Essays 271 - 300
in his own quest to find his own American Dream, squanders an inheritance on a one-shot deal that goes bad. And in the old adage t...
he was unhappy with the idea of being a businessman. Paine, with the soul of a revolutionary, left his small English village and e...
of the progress which the process of democratisation was making in America in the eighteenth century. It could be asserted that Ma...
making of an immense success" (Conrad Chapter III p. NA). Marlow could not deny such facts he really had no knowledge of, and yet ...
Civic, a car that refuses to die and that Teddy, cheap as he is, refuses to trade in. June, his wife, whose sense of self-worth is...
girl, outcast, forlorn/as thrown her life away?"). But the poet is adamant that both parties, the man and the woman involved in th...
its difficult to find true love, and that women are sometimes willing to take a chance unless they have a substantial chance of be...
by the lack of ethical integrity, which seemed to be a byproduct of industrial society. The wheels of progress, in Lawrences view...
This 5 page essay explores Faulkner's and Wright's choices of characters and their common burden of intimidation. Interrelationsh...
components invented in the 1940s that ultimately paved the way for computer technology - the only people who were capable of opera...
notes that he kept it quiet for a long time from the public eye. His medication allowed him to do this so that people were not awa...
In four pages the question regarding the nature of man is examined within the context of William Shakespeare's King Lear....
himself as comfortable as he wished" (Kafka 145). During those terrifying early days, when Gregor was uncertain what was overtaki...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the evolution of characters the Underground Man in Notes from the Underground, Gre...
In five pages the bonding of men as examined from the author's Southern perspective is analyzed....
In three pages this paper discusses how irony is used by John Steinbeck in Of Mice and Men....
In five ways the protagonist Frederic Henry's transformation from boy to man through his wartime experience and romance with Cathe...
In six pages this short story is analyzed in terms of male bonding and how the relationship between the men changes throughout the...
In six pages this paper compares Poe's 'The Purloined Letter' and 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' with Doyle's 'The Adventure of t...
In five pages this paper argues that the fictional female character Hester Prynne was 'more of a man' than were either her creator...
In six pages this original play that is based upon a genuine news story discusses a sexually compromising situation involving a ma...
In an interview consisting of ten pages set in 1901 the questions of these esteemed men include America's future outlook, the role...
in New York City after he testified before an investigatory commission on bribery and graft he had witnessed among officers for th...
In nine pages this paper examines the leadership of characters depicted in 'The Moviegoer' by Percy, 'Shooting an Elephant' by Orw...
In eight pages this paper analyzes Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man in an overview that includes plot, setting, character, and backgr...
In five pages the motivation of apparent or real needs for the characters featured in Robert Bolt's play A Man for All Seasons is ...
The writer presents an imaginary debate among Hamlet, Sir Gawain and Beowulf on the nature of man, why he has been placed on earth...
is to preserve the "state," that is the authority of the state, as opposed to having genuine feeling for the welfare of the people...
confronted some of the obstacles that define their personal an public lives. Anil has come to terms with her identity as a Sri Lan...
imagination. In offering the reader such a look into the individual the reader is made to see the beauty of imagination as it rela...