Essays 1771 - 1800
In five pages the Theban plays of Sophocles are examined in a consideration of responsibility, fate, and their power. One other s...
In five pages this paper analyzes The Handmaid's Tale in a consideration of its religious references and themes. One source is ci...
understanding the deeper connections and interpretations of the characters who populate Chaucers work. Those deeper connections cl...
This paper discusses John Edgar Wideman's, Philadelphia Fire, and Shakespeare's, The Tempest as they relate to the common literary...
to social cause, as it relates to industrial cities and the location of Hull House which, although it existed within the city, see...
The Ministers Black Veil Hawthornes The Ministers Black Veil is a short story that describes evil and depravity as developmental ...
1931). The Lilliputians are also petty and small-minded, easily susceptible to corruption and think nothing of going to war over ...
poor state of the realm, it is suggested that some deep essential cause rather than mere circumstance is to blame for the decay of...
places her love at the basest level of daily life. She needs her love as she needs water to drink or air to breath. The love in fa...
one might look at the very opening lines of the epic, which address the reader, even the contemporary reader, directly and states ...
is Jack Burdens transition from a naively simplified form of nihilism he refers to as the "Great Twitch" towards a more realistic ...
student introduce and summarize Platos "allegory of the cave". The allegory of the cave, as it is commonly known, is a dialogue be...
to emerge in the stories to be analyzed. The first major theme to emerge in the stories to be analyzed is the effect of power ineq...
not fixd His canon gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this wor...
This paper considers the continuing relevance of this Shakespearean comedy through its themes of men and women, love and marriage ...
In a paper of eight pages, the writer looks at Great Expectations. Explications of quotes are used to give insights into themes. P...
the juxtaposition of the two worlds: that of humanity and that of the fairies. They exist side by side by do not interact; in fact...
young blacks and how they were "growing up with a rush...their heads bumped abruptly against the low ceiling of their actual possi...
but in actuality, its how to preserve beauty, which is still another favorite of his. The Poet is actually saying that comparing h...
the building becomes cumbersome and can collapse. The solutions were varied and brilliant: masons developed a "ribbed vault, in w...
the world during the time when Revelation was written. In a serious attempt to educate her readership to the evils forever lurkin...
his heart. The very act of carving out a new life in an unfamiliar territory casts its share of fear and anxiety, however, this u...
really betrayed Othello. Iago is determined to manipulate Othello to his own desires, which are many. Throughout the play the re...
strong man to dominate his wife. There were few constraints placed upon male behavior whereas for women it was quite the opposite...
of love that can so easily change course; it seems frivolous and rather shabby, after all Orsinos protestations of love to Olivia,...
so closely related is dangerous for the reader. Its tempting to think that this is nothing more than Hemingway retelling events in...
more day and this is granted. Jason lamely agues that his abandonment of her and their children is for the best. After formulating...
as having "fungi" overspreading "the whole exterior," hanging "in a fine tangled web-work from the eaves" (Poe "Fall"). As this su...
the laws regarding the firstborn, substituting something for an animal or a person (New International Version, Exod. 113:13; 34:20...
She was viciously attacked for her frank depiction of a woman who broke her marriage vows, despite the fact that the book is a psy...