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Essays 1891 - 1920

Joe Christmas in Light in August by William Faulkner

black as synonymous with good and evil that immediately plunges Joe into an emotional turmoil, from which he never completely dise...

Ralph Ellison's Battle Royal, Alice Walker's The Flowers and Lessons Learned

cotton, peanuts and squash ... that cause excited little tremors to run up her jaws" (Walker, 2002). Clearly, Myop was a h...

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen and the Importance of the Financial Contract Between Krogstad and Nora Helmer

is able to whisk her husband off to a warmer climate, which has the desired effect and Torvald regains his good health. However, ...

Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Faithfulness

we learn that she began to take an interest in Catholicism, but this opportunity to adopt a genuine faith soon gave way to a passi...

The Tempest by William Shakespeare and Prospero

In seven pages this paper analyzes the character of Prospero featured in William Shakespeare's final play and how this protagonist...

Analyzing Milos Forman's Film Amadeus

film, which is told via flashbacks by Salieri, who is in an asylum after attempting suicide, and concentrates on the final ten yea...

Oedipus and Hamlet Characterizations

his mother, he fulfills the prophesy. As Oedipus tells the story, one gets the sense that he is more than just a character. He is ...

Revenge and Jealousy Featured in Othello by William Shakespeare

as an under-current that influences all other actions. Shakespeare pulls his audiences into the experience of such dichotomy throu...

'The Iliad' and 'Ramayana' Compared

for "The Story of Rama" chronicles the heroic saga of Sri Rama, who along with his three siblings Laksmana (or Lakshmana), Bharata...

Nora Helmer's Innocence in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House

husband Torvald, belittle their women and define their mates based on their potential as a companion, housekeeper, and the ability...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening' and Idealism

An elderly pianist, Mademoiselles music arouses Ednas artistic temperament. Additionally, Edna becomes infatuated with a young man...

Literature and the Element of Science

The individual who has placed the ad in the paper is none other than a telepathic gorilla. Suspend judgment if you will. Call the ...

Princess Medea and King Gilgamesh

until finally, the creation goddesses intervene and create a primitive alter-ego for him that would keep his own in check. Only w...

Huckleberry Finn's Character

into the world and into society. He plays with different roles because he can in light of the fact that everyone thinks he is dead...

'Eugenie Grandet' by Honore de Balzac

In three pages this essay considers the 1833 novel by Balzac in an overview of plot that also includes a discussion of the protago...

The Street by Ann Petry

financially running a vegetable store. Lutie ponder their situation, "Who would have thought that this old Italian couple...would ...

Tragic Downfall of Othello

a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by ththroat the circumcis?d do And smote him thus" (Act V. ii. 334 - 352)...

The Divine Comedy, Man's Search for Understanding and Truth Represented by Dante

also called La Commedia (The Comedy) by Dante. In the poem, the poet Dante, travels to hell (Inferno) then purgatory (Purgatorio) ...

Hawkeye Analysis in The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

barbaric Native-American society. It was his hybrid nature that made Hawkeye somewhat of a cultural chameleon, but also m...

Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote

service...sweep so evil a breed from off the face of the earth" (Cervantes). One of his next foes is a flock of sheep. Don Quixot...

'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey' by Homer Compared

could live. It was on the broad shoulders of this classical hero upon which the security of society rested. While the hero walke...

Comparing 'Bartleby, the Scrivener' by Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'The Minister's Black Veil'

freely expressing their sinful temptations to the minister. The cause of Reverend Hoopers alienation, it would appear, was not an...

Cotter's England by Christina Stead

be at odds with the prevailing stereotypes concerning lesbians at this time. In the same letter, Stead writes, "I detest Lesbians;...

Heinrich Mann's Man of Straw

ever spent money on another human being" (Mann 15). Next, the student will want to comment on the economical ways in which Mann p...

Epic Hero Luke Skywalker in Star Wars

given a task to perform and in doing so derives some sort of personal meaning from it. He may meet with a great series of misfortu...

Freedom from Oppression and the Power of Love in Bronte's Jane Eyre

women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; th...

Stephen Daedalus's Language Discovery in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

his growth toward a greater measure of understanding of the world around him. For example, his school experiences in Clongowes pre...

Paul Berlin in Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien

as happiness is more than the absence of sadness, so is peace infinitely more than the absence of war" (OBrien PG). Even after Be...

Life's Meaning in 'Death of Ivan Ilych' by Leo Tolstoy

In eight pages this paper analyzes Tolstoy's protagonist and considers how this short story explores the value and meaning of life...

'Death of Ivan Ilych' by Leo Tolstoy

In two pages the implications of the social treatment Tolstoy's protagonist received are discussed. There is no bibliography incl...