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matter) of making any kind of respectable marriage. Yet she somehow manages to allow Genji into her heart. The lady, howev...

and so on. But what really sets Oscar apart is his style-or lack thereof. He wants to be cool and hip, but hes actually pretty sil...

or around the bend. In Two Cities, Dickens uses a great deal of foreshadowing, and it starts with the very first line. "It was th...

out in the soup and died which led to a banishment of all soup. Soup was a major part of the kingdom and as such the sun and rain ...

a child and she was a child/In this kingdom by the sea" (lines 7-8). These lines, as do the opening lines of the poem, establish a...

it is essentially the duty of this narrator. Beowulf is a man who sees his duty as that which involves risking his life. He goes...

trees carry with them the promise of spring and new growth, new beginnings, which is evocative of the fact that the two children s...

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

In five pages Hinton's 1967 text is examined in terms of whether or not contemporary adolescents can still relate to the tale and ...

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

In a comparative analysis of five pages John Updike retells Joyce's classic tale in a contemporary way with distinctions made betw...

around Myrrhas sexual obsession with her father, a situation that was no less unacceptable in Ovids day than it is in contemporary...

In five pages this adventure tale from the 19th century is reviewed in terms of the plot serving as a basis for much contemporary ...

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

In a paper consisting of six pages this paper examines how the themes of faith anf retribution are reprsented in the 'Noah and the...

In five pages the anti feminist handling of female characters in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and Hamlet, Chaucer's The Wi...

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

says, knows he is telling the truth about the murder, but because he is trying to justify it so strongly, and madly, we know he is...

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

farmer/is first selectman in our village;/shes in her dotage" (lines 4-6). As these lines indicate, the poem is in free verse. B...

approach of these animators, led by Kanada, was "extremely Japanese," as drawing a "single-perspective painting" never crossed the...

when nurses are needed the most, which is when we are ill (line 12). This is when "Nurses come through, with their care and goodwi...

best or the worst and the critic could not decide which. Consider these two excerpts from the same critique, the first is in respo...

The writer of this paper first gives an overview of the poem Beowulf, which was written in Old English, and then relates it to con...

for either side. However, even though the plot is simple, the way the poem is written is deliberately heroic, and is very much ...

In a paper consisting of 8 pages the ways in which poets Cope and Thomas debunk contemporary myths regareding death and love are c...

In nine pages the metaphor and symbolism in the poem 'Snake' are discussed as well as the author's life and the perceptions of him...

focus of the poem is on how the anger of the narrator as a corruptive influence that turns him into a murderer. As this illustrate...

the Victorians was their sense of social responsibility. Unfortunately, that sense of responsibility was self-righteous and obsess...

This essay pertains to Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal," published in 1729, and Robert Browning's poem "My Last Duchess, Ferra...