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Interpreting Fairy Tale Illustration: Cinderella

artists intrinsic complexity. Kneeling at the base of a delicate tree with head tipped upward, eyes closed and hands brought toge...

Scientific Progress and its Threat in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

during his student days, on sciences fascination: None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of sci...

Edgar Allan Poe's Works and the Themes of Evil, Insanity, and Guilt

been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe [3]). In this the reader is immediately told that the narrator is mad becau...

Dada and Impressionist Art as Political Statements

favorable in his time period (Art Archive [1], 2005). This author notes the following in regards to his work and his beliefs: "Yet...

Two Science Fiction Story Characterizations

stars for me, weaponed me to make my way in the world...Did I slay him, what horror would come upon me and mine?" (Anderson 305). ...

Epic Poem Beowulf Contemporary Retelling

for protection against the creature that has been terrorizing his subjects, Beowulf can hardly refuse. It is not simply because H...

Supernatural and the Romantic in Works by Washington Irving and Edgar Allan Poe

before that night had I felt the extent of my own powers, of my sagacity. I could scarcely contain my feelings of triumph" (Poe). ...

Creative Mountain Warrior Saga

forever working in the smithy, making horseshoes and farm implements. They had been friends since they were boys, and it seemed th...

A Discussion Concerning African Literature

when examining the beauty in nature. According to a student writing on this subject, Bass (1990) provides many examples of the f...

Racism in Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain and Classism in Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

away. He stands as a man of a higher social class who has integrity. His mother, however, represents all that is bad in the upper ...

Fear as a Recurring Theme in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe

grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...

An Analysis of Virgil's Depiction of the Tragedy of Dido

a cave. They make love and, from this point on, Dido considers them to be married even though a ceremony has not officially consec...

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...

William Wordsworth and Geoffrey Chaucer

life was perhaps like in Medieval times. Looking at each individual story, however, would take a considerable amount of time an...

Childhood Tale on the Mystery of the Disappearing Barbie

Elisa carried with her always, always feeling and smelling and tasting the day. The garden hose water, which tastes like no other ...

Women's Roles in 'The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

The Wife makes it clear that she has always enjoyed sex and this verifies the Churchs depiction of women as licentious. In fact, t...

English Literature and Virtue

when the Beowulf poet writes "Fate always goes as it must" (43) and "Fate often saves an undoomed man when his courage is good" (...

Don Quixote and the 'Impertinent Curiosity' Tale

It comes to pass that Don Quixote and some of his friends are staying at an inn, and the innkeeper is nearly as...

Innovation and Small Business

well. Interestingly enough, when small businesses make millions other innovations and turned into larger businesses, sometimes th...

Four Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe

not something that had occurred to him earlier. The murder appears to stem solely from the fact that the narrator has the power in...

To Kill a Mockingbird Content Analysis

he was kept as a virtual prisoner of his house by his brother. Nathan, and out of public view as much as possible. For the childr...

Families in the Works of William Shakespeare and Happiness

of shallowness in schemings clothing, while rejecting the honest and heartfelt response of Cordelia, the only daughter who truly d...

Atwood's, The Handmaid's Tale and Female Anxieties

Clearly this essential theme is one that speaks of a cultural nightmare for the idea of feminism. Women today are women who unders...

Modern Day American Life and The Application of A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift

of irony ("Literature" PG). Swift emphasizes the horrible poverty found in eighteenth-century Ireland as he ironically proposes th...

The Tale of Genji and its Thematic Elements

same as it would be had Genjis father actually fathered the new baby. Yet, this baby takes the throne as it is not revealed who t...

Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, Love and Romance

eventually escapes with the same hopes that one day he may win the love of Emelye. While hiding in the bushes he sees Arcite and h...

Literature, Understanding, and the Lack Thereof

Verloc has used her brother, her foundation for understanding her husband dissolves and the two no longer are able to communicate....

Symbolism in Ernest Hemingway's 'Hills Like White Elephants'

"girl" in reference to this female, a choice which would appear to indicate that she is somewhat younger than her companion yet He...

Maycomb, Alabama and Themes of Loneliness and Childhood in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

Montgomery. It could be contended that even the geographical location of Maycomb is a critical element in Lees plot. Montgomery,...

Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and its Allegories

the next line. Its primary purpose is to establish a series of repetition in the name of sensible progression. For those words a...