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Achilles and Odysseus

A 5 page comparison of the characters in Homer's Odyssey and Iliad. The author contrasts qualities such as heroism and humanism. ...

The Concept of the Best Society

She is disgusted by the fact that she must respond to the blackmailer, but also proud that she has defended her husband and her li...

A Synopsis of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's, Love in the Time of Cholera

This paper provides a synopsis and overview of Marquez's classic novel, Love in the Time of Cholera. The author notes Marquez's u...

Artistic vs. Commercial Film

This paper addresses the many differences between artistic and commercial films. The author discusses differences in plots, chara...

Louis-Ferdinand Celine's 'Journey To The End Of The Night'

In 4 pages, this paper argues that the main character Bardamu is representative of an anti-hero as well as an autobiographical por...

Martin and Nabokov in Glory

In five pages this essay compares and contrasts the character of Martin in Glory with the life of author Nabokov in a consideratio...

Perceptions of Women in Chaucer's Society and In The Canterbury Tales

20). This type of arrangement led to the "courtly love" romances of the high Middle Ages, which were not tremendously popular wit...

Marlow's Importance in Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

In seven pages this paper discusses the importance of Marlow to this novel with comparisons between this character and author Jose...

Cautionary Warnings in 1984 by George Orwell

In ten pages the symbolism, characters, and setting featured in Orwell's futuristic novel are examined in support of the argument ...

Hamlet's To Be or Not to Be

In this four page paper the author examines Hamlets most famous soliloquy as it relates to character traits and actions. One sour...

The Early Christians and the Ancient Greeks Comparing Their Gods

Looking at Saint Augustine's 'Confessions' and Homer's 'The Iliad', the author finds characters and situations that represent the ...

Differences Between Phaedrus and Robert Pirsig

In five pages this paper examines the differences that exist between the character Phaedrus and author Robert Pirsig regarding hum...

Babylon Revisited by F. Scott Fitzgerad

leaves a card where he might be reached if any of the "old regulars," should drift in. But Paris is quiet now; the same places ar...

2 Perceptual Impressions of Chicago

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Ring Lardner's You Know Me Al and Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie in a considerat...

A look at The House on Mango Street by Cisneros

up being a house that was "crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in" (4). It is smal...

Feminism and Gender Issues During 1950's & 60's

a group of radical New York women who aggressively sought change (Mainardi, 1969). Others chose to work patiently behind the scen...

Characters and Plot from Miller, O'Connor and Plath

audience must be moved by Willy Loman, a 63-year-old man who has become tired of chasing the ever-elusive American Dream, always f...

Literary Reality and Fiction

In five pages this paper discusses the representation of reality and fiction in literature in an examination of Chekhov's The Thre...

Virgil and Dante's 'Inferno'

In four pages the Virgil character is examined within the context of 'Inferno' and also considered as he actually existed as an ac...

Writings of Zora Neale Hurston and Chinua Achebe on Society and the Individual

In 5 pages this paper considers how the authors portray society and the individual in the character of Janie Crawford in Zora Neal...

Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

In five pages the author and narrator's character are examined. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

Character Analysis of Steven Daedalus in A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man by James Joyce

In ten pages this paper presents a character analysis of James Joyce's protagonist Stephen Daedalus in a consideration of what is ...

The Tragic Hero of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Sclarlet Letter is analyzed for the presence of a tragic hero. Using Aristotle standards the author of ...

Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children

a significance in the fact that precisely at midnight on August 15, 1947, the actual date of independence, two babies would come i...

Character Development in 'The Inferno' by Dante and Book of the City by the Ladies by Christine de Pizan

rather as abstract forces battling within them, which is a critical component of character development throughout the tale. A rel...

The Element of Tragedy in Miller's Death of a Salesman

we know Frank would have fired him long ago, or at the very least, not promoted him. In this we see Willy blaming his new boss for...

Flawed Arguments and Opponents of Same-Sex Marriage

purpose" (Cross, 2002). Opponents to same-sex marriages also oppose gay activists appeal to pity in regards to their arguments. Th...

Character Representation in Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz

one of greater wealth arrives and asks for her hand. Hamida is not necessarily being mean or cruel and she is not really lacking...

Robert Jordan as a 'Hemingway Code Hero' in For Whom the Bell Tolls

those standards of conduct which generations before World War I appeared to accept as adequate and perfectly satisfactory" (Meyers...

Themes of Good and Evil in Stowe's Novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin

There can be no doubt that Stowe intended her novel to be more of a religious than sociopolitical text. It includes close to 100 ...