Van Gogh Attends Poker Night: Post-Impressionism in A Streetcar Named Desire

Post-impressionism was a movement in art in the 1880s which Vincent Van Gogh was at the forefront of. “Through the use of simplified colors and definitive forms, their [post impressionist’s] art was characterized by a renewed aesthetic sense as well as abstract tendencies” (Voorhies). Tennessee Williams creates a sense of immediacy by using these techniques to…

Greed in America: The Great Gatsby

In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald brings up plenty of different themes: betrayal, the American dream, greed and more. One of the most important and far-reaching themes was that of social class. The Great Gatsby, set in the Roarin’ 1920s, offers a vivid picture of the times.  By including people of different classes, Fitzgerald paints a picture of the greed that…

The Dangers of Deference

In his Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself (1845),  Frederick Douglass stated, “For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst” (Douglass 1217). During one discussion section, the question was raised on how this could be the case, especially considering that most…