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Literary Portrayals of the Conflict Between Illusion and Reality

her book The Feminine Mystique. Not all fifties kids turned into sixties hippies. Goodwin talks about baseball and the pleasures o...

Literary Tools in Jack London's Short Stories

life is at stake as the narrator expresses the fact that a man will actually freeze to death if he cannot get a fire going. The ...

Literary Analysis of Existentialism

The first task at hand in our study is the provision of a historical explanation of existentialism. A concise explanation is prov...

Christopher Paul Curtis's Literary Style

use of language on the part of his young characters give a warmth and depth to them that is more reminiscent of Huckleberry Finn t...

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf and Voice as a Literary Device

stone, but by the relation of human being to human being" (71). She then takes on the voice of an advocate for the rights of wome...

Madness as a Common Literary Theme

This paper examines Shakespeare's play, King Lear, as well as Ibsen's work, Ghosts to discuss madness and delusion as common theme...

Literary Functioning of Symbolism and Setting

In six pages this paper examines how intent and meaning are enhanced by literary symbolism and settings in Eudora Welty's short st...

Lost Children As a Literary Theme

This paper discusses John Edgar Wideman's, Philadelphia Fire, and Shakespeare's, The Tempest as they relate to the common literary...

Literary Tools in Thurber's, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

This paper addresses literary elements such as character development as seen in James Thurber's story, The Secret Life of Walter M...

Literary Works and Socioeconomics

Sonnys Blues, Sonny is the protagonist who is a recovering drug addict. He tries to begin a new life with the help of his brother,...

Literary Modernism in the Works of Virginia Woolf and T.S. Eliot

(Longman, 2001). Others, however, bravely forged away from tradition and convention. Longman (2001, PG) notes:...

Human Depravity and Evil as Recurrent Literary Themes in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Ministers Black Veil Hawthornes The Ministers Black Veil is a short story that describes evil and depravity as developmental ...

Literary Classics, Knowledge of Death and Religion

it would seem. Socrates agrees for he sees that by having such an argument with Euthyphro he may find a better way to plead his ow...

Plot, Florida, and Literary Quality of Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

In seven pages this paper examines how 1930s' Florida life is presented, literary aspects, and plot significance of Zora Neale Hur...

Historical and Literary Significance of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

This paper analyzes Shelley's novel with an emphasis on how Shelley's own life and the society she lived in impact various element...

Literary Analysis of Emma by Jane Austen

In eleven pages this paper analyzes this novel by Jane Austen in terms of symbolism, theme, setting, and characterization. There ...

Literary Depictions of Greed

In five pages the role greed plays in the literary works No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre, Candide by Voltaire, and Antigone by Sophocl...

Literary Modernism

In five pages The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Trial by Franz Kafka are compared in terms of European and American ...

4 Multicultural Literary Works and the 'Feminine Principle'

and mother. This relegation of women to one sphere and men to another is reflected in his stories and novels as well. In "Arab...

Literary Considerations of Power Abuses

In this paper consisting of six pages the realistic depiction of abuses in regards to imperialism are in Voltaire's Candide, Remar...

Development and Literary Construction in Chopin's Novel, The Awakening

This paper addresses Kate Chopin's Nineteenth-Century novel, The Awakening. The author contends that the literary techniques util...

Drama as a Literary Genre

In six pages this paper examines how to define drama as a literary genre. There are many sources cited in the bibliography....

Literary Self Determination in Women and Sexuality

-- but to deny their husbands sex until the men agree to sign a treaty. It is the women, therefore, who actually end the war. Rea...

Literary Depiction of the Middle Ages and Nobility

In five pages this paper discusses how Medieval nobility was presented in Inferno by Dante Alighieri. There are 4 sources cited i...

3 Literary Characters and Their Evolution

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the evolution of characters the Underground Man in Notes from the Underground, Gre...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's Respected Literary Reputation

In five pages this paper examines F. Scott Fitzgerald's work in a consideration of how despite his lone critical success The Great...

A Comparison of Two Literary Protagonists

This paper compares and contrasts two adolescent protagonists, Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and J.D. Salinger's character Holden ...

Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne and a Literary Analysis of His Works

In five pages this paper presents a biographical profile of the author and also provides a brief analysis of his popular literary ...

Literary Homoerotica, Brotherhood, and Male Bonding

In eight pages this research paper discusses how literature portrays male relationships in terms of bonding, brotherhood, and homo...

Literary Evidence of American Society in the Early Twentieth Century

In a paper consisting of ten pages the different perspectives of the texts The City Wilderness by Robert Woods, The Origins of the...