Essays 1951 - 1980
In five pages this paper examines how in 'The Spaces of Ethan Frome' Judith Fryer critically evaluates the famous novella by Edith...
This paper analyzes Shelley's novel with an emphasis on how Shelley's own life and the society she lived in impact various element...
This ten page paper explores the criticism Greek writers and philosophers such as Euripedes, Socrates, and Aeschylus had for the A...
In five pages this paper discusses how Medieval nobility was presented in Inferno by Dante Alighieri. There are 4 sources cited i...
In ten pages this paper examines how the theories of Charles Darwin have been represented in literature in a consideration of crit...
In five pages this paper examines the Holy Bible's Old and New Testaments, 'The Odyssey' of Homer, and William Shakespeare's Hamle...
more than half dozen truly powerful families. They quickly became allied to the crown through blood relations and shared in royal ...
and mother. This relegation of women to one sphere and men to another is reflected in his stories and novels as well. In "Arab...
In this paper consisting of six pages the realistic depiction of abuses in regards to imperialism are in Voltaire's Candide, Remar...
This paper offers a discussion that answers the question of whether or not a caste system that is racist in nature can be perpetur...
pictured as giving them a chance to live as equals with everyone-no upper classes-everyone doing as he or she pleased. Sinclair...
In five pages the authors' different approach to similar female intentions are considered in this comparative analysis of Djebar's...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the evolution of characters the Underground Man in Notes from the Underground, Gre...
-- but to deny their husbands sex until the men agree to sign a treaty. It is the women, therefore, who actually end the war. Rea...
In fifteen pages this paper discusses how cultural changes from The Crusades were reflected in art and literature. Ten sources ar...
In eighteen pages this paper supports Jane Tompkins' suggestions that literature instruction should address the students' minds an...
353). Symbols present another layer to a story, as well as another realm for questioning. Who or what is "Young Goodman Brown" t...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the authors' styles of writing in these two novels. Six sources are cited in the ...
The tale of a hero becoming an adult is a staple of literature. This essay compares heroes Han Solo and Odysseus, Luke Skywalker a...
necromantic books are heavenly!" (Marlowe, Act 1, Li 40-50). Having made his decision to...
what her life has been. This view of Granny life offers a contradiction to every misogynist preconception of womanhood that was ev...
seething, boiling and discontent as the odd angled buildings and broken windows. It can be the quiet solitude of a rustic church, ...
the commoners, Darnay renounces his title to the Evremonde Estate and goes back to England to live. He proposes to Lucie and she a...
is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel; at is worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable; and first and...
. . . Dont go a-thinkin you can lick the hull rebel army at the start, because yeh cant" (Crane 5). In his innocence, however, he ...
even to the edge of doom" (Shakespeare 9-12). In the end he claims that if he is wrong then he never wrote and no man ever loved. ...
to Rochester to collude in the concealing their past" and overall many of the episodes from the past are forgotten by "the willed ...
he presents. There is pain and violence and death in Hemingways world, and he struggles to show his readers this aspect of life....
are powerfully illustrative of the claim that many female writers of the time used the ghost story as a means of examining, indire...
the beginning, the play of the sword, and the final passage of Arthur. Malory and Tennyson: The Beginning In Malorys version o...