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Kindred by Octavia E. Butler and Rufus and Dana's Relationship

small boy, but to insure my familys survival, my own birth" (29). Through the next several years, Dana returns to the Weylin plan...

Torvald Helmer in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

the complete ignorance that the male of Torvalds type had toward women during this time in history. They are seen as incapable of ...

Arnold Friend in 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?' by Joyce Carol Oates

his deceptiveness, and the danger the ensuing adventure holds for her become more understandable when Friend is viewed as the mani...

William Shakespeare's King Lear and the Representation of Edmund as a Power Opportunist

maximum benefit, and his practical reaction is immediate action (Cahn 146). As Victor L. Cahn noted in his consideration of Edmun...

Emma Bovary Characterization by Gustave Flaubert

to note that Charles, Emmas husband, is little more than window-dressing, in her elaborate fantasies, a sort of necessary accessor...

Character of Old Major in Animal Farm by George Orwell

farm listens to him and believes him and looks up to him. "Word had gone round during the day that old Major, the prize Middle Whi...

Lost Direction of Fowler in Graham Greene's The Quiet American

Phuong. In this we see he has no real love for Phuong and he has no real desires other than simple comfort. He is unhappy with the...

Thomas Harris' Silence of the Lambs

make the lambs stop screaming, do you think theyd be all right too and you wouldnt wake up again in the dark and hear the lambs sc...

'Oryx and Crake' by Margaret Atwood

as the world is filled with poison and chaos and destruction. They meet Oryx at a time when they are perhaps struggling to find so...

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and the Character Mrs. Joe

became blindly furious by regular stages" (Dickens 120). In other words, her behavior reflects o real emotion at all. Similarly, P...

Pessimism of Macbeth by William Shakespeare

King Duncan naming his loyal lieutenant Macbeth Thane of Cawdor in recognition for his faithful service. But a fateful meeting wi...

Nick Carraway, the American Dream, and The Great Gatsby

in the promised land did so through the exploitation of the land, its resources, and its natives" as is the case with Jay Gatsby (...

Characters Freeing Themselves from Oppression in the Works of Zora Neale Hurston

the house, knowing it will frighten his wife. In fact, in the first scene of the story, Sykes sneaks up on Delia and tosses his b...

Princess Casamassima and Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

time period has no choices, that she cannot freely move around and do many things before marriage. Society restricts what she can ...

Greta Garbo's Character in the Film Ninotchka

capitalists, wining and dining them all through Paris" (Nugent). In this we see the psychology of the seriousness of the Russia...

'The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, 'Hills Like White Elephants' by Ernest Hemingway and Powerlessness

him that she wants to stop talking about it, indicating she feels completely powerless and is just going to do it and get it over ...

Central Images and Characters Featured in Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

and social expectations define how individuals act, and these elements are significant to determining the social view in the story...

August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone and the Character of Herald Loomis

wrong with him. Seth states, "I dont like the way he stare at everybody. Dont look at you natural like" (Wilson 232). The fact t...

Janie in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

provide Janie with financial security. Many women, less independent than Janie, would suffer and endure. Janie leaves with another...

Brooklyn's Lower Class as Depicted in Selby's Last Exit to Brooklyn

This 6 page paper provides quotes and an analysis of three characters in this thesis paper that focuses on social stratification. ...

Frederick Henry in Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms

pictured offering ironic commentaries on sculpture and art, with his conversation peppered with "allusions to Samuel Johnson, Sain...

Ferdinand and Regan/Goneril

never a bone int" (I.284). Again, the lamprey (a type of eel) and the reference to its bonelessness, is a reference to the penis. ...

Comparative Character Analysis of Olunde in Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman and Obi in Chinua Achebe’s No Longer At Ease

their native primitive cultures and European colonial modernization. Back in the 1940s, few Nigerians were accorded the opportuni...

Analysis of Harry in Hemingway’s The Snows of Kilimanjaro

really did what he wanted to do. As one critic notes, he is "a disillusioned writer" (Arthur). But, in reality he is far more than...

"O Brother Where Art Thou?"

The film follows the three hapless goofballs as they come across the sirens (three gorgeous women washing clothes in a river); alm...

Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and the Character Algernon

dandy was a man who may well have lived off of others, being a freeloader, an individual intrigued by the arts and by living out f...

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and the Character Norman Bowker

old man talks about, nothing else. How he cant wait to see my goddamn medals" (OBrien, 1998; 36). In this the reader...

Feminism and the Stargate Television Series

While Carter is rescued by the rest of SG-1, Nya is caught trying to elope and her father sentences her to death by stoning as pun...

Willa Cather's 'Paul's Case'

down, pistol in hand, and he had cried out in time to save himself, and his father had been horrified to think how nearly he had k...

Caliban, Political Powers, and The Tempest by William Shakespeare

political systems: Antonio represents what we might call the "real" government in Milan and Prospero represents a "state of nature...