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Professor's House by Willa Cather and Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

In seven pages this essay compares how each author presents common protagonists as deeply complex human beings. There are no othe...

Roman Fever by Edith Wharton

In four pages this novel is analyzed through the use of literary elements of protagonist, antagonist, plot, setting, conflict, and...

Katherine Anne Porter's 'The Jilting of Granny Weatherall' and Eudora Welty's 'A Worn Path'

In six pages the protagonists of these respective stories are compared and contrasted. There is no bibliography included....

Character Analysis of Bigger Thomas in Wright's Native Son

The writer of this 5 page paper argues that Bigger Thomas, the protagonist of Richard Wright's Native Son, committed murder from f...

Human Elements of The Creature in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

This paper examines how Shelley's protagonist changed from The Creature into an articulate, sensitive, and self-educated being. T...

Dorothea in Middlemarch by George Eliot

In nine pages a character analysis of Eliot's protagonist is presented in a discussion of how limitations define her. There are n...

Chaucer's Alter-Ego in the House of Fame.

An observational essay dealing with the protagonist of Chaucer's House of Fame, Geffrey. The author asserts that the work is a pa...

Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

In six pages this paper examines the protagonist in this novel by Joseph Conrad in terms of how he represents man's emotions. Ten...

Character of Moll Flanders

In nine pages Defoe's protagonist is the focus of this character analysis. Eight sources are cited in the bibliography....

Religion in Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

In three pages the religious transformation of the protagonist is considered as it impacted both character and novel. There are n...

A Character Analysis of Fagin and Oliver in Oliver Twist

Oliver, the protagonist, is analyzed along with Fagin. There is a sense that realism has been left by the wayside in this eight pa...

Mysterious Presence of Sarah Woodruff in The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles

In five pages this paper examines the emotional distance of Sarah as perceived by the author as well as the protagonist Charles. ...

Nicholas's Reeducation in The Magus by John Fowles

In six pages this paper examines how motifs and symbolism represent the reeducation of the protagonist in The Magus by John Fowles...

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

In ten pages this research paper focuses on the novel's protagonist Okonkwo and discusses how he reflects his ideal society's trad...

The Tragic Hero Okonkwo in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

This essay consisting of four pages considers how the protagonist satisfies the tragic hero criteria as defined by Aristotle offer...

Freedom Concept in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

In five pages this report chronicles the struggles for freedom that protagonist Okonkwo frequently undergoes. Four sources are ci...

Idea of Freedom and Things Fall Apart

In four pages Chinua Achebe's novel is considered within the context of freedom and how its quest is represented in protagonist Ok...

Love and Marriage in Yvain by Chretien de Troyes

In five pages the ways in which the protagonist develops an appreciation of love's value are discussed. There is 1 source listed ...

Knights and Nobles Relationship in Yvain by Chretien de Troyes

the armed services during a violent era. The rank of knight became a landholding rank. The knight held his land by as military t...

Epic Heroism of King Gilgamesh

The Epic of Gilgamesh, composed about 2000 BC and found inscribed on 12 tablets at Nineveh, is the earliest known epic. The Epic...

Reality and Illusion in Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

This paper consists of six pages and examines the ongoing conflict between reality and illusion that plagues the novel's protagoni...

In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje

In five pages this paper discusses the novel's protagonist Patrick Lewis in a consideration of the alien or outsider status assign...

The Guest 3 by Albert Camus

want to play God. But Balducci insists; regardless of what Daru chooses to do with the prisoner afterwards, Balducci is leaving th...

'The Necklace' by Guy de Maupassant

In four pages this paper examines the very different discoveries the reader and the protagonist make as the story unfolds. There ...

Evil in Candide by Voltaire

should say that everything is best" (Voltaire 1-2). This paper was sold by The Paper Store, Inc. Life couldnt get any better for...

Tragic Hero Oedipus in Oedipus the King by Sophocles

evolves to become so much more than he, at first, appeared to be as he came to see the errors of his ways by the end of the play a...

Why the Tragic Hero Label Applies to Oedipus

In five pages this paper argues that the protagonist of Sophocles' play successfully satisfies the classical tragic hero criteria ...

Othello and Oedipus the King and the Determination of Appearances and Reality

logical explanation, Othello seemed bent on confirming that he will never be more than a misfit in Venice. Desdemonas protestatio...

Neurosis in 'The Awakening' by Kate Chopin, Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen and Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

In ten pages this research paper contrasts and compares the neuroses that characterizes the protagonists Edna, Hedda, and Emma in ...

Nausea Motif of La Nausee by Jean Paul Sartre

In nine pages this paper examines how the futility of life is depicted by Sartre in the nausea of his protagonist. Five sources a...