Pansy

Ripped Baby Clothes and Memories Mom entered the room with a towering stack of clothes: blue, worn levis, white socks, and various polo tees. She set them down on the bedside table and then turned to see how Luke and I were getting along. On several occasions, she would have seen us building villages out of colored cardstock, playing with trains, or playing the invented game my brother’s fantastic imagination had created. However, today we were up to something completely different. Among the dust

In Thomas Wolfes’ story “The Child by Tiger” Dick Prosser a deeply religious veteran from the South begins working for a white family after serving in the United States Army. Prosser was well liked by the Shepperton family and the boys of the neighborhood, until the day that Dick Prosser’s  PTSD was triggered and killed many people of the town. The boys of the town looked up to Dick,  they thought that he was able to do everything. He was also considered to be very smart for an African American.

Reality versus Illusion in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?        In his play, The American Dream, Edward Albee unveils a tortured family that is symbolic of the reality beneath the illusion of the American dream.  In Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Albee takes a more traditional approach than the theater of the absurd, and his language is more natural, but he returns to this theme with a vengeance.  For in all of drama there are few plays about domestic relationships that are as caustic, violent

Early in A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, the fascistic use of charm, Oberon’s ability to use incantations to unsettle Theseus’ early wish for perfect harmony (1.1.11-15) and control wild forces such as nature, other fairies and mankind, foregrounds the play’s action. Modeled after the power of speech-acts (utterances considered as actions, particularly in terms of its intention, purpose or effect), the theatrical use of charm I propose here predominantly resides in the vocal chords

's offered meanings - rosemary for remembrance, pansies for thought - by matching the other flowers she mentions with traditional symbols: fennel for memory, columbine for folly, rue for mortality, the daisy for her innocence, and the withered violets for her modesty now transformed to shame” (Mancoff). Based on Mancoff’s meaning for each of the flowers, it is clear what Ophelia is trying to portray. She gives her brother the rosemary and the pansies so he would remember and think of her after she

When John was a child, his alcoholic father teased him about magic. “‘That pansy magic crap. What’s wrong with baseball, some regular exercise? Blubbly little pansy.’” (O’Brien 67). The one thing that John was whole heartedly passionate about was magic. Yet, his dad was never encouraging of it which left John feeling unsupported and unloved, transferring in to his adulthood

When Hamlet was made into a play in Shakespeare's time, there was no evidence of a female to have played the role of Ophelia. Sinse there were no professional actresses at the time, it is strongly presumed that Ophelia's part was played by a small boy. In Hamlet by Shakespeare, feminism is shown through Ophelia. She is portrayed as a young woman who is in love with Hamlet but torn between love from him and her undoubting obedience to her father and brother. These oppressions lead her to go mad, flowing

Symbolism in Shakespeare’s Hamlet Hamlet* is a play known worldwide and was written between 1599 and 1605 by the ingenious author and poet, William Shakespeare. The play is a drama that includes a love story, betrayal, and a tragic ending. During the time Hamlet was written, the population of England loved watching the hard ache of others and they epically loved murder and gore. Luckily for Shakespeare, todays current population loves watching and reading about the same things which kept most of

Description of Ophelia Ophelia is piece of art that was painted by Sir John Everett Millais. It was painted in the Tate Britain and completed in 1852 (Lewis par. 2). The painting shows a fictional actor from Shakespeare’s theatre piece the Hamlet. William Shakespeare’s work was a great inspiration for Sir John Everett (Lewis par. 2). The fictional character is called Ophelia. This painting by Sir John has since been celebrated for its uniqueness and attention to detail particularly nature. Ophelia

Analysis Shakespeare named his character Puck or Robin Goodfellow, because these names are an allusion to shape-shifting and mischievous creatures of English and Celtic folklore. In A Midsummer’s Night Dream, Puck is a witty sprite who sets many of the play’s events with his magic and foolish pranks on the human characters. Shakespeare named him Robin Goodfellow and Puck in reference to popular characters in English and Celtic folklore, which were depicted as either fairies, goblins or devils. As