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A Criticism of Hawthorne's, Young Goodman Brown

This paper examines four literary criticisms of Nathaniel Hawthorne's story, Young Goodman Brown. The author also discusses Hawth...

'Lady with a Lapdog' by Anton Chekov

himself." Images The title that Chekov has chosen for this story is particularly poignant. He did not choose the Lady with the W...

Le Pere Goriot by Honore Balzac

In five pages Balzac's novel is analyzed in terms of its themes and also presents a character study of Eugen Rastignac that is int...

Temperament in Paul's Case by Willa Cather

a conference of teachers evaluating him after his suspension. Cather tells us, "Disorder and impertinence were among the offenses...

Sigmund Freud's 'The Uncanny' and Fiction's Messages

In eight pages this paper examines the messages that exist within horror or ghost stories. Eleven sources are cited in the biblio...

Gender Differences in 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In six pages the social treatment of women is examined within the context of this story in an exploration of plot, characterizatio...

Jazz by Toni Morrison

This 5 page paper analyzes Toni Morrison's novel "Jazz," and argues that Toni Morrison uses jazz and sexual identity as ...

Rain Forests and Fictional Newira People

In five pages this fictional overview of a rain forest group includes the people's story of creation, religion, economics, and liv...

A Worn Path by Eudora Welty

This 5 page paper argues that Phoenix Jackson, the protagonist of Eudora Welty's story A Worn Path, is mentally ill. The writer al...

A look at The House on Mango Street by Cisneros

up being a house that was "crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in" (4). It is smal...

Beowulf Digressions

If our theory is accurate, the digressions serve as portals of time, and remind the listener that he is able to move about in all ...

Federico Garcia Lorca's Bodas de Sangre and Intertextuality

In five pages this story is examined in an analysis of intertextual aspects. Nine other sources are cited in the bibliography....

The Killers by Ernest Hemingway

(281) - is the response. Hemingway, a man who chooses he words as though he is picking the last ripe fruit in the world, repeats...

Comparison of Joyce Carol Oates' 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been,' Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening' and James Baldwin's 'Sonny's Blues'

In five pages sex and conflict in terms of character development are contrasted and compared in these three stories. There are no...

Revenge and Justice in House of Atreus

A conceptual analysis of the House of Atreus story focuses on revenge and justice in 5 pages. Two sources re cited in the bibliog...

Two Canadian Works Compared

Rohinton Mistry's Swimming Lessons And Other Stories from Firozsha Baag and Shyam Selvadurai's Funny Boy along with their Bombay ...

Flags in the Dust by William Faulkner

In five pages Col. John Sartoris's role in the story is examined. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....

Brief Synopsis of William Faulkner's Barn Burning

This paper offers an explication of the story in three pages and includes setting, tone, style, characters, summary, narrator, the...

Chosen Place, Timeless People by Paule Marshall

In five pages this book and the interwoven character stories are reviewed and analyzed. There are no other sources listed....

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's All the President's Men

and Bernstein who followed up on Sunday morning These two young reporters, Woodward was 29, Bernstein was 28, came from vastly ...

Comparative Analysis of Ernest Hemingway's 'Hills Like White Elephants' and Flannery O'Connor's 'Good Country People'

of course being to illustrate Christian mysteries of faith. In other words, through the everyday, mundane workings in her characte...

Theme of Identity Featured in Literary Works of Leslie Marmon Silko and Sandra Cisneros

there is the father, a man who feels a deep connection with the past, and perhaps more importantly, the Mexican Revolution. It is ...

Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' Third Act

and nothing to do with the prank that Oberon is playing through Puck. They happen to enter into the midst of the chaos however, an...

The Importance of Care In Nursing

the mountains in California, ride a horse in the Grand Canyon, volunteer in a cancer center, finish painting his house, attend his...

The Hours by Michael Cunningham and Feminism

the one of the "waves" of feminism in the twentieth century. The first wave of feminism is associated with the womens suffrage mov...

Being female and Latino according to Cisneros

Some of them are not. Frequently, it is the combination of heritage and gender which cause the greatest problems, as Rachel discov...

Hinduism, the Bhagavad Gita and Violence

seem to state that the goal for all initiates is to come to the place where the desires are eliminated, not by ceasing the actions...

Literary Epiphanies

a future where she could do as she pleased, without the burden of a husband. She was not imagining a life where she lived wildly, ...

Irony as a Literary Device

You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. AT LENGTH I would be av...

Good Detective Fiction and a Consideration of The Adventures of the Speckled Band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

grounds of how it reflects the necessary criteria of a good detective story, which characteristically includes the elements of cri...