YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Comparative View of Female Protagonists
Essays 1801 - 1830
In three pages this essay analyzes Othello in a consideration of jealousy's featured role in the characterizations of the protagon...
...preserve me!"(Tablet IX, Column I, 3-12). This forces him to begin to consider his own mortality, and for the first tim...
in terms of black and white, but this should not necessarily be construed as a racial connotation. He enjoyed the tranquility of ...
of how they look at the world. For the two sons this image is different. Biff is the intelligent brother who is often angered a...
of segregation forced me to develop an inner strength that has served me well...It was a profoundly significant thing in my life, ...
a good person or a bad person, only that he is religious. In another section, much further along in the story, we see Odysseus t...
Especially when he speaks of Stoksie, in this example: "I forgot to say he thinks hes going to be manager some sunny day, maybe in...
harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, / Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, / Thy knotted and combined ...
II, Miller was able to show that the American Dream as a way of life is a sham -- and why. Death of a Salesman tells the story of...
is perhaps the worst mistake he could have made. He was not a man of murder, or a man who lusted after power. But, his wife was bo...
his epistle that "he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind ... he is a double-minded man, unstable in...
In a letter to his friend Wilhelm, dated May 4, 1771, Werther expresses regret over breaking a young woman named Lenores heart. A...
heart. His insecurities are compounded by the dark color of his skin, which makes him a social outsider. Therefore, when he meet...
world, in which society is restructuring itself after the devastation of the war - a devastation which T, at least, seems to feel ...
progress over time underscores the influence that early childhood experiences have on the way in which an adult learns to function...
the reader to truly understand just how strong she is: "It all I can do not to cry. I can make myself wood. I say to myself, Celie...
bullet for him. Of course, in general, snowballs are rather harmless but ice and snow can be deadly for pregnant women, particular...
grandson. It is clear that she has done this many times before. At some point in the past, several years ago at least, the boy acc...
his control, or often, the hero will choose this separation for himself. Neo lives in a chosen isolation, but he also chooses to f...
and reality. Willy personifies a person who wants certain things from life but is his own biggest obstacle to obtaining them. Th...
with pleasure, which is why they "love the life of enjoyment" (Aristotle). Considering this stance, the next development in the m...
freedom as expressed in The Awakening is a freedom from rules, expectations and people. Yet, other types of freedom had also been ...
back to tell the tale. He is older than his years, and his words are full of sadness and bittersweet regret(Adelman). His experien...
based on actual wants or desires. The effect of this societal pressure causes her to refuse help and support which might otherwise...
by her contemporaries. These women will weave a rich fabric of friendship, which is symbolically referred to in the novel through...
An elderly pianist, Mademoiselles music arouses Ednas artistic temperament. Additionally, Edna becomes infatuated with a young man...
food as a measuring cup of personality, a leavening for plot, and an ingredient in the theme" (Kellman 435). The contradictions i...
at the piano" but it may well have been the "first time she was ready, perhaps the first time her being was tempered to take an im...
different from most modern Western cultures. Their way of life worked for them and was ultimately destroyed with the colonists. Wi...
be a gentlewoman. What this means is that she wants to support herself and not live in poverty. At one point she goes to live ...