Yet this could be viewed as unjustified as both texts present them as arguably formidable; Gertrude in Hamlet may be viewed critically by audiences as she seems to act without grief when referring to her late husband's death as "common"" in Act One, Scene Two. ... She starts to live through her children and at the end of "Death in the Family," Lawrence describes how she "now clung to Paul"." ... Their relationship throughout the play is strained; it is in the passage after Blanche's confession of the loss of Belle Reve that Stella starts to understand what actually happened and plac...

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• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I believe Nietzsche means that art can be a source of new values that create a beautiful illusion or joy and celebration which overrides some of the realities of life, like pain, suffering and uncertainty. John Ruskin presents a more emotional view I have already noticed the example of very pure and high typical beauty which is to be found in the lines and gradations of unsullied snow: if, passing to the edge of a sheet of it, upon the Lower Alps, early in May, we find, as we are nearly sure to find, two or three little round openings pierced in it, and through these emergent, a slender, pens...

• Word Count: 2825
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Hemingway's style was influenced by his years as a newspaper reporter, both before and after World War I. ... In Act II, Scene II of Hamlet, while delivering a report to the king and queen, Polonius delivers the following: "This business is well ended. ... This was his now-famous 'ice-berg' theory, extrapolated in Death in the Afternoon: "If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. ...

• Word Count: 5359
• Approx Pages: 21
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate