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Villainy, Chaos and Death as Literary Devices

to illustrate important themes. This paper considers how an authors use of death, chaos and villainy bring other aspects of the wo...

Discussing Realism, Naturalism and Modernism

literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The following paper offer a description of the characteristics of...

Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin

52). Close examination of "Story of an Hour" reveals the manner of Louise Mallards death, i.e., murder, and also the message that ...

Charles Baxter - The Disappeared

is a classic "quest" tale; the description of a mans journey through a strange new world, in this case, Detroit, Michigan. This pa...

The Necklace/Guy de Maupassant

Necklace" is present the narrative within the context of the readers understanding of Mathilde Loisels character, who is described...

Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville

metaphorically complex narrative that has been interpreted in a variety of ways. The story itself is deceptively simple. The narra...

Susanna Rowson Writes the Truth

more than the all-too common story of a girl seduced and abandoned by a worthless man, it is a lecture that runs nearly 150 pages ...

Exegesis of Psalm 3

the image it conjures of a king about to go into battle is accurate. In line with this position, Craigie indicates that he believe...

"To Build a Fire" by Jack London and the Use of Setting as an Antagonist

chill in the air (London 143). But his canine companion knew better. He was all-too-familiar with this icy terrain, and his inst...

Chopin's Awakening and Smart's By Grand Central Station

background. Chopin does not relate a great deal about Ednas early life, but what she does indicate is extremely revealing, as the ...

THEMES OF INNER CONFLICT IN "THE STORY OF AN HOUR"

life would be long with sunny days and happiness. This reluctant joy at a husbands death could be considered even more of...

Oedipus Saga in Sophocles' Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonnus

In eight pages this paper examines how the protagonist Oedipus changed from one work to the next in this analysis of these tragedi...

Faulty American Dream in House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

In eight pages this essay considers how each of these works reveal the American Dream to be flawed as reflected within their diffe...

Jackson’s Literary Devices

at times the exact opposite of what is being said. The once well-known short stories of O. Henry are masterpieces of irony: in one...

Social and Familial Status for Women in 3 Plays

and culture separate the 1888 play of Swedish playwright August Strindberg, Miss Julie, from those of twentieth century Canadians ...

The Time Machine Radio Show

various scientific ideas about time travel. The broadcast is a somewhat accurate rendition of the classic, but even so, in 2012, i...

Interpreting the American Dream

in the sense that opportunities for success are not actually equally distributed, but the ideal holds true in some sense in that t...

Comparative Analysis of Seneca's and Euripides' Medea

In five pages Euripides' and Seneca's depictions of Medea are contrasted and compared in this literary analysis. There are no oth...

Epic Literature and Heroes

In five pages the epic heroes that are featured in epic literary works are discussed in a consideration of 'The Song of Roland,' '...

Is Jay Gatsby Really Likeable?

that sometimes money will create more problems than it solves. Such is the case with Jay Gatsby, and this essay will examine Fitzg...

Critical Character Analysis of Huck Finn

In seven pages this paper presents a character examination of Huckleberry Finn and critically analyzes the adventures the novel pr...

Biographical Profile of J.R.R. Tolkien

a place that subsequently would become a part of the city suburb of Hall Green (Lyster, 2001). While growing up, this boy who woul...

Merce Rodoreda's 'Time of the Doves'

This is a paper consisting of 5 pages and discusses such elements as protagonist Natalia's evolution, mother and daughter relation...

'Desiree's Baby' Short Story Analysis

Realist writers "were more or less in open revolt against [society]," and naturalism combined the theories of Charles Darwin to co...

William Gibson's Neuromancer

In five pages a character analysis of the protagonist Case featured in Neuromancer by William Gibson is presented. Four sources a...

The Personification of Arch Romantics by Shakespeare's Orsino, Jay Gatsby, Gilbert Markham, and Emma Bovary

In five pages this report argues that the literary views of longing and love have long shaped conventional attitudes and examine t...

Imagery and Language in Mark Twain's 'Life on the Mississippi'

remarkable. This, in many ways, sets us up for the diversity of the work, which is perhaps as changing as the river itself. Twa...

Analyzing Coriolanus in The Tragedy of Coriolanus by William Shakespeare

in, on the basis of her gender. Coriolanus was an extremely dutiful son, and his single-minded focus was in becoming the courageo...

Historical Portrayals of Women in Literary Works

This paper contrasts and compares the female characters in The Birds by Aristophanes, Hamlet by William Shakespeare, and Buried Ch...

Literature and the Use of Language

In five pages The Tempest by William Shakespeare and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe are discussed in a consideration of how th...