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This essay offers a summary and discussion of themes and characters in "Winter Dreams," a short story by Fitzgerald. Three pages i...

This essay examines the question of who is to blame for the failure of the marriage between Emma and Charles Bovary. The writer pr...

This essay presents a discussion of the characters in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen from the standpoint of viewing them as ar...

This paper contends this important character from Chinua Achebe's novel mirrors the impacts of colonization. There is one source ...

This research paper/essay discusses the "Iliad" and the "Aeneid" as two epic poems that mirror the values of Greek and Roman socie...

This essay pertains to the thematic content of Shakespeare's play and provides insight into the relationships that Hamlet has with...

This 3 page paper gives a example for verbal, situational, and character types of irony. This paper includes three instances in th...

This essay focuses on the 1773 play by Oliver Goldsmith, "She Stoops to Conquer," which is an eighteenth century play that is stil...

and he used to fetch him down town sometimes and lay for a bet" (Twain). Smiley was a character who would trick others and come ou...

to kiss her, but naturally, Proudlock was convicted of murder (PG). She received a death sentence but the the European community ...

of Gods creation of the universe (Chance 67). According to De Temporibus Anni (the translation of Aelfric), the worlds first day ...

famine as being the direct manifestation of her conflict with Oberon) and the madness itself is generated by the very human desire...

expects of herself, involves being the keeper of the history of the family. There is likely many elements within her character tha...

the story the reader discovers that he has branded himself permanently with an "A" to pay for his sins. But, he is not a man who w...

Therefore, the conclusion is that he is not the devil, but a man who behaves in a manner that we would call devilish or satanic. H...

highly dysfunctional family adopted survival behaviors a long time before the play begins. Instead of getting mired in the chaos f...

leave together ("The Shy & the Lonely"). Whether or not she is gay, there are certainly the hints are that Amelia is not womanly ...

can be explained by the growing acceptance in our culture of anything that is off color, illegal, or even immoral. The type of gl...

in the grass and Antonia begins to ask Jim to tell her the English names of things; she is quick and alert and seems very much a p...

is just surplus" (Ebert) But the "surplus" is everything that a "normal" person experiences. While there is a definite charm to t...

we see him. At a military camp of King Duncans, a soldier is brought in who tells of the battle in which he was injured, and in wh...

to society is well known and many see this as admirable. Yet, there are some critics. Not everyone agrees that capitalism is the b...

Tom is convicted for only one reason: hes black. Although hes sentenced to death, the sentence is commuted to life in prison; even...

and wanted more than she had. The result was that she ended up with less than she had. If Mathilde had immediately told her frie...

so that when he sees himself in the mirror, "the recognition of himself is joyous in that he imagines his mirror image to be more ...

with he does not see himself in this way. He feels he is intelligent and he is all but in charge of all the men. They seem intimid...

young men. One of the great ironies of the play is that Willy has sold the boys a perverted version of the American Dream. He has ...

reader the distinct impression that she is listening to everything that everyone says. This is borne out when Dee says that shes g...

in this sort of limbo (Carver). He seems to be dealing with it, but he knows how hard it is on the children, who are crying themse...

to look at his own veiled prejudices if only through the eyes of his bigoted mother. Says Mrs. Chestney, in a typical outburst th...