Anthony Wallace, an anthropologist, predicted that "belief in supernatural beings and in supernatural forces that affect nature without obeying nature's laws will erode and become only an interesting …
Plays
A tragic hero, is by Aristotle's definition, a man who at the height of his own power, falls due to a personal flaw. Shakespeare uses this character template for all of his tragedies, except for his l…
Ruth did achieve her goal of being able to live her life comfortably because she was to keep her family going, keep her unwanted pregnancy despite her family's hardships, and was able to move out of t…
As Dave Meurer once said, "A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences." The contents of this quote strictly rela…
"The truth will set you free," Tennessee Williams writes on the role of honesty and its significance in his play A Streetcar Named Desire. The play follows a former debutante's fight to escape her pas…
Love is a feeling that develops when a person feels some connection to another person. When someone is forced to be with someone, the feeling that arises would not fall in the same category as Love, i…
Motivation is the reason or reasons one has for acting or behaving in a particular way. In both Macbeth by William Shakespeare Lady Macbeth has motivation behind convincing her husband to kill King Du…
Pedro from the story Like Water for Chocolate and Lady Macbeth from the play Macbeth are both important characters in their respective stories. In Like Water for Chocolate, Pedro's strong feelings for…
"Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more." This is a famous quote from Brutus in the Shakespearean film Julius Caesar. In the play Caesar it was debated whether or not Brutus was a pa…
Macbeth, the main character of the play, is a round and dynamic character in the play for multiple, highly detailed reasons. He also changes while things happen throughout the play. Macbeth seems to …