Joe "King" Oliver

“Male dominance is when a man is the dominant one in a situation or a relationship. A dominant male shows power and authority and is often the leader in a situation.” [1] In this drama, the theme of male dominance is one of the main themes present in the play “A streetcar named Desire” and it is mostly represented using the character of Stanley towards Blanche and her sister. The stage directions play a major role in the play, whereby we learn a lot more about the male dominance of Stanley in…

George Bernard Shaw is certainly one of the major playwrights in the history of English literature. Shaw’s Arms and the Man, is one of the most popular plays in English literature. Arms and the Man is a thought-provoking, anti-romantic and anti-war play. “Arms and the Man is a fitting entry-point into Shaw’s career, which goes on to encompass many more plays investigating the nature of relationships between men and women.”1 The play satirizes the social issues of the day by highlighting and…

Characters with widely different personalities and beliefs create a number of diverse and tense relationships among characters in the play 12 Angry Men written by Reginald Rose. Some may argue that bringing past prejudices into a case where a man's life is at stake is unwise; however, this is inevitable. Each person has different morals and knowledge, as well as bigotry and prejudice, this provides for heated and opinionated debates. Would you really want a jury of only trained lawyers of the…

What is a tragic hero? Today, a tragic hero is defined as a literary character whose poor judgment leads to their own destruction. This modern definition, although modeled from Aristotle’s version, differs from the traditional, Greek tragic hero. Aristotle stated that “a man doesn’t become a hero until he can see the root of his own downfall,” and thus in order for a literary character to be deemed an Aristotelian tragic hero, they must meet certain qualifications. The first is, the tragic hero…

The advantages and disadvantages of eating fast food and homemade food Food is one of the human requirements to being alive. It is an important source of energy for people and it is an enjoyable activity. We consume food every day. As we know our diet effects on our health. So we must attend to our diets. There are many kinds of food. Each of them has different taste and different appearance. Depend on life styles and culture and where you live; people’s eating style has been changed. Some…

Idealism and dreams are essential influence of a character, however, there are times when they clash with characters’ decision. This occurs in ‘Babylon Revisited’ which earned Fitzgerald his top Saturday Evening Post price of four thousand dollars and which is considered to be one of his best short stories (Mangum 1373). As most of his better known fictions, this one is also intensely personal, expressing his feelings about his alcoholism, his wife’s breakdown and his responsibility to his…

Sharon Draper’s novel Tears of a Tiger is an emotional story dealing with real problems within the world. Tears of a Tiger involves an accident due to drunk driving, that follows through a series of arduous grieving of a friend’s death. Sharon Draper uses the structure of a text, foreshadowing, and plot to shift moods between the story and to uncover that danger lies ahead for people who are unable to request for assistance. With text structure the story enhances to a better understanding,…

In the short story “The Witness for the Prosecution”, author Agatha Christie enjoys teasing her readers by not revealing the solution until the end. The story is about a man named Leonard Vole that kills a wealthy old lady when he finds out that the will of the old woman was put under his name. Christie shows how she can confuse the readers easily by including red herrings, a type of writing that purposely misleads the reader. At the end, the jury sets Leonard free and Romaine, Leonard’s wife,…

Materialism in The Great Gatsby Within the characters’ relationships in The Great Gatsby, money and materialism are huge motivators. Most of the characters reveal themselves to be highly materialistic, their motivations driven by their desire for money and material possessions. Wealth, material possessions, and power are the core values of the "American Dream" which characters such as Daisy, Tom, Gatsby and Myrtle all try to achieve or have achieved to some degree. For many Americans, like…

MAJOR THEMES IN THE NOVEL The Decline of the American Dream in 1920s Though the novel revolves around the love of Daisy and Gatsby, the main focus of the novel is to bring out the concept how the American dream has got corrupted. It brings out the historical fact how the life of people in America had an unrestrained desire for money and pleasure. It tells how people left the conventional values and followed their own values to become rich. It shows the sudden rise of stock…