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Nicholas's Reeducation in The Magus by John Fowles

In six pages this paper examines how motifs and symbolism represent the reeducation of the protagonist in The Magus by John Fowles...

Inland Passage by Jane Rule and Araby by James Joyce

In five pages this essay considers the journey of the soul in a comparative analysis of these literary works. Two sources are lis...

A Raisin in the Sun v. Huckleberry Finn

In five pages these two literary works are contrasted and compared in terms of social hardships and character morality. There are...

Two Types of Western Irony in the Works of Joseph Conrad and Jonathan Swift

In twenty pages this paper discusses two types of Western literary irony and how each is represented in the works of Jonathan Swif...

Toni Morrison's Beloved and the Degrees of Separation

An eight page paper looking at the issue of separation in Toni Morrison's modern classic. The paper points out that there are real...

Richard Wright's Black Boy and William Faulkner's Light in August and Black Identity

white society or in any way "rock the boat". As Jennifer Poulos observes, they are, in particular, taught to be quiet, and to refr...

Othello and Oedipus the King and the Determination of Appearances and Reality

logical explanation, Othello seemed bent on confirming that he will never be more than a misfit in Venice. Desdemonas protestatio...

Dramatic Tragedy and How It Has Evolved

did not attract the attention of the gods. This was still true in Shakespeares time. The few commoners he included were never cen...

Homer's 'The Odyssey' and William Shakespeare's Hamlet

and the tales of this one mans adventure. The man is Odysseus and his adventures are legendary. He is not a man searching for the ...

Tragic Hero Oedipus in Oedipus the King by Sophocles

evolves to become so much more than he, at first, appeared to be as he came to see the errors of his ways by the end of the play a...

Freudian Morality in Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

In three pages this paper discusses Freudian morality within the context of protagonist Gustav von Aschenbach in this analysis of ...

Tides of Revolution According to Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon and Georg Buchner's Danton's Death

In five pages these two literary works are used to consider the differences and similarities between the Bolshevik and French Revo...

Animal Symbolism in Dante's 'Inferno' and William Shakespeare's King Lear

In 7 pages this paper examines what the animal symbolism represents in a comparative analysis of these two literary works. There ...

The Aeneid by Virgil

In three pages a character analysis of the protagonist Aeneas in Virgil's 'The Aeneid' focuses upon his heroic characteristics. I...

Pain of Exile: King Lear, Inferno

This essay pertains to Shakespeare's King Lear and Dante's Inferno and the impact of exile on the protagonists. Four pages in leng...

Tragic Heroes King Oedipus and King Lear

In five pages Aristotle's definition of a tragic hero is applied to these two literary monarchs. One source is cited in the bibli...

Good Night, and Good Luck, Film Review

This film review primarily profiles the film's protagonist, Edward R. Murrow, using an existential perspective. The writer argues ...

"Barn Burning," Sarty's Attitudes Towards his Father

This essay pertains to William Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning," and the changing attitudes of its 10-year-old protagonist Sa...

Hawthorne and Anti-Transcendentalism

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at literary anti-transcendentalism. Hawthorne's short story, "Dr. Heidegger's Experimen...

Epic Hero Transformation in Greek Literature

In six pages this paper examines the transformation of the epic hero in ancient Greek literary works such as Euripides' Medea, Sop...

Analyzing John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and The Pearl

In five pages these stories are analyzed in terms of their similarities and differences and literary elements such as themes, char...

Comparison of Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

his meaningless and mind-numbing job. Ivan Ilyich becomes aware that something "new and dreadful" was happening to him, somethin...

The Matrix Character of Neo

Reeves plays Neo, a hacker who learns from rebel-rousers Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) and Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) that the wor...

Native American Literature

especially true in Love Medicine, where the abandoned son attempts to brew a love medicine for his grandfather. However, he gets s...

Revenge and Doubt in William Shakespeare's Othello and Hamlet

and situations in black and white terms. Therefore, he is less tolerant of sin and more judgmental then his Danish counterpart. Wh...

Portrayal of Women in Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones' Diary and in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

in Austens book. And, such realities are subtly reflected in Fieldings book as well, despite the fact that it was written only a f...

Three Poems by Philip Arthur Larkin

this indicates, in this poem, Larkin perfectly catches the nature of a society that has no idea what awaits it. Previous battles w...

Female Protagonists in Ernest Hemingway's Hills Like White Elephants and Anton Chekhov's The Darling

It is this "darling," who, according to Chekhov, "could not exist without loving" (Chekhov, 2002). She falls in love with Kukin, w...

Names Symbolism in 'A Country Husband' by John Cheever

moral Shady Hill. Strangely enough, considering that description, there is a great deal of humor in the story, not the least of wh...

James Bond Films and Female Protagonists Electra King and Rosa Klebb

Enough" (2000) she poses little threat to him, as her role is different, it is merely to delay and keep him occupied whilst anoth...