… the Shakespeare play, The Taming of the Shrew, many courtships and marriages take place, however, only one of these relationships would stand the test of time. Petruchio and Kate have the only relationship in this play which lasts, even though it starts…

… that Finny(Phineas) was the biggest idealist in the story. His feelings and many things on many issues, made me think of him this way. The actions that Finny take in the novel make him seem as though he is the happiest person on the planet, like for…

… Mark Twain, there is a lot of superstition. Some examples of superstition in the novel are Huck killing a spider which is bad luck, the hair-ball used to tell fortunes, and the rattle-snake skin Huck touches that brings Huck and Jim good and bad luck.…

… witted working man, and Lennie, his friend with “the mind of a child " faced many circumstances that try to rip their friendship apart. In the book Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck uses his characters to create a theme of friendship. Friends are…

… or why not? Nora and Helmer’s relationship in Ibsen’s play, A Doll’s House, is a very fictitious relationship. The way Nora is treated, called names, and bossed around, degrades the female society. Feminism lurks throughout the whole play. The…

… Lukoszaite and Jurgis Rudkus, Lithuanian immigrants who have recently arrived in Packingtown. The veselija, the wedding feast, is being held strictly according to Lithuanian custom. Ona's cousin Marija Berczynskas is in charge of the event, which…

… and compare is presented in the novel as the most influential representative of each of the two sides. Jack, the chief of the hunters, representing the hidden human passion and almost animal cruelty, and Ralph, with Piggy and a few other children,…

… starts with the death of a mother, maybe. Her son, Mersault, is unsure. He is also oblivious to the concepts of marriage, God, and repentance, as well as other institutions of society. According to social law, this is reason to execute him for…

… Beloved The character of Beloved in the novel Beloved, by Toni Morrison, is symbolic of several important ideas that are essential to a complete understanding of the novel. In the context of the story itself, Beloved is a specter that has…

… In Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, all the characters are, in one way or another, attempting to achieve a state of happiness in their lives. The main characters are divided into two groups; the rich upper class and the poorer lower class, which…