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Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan

In eight pages this essay analyzes the text's complexity in terms of Bunyan's uses of setting, allegory, and characterization with...

Eternal Happiness and God

In ten pages free will and God are analyzed in this philosophical essay with a critical examination of theories by Hume, Kierkegaa...

Socrates' Choice to Stay in Prison in Crito by Plato

in violation of the law and acknowledged that he should be punished accordingly. His "apology" was not a request for forgiveness,...

Insanity of King Lear

enter the hovel, stating that he will pray and then sleep. Lear then prays for all the people who do not have shelter on this nigh...

Sociological Perspectives on The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

legitimately enslaved. Roxy gives birth to an infant son on the same day that a son is born to her white master. Twain emphasizes ...

Mohammed, Charlemagne and the Origins of Europe by Richard Hodges and David Whitehouse

Islam total control of the Mediterranean, so that -- as one Arab writer of the time put it -- the Christians could no longer "floa...

'Because I could not stop for Death' by Emily Dickinson

of this world. She is saying good-by to earthly cares and experience and learning to focus her attention in a new way, which is re...

Analysis of the Second Chapter of Walden by Henry David Thoreau

that regards Walden as the "story of a person who traded a flawed reality for an idealistic, isolated sanctuary" (845). A close re...

'The Fire Last Time' by Nathan Ward

driver fled and the dynamite exploded a few minutes later. Ward (2001) quotes Charles P. Dougherty of the Sun, as saying that the ...

Use of the Word 'I' in 'The Road Not Taken' by Robert Frost

Road Not Taken" can be viewed as an evaluation of his decisions that the poet takes at midlife. Frost describes standing in a "ye...

Forms and Recollection in Phaedo by Plato

leg only" (Plato). If this were true, if there were only one process in regards to life-death, then everything would ultimately co...

Confucianism and Daoism in 'Peony Pavilion'

an unthinking adherence to ritual. Analect 9.3 reads: The Master said, According to ritual, the ceremonial cap should be made of ...

Cinematic Techniques and Narrative in The Graduate

by the same name and so was translated to the silver screen. When this is done it is always a touchy business. Much of the motivat...

Analysis of J.S. Gordon's Article 'What We Lost in the Great War'

that WWI started because "a lunatic murdered a man of feathers and uniforms who had no real importance whatsoever" (p. 81). Gordon...

Tom Morris's If Aristotle Ran General Motors

happens, people fail to achieve happiness and feel only increased levels of stress (Morris, 1997). If businesses incorporated Ar...

'The Ideal Man' by John O'Hara

there is the suggestion that Elsie is a good mother. OHara writes that the "only thing," that Elsie "held against" her children, i...

Spirited Away Film by Hayao Miyazaki

bathhouse (Ebert, 2002). By indulging themselves with the food, Chihiros parents are transformed into pigs. Osmond (2003) points o...

Is America a Christian Nation? by Isaac Kramnick and R. Lawrence Moore

and political tyranny" (579). Kramnick and Moore point out that the religious right frequently argues that the United States is...

Black Literature and Violence

eras and toward different genders. The slave narratives of Douglass and Jacobs Douglass Narrative is the best known first-hand a...

Chapter Two of Ulysses by James Joyce

Stephen in relation to the how his character was established in A Portrait. In the previous novel, Joyce pictured Stephen as bein...

National Identity of France and the First World War

that rather than being simple distractions, the cartoons offered a means of expression for soldiers to both define and understand ...

'Forgiving My Father' by Lucille Clifton

poets position in this family situation -- my mothers hand opens in early grave and i hold it out like a good daughter." This imag...

Analysis of 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner

tone to the story that keeps the reader from fully empathizing with Emily or her situation. However, it is this distancing from Em...

And Then by Natsume Soseki

to ones social superiors was the supreme value, tended to foster hypocrisy. Modernization, while sweeping away the old system, fai...

Act One of William Shakespeare's Macbeth and the Development of the Protagonist's Character

(I.iii.118). Banquo replies with a warning. He tells Macbeth that "instruments of darkness" frequently tell the truth in order to ...

Umberto Eco's Essay 'How Not to Use the Fax Machine and Cellular Phone'

about hearing about missed shipments and other such fleeting crises in business, and he maintains that those individuals holding s...

Chinese Opera The Peony Pavilion

encounter between the young heroine and the dream-image of a young scholar. In similar scenes throughout the production, the lack...

Literature of Canada and Authors Atwood, O'Hagan, and Davies

in the first section of the novel, while "Evidence" leads to no final truths or understanding. Born as he is between the worlds ...

Labyrinth, Happiness, and Perspective Ideological Shifts

voice to the grown up man that the young boy has become. He laments the fact that the labyrinths of life became difficult and stai...

Mozart's Don Giovanni and Figaro

the intrusion of evil in the form of the Counts illicit desires for Susanna (Till 141). This loss of innocence, which is equated w...