The Glass Wall

The Truth Behind the Object: Symbolism in The Glass Menagerie and Lives of the Saints Symbolism is an extremely powerful literary tool that many authors use to emphasize important themes and motifs. This is evident in both The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams and Lives of the Saints by Nino Ricci. Both authors use, what seem to be, ordinary objects as an avenue to symbolize various reoccurring themes throughout the story. Although the symbols used in each novel differ greatly from each…

realize the things they are doing are drastic. A common obsession of many people is that of their past. It provides an escape from the truth of the present and the pain of reality. The theme of obsession is unmistakable in three short stories: “The Glass Menagerie”, “The Lottery”, and “A Rose for Emily”. In each of these stories, the characters have an unhealthy obsession with the past and how the world use to be in order to escape the reality that is their current world. In “A Rose for…

Amelie’s Wish In one of the last scenes of Amelie the director conveys Amelie’s internal struggles about accepting or rejecting her feelings for Nino through music and camera movements. The scene begins with the soft playing of piano that is quickly buried under rain -which is imagined by Amelie- but grows as her imagination of Nino purchasing yeast for her continues. The piano reaches its highest point just before her doorbell’s harsh ringing and is abruptly cut off. The softness of the music…

“Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion” (The Glass Menagerie). In The Glass Menagerie, the narrator and most prominent character is Tom Wingfield. Tom is the son of Amanda and a nonexistent father. Growing up Tom learned how not only to provide the financial stability of the family as well as the fatherly leader role…

Romanesque art obtained its title as a result of the extensive usage of stone vaulting and stone sculpture within the architectural development of churches (Kleiner, 2012). The Romanesque age is the first era that earned its title as a result of an artistic style since Archaic and Classical Greece (Kleiner, 2012). In the 11th and 12th century European architecture embraced a medieval style that incorporated Roman design in which historians titled Romanesque (Kleiner, 2012). The ecclesiastical…

Ruth is a very skeptical, realistic and selfless woman and emotionally and mentally the strongest person in the play A Raisin in the Sun. Ruth is realistic about everything, she tries to protect and take care of her family even when they’re being disrespectful and rude. In the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, Ruth is motivated by her family. Ruth’s objective is to protect her family and she does this in multiple occasions in this play, and it shows her selflessness and her…

1. Would you agree that Beckett’s Waiting for Godot perfectly encapsulates all the uncertainties of modernity? Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot belongs to the Theatre of the Absurd. The absence of a meaningful plot, of objective dialogues and of absolute certainty is the state of absurdity. Beckett utilizes absurdity to play around with the concept of existential nullity which saw man trapped in a hostile world. Human life is meaningless and this created a sense of alienation, despair and…

“The prettiest smile hides the deepest secrets. The prettiest eyes have cried the most tears. And the kindest hearts have felt the most pain”(Unknown). Everyone has secrets, facts about themselves, thoughts they have, or gossip that they do not want to get out. However, when people keep those secrets, it gets to a point where staying silent is too overwhelming and can prove to be harmful. In Celeste Ng’s novel Everything I Never Told You, all the characters have secrets. When they decide to stop…

The ANZ Bank building at 376-392 Collins Street Melbourne, is an amalgamation of two buildings: the former ES&A 'Gothic' Bank, on the corner site, and the former Melbourne Stock Exchange, fronting Collins Street. While both these designs are specifically Gothic in style, their appearance is a demonstration of the two vastly contrasting Gothic revival developments in Melbourne during the 1880s and 1890s. The Gothic Bank was the first building to be constructed and is an example of the first…

Want to know how to bring a U.S. Marine to tears? Give him a Rocephin shot. As one Marine quipped, “it brings half the men to their knees, and the other half to tears.” Doing a Google search on the term “Rocephin” (aka the peanut butter shot), you’ll find the #1 concern of military recruits is receiving this required penicillin shot during boot camp. “It feels like acid going in” is a common description. If toughened military men have these concerns, it’s no surprise nearly 20% of the U.S.…