YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Comparison of Two Literary Protagonists
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changes in her life have both positive and negative implications. At the onset of the story, Janie is a character who is unable t...
madly in love with Osen - the cooper" (Saikaku 600). A relevant phrase in literary circles that relates to the overall con...
of the narrators gender importance. It is suggested -- by a woman, no less -- that something be said to Emily in an effort to rid...
keeping me at a distance; but that until she heard from Bessie, and could discover by her own observation, that I was endeavouring...
young girl to embark on this very adult and complex journey? One can see as the story unfolds that Sophies energy, open-mindedness...
fated to her status in life" (Lombardi). It is a moralistic fable written in the tradition of the ancient Greeks in which the her...
mother, Lady de Courcy, reveals, this woman is no shrinking violet (Knuth 215). Lady Susan uses her feminine wiles whenever the m...
thinks himself a hero. When we see the following, that illustrates the position of the narrator in this poem, we begin to see h...
In 5 pages this paper presents a character analysis of Okonkwo featured in Chinua Achebe's novel in terms of how the Ibo culture i...
In 6 pages this paper analyzes the male and female heroines in the texts The Ice Palace, Winter Dreams, The Last Tycoon, This Side...
Both of the primary mail characters are fundamentally powerless, as are the narrators of the stories. Ironically, a great deal of...
In 5 pages the saintly protagonists Christian and Oliver and their missions are discussed in a comparative analysis of these novel...
This paper analyzes various works by Mark Twain and emphasizes his ability to create characters who seem to view the world in an i...
As he hauls water through the village he is greeted by many who know him. Some of course treat him like a servant but by and by...
he has not really learned a great deal, except to perhaps further solidify his lack of desire to be civilized. In reading this sto...
of independence and material possessions as a way to shed the discomfort of her less-than-copious upbringing. While Dreiser sough...
antagonist to both Heathcliff and Linton that propels the narrative. Bronte creates the foundation for her exploration of psycho...
the plague will end and his grateful subjects will worship him like a god. However, the aging oracle Tiresias (sometimes spelled ...
deliberation" (Livesley, 2001, p. 22). Lt. Raine is a most conscientious soldier to the point of replacing any semblance of human...
When the psychologists lofty expectations come crashing down around him, he tries to wash his anxieties away in a symbolic gesture...
whom she falls in love, but she begins to branch out and experience life on her own terms, focusing on her own desires. She learns...
his own resulting suicide because he believes his life is not worth living (which, in many ways, parallels Clarissas own ambivalen...
direct order--never, at least, without long, and sometimes tearful, explanations of the advantages of obedience and the reasons fo...
where Moll informs workers that she wants to grow up to be a gentlewoman. What this means is that she wants to support herself and...
journey with a runaway slave and ultimately finds his way back to civilization and a home. Offering a very simple and adventurous ...
there are certain things a person must do, certain things a man must feel and never turn away from. So many men were lost in their...
is a fact. Troys son Cory wants to know why Rose wants them to build a fence. Cory says, tells Troy "Some people build fences to k...
Oberon and make him smile/ When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile,/ Neighing in likeness of a filly foal:/ And sometime lurk I in...
the arrangement of words he so enjoyed shaping. "Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests: snug as a gun. Under my win...
In two pages this paper examines the conflicts of minorities in society in a consideration of these two works of literature....