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Metodes Meahta In Six Old English Poems, Mary Relihan
Metodes Meahta In Six Old English Poems, Mary Relihan
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
This thesis, then, will attempt to show that the achievement of unity was the primary concern of the Old English poets, who aimed to use the power of poetry to teach their people how their hope for immortality might be realized under Christianity. Their concern is evident from their poetic diction and themes that have an origin in common values of mankind, from their demonstration of unity within the poems by deliberately chosen connotative language and by forms which represent a progression of thought, and from their objective presentations in dramatic and imaginative settings. Therefore, the poetry is a fusion …
Work And The Family: Themes In The Plays Of Arthur Miller, Sue Parsons
Work And The Family: Themes In The Plays Of Arthur Miller, Sue Parsons
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
The study is divided into four parts, the first three having to do with the family and the last with work. The first section outlines the relationships of family members, including their attitudes toward themselves, toward each other, and toward society. The next two have to do with “Responsibility” as viewed by the family, and the need for “Stability” within the home and outside it. The final section examines the jobs held by Miller’s characters, their attitudes toward those jobs, and the extent to which an occupation helps to influence the characters and their familial relationships. A close discussion of …
William Cowper’S The Task: A Study In Transition, Roy Leo Crady Jr.
William Cowper’S The Task: A Study In Transition, Roy Leo Crady Jr.
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Hidden deep in the shelves of most libraries in England and America is an obscure, dusty volume of poetry containing one of the minor classics in the English language, a poem entitled The Task. Written by the eighteenth-century poet William Cowper, this very long and loosely structured poem won widespread recognition and acclaim in its day, only to gradually fade into a premature oblivion. Today The Task is known primarily to a handful of literary scholars whose arcane and esoteric business it is to go beyond the turnpikes of literary history into the labyrinthine lanes and paths of our literary …
The Low-Status Character In Shakespeare's Comedies, Linda St. Clair
The Low-Status Character In Shakespeare's Comedies, Linda St. Clair
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
This study will attempt to reveal in detail the techniques, purposes, and results of Shakespeare's use of the low-status character in the comedies. It will be shown that Shakespeare's use of low-status characters was not static. For example, the early low-status characters are more farcical than those of later plays. The characters of the middle plays are more satiric and those of the last plays are sometimes almost allegorical abstractions. Some low-status characters such as his comic law officials are used to develop satiric themes which run throughout his career. At other times, he uses the low-status character to develop …