Tennessee Williams was an American playwright known for his candid portrayal of human nature and relationships that often broached taboo topics. The height of his career was in the late 1940s and 1950s; his first well-known work‚ The Glass Menagerie‚ brought him notoriety in 1945. Williams was “simultaneously praised and denounced for addressing raw subject matter in a straightforward realistic way” (American Masters). Thomas Lanier Williams III‚ known to us as Tennessee Williams‚ was born on March
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Rubiano Cristian 06/18/2012 ENC 1102 Prof. Guillen William Blake uses the role of nature as an expression of the divine in “The Lamb” and “The Tyger.” Blake was a Christian visionary poet of the 1700’s. In his work he depicts both sides of the divine‚ the good represented as the pure creation of God in a lamb and the evil represented as another perfect creation in the form of a malevolent creature‚ the tiger. Blake’s intentions are to demonstrate how God is a divine force‚ the creator of both
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English Speech: Matthew Condon’s ’The Trout Opera’ The Australian Curriculum website says: “Texts are chosen because they are judged to have potential for enriching the lives of students‚ expanding the scope of their experience‚ and because they represent effective and interesting features of form and style. It builds students’ knowledge about how language can be used for aesthetic ends‚ to create particular emotional‚ intellectual or philosophical effects.“ From ‘http://www.australiancurriculum
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policeman‚ Doctors also step out of there comfort zone in order to save their patients. “The Use of Force” by William Carlos William ‚ examines when it is justifiable for doctors to use force against his patients in order to protect them from his/her own ‘Idiocy”‚ but in today’s society the use of force has changed dramatically. In the story “The Use of Force” by William Carlos Williams the narrator describes the little girls rage for the doctor. “the child was fairly eating me up with her cold
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In the short story "The Use of Force" published in 1938‚ William Carlos Williams reveals that violence is a significant aspect of human nature. During the story Williams uses the component of character to describe the intense emotions felt by the doctor. The author uses the characters of the doctor‚ the little girl‚ and her parents to show that emotions sometimes get in the way of what society expects from people. This is shown by the fact that the doctor who at first glance seems to be zealous
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In Tennessee Williams’ play‚ A Streetcar Named Desire‚ he shows illumination for the play through the fight scenes between Stella and Stanley then later on between Stanley and Blanche. Overall it illuminates Blanches unnatural longing for a magical life and shows how she desires a make believe world and society in which she will always have a happy ending and a perfect life. Also the fights show how Stella’s loyalty to her husband‚ Stanley‚ is stronger than her loyalty to her sister‚ Blanche. The
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William Carlos Williams wrote his most famous poem in 1934 entitled "This is To Say." He is credited with creating a writing style referred to as the minimalist set. His writings show the purpose of building real images. Williams set the tone of his poems with the use of simple words‚ short phrases‚ and plain talk‚ without the typical form or rhyming. So how then is it a poem? Was it just a note on the refrigerator door left for his wife? In today’s time‚ it would work nicely as a tweet. When asked
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conflicts between Stanley and Blanche." Discuss. The themes of A streetcar Named Desire are mainly built on conflict‚ the conflicts between men and women‚ the conflicts of race‚ class and attitude to life‚ and these are especially embodied in Stanley and Blanche. Even in Blanche’s own mind there are conflicts of truth and lies‚ reality and illusion‚ and by the end of the play‚ most of these conflicts have been resolved. At the beginning of the play‚ there is an equilibrium‚ Stanley and Stella have
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Leading a multitude of people to find the "truth" about a village’s most respected townspeople is Abigail Williams. She was the finger that accused dozens of people‚ who in all likelihood were innocent of the crimes brought against them. Abigail was not the single candle that showed the judges of Salem the way but merely the candle that lit the others. Arthur Miller’s "The Crucible" makes Abigail the conveyance of everything the Puritans would have thought as evil. She had committed sins that
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience Themes by William Blake Major Themes The Destruction of Innocence Throughout both Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience‚ Blake repeatedly addresses the destruction of childlike innocence‚ and in many cases of children’s lives‚ by a society designed to use people for its own selfish ends. Blake romanticizes the children of his poems‚ only to place them in situations common to his day‚ in which they find their simple faith in parents or God challenged by
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