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Streetcar Named Desire is evident within relationships of the play. Prominent scenes from the play include intense portrayals of violence, such as Stella being domestically abused by her husband Stanley, Blanche recalling the suicide of her past closeted boyfriend Allen and when Stanley rapes Blanche at the end of scene ten. However, physical abuse is not the extent of this key motif as Williams’ presents verbal and emotional violence as well. These are all further intensified by the stage…

other competitors in a series of challenges to claim a grand prize of two-hundred and fifty-thousand dollars. As her first reality TV debut hit, she hid a secret from not only her cast mates, but also from the world. This beautiful energetic soul had closeted the fact that she had been diagnosed ovarian cancer. Through here life she not only had to fight cancer one time but in all she battled against it for a heart wrenching three times. But her life was in vain (MedGift) Once she first…

Ian Gallagher is a fictitious television character from the show Shameless. The show is set in the South Side of Chicago and focuses around a dysfunctional family of six children who raise themselves with the occasional appearance of a drunk father and bipolar mother. Ian, born in 1996, is the third eldest of the children. He began developing symptoms of bipolar disorder, mania and depression, in his late teens and into his early twenties. His siblings noticed his symptoms almost immediately,…

Bullying and Intersectionality Though many research studies focus on LGBT+ youth in comparison to heterosexual youth, or the differences in gender, there are few studies that focus on the different identities of an individual together and compare the intersectionality between such individuals. Intersectionality is the “recognition of multiple interlocking identities that are defined in terms of relative sociocultural power and privilege and shape people’s individual and collective identities…

Love remains a frequent topic in literature because of the countless opportunities to explore emotions and to delve into the human psyche to ponder what truly causes someone to love another person. Furthermore, love is multifaceted, and Hawthorne focuses on a different aspect of love within a relationship in each of his two stories. Although “The Birth-Mark” and “The Minister’s Black Veil” both contain elements of Puritan society, delineate the relationship between a man and his partner, and…

In Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, Bechdel creates a bildungsroman to share her journey of grappling with reality. Throughout the graphic novel, Alison shares that she sees a disjuncture between her family's seemingly perfect outward appearance and what she interprets as the real appearance of her family. Alison struggles to clearly define what makes this disjuncture so apparent until she comes out as a lesbian during college and comes to identify that her father is a bisexual…

Mysteries have always had a great hold on society. They have a way of catching the reader’s attention by keeping them guessing, even yearning to find out. The strange occurrences surrounding the death of Christopher Marlowe is one such mystery. His early death at the age of 29 came as a shock and set scholars off on a hunt to determine how he died and the true reason for his death. It has baffled some of the most proficient researchers and continues to have new theories presented about it. What…

“If you can’t love yourself how in the hell you going to love somebody else?“ While this particular quote ends every episode of RuPaul Charles’ self titled reality show RuPaul‘s Drag Race, most people have heard this sentiment throughout their life. It is made clear from a young age that it is important to accept who you are; unless, of course, your identity deviates from what is deemed normal. In my case, living in a Catholic, Republican, southern Louisiana suburb, being gay put me way outside…

Christopher Marlowe’s Assault on Religion in Doctor Faustus During the Elizabethan era, England was beset with all manner of intimidating religious tenets. As head of the English Church, the queen sought to bring spiritual unity to a country whose religious identity was muddled because the people had previously been under the reign of Catholic and Protestant monarchs, while Calvinist supporters were condemning anyone who demonstrated insight, awareness, or imagination. The result of these…

Grace and Frankie The story of Grace and Frankie begins as both of the women meet for lunch. On edge and acting as if they like one another, the two women wait for their husbands to arrive. Running a little late—the husbands arrive to announce ‘big news.’ Grace and Frankie expect “the next big step in their lives…” to be their husbands retirement. However, little to their surprise, the big news is Sol and Robert are gay and haven cheated for more than twenty years! The women become outraged and…