Essays 1981 - 2010
case is the baby that Jig carries (Bernardo). Hemingway composed this story masterfully through his choice of language. ...
is portrayed in the original Shakespeare. The exception is that Shakespeare spent more time and attention to historical details, w...
standing in a position that speaks of martyrdom: "he, his hands behind him, appeared pinned to the door frame, waiting like Saint ...
namely, the crown/ And all wide-stretched honours that pertain/ By custom and the ordinance of times/ Unto the crown of France" (S...
mind. This is precisely what Sherlock Holmes does when he and Watson meet the mysterious owner of a cane which came into their po...
can further see feminist perspectives. Lorie Jerrell Leiningers essay, The Miranda Trap: Racism and Sexism in Shakespeares Tempes...
her favorite actor in it, Tom Baxter. After the movie is over she finds herself unable to go home to face the reality of a man who...
grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...
talked too much anyway" (Glaspell). Throughout the story, Martha Hale feels guilty because she did not visit Minnie more often, b...
There can be no doubt that Stowe intended her novel to be more of a religious than sociopolitical text. It includes close to 100 ...
Humbaba the Terrible. Enkidu has encountered Humbaba and continues to try to dissuade Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh is stubborn and listens...
that his old manager would have given him a promotion. Now, in all honesty, we do not know that Frank would have promoted Willy at...
everything leads back to itself without ever answering anything. The story, and the life of Billy, is nothing more than an endless...
work and survive, this dream is simple and very powerful Throughout the Great Depression people left their land, when it was use...
or information that does not come from the system and as such they are clearly oppressed and forbidden to be human beings. From ...
one gets the understanding that bravery and courage had nothing to do with being strong in a violent sense. It had nothing to do w...
be "good" persons. But what does it mean to be "good"? I understand that to be good means to follow "their" rules, the churchs rul...
answers both in the affirmative and negative to this question, primarily due to Holden reactions towards Jane (Takeuchi "Salinger...
so many things that Everyman had hoped to have done by the time Death arrived. As it is, Death has arrived and Everyman must make ...
This 5 page paper gives an overview of the themes within the book The Joy Luck Club. This paper includes a discussion of strong wo...
This 4 page paper gives an overview of the story The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. This paper includes a discussion of ho...
any sustenance for her. This brings in the thematic element of the shawl in a very powerful way for Magda would suck on the shawl,...
a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...
father, who dismisses them as "trash" with no further explanation (Shelley 51). Frankenstein says that if his father had bothered ...
itself to help a fellow man who had suffered loss either directly or indirectly from the tragedy. The contractor so highly regard...
In four pages this essay examines how guilt and grief regarding 14 year old Susie's death is thematically depicted by Alice Sebold...
the work is the subject, while the insights that occur as a result of the interactions of characters represents the theme. For ex...
And she was tragical only in the sense that she was great, for she loved to play on the side of Victory...that some sonatas of Bee...
down, there was no living thing in sight" indicates a sort of foreboding as well, an indication that life ended here, in the water...
they sneak away; here the reference is to an angry and implacable god who is ready to strike down those who disobey. The second r...