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Essays 1801 - 1830

Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, and Love Relationships

and feels that he usurped his place in the family. Therefore, when Hindley torments Heathcliff when he gets the opportunity. Cathy...

William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, the Medieval Epic 'Beowulf' and Setting

this case Hrothgar, and his subjects. The Beowulf poet states that "It came to his (Hrothgars) mind that he would command men to c...

An Exploration of The Unities

it. A well constructed plot, therefore, must neither begin nor end at haphazard, but conform to these principles" (Aristotle 7-8)....

Poetic Metaphors Used by Boccaccio, Aquinas, Sidney, Shelley, and Aristotle

In twelve pages the poetic metaphor and its value is assessed within the works of these varied literary and philosophical icons. ...

'Easter 1916' and the Irish Nationalistic Sentiments of William Butler Yeats

by minute; A horse-hoof slides on the brim, And a horse plashes within it; The long-legged moor-hens dive, And hens to moor-cocks ...

Robert Burns' Poetry and Poetic Devices

In five pages 5 of Robert Burns' poems are analyzed in terms of metrical structure and literary devices including 'Robert Bruce's ...

Italian Literature and the Themes of Escape, Alienation, and Entrapment

first the expulsion from the tennis club, then from the fascist party, then academic anti-Semitism, then more and more direct insu...

Literature and the Nature of Good vs. Evil

goading and nagging, contributed to Macbeths downfall; however, when one examines the play that the main impetus to Macbeths actio...

'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' Analyzed

the intent of the writer. Might he have an agenda hidden under the ghost story? At the same time, this is a classic supernatural t...

Antigone and Medea

men. It is their rules and their decisions that determine how women should act and what role they can play in society. Antigones ...

'Inscriptions' by William Wordsworth

exploration of human feelings and emotions. In the poem, Inscriptions, to which the first lines are: HOPES what are they?--B...

Simile and Metaphor

arms off and place them somewhere, nor did she wage a real battle on the high window. Even the terms high window and shadow can be...

Castiglione's The Courtier and Machiavelli's The Prince

also been associated with seriousness and intelligence, however, a man who realized that in order to accomplish a goal one had to ...

Three Poems by Philip Arthur Larkin

this indicates, in this poem, Larkin perfectly catches the nature of a society that has no idea what awaits it. Previous battles w...

Racism in Othello

seem that Desdemona is having an affair with Cassio, the man that Othello favored for promotion over Iago. Convinced that Desdemon...

Analysis of 'Everything That Rises Must Converge' by Flannery O'Connor

Race is something everyone must deal with in a multiracial society. No matter what ones color or religion or ethnicity, they at so...

Mississippi River Journey of Jim and Huckleberry Finn

and telling Huck his story. They both decide to simply hide out on the island together, fishing and getting what they can on the i...

Modernism and Literature

became sculptural" (Make It New: The Rise of Modernism). From another perspective one author notes, "It is usually thought that ...

Contemporary Southern Literature and Women

In nine pages this paper examines how women's changing roles are reflected in the literary works Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons, A S...

Black and White Worlds of Zora Neale Hurston

This paper examines how Zora Neale Hurston was able to coexist in both white and black literary circles in eight pages. Eight sou...

Disillusionment in Babylon Revisited by F. Scott Fitzgerald and A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennesse Williams

she says, but for the first time we suspect she is not going to be able to do that. Here we have to conclude there is a definite...

Falseness or Mendacity in The Misanthrope, A Doll's House, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

In five pages this report examines the intensity of mendacity as featured in these literary works. There are no other sources lis...

Gerda Weissman Klein's All But My Life, Toni Morrison's Beloved, and Women's Fortitude and Morale

In seven pages this paper examines how the female protagonists in these respective literary works maintain their morale and intern...

A Raisin in the Sun v. Huckleberry Finn

In five pages these two literary works are contrasted and compared in terms of social hardships and character morality. There are...

Life, Art, and Maya Angelou

In five pages this research paper examines how the life of Maya Angelou is featured in her literary art with such texts as Heart o...

Racism Reflected in Literature

In five pages this paper discusses how racism development in the U.S. is chronicled in the literary works Typee, Black Elk Speaks,...

God as Reflected in Literature

In five pages this paper discusses the U.S. acceptance of religion and how God is reflected in such literary works as Typee, Black...

The Last of Cheri, The Handmaid's Tale, Beloved, and Faith

In four pages faith and its importance in these literary works and the characters featured within are discussed. There are no oth...

Opium and the Life of Thomas DeQuincey's as Revealed in Confessions Of An English Opium Eater

English Romantic Thomas DeQuincey no only used opium but was addicted to it. It possessed his life and played a critical role in ...

The Thematic Significance of Fire in British Literature

This paper addresses the various roles of fire in three British literary works, Blake's, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Bronte's...