the Representation of Repression in Two or More Plays. Both Russian writer Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) and Norway's Henrik Ibsen (1828-1904) grew up in families whose position in society was…

… Archbishop by the name of Thomas Becket is severely tested. However, this is no ordinary test. What's being tested, you see, is Becket's honor. Throughout the play, the honor of Thomas Becket is tested in various ways; from struggle between the…

… content with their place in the world" Frankenstein is a story about a man whose life was nearly perfect, but in selfishness, he longed for powers a man should never possess. The book in a sense is a cautionary tale, warning against the dangers…

… after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created…

… of the seemingly racist ideas expressed by Mark Twain in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In some extreme cases the novel has even been banned by public school systems and censored by public libraries. The basis for these censorship campaigns has…

… not only make life more vibrant, but they can also be linked to characteristics and emotions. In Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, color is frequently used to enhance the imagery and to better represent the characters and the overall setting. …

… is a killer. Through the course of the play, he kills five different people or groups of people, one in each act. These are, respectively, Macdonwald, Duncan, Banquo, Macduff's family, and Young Siward. These five killings are different. In the…