Essays 1861 - 1890
yours. Stand still, shut your eyes, and wait." I did, and something began to happen. The air began to hum.. I tried to open my ey...
This paper analyzes Madame de Lafayette's book, Princess of Cleves and the French court during the sixteenth century. This five p...
In twelve pages this paper discusses Lu Xun's texts and the issues resulting in the early twentieth century Chinese society collap...
In five pages this epidemic and inoculation techniques developed in eighteenth century Boston are discussed. Four sources are cit...
In fifteen pages this paper discusses the 1998 election of a Republican governor in Colorado for more than a century and the polit...
In fourteen pages this paper examines how passion and human happiness were perceived from various philosophers spanning the sixtee...
This paper addresses Kate Chopin's Nineteenth-Century novel, The Awakening. The author contends that the literary techniques util...
(without excluding the importance of the past), where everything is not spelled out neatly for the reader. The reader must interp...
In five pages this paper argues that for readers of the 20th century Creon and Antigone appear more like victims than heroes in th...
In eight pages the late nineteenth century society of Portugal is the focus of this thematic consideration of Cousin Bazilio. Fou...
In six pages this paper discusses the themes in an overview of this text that features the nineteenth century society of Portugal....
In ten pages the life and times of this renowned 17th century French playwright and actor are recounted. Ten sources are cited in...
In six pages this paper presents a sociopolitical analysis of Moliere's seventeenth century play. Two sources are cited in the bi...
anyone else get a word in edgewise; so much as a "But, Mother" elicits an accusation of impudence. This is a very funny opening sc...
In four pages this paper examines the accuracy of Jules Verne's technological predictions in such works as Paris in the Twenty Fir...
In five pages this classic 17th century novel by Montesquieu is analyzed as it relates to the Scientific Revolution and the Enligh...
In five pages this paper examines how the letters point out the differences that existed during the 17th century between France an...
In three pages this essay discusses how these tales reflected the changing society of the 14th century as a result of the Black De...
In six pages feudalism and its impact upoin decorum, loyalty, and bravery during the 14th century is examined within the context o...
the mean-spirited jealousy of her husbands concubines and family. We now take up the story of Bao Quin, who grew up to marry a ha...
This paper discusses Shelley's novel as it fits into two separate literary styles of the nineteenth century, Gothic and Romanticis...
In seven pages this comedy from the 17th century is examined with the argument presented that darker libertine ideals belie the se...
In eight pages this report considers the presentation of justice as the universal principle of governing in his sixteenth century ...
In seven pages this seventeenth century work is examined in an analysis of Giovanni's mental disintegration. There are no other s...
In two pages this paper examines how William James sought to improve upon Descartes' seventeenth century psychological philosophy ...
This essay consists of five pages and examines the first book of Gulliver's Travels in terms of how Swift satirizes eighteenth cen...
In five pages this fictitious Houyhnhnms land featured in Jonathan Swift's satire Gulliver's Travels is compared with eighteen cen...
In six pages this research paper presents the argument that in Heart of Darkness, Conrad sought to open reader's minds to the impe...
This paper analyses the theme of relationships between mothers and their daughters in Jane Eyre, with particular reference to the ...
This paper looks at the perspective of English society in the nineteenth century which is presented in Charlotte Bronte's novel. I...