Essays 361 - 390
This essay pertains to T.S. Eliot's "The Long Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and the theme of modernity and its affect on the human p...
This essay pertain to the theme of mercy and justice as exemplified in the trial scene of Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice." ...
This essay relates the naturalist perspective of Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat" to understanding the themes in John Steinbeck's "...
This essay pertains to "The Art of Collecting Lightbulbs" by Michael Kimmelman and "False Identifications: Minority Populations Mo...
This essay pertains to Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" and Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" and how each play hand...
This essay offers an overview of the melody and harmony used in John William's main theme from Star Wars. The writer compares Will...
Psalm of Life" and Edgar Allan Poes "Sonnet-To Science" address the way that each poet perceived life and the reality of their era...
denigrating to himself as he comforts John R. Isidore, a "special," that is, someone affected by the omnipresent radioactive dust,...
importance. He makes numerous promises to God if He will just save him. In Psalm 137, the Israelites are crying for help from the ...
it has been emptied of people. In the corners "amid human excrement...lie squashed trampled infants, naked little monsters with en...
This essay offers analysis of "The Life You Save May be Your Own" by Flannery O'Connor. The theme of Mr. Shiftlet's fall from grac...
This essay begins by offering a summation of the content of the Gospel according to Luke, then turns to the topic of critical issu...
Tickle writes that there is an upheaval in Christianity about every 500 years and we are going through one now. It is called the G...
has grown deep like rivers" (line 4). Setting the line off by itself emphasizes its significance, as it ties the narrator directly...
of its first publication in 1845, Edgar Allan Poes poem "The Raven" has been an element in American cultural influencing the publi...
Jean, which is evident from the picture of the family friend that his mother keeps on the mantelpiece. Unaware of the torturous th...
a profoundly moving parable that centers around values and what is valuable. Through the voice of Mama, a large, heavy, hard-worki...
underlying assumption of the film is that the interactions between the various groups of people that all live in the L.A. metropol...
also differences in style. Smith, for example, uses less alliteration than Atwood, and his short, clipped lines emphasize and isol...
he will gild her horns as part of the sacrifice (Homer). Such sacrifices were meant as "gifts" to the gods, which were designed to...
amour-propre. The first category, amour de soi, is self-love that does not derive from others. Rousseau asserts that it is part of...
of the monarchy due to his support of the Commonwealth (John Milton). Married three times, he spent his later years dictating to h...
circle. It soon becomes apparent that everyone with whom Sharon and Frank come into contact know the rumor and believe it. This cr...
a thousand lynchings" (Wright, 1993, p. 74). One of the many odd jobs that Wright utilized to try to help support is impoverishe...
a person of color as any white, as he was told "If you know too much, boy, your brains will explode" (Wright 304-305). Wright de...
William Blakes "The Divine Image" have little in common, as the first poem relates a mystical enchantment of a knight with a super...
of Stories, by creating a fascinating cast of characters, placing them in a fantastical world, and giving Haroun and his father an...
metaphorically complex narrative that has been interpreted in a variety of ways. The story itself is deceptively simple. The narra...
"loved the old man" and had "no desire" for his gold (Poe "Tell-Tale Heart"). Why then, did he become obsessed with the idea of mu...
begins by describing the elaborate, beautiful and impractical nature of the Chinese Emperors palace, which is so delicate that you...