In Eugene O"Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, each member of the Tyrone family attempts to ignore his or her problems by descending into the depths of substance abuse and finding fault with the others. As Hinden notes, "The Tyrones exhibit patterns typical of families in which chemical depende...
Alfred Prufrock,"" commonly known as "Prufrock," written mostly when Eliot was only twenty-two, was pioneering in its use of interior monologue, in its fragmented structure, and in its startling figurative language ("Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherised upon a table""). ...
She laments the exclusion of the names of these pre-twentieth-century female artists in art history text books, "Although Sofonisba was praised in the seventeenth century as being a portraitist equal to Titian, and at least thirty of her paintings are known to us, there is no trace of her, or any other woman artist prior to the twentieth century, in your current art history textbook"[Wen91]. ...
Waiting for Godot qualifies as one of Samuel Beckett's most famous works. Originally written in French in 1948, Beckett personally translated the play into English. The world premiere was held on January 5, 1953, in the Left Bank Theatre of Babylon in Paris. The play's reputation spread slowly throu...
Depression, melancholy, disillusionment, and disconnectedness are the burning emotions churning in young Hamlet's soul as he attempts to come to terms with his father's death and his mother's incestuous, illicit marriage. While Hamlet tries to pick up the pieces of his shattered idealism, he conscio...