Essays 181 - 210
The Awakening is a brilliant study of a womans gradual realization of how stifling her life is, and what happens when she refuses ...
story is a folktale, and begins with a farmer who promises his employee he will give him a heifer in exchange for his work, then t...
52). Close examination of "Story of an Hour" reveals the manner of Louise Mallards death, i.e., murder, and also the message that ...
on the nature of the fourth dimension, i.e., time, as well as the astronomical features and evolutionary development that he obser...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the Sharon Olds' poem 'Sex Without Love' with Raymond Carver's short story 'What W...
IN ten pages the author's contention that conformity interferes with self understanding is examined within the context of three st...
of creation are vastly different" (Anonymous Selected Portions of the "Enuma Elish" enumaeli.htm). "The six days of creation i...
Tsun says no one can know his "innumerable contrition and weariness" (Borges). What does Borges mean when he claims the world is ...
the night of a grand ball, an unexpected and unwelcome guest appears: the "mummer" is wearing the shroud normally put on a corpse,...
societys pressure. "It is impossible to read Great Expectations without sensing Dickenss presence in the book, without being awar...
in "The Girl Who Was Plugged In" provides the author with the means to create a biting critique of contemporary societal values. T...
of winning her own way in the larger society and from the beginning, the character generally takes herself very lightly (19). She ...
alive to confirm conversations nor recording equipment to verify accuracy. However, an author writing historic fiction must do a g...
he so closely identifies with him, which is precisely Poes point-the narrators is not normal, but is quite insane. The point of ...
decline, from onset to death, takes but "half an hour" (Poe). In the face of this overwhelming specter of death, Prince Prospero i...
the narrator another instance where the town was concerned about Miss Emily and her home, which was over a smell, an awful smell o...
"Dead Mens Path." It seems at first glance to be a very straightforward tale. However, as one critic points out, "In the post-Fouc...
stars for me, weaponed me to make my way in the world...Did I slay him, what horror would come upon me and mine?" (Anderson 305). ...
5 pages and 5 sources used. This paper provides an overview of the Biblical story of Cain and Abel, and relates the importance of...
blue hotel against the "dazzling winter landscape of Nebraska," so that the comparison of the two makes Nebraska appear to be a "g...
In fifteen pages women's roles are contrasted as they relate to the Hemingway short stories 'A Canary for One,' 'Che Ti Dice La Pa...
shows his endeavor in following a specific element of style that was all his own. Mood: for example in "The Fall of...
driver, and at last he made it to the front in Europe during the height of World War I (Roth, 450). He was seriously wounded in It...
This paper consists of 5 pages and discusses the film's inability to transfer Cheever's internal monologue visually on the big scr...
In seven pages this paper examines how the theme of death is handled in London's short stories 'The Law of Life' and 'To Build a F...
In 8 pages the Social Darwinism and naturalism that are featured in the Jack London short stories 'The Whale Tooth,' 'The One Thou...
In five pages this paper examines the presentation of the theme of guilt in a consideration of the short stories 'My Kinsman, Majo...
This paper addresses Gaines' story as the events that unfold develop the character of the protagonist, James. This seven page pap...
In six pages this paper presents a feminist critical analysis of this famous 19th century short story. Two sources are cited in t...
the mind of a murderer, who casually confesses to his crime to an unnamed acquaintance some fifty years after the fact. The narra...