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American Dream's Failure in The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser, and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

This sense of optimistic euphoria was forever captured in F. Scott Fitzgeralds 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby. Its featured charact...

John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and Dreaming

feel lonely." All characters seem to have a variant of this dream as well, whether the place is, that which will allow them to b...

Cinema and Novel Expansion of Blade Runner

but an android is not designed to react emotionally and must formulate a false emphatic response. The difference in the time invol...

Comparative Analysis of The Great Gatsby and Six Degrees of Separation

In a paper containing seven pages the American Dream is compared and contrasted in these works. There are three bibliographic sou...

Death of a Salesman - Willy Loman and the Betrayal of the American Dream

This 6 page paper discusses the concept of true and false values in the play Death of a Salesman. The writer argues that Willy Lom...

Reality, Dreams, and Rene Descartes

In six pages Rene Descartes' Meditations are used to distinguish between dreaming and the waking reality state. There are no othe...

Nick Carraway's Narrative in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In seven pages this paper argues that the shattered illusion of the American Dream and its impact are embodied in Nick Carraway's ...

Shakespeare and Mythology

In five pages this paper examines William Shakespeare's use of mythology in such plays as The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night, ...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In eight pages this paper analyzes this classic American novel and its confrontation of post First World War truths about the Amer...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and an Analysis of East versus West

illustrated in the frequent comparisons between the Long Island sections of East Egg and West Egg. As narrator Nick Carraway, a W...

Uses of Humor in The Crying Lot of 49 by Thomas Pynchon and White Noise by Don DeLillo

In thirteen pages this paper examines how American culture, specifically, the American Dream, is critiqued using humor in each of ...

American Dream and Death of a Salesman

considerations in Death of a Salesman. There are three shifts created by Millers "time bends" in the play: the historical time (19...

American Dream Defined

The American Dream is defined in a paper consisting of six pages. Six sources are cited in the bibliography....

Senior Citizens and Rex L. Jones' Poker and the American Dream

In five pages this paper considers the reasons why elderly individuals play poker in hopes of capturing part of the American Dream...

Ancient Greece to the New Testament and Dreams, Oracles, and Prophecy

In eleven pages this paper discusses the concepts of interpreting the future through prophecy, by the prophets, and through dreams...

American Dream in Death of a Salesman and The Great Gatsby

as "The Jazz Age." When not numbing themselves with superficial pleasures, young people were pursuing the American Dream, as tran...

Conflicting Dreams and Reality in 'Miniver Cheevy' by Edwin Arlington Robinson and 'Araby' by James Joyce

pain and suffering endured for each one. The primary focal point is the young mans love for a completely unattainable girl who un...

Franz Kafka's The Trial, Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, and William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying and Dream or Surreal Time

In twelve pages dream or surreal time as they are represented in these literary works are examined. Five other sources are cited ...

Shattered Dreams in Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

such a time period, a concept that received a considerably varied mix of response from enthusiastic support to downright contempt....

American Dream in Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

In two pages Sister Carrie is examined in terms of the American Dream and Carrie's social climbing. There are no other sources li...

'Dream' Speech of Martin Luther King Jr.

In five pages this paper examines the famous 'I Have a Dream' speech delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. in 1963 in terms of its m...

Sleep, Dreams, and Their Importance

understand why people sleep. Since the time of Aristotle, Plato, and Hippocrates, dreams have held a certain fascination. ...

Feminism in Shakespeare and Aristophanes

This paper examines various forms of feminism seen in two works by Shakespeare's, Midsummer Night's Dream, and Aristophanes', Lys...

Big Budget Fantasy Film Project

In ten pages this report discuses the financing and creative aspects involved in transforming a 'dream' film proposal into reality...

Science Fiction and Gender

In eight pages this paper examines how gender influences science fiction tastes in terms of male and female preferences with a dis...

3 Authors on Ethnicity and Race

In nine pages this paper examines ethnicity and race as viewed by Elaine Bell Kaplan in 'Not our kind of girl : unraveling the myt...

Analyzing the Sequence of Dreams in 8 1/2 by Filmmaker Federico Fellini

In seven pages the sequence of dreams are analyzed and considered in the context in which the director elected to produce them in ...

Male and Female Protagonists in the Writings of F. Scott Fitzgerald

In 6 pages this paper analyzes the male and female heroines in the texts The Ice Palace, Winter Dreams, The Last Tycoon, This Side...

Mythical Component in 'What Dreams May Come'

into the depths of despair, the painting only serves to beckon him with a false sense of peace. Applying the mythical eleme...

Movie Blade Runner

Cyberpunk literature focuses on these people, and often on how they turn the systems technological tools to their own ends. This i...