William Garwood

unrealistic and dim. From the production note quotes for The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams’s presents, “A free, imaginative use of light can be of enormous value in giving a mobile, plastic quality to plays of a more or less static nature” (Williams 22). Williams’s idea to focus light in on actors and selected areas have made it clear to the audience that the play’s lighting is corresponding to the actual plot of the play, memory. Unlike most plays, throughout the entire production of The…

Nature’s Irrevocable Bond with Humanity Due to a subtle action in A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, the comparison to a loved one in “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day,” by William Shakespeare, and the continuing conflict in “The Birthmark,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, these literary pieces of work prove that humanity is forever bound to nature and that no act of isolation or disconnection can break that bond. The environment and ecosystem that one lives in has a very profound impact…

“The Birthmark” and “A rose for Emily”, though two different short-stories, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and William Faulkner respectively, gives out the common them that is, Obsession about things you cannot control can lead us to lose things because we exactly know the result and we strive for it anyway. The idea prevails in both of the stories “The Birthmark” where Aylmer losses his wife and “A rose for Emily” where Emily poisoned her lover and lived with a corpse. If we go through the…

It had, as an important element, a letter written by William Lovett and Feargus O’Connor, named “The Charter”, sent to the British Government several times and for the first time in July 1839. The letter had over a million signatures and included the six main aims of the movement, principally: all men had the…

In the 1800’s, the word “romance” was not used as it is today. The American Scholar A.O. Lovejoy once observed that the word 'romantic ' has come to mean so many things that, by itself, it means nothing at all. Contradictory to the previous statement, F.L. Lucas counted 11,396 definitions of the word, and synonymous usage for ‘romantic’ show that it is perhaps the most remarkable example of a term that can mean many things in accordance to personal and individual needs (Introduction to…

Alfred Pennysworth, butler of Batman once said “some men just want to watch the world burn” in reference to Batman’s villain, the Joker. A similarly destructive attitude is festered in the antagonist; Iago of Shakespeare’s play Othello. Iago is motivated by an undeserved hate toward the protagonist, Othello, which leads to chaos and sparks a classic Shakespearean tragedy. Throughout the play, Iago allows jealous suspicion and anger to fuel a hate for the Othello. From Iago’s perspective, he…

William Shakespeare published “Romeo and Juliet” in 1597, a play of two lovers from rival houses who overcome hate to find love, only to have fate guide them to their deaths. Shakespeare bestowed upon the world a play with lively characters, and Juliet of the Capulets is a complex character who defies the typical stereotype of women during the Elizabethan era. Shakespeare developed Juliet to be an individual who is beautiful, intelligent, defiant, and yet masculine. By doing so, Shakespeare…

William Faulkner was an American writer and Nobel Prize Laureate who lived and died in Mississippi. Faulkner is one of Americas most highly respected writers and particularly praised for his Southern literature. He is known for his authenticity when it comes to the Southern way of life. He often used his real life experiences and included the fictional Mississippi county of Yoknapatawpha which was based on the real-life county he grew up in many of his stories "A Rose for Emily" included. His…

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth but quickly the earth turned sour. The man he had created turned to sin even while in paradise but God was not caught off guard. God had a plan to reach a people dying from sin and that plan was Missions. So God sent the first missionary. The missionary did all the things missionaries do, he preached, taught, and he prayed for people and they were healed. Often as the missionary was out in public people would flock to him. Quickly he would…

It is a common misconception that humans as a whole have certain rights simply because they are born with them. Many believe they are free to exercise these rights unhindered because it is their right to do so. It is important to recognize this fallacy, because living under the assumption that we have rights just for being born is how they slowly get taken away. The truth is, that the current rights of United States citizens exist because they were fought for, and they must continue to be…