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Much Ado About Nothing: The 'Comedy' of Scapegoats

This paper examines how scapegoats propel the comedy of William Shakespeare's play in the characterizations of Don John, Claudio, ...

Great Expectations - Symbolism and Realism

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at use of symbolism in Great Expectations. The use of London itself as a symbol of corr...

Literary Conflicts in Plays

This 3 page paper gives an explanation of literary devices and conflicts within the plays Macbeth and Mistaken Identity. This pape...

The Age of Miracles and Symbolic use of Eucalyptus

This 4 page paper gives an overview of the symbolism in The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker. This paper includes how euca...

Medieval Literature, Biblical Allusions and Religious Symbolism

all of its aspects. This also ties in with the idea that they are traveling to the city of Canterbury to be redeemed. Here, the po...

Symbolism in 'Snow' by Ann Beattie

At the same time, however, it reflects a twinge of sadness with Allens passing and the importance it played in his life year after...

Sidonie Colette's 'The Hand'

hygiene she also realizes are very large and she is shocked. This is a significant statement by the wife, since up until this time...

Fourth Act, First Scene of The Tempest by William Shakespeare

a rare and precious gem. Ferdinand does fall in love with Miranda, as was Prosperos plan all along, and is willing to stay with th...

Hunters in the Snow by Tobias Wolff and Characterization

him to the hospital. After a short while on the road they stop for coffee, then later, they stop for pancakes. All the while their...

'If You Touched My Heart' by Isabel Allende

human being. Her song on the "blond wood psaltery" produced a "crystalline sound like water purling between stones" (82). As this ...

Symbols Used in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne

of symbolism can be seen in Melvilles "great white whale in Moby Dick; Dantes journey into the underworld in The Inferno" and many...

Epic 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' and the Use of Symbolism

of balance. The Knight carries the potential for both peace and war. They are intimately bound to one another, it should be said, ...

'Ballad of Birmingham' by Dudley Randall

hope. The mothers wise voice could be seen to be the voice of experience, conservative ways, of hope seasoned with hard times. The...

Student Papers and Interpretations of 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

upon her every which way she may turn, reminding her that because she is of the female gender and not of the most prominent of soc...

Emily Dickinson's 'I Dwell in Possibility'

say in their prose pieces. "Of Chambers as the Cedars/Impregnable of Eye And for an Everlasting Roof/The Gambrels of the S...

Symbolism in 'The Birthmark' by Nathaniel Hawthorne and 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor

it right in front of him. However, in The Birthmark we are also introduced to the character of Aminidad, who...

'The Bait' by John Donne

lover on the edge of being lost. Donne promises that lover that if she abides with the callers wished she will be rewarded with g...

'I Stand Here Ironing' Short Story by Tillie Olsen

BODY "I Stand Here Ironing" relates the several facts which are pertinent...

'Drink My [Red] Blood' by Richard Matheson

with typical Christian values, and most of them wanted to grow up to become policemen, firemen, or doctors. Being average did not...

Bram Stoker's 'Dracula's Guest' Analyzed

he decides to proceed anyway. Clearly, the dark, cold, unforgiving surroundings that encapsulate the guest as his driver leaves h...

Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie

was that the protagonist is not sorry for her illicit relationship with the married man, and in fact seems to have benefited her l...

Comparative Analysis of Lorraine Hansberry's Raisin in the Sun and Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie

the additional mouth to feed will put the family into jeopardy. The audience knows that she is considering abortion. To end all of...

Ian Frazier's On the Rez

and singing ancient songs and lose myself in that moment when all the breaths and all the heartbeats become one. What I want is ju...

Literature's Deeper Meaning

the town of Bisbee. "It is July 20, 1989, early afternoon, monsoon season in the Sonoran Desert, and I am going back to Bisbee. A...

Time Themes in The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad

radicals that Verloc has been spying upon. Now, time is not his friend. The element of time is narrowed considerably after this ...

Beloved by Toni Morrison and Enslavement

the hope inherently possessed in freedom. But, even Baby Suggs understands that slavery will always be with them. She dreamed of b...

Symbolism in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, 'The Minister's Black Veil,' 'The Birth Mark,' and 'Dr. Heidegger's Experiment'

corruption of politics; Colonel Killigrew (whose name in itself is symbolic) personifies the evils of pleasures of the flesh; and ...

Boys and Girls by Munro and the Blood Motif

theme. Without the skill of Munro, the themes might be buried with just a scant plot controlling the movement of the characters. Y...

Mockingbird Symbolism in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

seem to represent the mocking bird are the threats of hatred, prejudice and ignorance. Innocent people such as Tom Robinson and Bo...

Symbolism in the Star Wars Film Trilogy

powerful and perhaps confusing mentor, Luke is angered and frustrated as he feels he is learning nothing at all. He struggles on t...