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Analysis of Deborah Gray White's 'Ar'n't I a Woman'

families together, struggled to make things better, and in all honesty, pushed for the African American to succeed overall as a ra...

Film Robert Rauschenberg

description relating to the film and Rauschenbergs inspiration to become an artist: "as an enlisted man when visiting the Huntingt...

The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart

"a perfect bell, with a perfect pitch" calling worshipers to mass (11). On arriving in Canada, Father Gstir simply changes the loc...

Robert Frost: “Mending Wall”

But it also tells of the two neighbors who work to repair the wall together: they set a specific day and time to do so (Frost, 200...

Piercy: “The Secretary Chant”

a "reject button" and she is pregnant with a Xerox machine (Piercy). The last lines of the poem give the reader the point: "File m...

Hansel and Gretel

father agrees to leave his children in the woods to die because they are all hungry. The dark and ethereal setting of the story is...

The Dream of the Rood

tower under heaven, that I might heal/ each and everyone that shows awe of me./ Of old I was once the most bitter of tortures,/ ha...

Crash: Film Analysis

and if they felt justified in their actions. He decided to write a movie from their perspective" (Jet 54). Such information hel...

Analysis of Hamlet

move from one emotion to another. There is depression, sorrow, despair, anger, frustration, and perhaps a bit of madness mixed in ...

Trifles

death, thus solving the conflict for themselves. The men, however, do not know the truth and the women will not tell them so for t...

Article Analysis: Public School vs. Private School

Location - parents might move to get into a better school district. Also consider how far the private school is; might not b...

Analysis: “In the Name of the Rose”

but throughout the novel in its structure and in the references Eco brings in. The reader thus becomes aware that the novel is wor...

Crazy by Pete Earley

In essence, Earley lays out many facts that people do not know in relationship to the problems with society and the legal system i...

Wordsworth’s Nutting

his poem and essentially relying on words that are descriptive and are simply part of his experience with nature. In this it is pe...

James Fallows on Immigration

American way of life (Fallows, 1983). As an example of just how hard immigrants work and what they can contribute, Fallows traces ...

Definitive Tragedies? Death of a Salesman and Oedipus the King

In a paper that consists of three pages the elements of these plays are examined in terms of similarities and differences in order...

Detective Fictuon and 'Silence of the Lambs' vs. 'Oedipus the King'

In a research paper consisting of 6 pages, the two works of good and evil are considered within the context of detective fiction. ...

Tragic Themes in Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, Sophocles' Antigone and William Shakespeare's Macbeth

Shakespeares characters that the audience (or the reader) immediately understands will not have an easy time of it. The story of "...

Feminist Heroines Antigone in Sophocles' Play of the Same Name and Nora Helmer in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House

However, Antigone dared to do just that. Her brothers Polyneices and Eteocles fought on opposite sides and when both were killed ...

Oedipus in Zeffirelli’s Hamlet

Hamlet is fascinating because he is so psychologically rich and complex; hes a real person, and no one has quite managed to figure...

Sophocles, Shakespeare and Actions That Speak Louder than Words

is apparent in Hamlet in many ways. First, when Polonius asks Hamlet what hes reading, Hamlet says "Words, words, words" (II.ii.19...

Religious and Individual Tensions in Othello by William Shakespeare and Antigone by Sophocles

classic confrontation between the forces of good and evil in the Christian biblical tradition. The society of ancient Greece was ...

Humanness in the Character Oedipus Rex

of in a negative light. On the other hand, Oedipus Rex is also someone who is seemingly trying to help to find the true murderer o...

Flawed Characters in Death of a Salesman, Antigone, and Oedipus

been killed and because he is deemed a traitor the powers refuse him a burial. Antigone fights for this cause claiming that her br...

Contemporary Oedipus Imagery

if he should have a son. Therefore, Laius took steps to prevent conceiving a son by Jocasta. However, Jocasta wanted a child and c...

Norse Volsung Saga and Oedipus Rex Compared

In a paper consisting of 3 pages the different tones but common storylines that exist in these tales are compared. There are no o...

Oedipus and Gilgamesh Compared

The tragedies these leaders experience that lead them onto a path of self knowledge are the focus of this paper consisting of five...

Oedipus and Hamlet Characterizations

his mother, he fulfills the prophesy. As Oedipus tells the story, one gets the sense that he is more than just a character. He is ...

'My Oedipus Complex' by Frank O'Connor

becomes the focus of attention in the family. Both Larry and his father are now ousted from being the center of attention. This, h...

Gertrude in Hamlet and Jocasta from Oedipus Compared

all. However, Hamlet does not see it this way and becomes very angry with his mother for marrying Claudius. Because of this, Ham...