World onto stage in Royall Tyler’s The Contrast The Contrast was written in 1787 when America had recently defeated the British in the Revolutionary war, short after the Declaration of Independence. The setting of ...

“A symbol is something that stands for or suggests something else by reason of relationship, association, convention, or accidental resemblance.” (Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary 1194). These emblematic masterpieces have been both created and destroyed by war. These wars have result...