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Ralph Ellison

mention the civil war in Spain and the Communist state in Russia as instances in which people grew "tired of seeing the rich have ...

Language as a Key to Inner Landscapes

another persons mind and perception. We each live isolated lives with only language as a bridge to understanding the worldview and...

The Hero’s Journey: Moses and Jesus

the hero receives the call to adventure, which he initially rejects before crossing the threshold into adventure. Next comes initi...

Joseph Conrad's 'Nostromo'

a narrative technique that makes skillful use of breaks in linear chronology. His character development is powerful and compelling...

Cast of Amontillado and Tell-Tale Heart, a Comparison

"loved the old man" and had "no desire" for his gold (Poe "Tell-Tale Heart"). Why then, did he become obsessed with the idea of mu...

Tan's First Novel

all sorts of unsettling events. This is a fictional account but it brings into play very real issues faced by todays population. ...

Narrative of David and Goliath

his victories against large predators to his faith in God. Scholarship points out that many features of this narrative relate to...

Franz Kafka and the Big Bug

There are four central themes in Kafka's Metamorphosis: the absurdity of life, the disconnect between mind and body, the limits of...

The Genuineness of 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker

dress so loud it hurt my eyes...yellows and oranges enough to throw back the light of the sun" (Everyday...Walker). As this sugge...

Humanity's Future, Science Fiction Visions

This essay pertains to the novel "Dawn" by Octavia Butler and the films "District 9" and "The Omega Man," and argues that each of ...

Virgil's Aeneid and the Cost of the Roman State

Carthage queen, to fall in love with Aeneas. The entire story of Dido and Aeneas brims with fire imagery that demonstrates both Di...

An Old-Fashioned Story Reviewed

home for everyone, as everyone has a mother. Even people who do not know who their mothers are perhaps have a gut feeling about he...

Nick Carraway's Perspective on Gatsby

This essay asserts that Nick Carraway's narration presents Jay Gatsby's story in terms of Freudian psychology and as paralleling ...

An Analysis of The Merchant's Tale in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

This essay presents in in depth analysis of The Merchant's Tale. The author presents a synopsis of the story, the theme of sarcas...

Thomas Malory's 'Every Man' and Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Pardoner's Tale'

In an essay consisting of six pages what can be gleaned from these author's respective societies and times based on the stories is...

Puritan Dilemma of John Winthrop

In six pages this essay discusses John Winthrop's story as presented by Edmund Morgan in a consideration of the Puritan dilemma an...

Epic Heroism of King Gilgamesh

The Epic of Gilgamesh, composed about 2000 BC and found inscribed on 12 tablets at Nineveh, is the earliest known epic. The Epic...

"The Story of an Hour," Effect of Patriarchy

This essay pertains to "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin. The writer presents the argument that the principal point that Chopi...

Social Oppression in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen and The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

This essay consists of six pages and compares the social oppression the wives in each story experiences. There is no bibliography...

Motifs of Ancient Greek Literature and Superman

This essay consists of seven pages and presents the argument that the motifs in the contemporary Superman stories are much like th...

Shelley's Frankenstein, Adam Imagery

This essay pertains to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's nineteenth century gothic novel Frankenstein and the allusions that Shelley m...

Zadie Smith's White Teeth, Role of Ancestry

This essay is on "White Teeth" by Zadie Smith. This novel relates the stories of a multiethnic cast of characters, focusing partic...

Jean Paul Sartre's 'The Flies' and Aeschylus's 'Oresteia'

Electra, another daughter, lives on with her mother, but despises her for her awful deed. Orestes returns and is goaded by Electra...

Life of Kate Chopin and 'Story of an Hour'

She was the eldest of seven children and, though the family was well-established, they had fallen on hard times (Kate Chopin, A Wo...

Christian and Islam Views on Creation

Adam and Eve, in the Garden of Eden and God as Creator. However, at this point, with the intervention of the devil, there is a cru...

Sam in Fugard's Master Harold...and the Boys

son, Hally, who is young and in desperate need of both attention and guidance. In this regard, Sam plays the role of a surrogate ...

Into That Darkness by Gitta Sereny

question, one of the jurors came up to her later and told her, "I dont want you to think it was unanimous--it wasnt" (Sereny 360)....

Los Angeles and Its Cinematic Images

to do is wait and persist and she will eventually love him. While Tod is also not successful in his goal, he realizes that the cul...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown' and William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily'

in humanity until he hears the voice of his wife. When he stumbles out of the woods the next morning, he is a changed man. He ha...

The Stranger by Albert Camus

He replied that he had "rather lost the habit of noting" his feelings and, therefore, "hardly knew what to answer" (Camus 80). He ...