Essays 211 - 240
The Epic of Gilgamesh, composed about 2000 BC and found inscribed on 12 tablets at Nineveh, is the earliest known epic. The Epic...
This essay pertains to Faulkner's short story "Dry September." The writer offers analysis of the plot and argues that Faulkner use...
This essay pertains to Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning" and focuses on the character of Abner Snopes. The writer argues that ...
This essay consists of six pages and compares the social oppression the wives in each story experiences. There is no bibliography...
This essay offers a summary and discussion of themes and characters in "Winter Dreams," a short story by Fitzgerald. Three pages i...
This essay pertains to The short stories "Bible" by Tobias Wolfe and "Virgins" by Danielle Evans. The writer discusses the theme o...
This essay consists of seven pages and presents the argument that the motifs in the contemporary Superman stories are much like th...
In six pages this essay considers how this short story by Ernest Hemingway describes 'nothingness' and the despair of loneliness. ...
In five pages this essay analyzes the development of the protagonist Elisa in a consideration of this John Steinbeck short story. ...
free; and Joy, whose miserable disposition is anything but joyful. It is Joy who is the chief protagonist, an educated 32-year-ol...
to kill, the speaker insists on frequently and rather adamantly reminding us that he is not mad. As the story reads on, I found m...
In two pages this essay examines how the structural collapse of the house in Poe's short story represents the collapse of the fami...
In five pages this essay analyzes the language, themes, story, and characters found within Marilynne Robinson's novel Housekeeping...
In six pages this essay discusses the positive characterization of the blind man in the short story 'Cathedral' by Raymond Carver....
In three pages this essay discusses the symbolism of the novel's title and considers how it relates to the human experience. The ...
This essay focuses on three works of John Updike, which are his novel A Month of Sundays and his short stories "Wildlife" and "Far...
This essay asserts that Nick Carraway's narration presents Jay Gatsby's story in terms of Freudian psychology and as paralleling ...
This essay pertains to the literary features of this short story, focusing on its plot and symbols as the writer describes how the...
This essay presents an overview of Donald Barthelme's "The School," Zitkala-Sa's "The School Days of an Indian Girl," and Toni Mor...
This essay pertains to "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin. The writer presents the argument that the principal point that Chopi...
In three pages this essay examines how women are treated in the symbolic portrayal of Emily as being a rose in this short story by...
In five pages this research essay explores the abortion debate within the context of Hemingway's short story and how important saf...
In five pages this essay considers the 'everything' or 'nothing' connotation of oneness as represented within these short stories ...
This essay consisting of two pages examines the symbolic representation of flowers within the context of this short story by Kate ...
In five pages this essay examines how Puritanism and witchcraft contribute to the setting of this short story by Nathaniel Hawthor...
In five pages this essay considers whether the events that transpired in this short story were real or were in fact a dream. Ther...
This essay pertains to "How to date a brown girl (black girl, white girl, or halfie)" by Junot Diaz. Referring to a description if...
There are four central themes in Kafka's Metamorphosis: the absurdity of life, the disconnect between mind and body, the limits of...
This essay is on "White Teeth" by Zadie Smith. This novel relates the stories of a multiethnic cast of characters, focusing partic...
This essay pertains to William Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning," and the changing attitudes of its 10-year-old protagonist Sa...