Essays 541 - 570
to a degree and ultimately comes to recognize that there is indeed a certain undercurrent of evil in the world. In doing so he de...
thinking that pretending to be something she is not will somehow make her life more pleasant and simple. However, she learns that,...
for the best. Soon, however, a sudden sense of calm overcomes her as she whispers "free, free, free" (Chopin PG). Mrs. Mal...
does so in a most subtle way. It is as if O. Henry plays on the expectation of a terrible demise, then, at the last moment, as a s...
in a manner that was often regarded as blasphemous by her Puritan and Calvinist neighbors. Emily Dickinsons approach to poetry wa...
You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. AT LENGTH I would be av...
no nurturing. Neither story has a good ending, but the characters do emerge somewhat enlightened. Candide takes a very differen...
which you are now for the first time entering?"(Woolf). And, even in the modern era, most women still find this to be a certainty,...
an awareness of who she is and wants to be. The unfortunate thing about this discovery is that society and her husband stand as ma...
as long as the economy were flourishing, they reasoned they were prospering as well, so there was no need for rebellion (Kautsky, ...
daughters, only to have them essentially through it all in his face for it was not enough. This simple understanding presents us w...
are pleasant individuals who go through many different dilemmas, relatively simple dilemmas in the beginning. They become friends ...
In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at literary anti-transcendentalism. Hawthorne's short story, "Dr. Heidegger's Experimen...
In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at homosexuality in the culture of ancient Greece. Nuanced insights into the topic are ...
in the sense that opportunities for success are not actually equally distributed, but the ideal holds true in some sense in that t...
In a paper of one page, the writer looks at Great Expectations. Literary devices are identified in a single excerpt. Paper uses no...
This essay pertains to "2b or Not 2b" an article by David Crystal, in which he defends texting as a behavior that is actually bene...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Charles Ramsey. The piece takes the form of a literary journalistic story. Paper us...
This essay presents a literary analysis of "Judgment Day" by Pamela Joern. Three pages in length, one source is cited....
device to thematically distill the essence of war and genocide, present its reality in a way that is more humanistic than statisti...
was the bishop of Hierapolis and who identified John Mark as the author (Smith, 2008; NIV, 1995). Mark was also known to travel wi...
refusal to come to Sykes assistance after the snake bites him represents the decline in her spirituality, the sweat of her hard wo...
metaphorically complex narrative that has been interpreted in a variety of ways. The story itself is deceptively simple. The narra...
grassy hollow to be found in the frozen woods to the north. Here, he was told, he and his men would encounter the undead legions o...
chill in the air (London 143). But his canine companion knew better. He was all-too-familiar with this icy terrain, and his inst...
one might look at the very opening lines of the epic, which address the reader, even the contemporary reader, directly and states ...
the image it conjures of a king about to go into battle is accurate. In line with this position, Craigie indicates that he believe...
Beth E. Jorgensen defines magical realism as the "use of the literary devices of hyperbole, oxymoron, personification, flashback a...
critic notes that, "Whether in a brief novella or in an epic tome, one common technique utilized by many writers is a framing of a...
basis for Nicks disillusionment with the decadence of east coast American society (Fitzgerald 3). Gatsbys pursuit of the American ...