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Edward Albee's Tragic Play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

tortured marriage. The world of George and Martha is a closed, stagnant environment. It is filled with highly destructive element...

American Literary Symbolism

353). Symbols present another layer to a story, as well as another realm for questioning. Who or what is "Young Goodman Brown" t...

William Faulkner's The Hamlet, John Steinbeck's East of Eden, and Samuel Clemens' Huckleberry Finn Compared

In eleven pages the similarities and differences that exist among the male protagonists and their parentages in these works are co...

John Steinbeck's Legacy Featured in Working Days The Journals of the Grapes of Wrath

Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath is considered in appreciation of author John Steinbeck and his literary legacy ...

Sexuality and Prostitution in the novel, Catcher in the Rye

This paper examines issues of sexuality in the novel, Catcher in the Rye. The author focuses on the spiritual and social beliefs ...

Historical English Plays and Marginalization

In five pages this paper considers marginalization as featured in English plays William Shakespeare's Othello and Aphra Behn's The...

'White Nights' by Fyodor Dostoevsky

In 7 pages this short story is analyzed in terms of its protagonist and whether or not it was modeled after the author who created...

Getting Out by Marsha Norman

In 5 pages this paper discusses the dual identities of the 1983 play's protagonist and the dual women's realities of the Sixties a...

Themes of Reality and Illusion in Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews

In five pages this paper examines how Fielding presents the popular literary theme of illusion and reality within the context of t...

A Literary History of Texas' Independence Movement

Erasmo Seguin, father of Juan. The elder Seguins actions were motivated by his identity as a Texan, rather than as a Mexican citiz...

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

In this paper that contains five pages the examination of a murder mystery that features favorite Christie protagonist Detective H...

'On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year' by Lord Byron

In a paper consisting of 5 pages Byron's use of literary devices in this poem are examined in an argument that youth is for love w...

Modern Technology Critiques by Henry David Thoreau in Civil Disobedience and Walden

In six pages this paper examines how Thoreau criticized modern technology in these literary works. One source is cited in the bib...

Overview of Laws Regarding International Intellectual Property Rights

In nine pages this paper examines the global evolution of laws pertaining to intellectual property rights dating back to 1886 when...

Order, Disorder, and Cultural Intepretations in The Arabian Nights, The Decameron, and The Ramayana

American students great vistas of the world of Indian civilization" (Lutgendorf Intro.htm). It is important to note, however, tha...

Daisy and Her Financial Status in Daisy Miller by Henry James

an open and unsuspecting young woman and places her in the context of a closed and suspicious world of condemnation and value judg...

J.D. Salinger, Mark Twain, and Society

In 7 pages this paper examines how the young protagonists of Catcher in the Rye and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are at war ...

Comparison of Medieval and Modern Views with William Shakespeare's Hamlet and Ben Jonson's Every Man

and turned" (Every Man - III, 2, pp. 48) and Hamlets "imagination" as he dwells on the experience of seeing his fathers ghost: "Th...

Jane Tompkins' Revolutionary Approach to Literary Criticism

In eighteen pages this paper supports Jane Tompkins' suggestions that literature instruction should address the students' minds an...

Comparing Daisy from The Great Gatsby and Amanda from The Glass Menagerie

quicksand. Daisy hide a deeper meaning to her character, and that character is evil due to the unthinking nature of her superficia...

Marianela by Benito Perez Galdos

for conflict that occur between human beings and social institutions (Berkowitz 143). It appears to be a simple story of idyllic...

Bilingual Pupil and Literature

In seven pages this paper discusses how the bilingual pupil can be assisted through the classroom incorporation of American litera...

Literature and Modernism

In six pages this paper examines 20th century modernist literature in a consideration of such concepts as impressionism, postmoder...

Analysis of The Guide by R.K. Narayan

attached to temple dancing that associated it with prostitution. Prior to his prison term, Raju was an actual guide, giving peop...

Oedipus and Hamlet

In seven pages this paper contrasts and compares William Shakespeare's protagonist with the Oedipus myth as well as the interpreta...

Writings of Ben Jonson and Their Significance

to tell than did the others. His work, whether comedy, drama or poetry, also had an extra acerbic "bite" that audiences enjoyed (...

Literary Heroes Come of Age

The tale of a hero becoming an adult is a staple of literature. This essay compares heroes Han Solo and Odysseus, Luke Skywalker a...

Women in Haddawy's Translation of One Thousand and One Arabian Nights and in Muhammad's Holy Qur'an

out and to do so without question. If one did not bring to bear this responsibility, Muhammad was not reserved in instructing the...

Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Cultural Reorganization from a Woman's Perspective

reader is able to reconsider a number of suppositions as related to the era and the characters that inhabit it. Details, Details, ...

Milkman Character in Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

must be left on a shelf, out of reach and safe from being broken. Macon Deads desire for a slice of metaphoric pie--the American ...