Tom Dacre's dream shows just how horrible this life was for the boys by contrasting it with what they should have been doing at this tender stage in their lives: 'leaping' and 'laughing' in the sunshine. ... Another example of the binary oppositions within the collection of poems can be found in the two Nurse's Songs'. ... Her heart is at rest within her breast', and she is glad to hear the hills echoing with the children's laughter. ...

• Word Count: 1564
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Wagner also adjusted his ideas in pursuit of his artistic dream, namely his own theatre Bayreuth, for which he needed funding. ... Towards the end of his life Wagner became concerned with the discrepancies within his work and sought to tidy it up' so that it could be passed on to future generations in the way that he desired it to be. ...

• Word Count: 2346
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Instead, he prefers to provoke us as individuals, the lower middle classes, the cinema viewer, into addressing our own prejudices by highlighting our narrow-mindedness and, in this case, the Nazism which lies dormant within German society. ...

• Word Count: 2626
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate