Essays 1921 - 1950
are proud. The main character, however, although she wants to own the house someday, is embarrassed by the house because she feels...
charities was remarkable. She was coming into her own, moving out of the extremely heavy shadow cast by the royal family (particu...
of what we desire, we are only so much the nearer losing it; and when at a distance from it, we live in expectation of enjoying it...
it again" (De Sevigne, 1982). Analyzing the literary insights of a number of these female authors, including Marie-Jeanne LHeriti...
what they want, remains universal and could easily fit into a contemporary drama or comedy. Lysistrata tells her fellows that "We ...
become separate" (p.48). An interest point is made as Fromm investigates erotic love. Today, many equate eroticism with romanticis...
As the Renaissance reflected the continued influence of the Crusades, it also sprouted a period of romanticism that was more than ...
as they face the discrimination with the power of togetherness, as a family. Much of the play also focuses on embracing on...
she has given up. She is dejected and withdrawn, lying on her bed despondent and weeping. This depiction highlights Medeas femin...
whole. Bosha begins the collection of criticisms and assessments by presenting an introduction to Cheever, with some reflections ...
again, through characterization, the subtle nature of the differential is conveyed. There is a clear connection made between indus...
to allow athletes to continue to perform in the presence of a possibly debilitating injury. Critics have argued that the use of s...
sense of conflict has to do with his fathers participation in an Easter Sunday service at the Ohatchee Methodist Church, a time wh...
are more things in common with these two works than the simple fact that both deal, in a sense with the railroad industry....
satisfying sexual or intimate relationship because of it. She essentially lived a life wherein she was torn between the desire to ...
gloried in the proud history of the plantation South that secured a place of honor for the aristocrat, and yet he abhorred the opp...
it stop, nights in bed, drunk, when you knew that that was all there was" (Hemingway 13). He is a man lost in a world with no dire...
Chandler was famous for his evocative descriptions of L.A.; the heat and light, the flowers, traffic, noise and above all the vivi...
reader, who has the benefit of hindsight, to wonder why German Jews, such as the Oppermanns, did not react earlier to the Nazi thr...
regard to the acceptance of reality, issues of morality and, perhaps above all, the concept of divine judgment and human guilt. I...
linked to societal ideas of the early eighteenth century as to what constituted a "proper" middle class English life. This is evid...
the field against the three thousand Moors; and such was the valor of him that in a good hour was born, and of his standard bearer...
all-knowing, loving God. In the chapter entitled, "The Brothers Make Friends," Alyosha and Ivan are talking and Ivan goes off on a...
all her fights are useless, futile, for there seems to be no positive movement, no positive gains made for women or blacks. She em...
in that simple narrative position we know the story is important, even if the boy does not know it yet. The story involves the ...
In this analytical research paper consisting of 6 pages considers while Berowne agrees to the creation of the literary academe pro...
in "All for Love" presented a much more traditional Cleopatra, that is, someone who is more of an addictive substance then a ruler...
This paper addresses the educational theories of Knapp and Needels. The author provides relevant literary examples that support t...
In twelve pages the poetic metaphor and its value is assessed within the works of these varied literary and philosophical icons. ...
In seven pages postcolonial fiction is defined in order to determine whether this 1996 novel is representative of the literary gen...