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Romanticism And Evangelical Christianity In William Cowper's The Task, Carol V. Johnson
Romanticism And Evangelical Christianity In William Cowper's The Task, Carol V. Johnson
Masters Theses
In The Task, dated 1785, William Cowper clearly anticipates certain major themes in early nineteenth-century British Romantic poetry. In his individual presentation of the central Romantic themes of this "transitional" work, however, Cowper differs significantly from the major Romantic poets whose work his own most resembles. This is largely due to the strain of Evangelical Christianity that pervades the poem, as the result of his contact with the Evangelical Revival that swept England during the second half of the eighteenth century. The orthodox Christian doctrine and morality that underlie the Romantic themes in The Task, together with the …
Illusion Vs. Reality In The Tragedy Of Hamlet, Glendora S. Plath
Illusion Vs. Reality In The Tragedy Of Hamlet, Glendora S. Plath
Masters Theses
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The Theme Of Othello, James Irving Krumrey
Beckett's Manipulation Of Audience Response In Waiting For Godot, Robert Carl Themer
Beckett's Manipulation Of Audience Response In Waiting For Godot, Robert Carl Themer
Masters Theses
This thesis examines one of the many paradoxes of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot--that although on the surface Beckett reduces his characters to the barest minimum in human terms, the spectator still finds himself, mysteriously, identifying with those pathetic stage creatures and their plights.
The dual purpose of this paper is to examine the methods Beckett used to foster this sense of spectator-character likeness and to assess its impact upon the spectator. It explores the contrast between the near-caricatures, Pozzo and Lucky, and the more complexly humanized Vladimir and Estragon. It discusses Beckett's universalization of character, time, place, and …