… Second World War, the Gion district in Japan was a viciously competitive place where women fought desperately for men’s favor and munificent gifts, a girl’s virginity was auctioned off to the highest bidder, and a woman could not even dream about happine…

… Is it their homes, parents, religion, or maybe where they live? When do they get one? Do they get it when they understand right from wrong, or when they can read, or are they born with it? Everyone has one and nobody has the same, is there…

… something doesn’t love the wall in the beginning of the poem, the wall that symbolizes boundary and obstacle between people. Although this restrictive wall gives protection and a feeling of safety for the people who are inside it, it also creates a…

… views of both, Antonio and Shylock, were portrayed very bluntly. The religious opinions of both characters were that their religion was superior to infidels and also very stereotypical. In the business world, Antonio owned ships with valuable goods…

… In The Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare, there appears Shylock. He is a Jew, that much we are told in the cast list. But, as the play unfolds Shylock is seen to be the villian. He is protrayed as being cold, unbendi…

… makes his famous "Queen Mab" speech in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, he and Romeo, together with a group of their friends and kinsmen, are on the way to a party given by their family’s arch-enemy, Lord Capulet. Their plan is to crash the party so that…

… as one of Victorian England’s finest poets, Lord Alfred Tennyson epitomized the agony and despondency of the degradation of one’s character. His masterpiece, The Idylls of the King, explicates the grand scheme of corruption of the Authurian…

… suddenly changes. Family relationships and special bonds can be changed and sometimes even broken. The attitudes of family members may be altered around the sudden change. In Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, a family’s bond is broken apart by…

… long before his metamorphosis into a beetle. His obsession with his job had dehumanized him, made him less personal and more mechanical. While on business trips, he began to lock his doors at night in the hotels. He carried this action back to his homeli…

… of the external, natural world, it is more importantly a search for spiritual perfection. From beginning to end, Thoreau uses aspects of the natural as metaphors for the struggles of the self. As a Transcendentalist, Thoreau believed that man…