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Choices and Sense of Duty in Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen

In nine pages this play analysis examines how the major characters' sense of duty is represented by their choices. Four sources a...

Guinevere's Role in Arthurian Legend

This discussion examines the manner in which the legend developments the character and role of Guinevere and how it changed over t...

Dreaming in Cuban

Cristina Garcia looked at three generations of Cuban women in her book Dreaming in Cuban. This summation and analysis focuses on p...

Nancy in Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

In fourteen pages this paper presents a character analysis of the realistic character of Nancy featured in Oliver Twist by Charles...

Dreams and Their Function in Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

such as George Eliot and Fyodor Dostoevsky constantly show the "complexity of the individual consciousness" and reduce it often to...

Supporting Characters and Foils in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

serves to foil Nora in Acts I and II by tearing down Noras optimistic attitude with her own weighty pessimism. Mrs. Linde has not...

Author's Word Choices and Altered Impressions of Characters

his speech has often included long pauses with "ummm" or "well" or some other phrases to fill the void, the actual speech between ...

A Ficticious Literary Panel Discussion

its extreme, I pointed out the evil being perpetuated against the Irish." Lady Macbeth interrupts, "I am familiar with this wo...

Feminism and Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Wife of Bath's Tale'

"a shrewd businesswoman in an emergent bourgeoisie, a master of parody providing a corrective to the truths of conventional autho...

'Roman Fever' by Edith Wharton and the Author's Deception Cover the Uses of Control and Formality

formality and propriety was incorrect and not only have the main characters deceived each other, but Wharton has been successful i...

Miss Brill's Character in the Story by Katherine Mansfield

(Mansfield NA). We see her as a sensitive and imaginative old woman as she thinks of the fur as a living creature, as her littl...

Characters and Structure of Hamlet by William Shakespeare

with what is purported to be the ghost of his father. It is this ghostly confrontation that also serves as the plays trigger scen...

Stage and Screen Adaptations of Hamlet by William Shakespeare

identity. It is interesting to note that as he pulls on his "cloak of madness" that his true intellect becomes completely clouded ...

The Character of Troy Maxson in August Wilson's Fences

if you could play ball then they ought to have let you play...Come telling me I come along too early. If you could play...then the...

Funcitons of Characters Desdemona, Othello, and Iago in Othello by William Shakespeare

heart. His insecurities are compounded by the dark color of his skin, which makes him a social outsider. Therefore, when he meet...

Hunger by Knut Hamsun, Antigone, and Stubbornness

pushes away all the people that she loves, or have loved her, in her stubbornness related to the burial of her brother. She pushes...

Violating the Law and Social Control Theory

to "study things in their natural setting, attempting to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people br...

Middlemarch and How it Illuminates Sympathy

seeks adventure of "martyrdom in the country of the Moors," and the woman interested also in becoming the warrior with beating "hu...

Characterization of Mrs. Ramsay in To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

cannot go when he obviously want it so badly. James feels that his fathers sarcastic rejection of the idea of visiting the lightho...

Comparative Analysis of Henry James' Portrait of a Lady and Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie

show business, and also very well liked in this particular field. As such she does better than make a living yet does not tell Hur...

Marion in On Tidy Endings by Harvey Fierstein and Nora in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

are both controversial in these regards. Where "A Dolls House deals with the themes of a woman fulfilling her dreams and her disho...

Maya Angelou's Sister Flowers

a very well to do family. She attempts to foster a love of beauty and words to the narrator. In order to do this she encourages th...

Character of Starbuck in Moby Dick by Herman Melville

wonder of nature, or the natural balance of things as he is determined to kill the whale. As one author notes, "Ahab destroys hims...

Hamlet and Fortinbras Comparison and Contrast

add the final brushstrokes to Hamlets character (or lack thereof). It is shown that Fortinbras, Prince of Norway, is a man of deci...

1960s' Life and Mike Nichols' Film The Graduate

to comment on his future and to give him advice. The viewer comes to understand that Ben is expected to follow in his fathers foot...

Characters of Macbeth and Othello

man who feels isolated and alone in that he is different than those around him. He truly has no real friends and thus his wife ser...

Justice and Truth in Death and the Maiden by Dorfman and Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

protagonist comes to this conclusion in Chapter ten at the paint factory. In Dorfmans Death and the Maiden, Pauline is the main c...

A Comparison of Two Christian Tragedies

representative of the many generations of Church representatives that have pummeled the Ojibwe with its Christian doctrine. Endri...

Portia's Presentation in the Third and Fourth Acts of The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

/ Is an unlessond girl, unschoold, unpractisd; / Happy in this, she is not yet so old / But she may learn; happier than this, / Sh...

Cinema and Rebellion

child who is the product of a failed system, this film seems to be saying. This film was a social commentary of sorts, which use...