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Literary Departure in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

In eight pages this paper examines the literary departure of James Joyce in this 1916 example of modernist fiction....

Love in a Small Town by Wang Anyi

sees the cultural upheavals which have befallen the mainland in its over forty years under socialism as a backdrop, not a major pl...

Families and Ghosts and Isabel Allende

In five pages Allende's global literary contributions are discussed. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

King Oedipus, Prince Hamlet, and Their Tragic Flaws

In five pages the tragic flaws of these play protagonists are contrasted and compared....

Comparing Achilles and Odysseus

Odysseus was renowned for both his brain and his brawn. He was also had bravery, and competence at his skills. Odysseus was an a...

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

In five ways the protagonist Frederic Henry's transformation from boy to man through his wartime experience and romance with Cathe...

Witness and Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi

In six pages this essay examines what literary tools the author employed in writing Survival in Auschwitz....

Imagined Debate Between Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Locke, and Niccolo Machiavelli

In five pages this paper imagines a debate among this quartet of political theorists are reflected in their literary works....

Portrayal of Women in Griselda by Boccaccio, Brothers Menaechmus by Plautus, and 'The Odyssey' by Homer

a distraction, as a goal, as a guide, and as an agent of social recognition (The Odyssey in Transit, 2000). Odysseus is indeed co...

Gregor Samsa's Changes in Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis

concerned that he cant get up and go to work to support his family. Even from the start, he does not want to be a burden on his fa...

Outside Looking In

he realizes are poor quality. The boys awakening to reality is a shock. He suddenly understands that he has built up an entire f...

The Fifth Child, Angela's Ashes, Death of a Salesman and the Theme of Family Disintegration

play, wants this to the exclusion of reality. At the beginning of the play it becomes apparent that Willy is in trouble. Suffering...

Krakauer's Into the Wild and London's To Build a Fire

to civilisation? Probably not. We can, therefore, only speculate as to whether or not McChandless might have seen his death as mer...

Gregor Samsa Must Transform Into a Beetle in Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis

the past into the present in support of a future. Sigmund Freud believed that only by freeing repressed happiness, can an individu...

Chinese Literary Works

the mountain (Fox Volant of the Snowy Mountain). As the characters wait for Fox Volant, they start to recall incidents from the p...

An Analysis of Heroism and the Journey in Star Wars

An eight page research paper considering the literary concept of the hero's journey in this classic science fiction film by direct...

The Mask by Fumiko Enchi, Turn of the Screw by Henry James, and Gender

Enchis The Mask. The governesss crisis, as I read it, arises in her struggle to define herself (as we all must) in terms of the ga...

Heroism in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

This paper consists of seven pages and examines the heroism of the novel in a consideration of protagonist Randle McMurphy with a ...

Gothic Romance Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

In five pages this paper discusses how in her novel debut, Jane Austen parodied the Gothic literary genre with a comparison with o...

Duong Thu Huong's Novel Without a Name and Howard R. Simpson's Someone Else's War

In five pages this paper examines the depiction of the Vietnam War in a comparison and contrast of these literary works. Four oth...

Derek Walcott's Poetry

In six pages this paper examines 2 poems by Derek Walcott, 'Nearing Forty' and 'The Virgins' in a contrast and comparison the the ...

Literary Considerations of Greed

typical, but maybe too stereotypical. He is someone who today would appear on The Jerry Springer Show. His life has always been dy...

Classical Literature and The Role of World Leaders

This paper discusses three classic literary works, Gilgamesh, Hayy Ibn Yaqzan, and Oedipus Rex. The author draws comparisons from...

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen and the Theme of Illusion

same as if it were a dolls house, it is built on illusion and fantasy. Within the dolls house Nora become the doll, possibly livin...

Romance and Epic Characteristics

individual stories into the tapestry that became his famous epics. He did not create the stories; they had come from hundreds of y...

Face of an Angel by Chavez

In five pages this novel's protagonist is the central focus with comparisons to the depiction of Latin American culture to America...

Gloria Naylor's Mama Day

In five pages this paper assesses the literary greatness of Mama Day by Gloria Naylor in comparison with William Shakespeare's The...

Leaving Home According to Ernest Hemingway and James Joyce

In five pages this essay considers the theme of leaving home as experienced by the protagonists in Ernest Hemingway's 'A Soldier's...

Trio of Essays on To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway

In nine pages 3 essays are presented regarding Ernest Hemingway's To Have and Have Not that offer personal opinions, literary anal...

Otherworld and Heroes in 'The Odyssey' and 'Epic of Gilgamesh'

in order to acquire knowledge, and to demonstrate bravery or quick-wittedness while they are dealing with unfamiliar situations or...