.... It comprehends some bringer of that joy; Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear! (V,i,2-22) Theseus, in Scene V of A Midsummer Night's Dream, expresses his doubt in the verisimilitude of the lover's recount of their night in the forest. He says that he has no faith in the ravings of lovers- or poets-, as they are as likely as madmen are to be divorced from reason. Coming, as it does, after the resolution of the lovers' dilemma, this monologue serves to dismiss most of the play a hallucinatory imaginings. Theseus is the voice of reason and authority but, he bows to the resulting change of affection brought about by the night's confused go ....

.... man Reverend Dimmsdale, hides his sin from the world, is almost worshipped by the townspeople, but is filled with the shame of his action. Nathanial Hawthorm illustrates how insensitive a Puritan society can be to those who admit to their wrong doings. The Crucible is a play that tells the story of the famous witchcraft trail in Salem Massachusetts. In the story Abigail William’s, who is the orphaned niece of the towns’ minister, Reverend Parris, is the main person who accuses people of sending their spirits on her and the other girls. What starts as children dancing in the woods, leads to the accusation and execution of many innocent people for witchcraft. ....

.... It is not surprising that the girls would find this type of lifestyle very constricting. To rebel against it, they played pranks, such as dancing in the woods, listening to slaves' magic stories and pretending that other villagers were bewitching them. starts after the girls in the village have been caught dancing in the woods. As one of them falls sick, rumors start to fly that there is witchcraft going on in the woods, and that the sick girl is bewitched. Once the girls talk to each other, they become more and more frightened of being accused as witches, so Abigail starts accusing others of practicing witchcraft. The other girls all join in so that the blame will not ....

.... their mother/daughter relationships. In the novel and in the film production, the women go through many obstacles in life and must overcome them in order to survive. In the end, these women demonstrate tenacity and confidence in themselves. The four main mothers in the novel are shown to be excessively strict, and to put extreme pressure of expectations on their daughters. As the mothers raise their daughters, they are reminded of their childhood, and earlier days. They seem to have had some similar feelings of hoplessness when it came to their own mother's expectations. There is an immense emphasis on honor, obedience and loyalty. Another emphasis is competition, th ....

.... While the environment or the public world (society) plays some part in forming the psyche of an individual, it is in the end, the choice of the individual (John) to be who they become The whole concept of Brave New World contradicts to everything John ever believed in. John came from a world where art and expression of variation from the society existed. People must face their problems and overcome them, and love requires commitment and is greatly appreciated. John was rather a Renaissance man trapped in a world where none of his necessities in life existed. He was disgusted at their orgy-porgies, their belief of take, take, take not give, give, give. Total happiness ....

.... TV, pollution, crime and phony evangelism - in short, all the old and usual suspects. These may have been timely villains back when Jessica Mitford first wrote about planned obsolescence in the 1950s, but now they're just tired subjects. And, in Paul Schrader's heavy-verbiage screenplay they're just plain annoying. On and on, a Hawaiian-shirted Ford spouts the evils of double-digit inflation and plastic consumerism. He's so fanatic about it, he's uprooted his family from their pastoral home home and lugged them off to a primitive jungle coast. He's filled with cockeyed, romantic notions on building a jungle utopia for himself and his family. In this decision, as in all othe ....

.... "Beatnick in Lumberjack Country," in Contemorary Literary Criticism. 1 vols. Detroit: Gale Research, Inc. 1974. Magill, Frank N., ed. Magill's Survey of American Literature. 3 vols. North Bellmore: Marshall Cavendish Corporation, 1991. Magill, Frank N., ed. Masterplots II American Fiction. 3 vols. England Cliffs. Salem Press, 1986. Magill, Frank N. Survey of Contemporary Literature. 8 vols. New Jersey: Salem Press, 1977. Irony, Humor, and Paradox in Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest "My name is McMurphy, buddies, R.P. McMurphy, and I'm a gambling fool." So said ....

.... and righteous. John has never heard of such a lifestyle and is drawn closer and becomes deeply interested in the argument that Thoreau makes for living simply. Thoreau explains that he "lives in a tight, light, and clean house, which hardly cost him more than the annual rent of such a ruin as [John's] commonly amounts to" (Walden, 140). Thoreau almost makes the identical argument, (although Thoreau is not really "arguing", he is documenting the costs of his house) and explains that having a shelter that is practical yet functional is an essential step to simplifying one's life, which in turn is an essential step in the process of becoming deified and enlightened. In mor ....