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Medea, Wide Sargasso Sea, and Gender Roles

dynamics of the power relationship between them is more complicated than a simple balance between active and passive: at the start...

Masculinity in Modern Cinema

the natural disaster" (Action Films, 2002). Marchetti also states that action-adventure films have long been the domain of male...

Comparing the Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne

he urges Faith to deny the Devil and look to Heaven, he suddenly finds himself alone in the forest. Although Brown has escaped the...

Poetry and Carpe Diem

the end, ones heart may win over ones intellect. In Diane Ackermans poem, which may very well be a modern retelling of...

Elective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In three pages this paper examines the theme of fidelity within the context of Elective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. ...

John Donne's Poetry and Themes of Love and Death

In ten pages John Donne's poetry including 'Valediction Forbidding Mourning,' 'The Sunne Rising,' and 'The Anniversary' are exami...

Materialism and Walden by Henry David Thoreau

rejection of the American dream likely came before he had embarked on this personal journey. He had some insight into the problem ...

Melville's "Bartleby, The Scrivener" - 'Eminently Safe'

them, much of which is brought about by Bartlebys unusual behavior (Dickstein, 2005). The method by which Melville (2004) address...

Imagination in Development of Character and Plot

imagination. In offering the reader such a look into the individual the reader is made to see the beauty of imagination as it rela...

Cruelty or Kindness: Of Mice and Men

novels in that focus. In this particular novel many of the characters are drifters, seeking whatever work they can on one ...

A&P: Conformity and Non-Conformity

is actually a waterfront town so this should not seem incredibly out of place in the summer. But, it is very different from what t...

Gertrude and Ophelia

father in the dust" (Shakespeare I i). She also tells him that he should not make his mother worry so. In short, her role is to be...

The Stone Carvers

lover in the war and the disappearance of her brother. She becomes a recluse, clearly indicating a sense of obsession with self an...

Man Trouble by Andre Mayer

claiming men restrict and oppress them and also claiming that men need to get in touch with their feelings and learn how to not be...

Robert Frost

but the presence of Winter coming on is clearly a powerful element, or theme, in the poem as the narrator illustrates how he is re...

Theme in Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper

how her husband clearly has no idea what is bothering his wife, although he clearly also presumes to have the answer in taking her...

Sports and Gender

activity an entire tribe could be lost. Women needed to be protected because they were pregnant or caring for physically weak memb...

Case Study Analysis of Earnings and Gender Discrimination

reason for the huge disparity in earnings between men and women. One reason behind this assumption is that women tend to take the ...

Literature of Early Africa and Identity

how Africa had been at some point before its development. While the old works cited above do provide a sense of identity for the p...

Slavery and Thomas Jefferson

a slave owner. Regardless of his commitment to democracy, such commitment did not extend to include slaves in that process. Vali...

Comparison of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

had previously been reserved only for God. He works feverishly on what he believes will be a perfect human form for it was manufa...

Alcohol According to Benjamin Franklin and Frederick Douglass

playing ball, wrestling, running foot-races, fiddling, dancing, and drinking whisky; and this latter mode of spending the time was...

Theme of Desire in 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Henry V

namely, the crown/ And all wide-stretched honours that pertain/ By custom and the ordinance of times/ Unto the crown of France" (S...

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair and its Rhetorical Importance

Just about that time, there was a large strike in Packington, which was a large meatpacking area. "I knew that this was a place w...

Consciousness in Olympia by Manet

another nude he had done. The fact that Manet was surprised at the reaction to his work, and considering that Manet was consider...

Value Theory of Immanuel Kant

not for ones performance, but for his or her actions which may be attributable to a sense of duty (Honderich 323). To some, this m...

'Pet Cemetery' by Stephen King and the Acceptance of Death

starts out dealing with death simply enough. The family cat is killed by a car on the highway. The neighbor asks "Louis if hed lik...

Jonathan Swift and Modernity

by pairing books against each other, thus pitting classical works against modern counterparts. For instance, Swift includes such ...

Military and Gender

and women in separate barracks does not cost more as feared ("Military," 1999) and so there is no reason to make them share facili...

Women and Men in American Literature

unworthy, because he is not sexually active, something that truly defines a man. In essence, the two, Jake and Brett, have a ve...