Essays 1951 - 1980
this one man. It begins with the death of the gladiator and winds its way back into the meaning his life had to others and to Rom...
narrator, but fifteen of them, most of whom were the lowliest class of Yoknapatawpha County farmers, of the same caliber as the mi...
that he has chosen for himself. Yet when he, after months of disgusting, horrifying work, finally brings his creation to life, he ...
In six pages the corruption that existed in the Medieval Catholic Church as reflected in the text in the irony of the characters i...
fact deliberately so. Hansberry does not leave it there, however. Though the play seems to be going headlong in that direction fo...
139). While he observes the effects of the slave trade and colonial avarice firsthand and protests such injustice, he never makes...
expensive roadster, and momentarily loses control of the car, striking and killing a woman, Myrtle Wilson, whom readers later lear...
detail as his protagonist, Phileas Fogg. Phileas Fogg is the central character, without whom there would be no novel, and yet o...
between people and between the individual and society in general. These contrasts are all intricately detailed in the work of Cha...
injustice in this situation, but also shows the social results of this predicament, as this insecurity largely accounts for the de...
bad luck at this point, a condition which truly makes him an individual alone, for Manolin must leave him and work for another boa...
price because, as author Isaac Asimov observed in his consideration of Shakespeares works, "To kill a king... was to commit the hi...
of nuns drawn from farms in the Flemish countryside near Antwerp" (Close, 1995, p.6). One gets a sense of not only the setting, bu...
of human beings is of far greater impact than the behavior of human beings as separate individuals. How humans act based on their...
Tom is central to defining the family stratification in the play, and also shapes a distinct view of the way familial associations...
which we, the reader or viewer, can relate to. We see them as noble individuals who demonstrate weakness, yet still battle against...
possessed through their control of sex with their men. The entire idea of controlling the men was essentially the idea of Lysistra...
since the Middle Ages as the models for literature at its grandest" (McDaniel 1-15pope.htm). It is a general consensus that Popes ...
This paper consists of three pages and considers student and teacher relationships and the role conformity plays in an analysis of...
interracial marriage in this work is one that highlights societal notions of race and marriage, accentuating norms and uncovering ...
The protagonist of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is the subject of this character analysis that includes Sigmund Freud's doubling p...
them into thinking That this place is the other one we knew in times of peace. There is, at first blush, some validity to the as...
A 5 page review of the book by Maureen McCarthy. The focus is the character Michelle and the essay is presented in the form of a ...
went to work on the street early in life, and fell in with a teenage gang from the Lower East Side. Taking advantage of Prohibitio...
that they are constantly losing, for many losers keep plugging away. And, if they constantly plug away, with good intentions and p...
the people that they are there to convert, that they find peace for themselves, and are able to build a presence for the Church wi...
is old enough to evaluate her life and find it wanting. She has two small children and is pregnant with a third. Her husband is la...
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe(Carroll, 4)....
to life, he rejects it, hoping that the life he has brought into the world will simply die, erasing his mistake (Madigan 48; Franc...
where Moll informs workers that she wants to grow up to be a gentlewoman. What this means is that she wants to support herself and...