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Essays 1921 - 1950

Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In eight pages this character analysis of Hawthorne's protagonist considers her role and the social conflict she represented. Fiv...

Heroism in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

This paper consists of seven pages and examines the heroism of the novel in a consideration of protagonist Randle McMurphy with a ...

Characterization in For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

In six pages Hemingway's innovative characterization as a device of expanding the novel's scope and protagonist understanding are ...

Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In five pages the protagonist and narrator of Fitzgerald's 1925 classic novel is presented in this character sketch. One source i...

Tender is the Night by F.Scott Fitzgerald

In seven pages Tender is the Night is considered within the context of the protagonist Dick Diver and his influence upon the other...

Elisa Character in 'The Chrysanthemums' by John Steinbeck

In five pages this essay analyzes the development of the protagonist Elisa in a consideration of this John Steinbeck short story. ...

Character Analysis of Maggie A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane

In six pages this paper presents an analysis of the protagonist featured in Stephen Crane's Maggie A Girl of the Streets. There ...

Henry Fleming's Psychological Transformation in The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

This paper consists of nine pages and examines how protagonist Henry Fleming transforms psychologically throughout Stephen Crane's...

Thematic Elements of 'The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Analyzed

a supposed "cure" for her depressed symptoms, becomes, in fact, the catalyst to -2- her entire mental downfall. She h...

J.D. Salinger's Writings

feel strong emotions? We may also speculate whether his indifference to peoples opinions is not actually a means of hiding his fe...

Holden Caulfield on Being a Phony in J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye

This paper examines how protagonist defines being a phony in J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye in five pages. One source is cite...

Truth and Love in Love in the Time of Cholera

Marquez' Love in the Time of Cholera is evaluated for thematic elements of love and truth. The protagonist Florentino is the focus...

An Overview of the Classic Work on Chinese Warfare and Political Strategy, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms

In this sisteen page paper the author reviews one of the most important documents in existence that shed light on Chinese ideology...

Othello Defended

In seven pages this paper analyzes William Shakespeare's protagonist Othello in a sociological and psychological defense of his wi...

Was King Lear Mad or Suffering from Senility?

In seven pages this paper evaluates whether or not this tragic protagonist created by William Shakespeare was senile, mad, or a bi...

Multifaceted King Lear

In seven pages this paper discusses the multifaceted protagonist William Shakespeare created in King Lear and all of the personali...

Hamlet Character in William Shakespeare's Tragedy

In ten pages this paper presents a character analysis of Shakespeare's innovative portrayal of the tragic protagonist. There is t...

Hamlet's Character and Revenge

runs the eavesdropper through; the Hamlet who sends his school-fellows [Rosencrantz and Guildenstern] to their death and never tro...

Conscience, Action, and Revenge of Hamlet

In eleven pages this paper examines the revenge of Shakespeare's tragic protagonist and how his being caught between acting and hi...

Madness of Hamlet

In five pages this paper assesses whether or not William Shakespeare's tragic protagonist was truly mad. There are no other sourc...

Misogyny and William Shakespeare's Hamlet

In ten pages the 'nunnery scene' is among the topics discussed in a consideration of past and present societal misogyny and in a c...

The Character of Henry V

Shakespeare's The Life of King Henry the Fifth is discussed along with the protagonist. This five page paper has three sources ...

'Woodchucks' by Maxine Kumin

little bit of cyanide gas, and awake to begin eating the farmers vegetables. The verbs used to describe what the woodchucks did t...

Conflicts Rooted in Anger in William Shakespeare's Tragedies King Lear, Hamlet, and Othello

In three pages the emotional conflicts that are based in anger are examined in terms of the protagonists behavior' and the importa...

Tragic Hero Exemplified by William Shakespeare's Othello

This paper discusses why Shakespeare's protagonist sufficiently qualifies as being a tragic hero in a consideration of the charact...

Defining the Tragic Hero in William Shakespeare's Othello

man who seeks respectability in a white mans society. Despite his many military victories and his marriage to Senator Brabantios ...

Oedipus and Hamlet

In seven pages this paper contrasts and compares William Shakespeare's protagonist with the Oedipus myth as well as the interpreta...

Shakespeare's Hamlet Act II, Scene II

The scene in which Hamlet meets with the Players and the reaction to these Players are the focus of this paper consisting of five ...

William Dean Howell's Silas Lapham

In five pages this paper discusses William Dean Howells' The Rise and Fall of Silas Lapham in an analysis of the protagonist. The...

Characters of Amory Blaine, Jay Gatsby, and Monroe Stahr as Reflections of F. Scott Fitzgerald

feel of the American youth culture, because he, and through his writing, Amory Blaine, as well, were young men of the time in whic...