Essays 61 - 90
a historic rupture divides the fantastic and the fairy tale" (Chen 397). Todorov reserves the fantastic specifically for "French f...
natural sublime."2 As is common in the thematic development of the sublime in Romanticism, the sensation is one of rapture and on...
much as a pause ("Romantic concerto"). The form of the Romantic concerto was influenced by the taste of the public during this per...
This essay presents the argument that "The Yellow Walllpaper," a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman should be interpreted as ...
Digitized information has generated a new economic era, the era of a personal information economy. Privacy has been sabotaged by ...
one stroke" (Demos 29). Williams and his five children make it to Montreal alive. Once they arrive in Montreal, the Indians begin ...
expert, Henry Higgins, makes a wager with a friend that he can masquerade a lower-class girl, Eliza, as a member of the upper clas...
king also ordered killed. They were subsequently left to die of exposure and were discovered by a she-wolf. Discovered by the king...
people who were followers of the European Enlightenment who supported the idea of a more "liberal, constitutional government."v Go...
festivals (2005). Early ritualized activities of leisure would continue after many people began to reside in the Victorian tow...
as the defining characteristic of an unmarried woman. In other words, according to the cultural definition of femininity a "good" ...
Sierra Leone, at the current site of the city of Freetown. The newly-freed slaves did not fare well in Freetown; they suffered fr...
with the wall in the 1990s. Communism, the panacea of the cold war, was something that never materialized as Marx intended. Instea...
449 (Donaldson 31). The one datable fact mentioned in the poem is a raid on the Franks made by Hygelac, the king of the Geats in 5...
Puritan America is examined as well as the Victorian era. Gender is discussed in this context and the eras are compared and cont...
Iin six pages this paper examines the colonial era's unfair treatment of individuals suffering from mental illness. Four sources ...
In this eight page paper the writer attempts the intriguing task of creating the The Prodigal Hal, Henry IV in the 1960s. There a...
In eight pages this research paper examines why several historians look to the French Revolution as the modern era's starting poin...
provocative clothing was acceptable. For perhaps the first time ever, people dressed to reflect what they were feeling. In doing ...
This research paper examins the role of the supermodel within the context of the perfume industry. The writer considers the histor...
On a conscious level, Edna realizes that she can never be like Adele. Therefore, she is also drawn towards Mademoiselle Reisz, who...
prices, too, were low, and in the Thirties Americans consumed more sugar per capita then they have done before or since... (Lovegr...
sense of awe and wonder at the complex beauty of the music. The classical music of Beethoven blends the varied textures of the o...
lifetime - to become the knight-errant hero like those of the Round Table he always fantasized being. The life of a 50-year-old w...
this type of relationship is allowed, since its not likely that every time a person is attracted sexually to a partner, that perso...
in seconds. He continues this catalog of things she is not by comparing the color of her lips to coral (coral is redder); compari...
beauty of nature and the insights it provides can unite the two. The primary focus of Tintern Abbey is the temporal or physical w...
he was struck by the "ways in which evil and beauty, love and pain, aspiration and finitude, are not so much balanced as interwove...
his life with his sister and his wife and their children, and wrote his poetry. There is, however, focus in much critical assessme...
nails and fangs that are in the middle of his mouth like a rodents, instead of on the sides like on a Halloween mask" (Ebert). For...