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and a truly brazen attitude - were in vogue, as was drinking. Although Prohibition was in force to try to prevent people from imbi...

There is no question that Bradford was a Puritan, and as such, offers his religious views and interpretations throughout his writi...

song of Liling is that which provides us with the foundation of the story. Now, of course, the music and the song actually serv...

Laureate whose job it was to provide annual New Years and birthday poems. It was considered to be a competition, and obviously a c...

is filled with allegorical references to the time of chivalry and has been described as an allegorical epic. As outlined in the i...

not know when to stop. Faustus is not happy with the knowledge he has obtained. He feels there is more. He is much like an addic...

In five pages this paper examines how innocence is corrupted in a literary comparison and contrast of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bo...

truncated at some point in the past by an Ellis Island clerk, Fogelman thus becomes Fogg. Fogg is an orphan in search of his fath...

he must assassinate Hoederer. Hoederer is a admirable Communist leader whom Hugo likes and respects for his political ideas. Hugo ...

quest as being somehow representative of the times in which he lived. Through the use of exaggeration, Cervantes is basically say...

in Austens book. And, such realities are subtly reflected in Fieldings book as well, despite the fact that it was written only a f...

goading and nagging, contributed to Macbeths downfall; however, when one examines the play that the main impetus to Macbeths actio...

also been associated with seriousness and intelligence, however, a man who realized that in order to accomplish a goal one had to ...

men. It is their rules and their decisions that determine how women should act and what role they can play in society. Antigones ...

arms off and place them somewhere, nor did she wage a real battle on the high window. Even the terms high window and shadow can be...

this indicates, in this poem, Larkin perfectly catches the nature of a society that has no idea what awaits it. Previous battles w...

exploration of human feelings and emotions. In the poem, Inscriptions, to which the first lines are: HOPES what are they?--B...

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at literary anti-transcendentalism. Hawthorne's short story, "Dr. Heidegger's Experimen...

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at homosexuality in the culture of ancient Greece. Nuanced insights into the topic are ...

in the sense that opportunities for success are not actually equally distributed, but the ideal holds true in some sense in that t...

or element that he has observed to the human condition or situation. This is directly evident in Frosts poem, "Mending Wall". ...

the undercurrent of human conflict is more than apparent as evidence of how plot is a function of character. "The evening, I reme...

In five pages the ways in which the detective literary genre was standardized by Poe's 'The Purloined Letter,' 'The Mystery of Mar...

He figures thousands on luxury items alone" (Carver NA). From these lines we note that the couple is likely very superficial an...

his long literary journey in newspapers and journals, becoming a contributor to his brothers Morning Chronicle and publishing his ...

chill in the air (London 143). But his canine companion knew better. He was all-too-familiar with this icy terrain, and his inst...

not necessarily reliable, and that the imposition of an adult viewpoint on childhood events and emotions is bound to present a dis...

of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!" (Conrad PG)....

with open galleries and porticoes. Bottles of milk were grouped on the steps, and occasionally light flickered from the kitchens w...

of women in medieval society, De Pizan wrote two of her most significant works, The Book of the City of Ladies and The Book of the...