Essays 361 - 390
In eight pages this paper examines how Fitzgerald employs symbolism and imagery in his novel much as a lyric poem would in terms o...
In eight pages this paper analyzes this classic American novel and its confrontation of post First World War truths about the Amer...
illustrated in the frequent comparisons between the Long Island sections of East Egg and West Egg. As narrator Nick Carraway, a W...
as Thoreau gets. If anything Thoreau gives us a warning about excessive public involvement: He who gives himself entirely to hi...
In five pages this character analysis compares Hamlet to Nick Carraway and Claudius to Tom Buchanan with themes also compared. Th...
full of material and that I could get it without hurt, harm or danger" (Mules 2). However folks "dont cotton to" Hurston as easil...
In five pages the arguments presented in this essay in terms of God's and man's obligations to potential life are compared to soci...
she could display for all to see. She possessed all the "shallowness" (Fitzgerald PG) of a person who knew not how to love yet kn...
non Egyptians, known as the Semitic Kings, named Hyksos, meaning princes of the foreign lands (Thornton, 2003). They had come down...
An elderly pianist, Mademoiselles music arouses Ednas artistic temperament. Additionally, Edna becomes infatuated with a young man...
become physically ill and emotionally upset (Casarjian, 1992). Casarjian says that "[forgiveness] promises the release from the ho...
us are perhaps afraid to pursue the thing that would make us the most happy but is likely to also be the most risky. We may fear ...
to catch up with and crush idealistic young people afraid of occurrences over which they seem to have no control" (Hynes 265). "L...
his personality. He then discusses how he in the present, and why, then shifts to discussing the people who are Daisy and Tom. He ...
the society was able to strike a balance between the two types of communication: Innis also felt that social change tended to come...
is a man of honor and integrity. He represents all that is good in the world of man as he stands to be a man who follows the old r...
hit-and-run death of Toms mistress, the married Myrtle Wilson. Her widower is deceived into thinking Gatsby caused the accident, ...
government is as likely as the army to be "abused and perverted before the people can act through it" (Thoreau, 1849). He cites th...
affair. If the story were told by Gatsby, we would get the story of a poor but ruthlessly ambitious youth on the make. We would l...
who does not exhibit the same or nearly the same amount of wealth and material possessions. The lost generation of America is ext...
with money, as the underlying theme is that which revolves around Gatsby using the pursuit of money, and the acquisition of money,...
many argue saw the true beginning of a consumeristic culture as the American Dream turned to one of material wealth as a sign of s...
means just that-and he must be about His Fathers business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented ...
own enjoyment so much as for the enjoyment of others, for the pride he could have when looking at what he achieved through the eye...
the major theme is far from romantic in nature. This story is all about the disintegration of the once proud American Dream. And, ...
together, ties up all loose plot ends, and eventually takes the story full circle. The participating narrator/protagonist appeale...
himself how to act in every given circumstance; in addition, each person would be "judge, jury and executioner" of any disputes th...
todays society, but the search for contentment goes back centuries. For many searchers, happiness comes and goes, but it is a popu...
in the case of John the Baptist, he should feel that Jesus followers were becoming a political threat to his rule. Herod Agrippa...
is 17 year old Dave, a young black man living in the south in the 1930s. He wants to feel powerful and grown-up, and thinks that i...