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'Good' and 'Bad' Tradition in 'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson

The original equipment needed to conduct the lottery was lost "long ago," and the current paraphernalia shows signs of age, the bl...

Sharon Kay Penman When Christ and His Saints Slept

which involves the story of King Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine (Penman, 2002; Penman, 1995). Maude was considered as t...

Dreams and Infantile Sexuality According to Sigmund Freud

humankind has devoted centuries to finding an explanation for the phenomenon of dreaming. Ancient man no doubt perceived dreams a...

Novel Essays by George Lukacs and Virginia Woolf

criticism points toward a different orientation, as she accuses previous writers of materialism, and explains this accusation by ...

Lack of Conclusion in Short Story Mysteries by V. Nabokov and M. Atwood

ended as they could have logically ended. So, too, it must be stated that this spelling out of the ending of the mysteries is a ...

Fourth Book of John Milton's 'Paradise Lost,' Lines 32 to 113

better understanding of what is going on, and we gain a more in-depth understanding of who Satan is and what the entire struggle i...

Australia, Critical Thinking, and David Malouf

fashion as to give the reader a sense of connectedness speaks volumes regarding the authors inherent talent for blending his homel...

Tim O'Brien's In the Lake of the Woods and its Mystery

In five pages this paper discusses how the readers become much like John and Kathy in the novel in terms of becoming lost while tr...

1930s' and African Women's Roles

In five pages this paper examines Beryl Markham's West with the Night in a consideration of African women's roles and how they are...

Humanity and Injustice in Waiting for Lefty and Life in the Iron Mills

Waiting for Lefty and Life in the Iron Mills provide studies on issues of injustice and innate humanity, which shine through even ...

Murasaki Shikibu's Court Diary

In five pages this lady in waiting for the king of Japan from 1007 until 1010 is examined with the argument presented that contemp...

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger and Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Compared

of epic romance between two people from vastly different worlds. When prospective tenant Mr. Lockwood arrives at the Thrushcross ...

A Critical Review of A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch

This 5 page essay examines the reaction the author's story solicited from its readers. 7 sources are cited....

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri and Guides

In five pages this report examines the various guides throughout Dante's 'Divine Comedy' and how they force the readers to conside...

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...

Viewpoint and 'Bliss' by Katherine Mansfield

In six pages this research paper examines how within 'Bliss,' a short story by Katherine Mansfield, the author masterfully manipul...

Critically Assessing Sammy in John Updike's Short Story 'A and P'

The protagonist's intelligence as perceived by the reader draws conclusions about Sammy's actions in this paper containing five pa...

Notions of Romantic Love

In five pages this paper discusses how people view romantic love as described in the John Schilb edited text Making Literature Mat...

Battle of Gettysburg According to Michael Shaara in The Killer Angels

In seven pages this essay discusses how Shaara's fictionalized portrayal of what happened during the Battle of Gettysburg offers r...

Blood in the Face The Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, Nazi Skinheads and the Rise of a New White Culture by James Ridgeway Overview and Analysis

In five pages this paper applies the text themes to such concepts as identity, ethnocentrism, and subculture along with reader rec...

Maturity in Legacy, a Novel by James A. Michener

with methodical, journeyman style. As he told a radio interviewer in 1992: "My job is to be a hard-working man who sits at a moder...

Beloved by Toni Morrison

this 5 page paper summarizes the main issues Toni Morrison discusses in her award-winning novel Beloved. In particular, the writer...

Alfredo Vea Junior's The Silver Cloud Cafe

much better than this -well -maybe. Two neon light angels blink over a down and out adobe that squats on the Mission District cem...

The Short Story 'The Abortion' from the Collection You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down by Alice Walker

In nine pages reader empathy and understanding of Imani is considered through access to the protagonist's deeply personal emotions...

Novel or Life? Charles Dickens' Great Expectations

how perhaps it is involved with the exposing of what is false. However the theory goes, and I feel this is what Dickens is gettin...

A tour of 15th century Notre Dame

In this three page paper the writer takes the reader on a tour of fifteenth century Paris. Highlights include the cathedral of Ou...

Hell as Envisioned by Dante

city until he thrusts her back again to Hell, From which she was first sent above by envy. Therefore I think and judge it best for...

Emily Dickinson's Poetic 'Truth'

and spiritual war is evident in the quote, "Faith is a fine invention for gentlemen who see; But microscopes are prudent in an eme...

Ernest Gaines/Centrality of Racism in His Work

school children to the workplace, from the entertainment industry to the sports world, racial stereotypes are an integral part of ...

The Heroism of Beowulf

turbulent in respect to British history ("Angelcynn" PG). It was a time when England was first created, and the time of King Arth...