Essays 3481 - 3510
the "ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies" (Poe 24). This seems to indicate a dark illusion tha...
sheep-like qualities of the old maids in the store and the unattainable status of the girls he so desires, Sammy is caught between...
In one page this paper examines the short story by John Updike in an identification of its protagonist and antagonist characters. ...
In seven pages this paper discusses how character development during this time period was influenced by landscape in a considerati...
and commonplace New England town for the event. It could serve as the model for a Norman Rockwell painting that could be titled "T...
In six pages this paper examines how American culture is reflected in this short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Eight sources are ...
can be emphasized that it is the psychological landscape that matters, not the physical one in this use of setting. Porter begin...
In five pages this paper examines this unusual and controversial love story in terms of various cultural perceptions. There are n...
In five pages an analysis of this short story by R.K. Narayan is presented. There are 6 sources cited in the bibliography....
In five pages this paper examines life and humanity in a comparison of the short stories Paul Fussell's 'Thank God for the Atom Bo...
In eight pages the varied critical responses to Adams's fiction particularly as it portrayed class is discussed with reference mad...
offered by A Wrinkle in Time is that the power of love can overcome just about any of lifes obstacles. When one confronts the dar...
In five pages Fernea's story is analyzed in terms of social constructs that are gender based and considers the Eastern cultural ex...
brother. This is where Baldwin sets up another beautiful metaphor: the ice. "A great block of ice got settled in my belly and kept...
In a paper consisting of three pages the theme of suffering is considered within the context of the short story written by James B...
In seven pages this short story is analyzed in terms of primary themes, plot, and characterization. There are no other sources li...
Jealousy and marriage and how they drive the plot line and story in this paper, which compares Leo Tolstoys' Family Happiness and ...
In three pages Camus's story is analyzed in terms of characterizations and their meanings especially in terms of quarantine isolat...
In fifteen pages this paper discusses the author's feelings concerning a father's role by blurring the past and the present in thi...
and Hawkins, two Englishmen. The setting is OConnors homeland of Ireland. The time frame is early twentieth century, during the ...
353). Symbols present another layer to a story, as well as another realm for questioning. Who or what is "Young Goodman Brown" t...
This 5 page paper discusses the way mentally ill women were treated in the 19th century. The writer argues that mental illness oft...
A review of this critical analysis of the short story 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker is presented in seven pages. There are no ot...
In five pages this report examines how existential reality and daily life's transitory nature are depicted in the 1983 short story...
prisoners and the captors into villains and victims. He views the entire situation as evil, not evil perpetrated upon the innocent...
In 5 pages The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle is the focus of this analysis of the social conflicts and expec...
In five pages Augustine's influence and the significance of the heaven and hell bus ride iare considered in this overview of Lewis...
In a paper consisting of five pages the representation of transformation in Kafka's 'The Metamorphosis,' Sartre's play 'No Exit,' ...
"super sleuth," August Dupin who was certainly as erudite and calmly logical as Sherlock Holmes or any of the other witty, urbane,...
In six pages this paper discusses how supernatural, dualism, and death motifs are emphasized through Gothic imagery in this famous...