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John Ford/The Quiet Man

and he refuses to do so. Mary Kate abides by her brothers wishes, which confuses and frustrates Sean. The plot complications tha...

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...

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...

'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...

Society's Treatment of Women in Literature in an Analysis of Female Characters Daisy, Harriet, and Lucie

This essay consists of eleven pages and examines society's treatment of women in the female characterizations featured in the lite...

Comparative Literary Analysis of William Faulkner's Modernism and Toni Morrison's Postmodernism

(without excluding the importance of the past), where everything is not spelled out neatly for the reader. The reader must interp...

Jing-Mei Woo’s Personality Traits in Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds”

When Jing-Mei fell short of achieving the lofty goal her mother set for her, her insecurity intensified. After seemingly endless ...

"We Be Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks, "The Lesson" by Toni Cade Bambara, and "Shiloh" by Bobbie Ann Mason and the American Dream

The thematic representation of the American dream in two literary genres (1 poem and 2 short stories) is discussed in 9 pages. Th...

Self Quests of the Protagonists in On the Road by Jack Kerouac and The Awakening by Kate Chopin

In six pages this paper considers the protagonists Dean Moriarty, Sal Paradise, and Edna Pontillier's self quests in On the Road a...

American Literature

little concern for the development, the past, of the relationships that play a very important part in the stories. One could well ...

Salvation in Tolstoy's Death of Ivan Ilych

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...

Death in Venice and Him with His Foot in His Mouth

that he dies of a broken heart. The relationship among art, passion and intellect is really the heart of the story. Mann has very...

Miss Emily as Illustrated by her House

one of the most frequently anthologized stories in English, and one of the most popular. Its blend of horror, mystery and irony ar...

Hills Like White Elephants and Everyday Use

are giving in to another, and also demonstrating how they are not necessarily self confident or overly concerned about themselves ...

Effects of Hubris on Tragic Shakespearean Heroes Brutus, Hamlet, and Othello

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...

Protagonists Othello and Hamlet

In five pages this paper examines the similarities and differences that existed between two of William Shakespeare's most famous a...

An Exploration of The Unities

it. A well constructed plot, therefore, must neither begin nor end at haphazard, but conform to these principles" (Aristotle 7-8)....

Antagonist and Protagonist in Hamlet by William Shakespeare

In five pages this paper examines William Shakespeare's Hamlet in an assessment of the portrayals of the antagonist and protagonis...

Comparing On the Road by Jack Kerouac and Go by John Clellon Holmes

In five pages this paper examines these two literary examples of the Beat Generation in a consideration of Stofsky's imaginary tri...

False Human Experience Analysis Represented by 'The Death of Ivan Ilych' by Leo Tolstoy

In three and a half pages this paper argues that the criticism of this 1886 literary work by Leo Tolstoy that describes it as 'a p...

The Meaning of Life According to Leo Tolstoy

This 10 page paper examines Leo Tolstoy's literary works and personal philosophy, and argues that he sought simplicity and spiritu...

Emergent Literacy and Reading Readiness Approaches

In two pages this paper compares the literary instructional approaches of emergent literacy and reading readiness in a considerati...

Love's Success or Failure in Quicksand by Nella Larsen and The Awakening by Kate Chopin

for fleeting moments of pleasure with Robert Lebrun, Ednas longing for love remained unfulfilled. One defining even occurred when...

Zoya by Danielle Steel

In five pages Steel's romance novel is critically assessed in terms of its theme and literary elements, which leave much to be des...

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien and 'Four Turns'

In five pages this paper examines how the reader's perceptions are changed in the 4 sudden literary turns Tolkien incorporated int...

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...