YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Comparison of Two Literary Protagonists
Essays 271 - 300
(Grimstead 174). Maggie appears to simply lack the environment in which she might have blossomed into the ideal of American womanh...
relationship between Gilmans story and the reality of late-nineteenth century life for American women. Shortly after the America...
personal codes (much like Hemingways did) which serve them in good stead when faced with insurmountable dangers. Along their journ...
He demonstrated this to the abbess and many learned men, and was requested to abandon the secular life and join the monastery, whe...
For example, Bostick (1935) makes copious use of footnotes, drawing on the works of Plato and Xenophon, who were two of Socrates d...
other on the real issues. Both promoted remaining in Iraq for the duration; both maintained that "something" has to be done about...
shaping our self actualization but also emphasized that the environment and our interaction with it was constantly changing (Roger...
of its first publication in 1845, Edgar Allan Poes poem "The Raven" has been an element in American cultural influencing the publi...
In this paper consisting of six pages Georgia demographic data based on 1990 census information is applied to the educational syst...
In nine pages the employer and employee pros and cons of this Act are evaluated with comparison's made to a similar U.S. piece of ...
contemporaries, Frost sees no meaning in nature. It is simply emptiness. There is no God there, no Creator, just emptiness. In the...
argue that advocates of merged organizations have not achieved the success they expected. In each case, the form that the hospital...
mention the civil war in Spain and the Communist state in Russia as instances in which people grew "tired of seeing the rich have ...
When Jing-Mei fell short of achieving the lofty goal her mother set for her, her insecurity intensified. After seemingly endless ...
The thematic representation of the American dream in two literary genres (1 poem and 2 short stories) is discussed in 9 pages. Th...
little concern for the development, the past, of the relationships that play a very important part in the stories. One could well ...
In six pages this paper considers the protagonists Dean Moriarty, Sal Paradise, and Edna Pontillier's self quests in On the Road a...
my cause, and be silent, that you may hear. Believe me for mine honor, and have respect to mine honor, that you may believe. Cen...
who is, for a good many people, the most entertaining character in the play. Mephistopheles manipulates Faust so that he "loves an...
the gods may not necessarily determine all aspects of humanity, that which has been labeled as free will may not be free after all...
the law. It would be an impossibility, no matter what the prediction, that this would happen. However, in the case of Oedipus, he ...
out the way one may have originally intended; as such, a life perceived as less enlightened still encourages - and even requires -...
actually ever addressed. The author states, for example, towards the beginning of the article, how "No gesture of style so prono...
human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my ...
But outwardly, he projects himself as a man of total self-assurance (Macaulay 259). He states almost majestically, "My parts, my ...
and he refuses to do so. Mary Kate abides by her brothers wishes, which confuses and frustrates Sean. The plot complications tha...
of the regimen of behavior that is required to obtain and maintain a position on the upper rungs of the social ladder. Ivan does n...
that he dies of a broken heart. The relationship among art, passion and intellect is really the heart of the story. Mann has very...
one of the most frequently anthologized stories in English, and one of the most popular. Its blend of horror, mystery and irony ar...
are giving in to another, and also demonstrating how they are not necessarily self confident or overly concerned about themselves ...