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Spiritual Journey of Dante's 'Inferno'

The development of the journey motif throughout the poem and how it serves as an allegory for spiritual growth are discussed in a ...

Macbeth by William Shakespeare and the Motifs of Blindness, Sight, Darkness, and Light

In ten pages this paper examines Shakespeare's characterizations of Lord and Lady Macbeth regarding how they enable him to masterf...

'Oriental Tale' Motif and If On a Winter's Night a Traveler

In two pages this paper examines the motif of the 'Oriental Tale' in terms of its significance to the relationship between the sto...

William Shakespeare's King Lear and the Disguise Motif

In five pages this paper examines Shakespeare's use of the disguise motif and how deception and disguises manifest themselves in b...

Land and Blood Wars of Bolingbroke in William Shakespeare's Richard II

In a paper consisting of five pages the ways in which Shakespeare employed the dual land and blood motifs in his historical play i...

Free Will and Benevolent Manipulation in The Tempest by William Shakespeare

legitimately rules the island by some sort of manifest destiny. But the ensuing scenes with Ariel and Caliban make it clear that C...

Contrasting and Comparing Plot Motifs in George MacDonald's The Princess and the Goblin and Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland

In five pages the plot motifs featured in each of these tales are contrasted and compared. Two sources are cited in the bibliogra...

Transportation and Speed in On the Road by Jack Kerouac

In 5 pages this paper examines these motifs and the symbolism they represent in this 1955 novel by Jack Kerouac. There are no oth...

Cinema Motif in The Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig

In 5 pages this paper examines how Molina and Valentin's relationship is enhanced by the author's use of motif in Manuel Puig's Th...

The Anger of Homer's Achilles

In five pages anger as a motif and character motivation in Homer's 'The Iliad' is explored. There are no other sources listed in ...

Edgar Allan Poe Major Motifs

In five pages this paper examines the motifs Edgar Allan Poe frequently used in this analysis of the short stories 'The Black Cat'...

Motif of the Mississippi River in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

In four pages plus an outline of one page this paper discusses how in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain powerfully dev...

Forest Motif in 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

in Salem, Massachusetts, forever immortalized as the scene of the Salem witch trials, and those supposed covens did meet in the fo...

Water Appeal in Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and The Awakening by Kate Chopin

while maintaining a safe distance so no one is compromised. All the characters enjoy considerable affluence and leisure. None of...

Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Henry James' Turn of the Screw and Evil

the Suppression of Savage Customs in which he claims that the white man in Africa must "necessarily appear to them [savages] in th...

Journey in The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty

In eight pages the journey motif in terms of self discovery quest is examined within the context of this novel by Eudora Welty tha...

Hurt and 'Home Burial' by Robert Frost

In three pages this poetic narrative by Robert Frost is analyzed in terms of burial and tree planting motifs, other symbolism, the...

Analysis of the 1939 Film Wuthering Heights

estate which is known as Wuthering Heights, and the moors which constantly reflect the mood of the homes inhabitants. A stranded ...

Nicholas's Reeducation in The Magus by John Fowles

In six pages this paper examines how motifs and symbolism represent the reeducation of the protagonist in The Magus by John Fowles...

The Motif of the Journey In Contemporary Literature

This 5 page paper analyzes the way in which the motif of the journey was used in three classic American novels: The Grapes of Wrat...

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...

Hamlet and the Hesitation Motif

In five pages this paper examines how William Shakespeare employed the hesitation motif in this tragic play in an analysis of how ...

Nausea Motif of La Nausee by Jean Paul Sartre

In nine pages this paper examines how the futility of life is depicted by Sartre in the nausea of his protagonist. Five sources a...

Sophocles' Oedipus Rex and Motifs of the Sea and 'Seeing'

In five pages this paper considers how this imagery combines to represent lost vision and spiritual confusion in this tragic play ...

The Wedding Motif in the Poem 'In Memoriam' by Alfred Tennyson

This paper consists of five pages and discusses how Section 40 of the poem that features the bride analogy is enmeshed in the comp...

Hat Motif in The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad

In 5 pages this paper analyzes the novella by Joseph Conrad in an examination of what is symbolically implied by the stowaway Legg...

Desdemona and the 'Jewel' Motif Recurrence in William Shakespeare's Othello

forthright and courageous. Coupled with these admirable characteristics, Desdemona also harbors a significant moral sensitivity a...

Boys and Girls by Munro and the Blood Motif

theme. Without the skill of Munro, the themes might be buried with just a scant plot controlling the movement of the characters. Y...

Dead Poet's Society and the Motif of Carpe Diem

to his students. He gives them no time to "adjust," but leaps right in with both feet on the first day by having the class read Ro...

The “Journey Motif” in Literature

that merits the death penalty. The only way to understand his savagery is as the climax of the poem, and a reward for his struggle...