Essays 1831 - 1860
his household. The suitors have taken it upon themselves to essentially use Odysseus home as though it was their own, killing live...
is mystical and unexplainable, in the house. They understand that they cannot necessarily see what is taking place, or truly put t...
a mother to do that. As Granny closes her eyes for "just a minute," Porter us an indication of how her life has been lived. She ha...
track marks still showed. The fact that Lenny articulates the protagonists hidden thoughts and desires provides substantiation th...
beating his wife which illustrates a theme of the helpless, and perhaps primarily the helplessness of women in society controlled ...
Dad might claim to be perfectly lucid, but we soon learn that his 27 patent filings have come to naught, he has undergone electros...
in 1980, Puerto Ricans organized a protest outside the theater in order to draw attention to the stereotypical images of Latinos ...
women at the time, including women writers such as Chopin (Levy 242). Structure The structure of Chopins short story "The Story o...
seen in literature of her time, but clearly something that existed in the real world. She was fortunate to have married a man w...
issues raised in "Celia, a Slave: A True Story", however, were not confined to the South alone, nor were they limited to the rela...
it devotes practically all of its attention to a bullet-by-bullet account of the fighting surrounding the downing of the American ...
BODY "I Stand Here Ironing" relates the several facts which are pertinent...
and contexts will merge in the production of the film. In examining the film as a post-modern artefact it may be argued that as...
not been fulfilled as she soon learned that many of the columns in the paper originated from a central syndication network and the...
her, it is apparent that his "real" life is with his wife and children, and that Nadine is only on the periphery. It is ironic, of...
restriction and that, for the rest of her life, "she would live for herself" (Chopin). With a feeling of freedom unlike anything s...
rage (Cutts). Poe, like his stories, was quite unusual. Even his physical appearance hinted that his mental processes were...
purpose, changes due to his experience in war. In OBriens work, similar elements are shown, but not in terms of how war affects on...
title we need to consider the parallels between the narrator in this story and Jesus, as seen in the bible. It could be argued tha...
A slightly different perspective on family life is offered in Joyces Eveline. Here, the protagonist is not only...
chose to make his sentences histories of actual perceptions and thoughts, an accomplishment recognized by biographer Carlos Baker,...
This paper analyzes the literary technique of foreshadowing as seen in Kate Chopin's work, The Story of an Hour. This five page p...
In five page this paper examines the many types of freedoms the author considers within the context of this short story. There ar...
The ways in which rounded characters are constructed within short stories are considered in a six page examination of Guy de Maupa...
In seven pages this paper discusses parent and child conflicts and how they are portrayed in 'The Sky is Gray' by Ernest Gaines, '...
so unmanageably cruel to go so far as to sell the girls toys, which marks only the beginning of the unconscionable way in which th...
In ten pages this paper examines Medieval liturgical drama and its religious uses as reflected in the Story of Daniel. Seven sour...
In five pages the cultural attitudes reflected in John McMurtry's 'Kill'em, Crush ‘em, Eat ‘em Raw' and Roland Barthes...
The writer analyzes the short story Chac-Mool by Carlos Fuentes, and argues that it is representative of his style. The paper is f...
These short stories are contrasted and compared in six pages with characters, themes, and endings analyzed. Six sources are cited...