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    "Suppressed Desires" by Susan Glaspell is a two-scene play about a woman‚ Henrietta‚ who is obsessed with dream interpretation and seems unable to stop over-analyzing the dreams of her husband‚ Stephen‚ and Henrietta’s unsophisticated sister‚ Mabel. Mabel knows so little about psychoanalysis that she think it is "something about war‚" though she has seen a psychiatrist‚ Dr. Russell‚ the same psychiatrist who cares for Stephen. Henrietta respects psychoanalysis until eventually‚ her mind changes about

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    to be very significant in literary theory. He believed that a plot with reversal of situation‚ recognition‚ and transformation‚ is the greatest way to write a story or play. He defined plot as the arrangement of incidents and‚ according to him‚ tragedies where the outcome depends on a tightly constructed cause-and-effect chain of actions were superior to those that depended on the character and personality of the protagonist. The plot would have to be interconnected with a story or play as a whole

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    A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams play "A Streetcar Named Desire" presents a fragment from the lives of a few individuals who meet in less desirable circumstances and eventually produce one of the most remarkable American modern tragedies. The main characters of this story are Blanche DuBois‚ Stella Kowalski‚ Stanley Kowalski and Harold “Mitch” Mitchell‚ and Eunice. The play begins with a verse from “The Broken Tower” by Hart Crane which Williams uses with the intent to prepare the reader

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    The desire for freedom is a similar aspect of the female protagonists Louise Mallard‚ Mathilde Loisel‚ and Emily Grierson.</b></i><br><br>In Kate Chopin’s‚ "The Story of an Hour‚" Guy DE Maupassant’s‚ "The Necklace‚" and William Faulkner’s‚ "A Rose for Emily‚" the female protagonist’s have a desire for freedom. The stories are about three women living in patriarchal societies. Each character longs for freedom in a different way‚ but because of the men in their lives they are unable to make

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    Ogulcan Bayol‚ 11-H In the play‚ A Streetcar Named Desire‚ written by Tennessee Williams‚ Blanche the protagonist who is mentally fragile and depends on her sister’s help to overcome various adversities as her husband’s passing away and her paying many debts decides to move to New Orleans‚ where her sister lives. Throughout the play‚ Blanche‚ who is from a southern part called Laurel‚ strives to conform to society’s norms and attempts to find a man to marry her; but she is incapable of feeling

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    A Streetcar Named Desire conforms to the expectation that a major theme of Williams ’ plays is that of human sexuality. Various aspects of human sexuality are explored through the diversity and complexity of the characters. Whilst Stanley Kowalski epitomises masculinity through his primal strength and power‚ and the increasingly fragile Blanche DuBois attempts to cling to the feminine role of the Southern Belle‚ these are only aspects of their characters. The fact that their relationship is one of

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    Desire. It burns like an uncontainable fire‚ engulfing those in its path. Society bows down to desire for the individuals in society are driven by the desire to succeed‚ driven by the hope that they can be better than whom they were made to be. In a society in which men are merely pawns in a larger game of war‚ it is the desire to be special that keeps them going. But when desire takes over the brain‚ it provides the illusion of perfection. It turns a person against the world‚ for they believe they

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    Does the man’s natural desire for “Summum Bonum” leads to the state of war where peace can only be achieved within an absolute monarchy? According to the 17th century philosopher‚ Thomas Hobbes‚ humans share a fundamental quality – an enduring desire for power‚ glory and self-perseverance‚ and in the right of nature it is upon each man’s liberty to use his own power to persist his existence. Hobbes‚ in one of his most influential texts‚ Leviathan (1651)‚ constructs arguments which justify destroying

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    Introduction The first sentence has a taunting gaiety which dares reader to challenge Jane Austen’s view of a heroine ‘whom no one would like but myself.’ Emma Woodhouse‚ handsome‚ clever‚ and rich‚ with a comfortable home and happy disposition‚ seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her. Emma A girl with power and authority‚ & more than enough egotism for the forgivable follies of youth.

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    The book Under the Eye of the Clock written by Christopher Nolan‚ is an autobiography written in the style of a biography about a boy named Joseph Meehan. In the novel which is written in prose form‚ Nolan describes his life as though he were watching it unfold rather than as a participant. The places and people identified within the novel seem to be the actual places and people from Nolan’s own life. The setting for most of the novel takes place in Dublin and Corcloon in Ireland. The title of

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