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'Good Country People' by Flannery O'Connor

free; and Joy, whose miserable disposition is anything but joyful. It is Joy who is the chief protagonist, an educated 32-year-ol...

Gothic Romance Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

In five pages this paper discusses how in her novel debut, Jane Austen parodied the Gothic literary genre with a comparison with o...

Opium and the Life of Thomas DeQuincey's as Revealed in Confessions Of An English Opium Eater

English Romantic Thomas DeQuincey no only used opium but was addicted to it. It possessed his life and played a critical role in ...

Hidden Self and Oscar Wilde

he sees Dorian daily; "I couldnt be happy if I didnt see him every day. He is absolutely necessary to me" ("Picture", 113). Howeve...

Magic In Sir Gawain And The Green Knight and A Midsummer's Night Dream

This paper examines these two classic literary works in relation to the significance of magic in each. This five page paper has no...

Arthurian Romances and Medieval Courtly Love

In eleven pages the courtly love theme as represented in the literary works of such authors as Chretien de Troyes and Andreas Cape...

Medieval Warfare and Literature

In eight pages this paper discusses the chivalric code of honor and a knight's pursuit of financial gain within the context of the...

Medieval Literature and the Portrayals of Kingship

In seven pages this paper discusses how the relationship between warriors and their king is symbolically depicted as that of sons ...

Life and Works of Irish Dramatist J.M. Synge

In fifteen pages this report examines Synge's life, literary works and the effects of the Aran Islands on his writings. Twelve so...

Women's Role in Candide by Voltaire and Tartuffe by Moliere

anyone else get a word in edgewise; so much as a "But, Mother" elicits an accusation of impudence. This is a very funny opening sc...

Literary Depictions of Greed

In five pages the role greed plays in the literary works No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre, Candide by Voltaire, and Antigone by Sophocl...

Roles of Women in Mary Barton and Madame Bovary

In five pages this paper examines the domestic boundaries that dictated the roles of women during the 19th century in a considerat...

'The Hunger Artist' by Franz Kafka

In four pages Kafka's effective tongue in cheek literary style is examined within the context of this humorous short story. There...

The Impact of Employee Performance Assessments on Employee Commitment

The writer presents a project to assess the way in which performance assessments or appraisals may impact on the level of commitme...

Comparing On the Road by Jack Kerouac and Go by John Clellon Holmes

In five pages this paper examines these two literary examples of the Beat Generation in a consideration of Stofsky's imaginary tri...

Literature and Modernism

In six pages this paper examines 20th century modernist literature in a consideration of such concepts as impressionism, postmoder...

Writings of Ben Jonson and Their Significance

to tell than did the others. His work, whether comedy, drama or poetry, also had an extra acerbic "bite" that audiences enjoyed (...

Elenchos According to Socrates

always employs the dialogue not only as a didactic device, but as a technique for the actual discovery of opinions amongst men, th...

Time Travel and its Implausibility

In nine pages this paper discusses the implausibility of time travel in an examination of various theories including those of Albe...

Order, Disorder, and Cultural Intepretations in The Arabian Nights, The Decameron, and The Ramayana

American students great vistas of the world of Indian civilization" (Lutgendorf Intro.htm). It is important to note, however, tha...

Discussing Indian Religion

In a paper consisting of two and a half pages a situation in which the writer overhears a conversation between a Saiva tantric pra...

The Heroic Aeneas

In a paper that consists of eight pages the definition of hero throughout the course of cultural history is considered in support ...

Creating Utopia

This 7 page paper discusses current perceptions of what utopia is, and how to achieve it. The writer argues that there is an emerg...

Bilingual Pupil and Literature

In seven pages this paper discusses how the bilingual pupil can be assisted through the classroom incorporation of American litera...

The Meaning of Life According to Leo Tolstoy

This 10 page paper examines Leo Tolstoy's literary works and personal philosophy, and argues that he sought simplicity and spiritu...

Comparing 'Home' by Grace Nicholas to 'Wherever I Hang' by Anne Bronte

In three pages the literary devices of simile, metaphor, rhythm, rhyme, and alliteration are used in a comparative analysis of the...

Comparison of Medieval and Modern Views with William Shakespeare's Hamlet and Ben Jonson's Every Man

and turned" (Every Man - III, 2, pp. 48) and Hamlets "imagination" as he dwells on the experience of seeing his fathers ghost: "Th...

The Dark Child by Camara Laye

In a paper consisting of five pages this paper examines the argument as to whether or not this text should be considered represent...

Principles of George Herbert Mead and the Self Concept

In five pages Mead's self concept is examined in a consideration of its primary elements along with applications of the I and Me d...

Self Concept According to George Herbert Mead

In five pages Mead's self concept is examined in I and Me definition applications along with social cultural nature of self also c...