But this grief would foster an irrepressible need to fight for the independence of women and reconstruction of society's view. This is one of the major themes that the short story The Yellow Wallpaper is based upon. ... Here again, Gilman has the uncanny ability to combine aspects of her life with that of the story. ... "It disgusts and fascinates her" (Hedges 51) at the same time, as did her relationship with her husband. ... The Connecticut Writer's confirm that in the summer of 1886, Charlotte, herself, was in fact, isolated in a room in a l...

• Word Count: 1862
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Author Miller's plays are usually associated with real life issues filled with failure and disappointment. ... At the end of the play, Charley mentions, "" He was a happy man with a batch of cement so wonderful with his hands he had the wrong dreams, all wrong."". ... Now after searching, Biff comes to terms with exactly who and what he is: "" I stopped in the middle of that building and I saw -- the sky. ... "I'm always in a race with the junkyard! ... In this passage Linda"'s futile attempt to speak her mind is squashed repeatedly despite Linda"'s support of Wil...

• Word Count: 4675
• Approx Pages: 19
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Waiting for the ballroom dancers to come out and swirl around the room in their magnificent costumes. ... Shirley Scotts mum wears pink clothes and her dressing room is also pink. The pink symbolize her with the superficiality of Shirley's obsession with ballroom dancing. ... Song fades into station theme A: You"re listening to the hit station 47.8FM, nothing but new stuff. ... Scott Hastings mother Shirley Hastings is the very typical inspiration of what an over the top view of ballroom dancing is about. ...

• Word Count: 3576
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School

In a country that he considered too conservative, conformist, spießerhaft' and charged with latent violence' (Elsaesser, 1996: 25), he also deals with the issues of ageism and crossing social boundaries. ... Central to this film is the way that he contrasts and contradicts one scene with the next, in order to make the spectator question what he has just accepted. ... Exploitation is another theme in the film that seems related to contradiction and contrast. ... While in FETS, Fassbinder has kept to the pre-defined rules of melodrama, permitting the film to be classified as suc...

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

His plays deal with issues common to every society. ... In real life Miller had an Uncle Manny who had two sons ho were in competition with Miller and his brother. ... Eric Bentley provides us with information that Arthur Miller had tried to apot osize this heroic refusal to speak in dramatic literature (The Crucible). ... The Puritan government ruled the church in 1692 and relig n believed that women who dance with the Devil are witches. ... The Puritans believed that a person became a witch by entering into an agreement with the Devil. ...

• Word Count: 11015
• Approx Pages: 44
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School