Husband Book Reviews Samples For Students

The author, Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III, was an American writer that worked mainly as a playwright in the American theater. He also published novels, poetry, short stories, screenplays, essays, and a great volume of memoirs. He received most of the top theatrical awards for his works on the stage, with A Streetcar Named Desire receiving the great Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. Up to date, he is considered among the best known classical writers in the American fields of theatre.
Most of the themes dominant his works (loneliness, desire, sickness, death, alcoholism, depression, etc) are mined from his ...

Faith Mcnulty was the author of the book, The Burning Bed. The Burning bed was a non-fiction book that tackled family problems and at some point, the possible consequences of an unresolved husband and wife conflicts. This book later on was adapted to a film. The film won several awards and nominations because of the boldness of the story which revolves around the story of Francine, a battered wife.

The Burning Bed is a non-fiction book which represented the life of Francine Hughes. She was basically subjected to a great deal of violence from her husband. It was a book that staged how human rights ...

The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin

The Story Of An Hour is a short story that narrates the time that pass by between the moment protagonist, Louise Mallard, leans of the news that her husband died and later discovers that indeed her husband is still alive. Once she hears of her husband’s death, Mallard perceives herself as a liberated woman but her perceived joy is short-lived.

Symbolism

The troubled heart
The heart trouble that Mallard suffers from depicts a woman’s perceived physical weaknesses. It further represents Mallard’s hesitancy regarding her troubled marriage and her need for freedom. Mallard’s heart illness is the first thing ...

Book review – Men are from Mars, women are from Venus

Introduction
“Men are from mars, women are from Venus” is a user’s guide for married couples to understand each other better, and transform their differences to complement each other to enjoy their long journey together as man and wife. John Gray, renowned relationship counselor and the author of the book, views men and women as having inherently dissimilar values and views about life. In marriage people often expect the opposite sex to be more like themselves. Each desires the other to want the same thing and feel the same way. For example, the husband takes for granted that ...

“The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin

In Kate Chopin’s short story “The Story of an Hour” the author paints a rather effective picture of heartbreak. However, rather than showing the devastation of Louise Mallard’s devastation upon hearing news of her husband’s accidental death in the train wreck, Chopin takes an unexpected turn. As the reader experiences Louise’s shock at the news of her husband’s death one is led to believe that she is overwhelmed with shock and unable to comprehend the tragedy of becoming a widow. Instead, as the final scene in the story unfolds the reader is made aware ...

Washing Irvings’ Story

“The Devil and Tom Walker”

The Gothic was a popular theme in seventeenth and eighteenth century literature. Several American writers, including Washington Irving exercise this topic; in their writings. His story, “The Devil and Tom Walker,” has two main characters Tom and his wife. The following elements; setting, plot and point of view, are fitting elements used to bring credence to Mrs. Walker’s character.

The very title of the story, “The Devil and Tom Walker,” foreshadows the story; it is also ambiguous, since it could mean that Mrs. Walker is a devil. “Tom's wife was a tall termagant, fierce of temper, ...

Introduction

In the most traditional of African cultures, the duties of a woman’s role in society was never deemed as capricious, much less being awarded the honorary title of representation of an ideology known as ‘feminism.’ Yet, the memoir-enriched fictional novel, “So Long a Letter,” (Une si Longue Lettre – in French) by Mariama Ba inspired much hope for African women to convey the collective plight of their positions to the world. The book is remarkable in a number of profound ways. The book is a diary-type of letter written from the female protagonist Ramatoulaye her best friend from childhood, Aissatou. Ramatoulaye is mourning ...

Review and Analysis of the book ‘Their Eyes were watching God’ – Presentation of the book’s main thematic plot and its meaning – Review of the book’s writing style and influence on its readers – Exploration of the connections between the book’s main thematic idea and the educational policies – Exploration and research of the book’s connection with the educational field – Exploration and research of the book’s contribution to the teaching methods and the learning outcomes of an educational environment
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Part 1 Information about the author and the book

The book ‘Their Eyes were watching God’ was published in 1937. The time ...

Beloved is a historical fiction that tells of the horrific burden of slavery that the characters had to endure. From a kind master, the slaves of Sweet Home plantation were turned over to the management of the cruel and abusive schoolteacher. All hopes of a better life crumbled for the small family of slaves that lived in the plantation and were replaced by various forms of punishment for the slightest oversight. With the different experiences of the characters, the tone of the story changes from character to character and is reflective of the varying often explicit attitude that they felt toward the ...

Dalma Heyn's book Marriage Shock tries to explain why many women are not satisfied in their marriages and why most divorce cases are initiated by women. As the name suggests, the book tries to show the shock that people, women especially get when they get into the institution of marriage. According to Dalma, many women's frustrations in marriage result from the cultural view of what marriage is supposed to be like and what is expected of an ideal wife. After people get married there are unwritten rules in the society that govern marriage and dictate the way in which ...

The book revolves around two young men both with the same name Wes and who happen to share the same challenges of growing up in a poor neighbourhood, the people they interact during their growing stage and how those people shaped their lives in contributing on the decisions that they made that changed their fate.The book is divided into eight chapters, each chapter discussing the development stages and the changes that the two Wes encounter in life as they grew up. For the purpose of his paper I will consider two of the concepts which we can learn from this ...

The Haunting of the Hill House Shirley Jackson

“The journey itself was her positive action, her destination vague, unimagined, perhaps nonexistent (Jackson 1.49)”
The car journey to the haunted house means a lot more than just a road trip. She defies her sister’s rule about taking the family car and going to Hill House and gets out to be on her own after a long time. Eleanor lives a repressed life even after the death of her mother curtailed by her family who smother her and refuse to let her grow up. This act of defiance and the car ride gives Eleanor a sense of freedom. ...

Introduction

Richard Hoffman wrote Half the House: Memoir, and it was first published in the year 1995. The book was then republished in 2005 with an afterword added to the memoir in 1996. Hoffman claimed that the book was nonfiction and the scenes described by the book were experiences he underwent in his childhood life. However, the names of the characters had been altered safe for the name of the football coach that had sexually molested him in his childhood. The book describes the hardships Hoffman faced in the hands of the ruthless society, his poor family, and an abusive ...

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In her book, The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home, Arlie Hochschild sheds light on the various strategies used by men and women in two-career marriages to manage the pressure of work and the needs of their family all at the same time. Hochschild, who is a professor at the University of California in Berkeley, documents how household work is divided by husbands and wives who both have full-time careers after they are done with their official jobs. Her book basically revolves around the story of eleven couples out of the fifty she had her research associates ...

The famous and world widely recognized short story by well-known Chinese writer Lu Xun, the New Year Sacrifice conveys the distressing but touching story of a young woman with a heart-breaking life ultimately compels her to the outer reaches of the societal ethical standards. The story is neither a radical means nor an artistic inclined piece, but a way for encouraging social modification (eNotes.com). It has a special consideration to the dilemma of women in his time by incorporating in the story significant concepts regarding women’s liberty. The story transpired in the period earlier the Revolution of 1911, a poor Chinese woman is sold ...

The play Anna in the tropics is written by Cuban – American writer Nilo Cruz. The action in the play revolves around an ageing cigar factory owned by Santiago a man in his late fifties of Cuban origin. The workers in the factory are majorly relatives of Santiago with Cheche, the supervisor being Santiago’s half brother. The lives of the characters in the play are intertwined with the action in the story Anna Karelina and most characters find their mirror in the story. The plot kicks off with the arrival of a new lector in the factory welcomed by Ofelia, Santiago’ ...

In the play, ‘A Streetcar Named Desire,’ by Vanessa, is an illustrative portrayal of male superiority visa a viz their female counterparts. In the event, when Stanly breaks the plate, they were in Blanche’s birthday party. The trio: Stanly, Stella and Blanche.
As they conversed and went on partying together, Blanche attempts to make up a joke about a swearing parrot and a priest, yet nobody gets amused then, Stella made an interjection; she says that her husband is too busy and tells her husband Stanly to clean himself up then help her clear the table. This aggrieved him and in ...

The dialectical relationship between love and material objects is complex. In the United States of America different elements in culture often take opposing sides: some, like most spiritual organizations, favoring the former, and others, like the capitalistic worldview, favoring the latter. O. Henry was one of this country’s most famous turn-of-the-nineteenth-century writers, who constantly incorporated its culture into his texts; “The Gift of the Magi”, one of his most famous and important short stories, deals with this dichotomy. Using many of O. Henry’s staples, it rests on irony to construct a bittersweet tale where love ends up prevailing. ...

The Great Gatsby is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The 1925 novel is neatly crafted with an exceptional understanding of social stratification. Fitzgerald’s evocative work offers a brilliant glance of the American life in the 1920s. Although a variety of themes, such as greed, justice, power, and betrayal are brought out, social stratification theme is well developed in this novel. Fitzgerald begins the novel by creating distinct groups to differentiate social classes (Yardley par.4). The novel concerns a young millionaire whose life revolves around his desire. Gatsby’s motive was to reunite with his former love, Daisy Buchanan, but his ...

Introduction

This story entails three main characters that include Cora, Nick and Frank. Frank accepted a job at a diner which was owned an alcoholic man called Nick. Nick was a husband to a young lady called Cora. The main theme of the story arises from the fact that Frank fall in love with Cora, the wife to his boss. This led to the fugitive romance in the story. They both fall love to the extent that they decided to elope when the husband was in a trip to Los Angeles and leave Nick alone but the main challenge was the fact Nick was the ...

A Christian View of Sexuality Within Marriage

Abstract
The Gift of Sex, by Clifford and Joyce Penner, is a comprehensive, Christian educational guide for married couples about sexuality. Divided into a preface and five sections, the book uses Scripture and the authors’ expertise in marriage therapy to offer important information to couples concerning sexuality so that readers may overcome problems or enhance a relationship that is already good. The book educates married couples on Bible-based considerations about sex, physical aspects of sex, and unifying the religions and physical aspects of sex in order to have a more fulfilling relationship with each other. It answers questions, offers exercises, uses anecdotes ...

Great Black Women of the World

Part I: (Please Add where in your textbook to find the appropriate topic: Slavery, racism, women’s issues) I have written about two African women sold into slavery Abina and Ama and about Mary Church Terrell. Terrell is a great African-American woman who not many people know about. I did not know about her until I started browsing the web links that were suggested for this assignment. Ama and Terrell show the same strength and spirit as Abina. They are all women with a strong sense of what is right and what is wrong in the world. Two were born in Ghana ...

Introduction:

Politics and leadership have always been important parts of the world’s historical makeup and these will definitely never go away. Obviously one has to keep in mind that times change and the sort of leadership that was right and correct for the 19th century is probably anathema today. In his seminal book, Carnes Lord attempts to examine various world leaders who have made a name for themselves, be it as autocrats, as visionaries or as plain and simple democratic leaders. He also inserts an interesting but heavy dose on the politics of the renowned Florentine, Machiavelli whose ‘The Prince’ ...

“Macbeth” is one of the greatest literary works of William Shakespeare. This play proves why Shakespeare is still the most influential English author. Shakespeare has tried to portray mordant psychosomatic and political effects when people do not hesitate in taking help of evil for fulfilling their aspiration of power. The play is believed to be written in the beginning of the seventeenth century but it still pleases people who love English literature. This paper intends to discuss the “Macbeth” and presents a succinct analysis of the play along with discussing all other related aspects.

The play takes place ...

This fascinating book, written by Asne Seierstad and first published in English in Great Britain in 2003 by Back Bay Books / Little Brown, is her own story, but is written as though a work of fiction. In the foreword she tells how she met Sultan Khan – the bookseller (not his real name) – while working in Afghanistan as a journalist in 2001. He invited her in to his home so that she could experience Afghan family life firsthand in the recently-liberated capital city. A man who loves books, Sultan took many risks over the years in order to trade ...

First and foremost Stanley Kowalski is a son of a Polish immigrant who lives in Elysian Fields in New Orleans in some room in a shabby settlement of the French. He is married to Stella the sister to Blanche Dubois. And they appear happy from their marriage contentment even though they live in strange and desolate shanty. Just moments after Blanches arrival Stanley comes in with duo friends Mitch who stays with his sick mother and Steve who lives with his partner upstairs. Stanley is less hospitable to Blanches as he expresses descent humor and apparent accommodation that is blended with an ...

Islamic community treats women in an inferior way and a bad way. However, Muslims argue that they treat women in the best way possible. According to Fatima Mernissi, the author of Beyond the Veil, both notions and assumption are right up to a certain degree. The book covers religious, as well as political problems, faced by women in the Muslim community. Fatima gives the perspective of an insider and gives actual and theoretical accounts of what the women face in the Islamic community throughout the book.
Sexual inequality is the greatest focus of the author where he looks at the ...

We think of the Renaissance of a time of humanism, creativity and change. Women are depicted more often in the arts of this time, dressed beautifully and looking happy. Unfortunately, this was not the case for women of this era. In spite of radical changes in philosophy and religion, women remained at the bottom of the social latter. In Florence, women had no legal rights and was at the mercy of her family and later her husband. Laws were specifically written to control women, how they dressed, defining what was their personal property and enforced by notaries of the government.
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Joseph Conrad’s; The Secret Agent:

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Chief Inspector Heat was seen as a kind man, from the Assistant Commissioner’s description. The Chief Inspector was inclined to finding Michaelis as guilty, mainly because he was associated with dangerous men. It is said that some two men were seen last in a railway station and that they came from his village. The Assistant Commissioner, on the other hand, had social ties to Michaelis and therefore, did not want him implicated and later spoke to his superior about wanting to solve the case alone. When the Assistant commissioner and the Chief Inspector go to look ...

Compare and Contrast the tone in “The Man who lived Underground” and “Invisible Man”

Richard Wright’s short story “The Man Who Lived Underground” and “Invisible Man” written by Ralph Ellison, tell the story of two men, and although they are different in thought, if examined carefully one will realize that they share an underlying theme. Richard Wright’s story tells of a man who lived in the city sewers because he was running from the law after he was accused of murder. In Ellison’s story, the main character and the narrator go underground and remains there in anticipation that things will change from oppression to equality for all.
The tone in ...

Book Report

Gone Girl is a modern book written by American writer Gillian Flynn. The book was published in June 2012 by Crown Publishing Group. Gone Girl became one of Gillian Flynn’s best-selling books and soon hit the best seller list in New York Times. The book is a thrilling novel about a marriage gone terribly wrong which is filled with psychological suspense and raw intensity, with the principal suspense coming from the uncertainty about the major character, Nick, and whether he murdered his wife, Amy. In this book, Flynn tried to explore the psychology and dynamics of a lasting relationship. She admits to ...

Introduction

Lakshmi Bai was inspired by his her upbringing which was unusual. She grew up in the Peshwa’s court with boys. This was unusual for Brahman girl upbringing. Here when she was with her father she got training in martial arts and she finally became proficient in handling sword, fighting and riding. When she was fourteen years, she was with her father Moropant Tambe who acts as a Pandit in the court of Peshwa Baji Rao II and Nana Saheb in Bithoor. Here Tatya Tope trained her in the arts of war. This is where she gets her inspiration. As ...

The Known World by Edward P. Jones:

The author’s fictional assessment on this unusual phenomenon begins with the death of the 31-year-old Henry Townsend who is a former slave turned now a master of his own 33 slaves. In Manchester County, he also owns way beyond 50 acres of land. Townsend is critically concerned about the eventful destiny his holdings after his early death. During his time as a slave (his youth), Henry certainly works particularly hard to make himself essentially indispensable to the master, William Robbins. After Henry's parents manage to secure the family's freedom, Townsend maintains a high level of allegiance to Robbins (Parrott, 2003). On the ...

LIFE AND WORK OF ABIGAIL ADAMS BASED ON TWO BIOGRAPHY BOOKS: "ABIGAIL ADAMS - WITNESS TO REVOLUTION" AND "MY DEAREST FRIEND".

Abigail Adams was one of the most intriguing historical figures in American history - the wife of John Adams, the second President of the United States, she was witness to the founding of the country itself, as well as the beginnings of its government. Despite being a woman in a new country in the 18th century, she held a remarkable amount of political power, as well as an incredible influence on her husband, John Adams. She is most well known for her correspondence with him during the Continental Congress - their debates on politics and government remain a fantastic eyewitness account of the ...

Gish Jen, the author of “Who is Irish” gives a recount narration of an elderly American citizen woman aged sixty-eight-years-old and of Chinese ethnicity. This immigrant struggles to cope with other cultures that are different from her own. Although the main character has spent her lifetime in the United States, she is still suspicious of other cultures and races. For instance, she is doubtful of her own son-in-law who is of Irish origin. There sinks into deeper suspicion to learn that her grandchild has opted with all conviction to uphold American values.

Due to her distrust of other cultures this ...

Book Review of the Book, ‘The Story of the Quran’ by Ingrid Mattson

detailed book about the Quran and its place in historical and contemporary Muslim society. The author of the book is Ingrid Mattson, who originally published the book in 2008 in the United Kingdom. Dr. Mattson is an Islamic scholar and teacher as well as an interfaith activist. She is the first woman to hold prestigious positions as a Muslim scholar and a leader in the religious world. The book is written as an overall balanced and correct portrayal of the religion of Islam and the teachings of the Quran, in general. The author has mentioned other religions as well, ...

Abstract

“Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry is about the Youngers an African American family living on Chicago’s Southside. The various members of the family try to accomplish their dreams while dealing with issues of self, racism and poverty. Prior to the events of the play the father has died as a result of the backbreaking labor he had done all his life. As the family waits for the 10,000 insurance payout, each member of the family has their dream of how the money would benefit them.

Thesis

Each member of the Younger family has a specific dream. ...

Intro

In her memoir Hard Choices, Hilary Rodham Clinton discusses the aftermath of her 2008 presidential run, her adjustment to the subsequent presidency of Barack Obama and her unexpected appointment as Secretary of State. Clinton frankly discusses the challenges and experiences of her position and uses the memoir as an introduction to her potential presidential run in 2016.
The major themes in this memoir are sacrifice, success, regret and exceptionalism (Clinton). Clinton repeatedly discusses the sacrifices and hard choices that she had to make throughout her life, both personally and professionally, in order to get where she is today. Specifically, ...

The title of this book is “The Goal” written by Eliyah M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox, written in the year 1984 it is ranked among the America’s Business Best seller novel. It also has included an interview with David Whitford; this book is a Narrative non-fiction or a personal narrative. The genre of this book is based on the tense with which this book is written and employment of first person narrative. The writer is also feted for other works such as, It’s not luck, Critical Chain and Necessary but not sufficient. The writer sales standing in ...

The Ramayana

The Ramayana is an ancient mythological book written by Narayan R. K. It is a tale that forms an important Hindu Canon and is divided into four parts; the early on life of Rama, his exile, the abduction of Sita, and the defeat of Ravana and Rama’s coronation. It is a story about Rama, an Indian avatar whose wife Sita is abducted by a demon king known as Ravana. The story explores the life in India, human values, and the interaction between humans and the divine world. The Ramayana has become a part of Indian sacred literature that people learn from it ...

Betty Friedan wrote ‘The Feminine Mystique’ in 1963. This is a non-fiction novel. The book focuses on feminism in the United States of America. Friedan conducted a survey of her former classmates during their 15th anniversary reunion and found that most of them hated their lives as housewives (Agonito, Rosemary 76). This made Friedan conduct interviews with other women who were housewives in the suburban areas, so ran introduction about the spread of unhappiness amongst women in the 1950s and 1960s. Friedan explains that despite living in material comfort, the housewives from America were unhappy. The situation in some states ...

The book “The Forty Rules of Love” is a fascinating novel presenting Sufi wisdom related to the relationships between men and women, between humans and God, the nature of Islam religion. In the center of the novel is and unhappy housewife Ella who are desperate about her cheating husband. In her hard moments, she finds a good book that makes her changing the worldview. In this book she finds the forty rules of love that stimulate her think different, according to the principles of the Islam religion. She is ready to accept the new attitude to life.
In the novel, ...

Nancy F. Cott. The Bonds of Womenhood: "Woman's Sphere" in New England 1780 1835.

The purpose of the book, The Bonds of Womenhood: "Woman's Sphere" in New England 1780 1835, written by Nancy F. Cott was to demonstrate that women from a century ago were breaking out of their traditional sphere of working in the home and shaping new roles for themselves in the community. During the process they also learned how to strengthen “the bonds of womanhood” with other women (Cott, 204). Cott (160) calls this new feeling sisterhood.
New England middle class women were very smart about ...

Book Review: The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin

Rating: 4.0/5
‘The Happiness Project’ discusses a systematic approach to make your life happy. The author presented the book in different stages. Preparation stage includes your identification of things that brings joy and satisfaction to you, and also why and how you develop anger and onus. The second stage, making the resolutions, is the important one which lets you to recognize certain elements that boost your happiness. Finally, ‘keeping your resolution’ depicts a very interesting part.
Gretchen Rubin presented this book as her own experience in changing her life. It is happiness project that reflects the understanding of the ...

OCTAVIA BUTLER’S KINDRED

Kindred is a 1976 novel by Octavia butler. The novel is a combination of African American literature and science fiction. This is because the book tells the story of slavery from the perspective of 1976 woman. The novel also entails elements of fantasy as it involves time travel and of course acts of heroism by the time traveler.
Dana is a young African American woman who has just moved into her new apartment with her husband Kevin in California. On the ninth of June 1976 as Dana is busy unpacking in their new apartment she suddenly gets dizzy. Her vision gets ...

Book report: The Best Of Me.

The Best Of Me is one of Nicholas Sparks’ most read novel. He is an American novelist born in December 1965. It was first published on 11th October 2011. He was inspired to write the novel after observing the kind of challenges that youths in the society go through in the pursuit of love. His intension was to show the world the conflicts created by love and if true love really has the power to outshine everything.
It is an imaginary story that takes place in Oriental northern Carolina. From the description, the reader can tell that the ...

PART ONE

THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOKS
EXODUS
This is a law book, the second book in the Hebrew bible and is also one of the Torah books that are believed to have been authored by Moses himself. The book simply means the act of going out.
The main theme addressed in the book is all about the suffering of the Israelites and their departure from the land of Egypt to their promised land. The theme of salvation and theophany are manifested in this book whereby the meaning of God’s salvation history through actions that give identity to the ...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is an 1850 novel depicting the treatment of adulterous Hester Prynne in Puritan-era Boston, after her sin is discovered. This depiction of Puritan America is close to the author's heart; having been born in Salem, Massachusetts in 1804, Hawthorne was likely fascinated by his region's Puritan past (particularly his ancestor John Hathorne, who was one of the judges during the Salem witch trials of 1692 (Miller 20-21). In investigating the attitudes and anxieties of the people living in colonial New England, Hawthorne explores the xenophobia, religious intolerance, and daily struggles of the people who ...

The cat scratches my extended hand when I bend down to check for a tag on the

collar. The claws are razor sharp and don’t draw blood, but I feel the sting. No tag.

Hmmm. I don’t recognize the cat who has been hanging around our five-acre property for

about two weeks, but cats come and go in this area because of living off a busy highway,

if you know what I mean. She is all black with long white whiskers, the longest I have

ever seen on a cat. I can hear her rumbling purr from where I stand over her. It is

intoxicating! I miss having a cat around since our big orange tabby Barney ...

Book Review: Great Expectation by Charles Dickens

Great Expectations is Charles Dickens’s most popular book. It was published in the year 1861; in three volumes. Pip as he was known was from his names Philip Pirrip as he could not be able to pronounce his names when he was an infant. Pip being orphaned lives in the country at Southeast England with his sister and her husband. Being from a poor background, he expects to be a blacksmith when he grows up just like his sister’s husband (Dickens 1-5).
Richness to poor people is not something they expect to come their way. However, if given ...

The book analyses the lives of white females with regard to the harsh conditions they encountered in the slave social order prior to the Civil War. The author focuses on the letters, diaries as well as memoirs of hundreds of planer women and daughters. The book provides dramatic details relating to the day to day life with reference to the mistress and the uncertainty of her liaison situation in the hierarchical setting between the master and slave. Further, the author brings to the fore the challenges stumbled upon by the plantation mistress and makes informing interpretations as regards the ...

Book Review

Summary
This act begins with Lady Sneerwell and Snake plotting to spread malicious gossip that will ruin the relationship of Charles s Surface and Maria so that Lady Sneerwell can have Charles for herself, and Charles’s brother, Joseph, can marry Maria – if the plans work. We are introduced to a world of backbiting and malicious gossip. Maria rejects the values of ther gossipy peers and refuses to believe any of the slanderous things she is told about the man she loves. Maria’s guardian, Sir Peter Teazle arrives on stage to reveal that his new wife – a country girl ...

Leon Uris’ Battle Cry is the product of an era in which patriotism and service to one’s country were the highest ideals. World War II was, after all, the “good war,” a fight for survival against an ideology diametrically opposed to the principles of Democracy. Published in 1953, Battle Cry rode the same heady wave that made other war stories, such as James Jones’ From Here to Eternity, so popular. Uris’ war opus is equal parts Marine rouser and combat-chronicle-cum-soap opera. As such, it helped establish a literary paradigm that Hollywood would mine exhaustively for decades, supplying a stream of movie ...

In the introduction to Hunter's Shakespeare and the Comedy of Forgiveness, the author announces his intention to combat oversimplifications that have arisen over the past few decades with regards to the scholarship of Shakespeare, wherein the attitude of Shakespeare itself at the time of his writing would actually reflect the politics and intent of the work itself (e.g. King Lear having a sad ending indicating Shakespeare being despondent at the time of its composition). "This study...will be an attempt to investigate one feature - the denouement in forgiveness - which is common to five of the later comedies" (Hunter 2). ...