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Friar Lawrence’s Conduct Contributed in the Tragic Outcome of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (3647 words, 5 pages)

Towards the closing stages of the play, Friar Lawrence's way of conduct contributed vastly in the tragic outcome of the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. Because of his pusillanimous demeanour, Friar Lawrence of Verona was called before a tribunal, chaired by the prince, to give his account of the ill-fated ... Read More

Use of Allegory in D.H. Lawrence’s Poems Bavarian Gentians and Ship of Death (1587 words, 2 pages)

David Herbert Lawrence, an English novelist and poet ranked among the most influential and controversial literary figures of the twentieth century. Lawrence was born on September 11th, 1885, in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire. He abandoned traditional poetic form and advocated the use of free verse. The two poems being discussed, "Bavarian Gentians" ... Read More

The Weakness of the Characters in D. H. Lawrence’s Literary Works (1225 words, 2 pages)

In examining several of DH Lawrence's short stories and one of his poems ('Odor of Chrysanthemums', 'Strike Pay', 'Tickets, Please', 'Daughters of the vicar', and 'Snake'), it can be seen that Lawrence has presented weakness through a variety of his characters. These weaknesses appear through the characters' thoughts, relationships and ... Read More

Symbolization of Chrysanthemums in Odour of Chrysanthemums by D.H. Lawrence (651 words, 1 pages)

In D.H. Lawrences Odour of Chrysanthemums, is about the symbolization of chrysanthemums the feeling Elizabeth Bates has towards her husband. Elizabeth waits anxiously for her husband to return for dinner. After a day down the pits, she is concerned for his safety and at the same time angry at the ... Read More

An Analysis of the Industrial Urban Scenes of Manchester in England in the Paintings of Lawrence Stephen Lowry (951 words, 2 pages)

THE WORKS OF LAWRENCE STEPHEN LOWRY For this assignment, I am going to discuss the artist Lawrence Stephen Lowry who painted various different styles, but I will be focussing particularly upon his industrial urban scenes of Manchester in England around about the first half of the twentieth century. Around this ... Read More

Summary, Characters and Themes in the Short Story The Rocking-Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence (675 words, 2 pages)

The Rocking Horse Winner Summary This story is about a boy named Paul who received a rocking horse for Christmas, which made him excited about horse racing. At the same time seemingly unrelated events began to unfold The boy's mother began to display lewd materialism and a drive for money, ... Read More

Breaking the Law in the Night Thoreau Spent in Jail by Robert Edwin Lee and Jerome Lawrence (1510 words, 2 pages)

The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail is a literary piece about a man named Henry David Thoreau. He wrote "If the law is of such a nature that it requires you to be an agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law." This, simply put, means that ... Read More

A Discussion on Paul Trying to Solve His Family’s Financial Problems in “Rocking-Horse Winner” by D. H. Lawrence (782 words, 1 pages)

Society trains families to maintain a certain level of social ranking, however, there are certain implications as to how that status is to be maintained. In the Rocking-Horse Winner, Paul has an opportunity to try and help his familys desperate financial situation and he tries very hard to do so. ... Read More

The Non-Conformist Life of D.H. Lawrence, an English Novelist, Poet and Playwright (2188 words, 5 pages)

INDEX Page INTRODUCTION........................................................................... 4 1. THE MAN AND THE ENVIRONMENT................................... 5 A) SOCIETY AND CLASS-CONSCIOUSNESS.................. 5 B) HUMAN NATURE AND MODERN CIVILIZATION.......... 6 2. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PEOPLE......................... 8 A) THE FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS........................................ 8 B) THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE SEXES............. 9 CONCLUSION.............................................................................11 BIBLIOGRAPHY...........................................................................12 INTRODUCTION It has been very difficult for ... Read More

Personal Thoughts of Lawrence Otis Graham’s Book Our Kind of People (1706 words, 3 pages)

LAWRENCE OTIS GRAHAM Our Kind of PeopleI Inside America's Black Upper Class (5 .5 pp) Through six years of interviews with more than three hundred prominent families and individuals, journalist and commentator Lawrence Otis Graham weaves together the revealing stories and fascinating experiences of upper-class blacks who grew up with ... Read More

An Analysis of Friar Lawrence’s Personality from the Drama Romeo and Juliet (832 words, 1 pages)

The Friendly Friar In the drama Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Friar Lawrence is a kind, knowledgeable, peacekeeping, and wise character. He also acts as a foil to the Montaques, Capulets, and the nurse. He is a priest to both the Montaque and Capulet houses. He is a well-liked ... Read More

A Comparison of Paintings by Jacob Lawrence and Margaret Bourke-White (535 words, 1 pages)

Lesson 7 Barber Shop by Jacob LawrenceAt the Time of the Louisville Flood by Margaret Bourke-White Generally the Barber Shop is an unrealistic painting it is a painting consisting gouache on paper that the context looks abstract. It uses watercolor to draw the work so that it is opaque. Lots ... Read More

A Feminist Reading of D. H. Lawrence’s The Rocking Horse Winner (1932 words, 3 pages)

A Feminist Reading of D.H. Lawrences The Rocking Horse Winner The man that does not know sick women does not know women. - S. Weir Mitchell The Rocking Horse Winner is the story of a boys gift for picking the winners in horse races. An omniscient narrator relates the tale ... Read More

An Analysis of the Influence of Strong Aristocratic Values of Greed and Personal Gain in The Rocking Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence (596 words, 1 pages)

The Rocking Horse Winner A society based on strong aristocratic values can cause one to embrace greed and personal gain, indirectly blinding the view of what really matters. In this society, social status is of the utmost importance. In "The Rocking Horse Winner" written by D.H. Lawrence, a family structure ... Read More

An Analysis of D.H Lawrence’s the Rocking-Horse Winner (954 words, 2 pages)

passage He went off by himself, vaguely, in a childish way, seeking the clue to "luck." Absorbed, taking of stealth, seeking inwardly for luck. He wanted luck, he wanted it, he wanted it. When the two girls were playing dolls in the nursery, he would sit on his big rocky-horse, ... Read More

Comparing the Writing Styles of D. H. Lawrence and Friedrich Nietzche (907 words, 2 pages)

INTRODUCTION In this paper, I won't stick to only one topic. I will compare different topics, such as happiness and life between two romantic writers, D. H. Lawrence and Friedrich Nietzsche from D. H. Lawrence's You touched me and Friedrich Nietzche's The use and abuse of history taken from The ... Read More

A Comparison of Emotional Scenarios in D.H Lawrence’s You Touched Me and James Joyce’s the Boarding House (1196 words, 2 pages)

Due to the variance of education background, social environment and personality derived from human nature, every individual has hisher distinct standard of living, social sense and emotion. People who have different minds and living objectives interact with each other in every human community, and the morality has been historically obeyed ... Read More

The Family Story in D.H. Lawrence’s the Rocking Horse Winner (433 words, 1 pages)

"The Rocking Horse Winner," by D. H. Lawrence, was first published in Harper's Bazaar magazine in July 1926 and includes many similarities to Lawrence's own life. The story's financial strife, domestic relations, and sentiments toward love are paralleled by his real life and are affected by a desire for money. ... Read More

An Analysis of the Use of Prepositions, Adjectives and Commentary in the Opening Sentence of “Tickets, Please!” by D. H. Lawrence (507 words, 1 pages)

In the opening of tickets please the writer uses a series of prepositions in the opening sentence which echoes the rambling nature of the tram journey. The almost onomatopoeic nature of this opening sentence creates empathy in the reader, making him feel as is he was also on this long ... Read More

A Comparison of the Theme of Death in Because I Could Not Stop for Death by Emily Dickenson and the Ship of Death by D. H. Lawrence (745 words, 1 pages)

Throughout history many authors have been concerned with uncertainties about the afterlife. Life after death is known through mostly through faith, therefore the imagination must make up for what lies beyond. Many poets express their beliefs about death through their literary works. The authors' background influences his or her opinion ... Read More

An overview of Lawrence’s Literary Works (1964 words, 3 pages)

Often censured for his emphasis on sex, his stereotyped female characters, and his frequently-blatant sexism, Lawrence remains one of the important figures in British literary modernism. Also a poet and essayist, Lawrence's greatest influence is fiction. His use of topographical detail to evoke a sense of precise locale was especially ... Read More

A Review of D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers (1156 words, 2 pages)

D.H. Lawrence Son and Lover Bildungsroman, a form of fiction which allows the novelist to recreate through the maturing of his protagonist some of his own remembered intensity of experience (Nivin, Alastair pg. 34) D.H. Lawrence re-created his own life experience through the writing of Sons and Lovers, an intensely ... Read More

The Coldness of a Heart in the Rocking Horse Winner by D. H. Lawrence (662 words, 1 pages)

"The Rocking Horse Winner" Paul's mother in "The Rocking Horse Winner" is a cold, unloving parent who is extravagant and materialistic. "The Rocking Horse Winner" is a short story written in the 20th century by D.H. Lawrence. One of its outstanding elements is the vivid characterization of Paul and his ... Read More

A Comparative Analysis of the Protagonists in the Short Story “The Rocking Horse Winner” by D.H. Lawrence and “Angel Levine” by Bernard Malamud (976 words, 2 pages)

In D.H. Lawrence's short story, "The Rocking Horse Winner", and Bernard Malamud's "Angel Levine", the protagonists are greatly affected by both ethical and emotional problems. As a result, their sense of judgment is victimized due to the effects of their problems. Whether in a story about religion and faith like ... Read More

An Analysis of the Characters in “Seventeen Syllables” by Hisaye Yamamote, “The White Stocking” by D.H. Lawrence, and “A&P” by John Updike (2660 words, 3 pages)

Let me see, what stories should I choose to discuss in my response paper? I asked myself. Well, all stories we came across were very interesting and worth reading, maybe except one or two that were painfully long. So I really ought to pick the ones that caught my attention ... Read More

An Analysis of Dr. Lawrence H. Diller’s Book Running on Ritalin (283 words, 1 pages)

Running on Ritalin was written by a psychologist, who finds himself torn over the treatment of difficult children. Dr. Lawrence H. Diller has had the opportunity to work with an array of unique children. He also has witnessed his form of profession evolve into something he is not sure he ... Read More

The Reader Conflicts Between Paul and His Mother in D.H Lawrence’s the Rocking-Horse Winner (1125 words, 2 pages)

The Hidden Truth The plot in "The Rocking-Horse Winner" by D. H. Lawrence reveals to the reader conflicts between Paul and his mother using different levels or forms of secrecy. There are secrets hidden throughout the house that leads Paul and his mother to an unpleasant life. The first level ... Read More

An Overview of the Story of D.H Lawrence’s the Rocking-Horse Winner (1246 words, 2 pages)

Gambling With a Life Poor Devil, poor devil, hes best gone out of a life where he rides his rocking horse to find a winner(Lawrence 803). D. H. Lawrence ends The Rocking - Horse Winner, with such a profound statement. One has to ask the question, why such a profound ... Read More

The Symbolism in the Poem Dog by Lawrence Ferlinghettis (699 words, 1 pages)

Dog In Lawrence Ferlinghettis poem, Dog, the dog symbolizes an ordinary man going on about his life. In the first section Lawrence establishes what the things are that the dog sees in comparison to himself. The next section deals with how the dog thinks and feels. Finally, the last section ... Read More

A Comparison of Thomas Hardy’s ‘Tony Kytes, the Arch-Deceiver’ and D.H Lawrence’s’ Tickets, Please’ (3053 words, 5 pages)

The short story was a popular genre in Victorian times. Often short stories would be printed in short, weekly chapters in magazines or newspapers, this made then quite popular. Reading these 'chapters' or stories was easy to get into and it was a good form of entertainment at the time. ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013