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The Color Purple and Catcher in the Rye Compared

allows Holden to be dismissive of material concerns. After running away to spend some time in New York City on his own, which is...

A Ficticious Literary Panel Discussion

its extreme, I pointed out the evil being perpetuated against the Irish." Lady Macbeth interrupts, "I am familiar with this wo...

Feminism and Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Wife of Bath's Tale'

"a shrewd businesswoman in an emergent bourgeoisie, a master of parody providing a corrective to the truths of conventional autho...

Women of Different Eras. Comparing Pride and Prejudice with Bridget Jones Diary

this, then, there are two very different interpretations of the movies effectiveness and its cinematography. And, yet, it achieved...

Stage and Screen Adaptations of Hamlet by William Shakespeare

identity. It is interesting to note that as he pulls on his "cloak of madness" that his true intellect becomes completely clouded ...

"To Build a Fire" by Jack London and the Use of Setting as an Antagonist

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

Tom Franklin's "Grit"

story "Grit" portrays the intense conflict that arises between Glen, the manager of the Black Beauty Minerals Plant located in Mob...

Phyllis and Lola, Double Indemnity

by Billy Wilder) is regarded as a classic example of film noir. The screenplay was adapted from a novel by James M. Cain by Raymon...

"Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller

This essay briefly summarizes the plot of MIller's play "Death of a Salesman" and then analyzes the Willy Loman's character. Three...

"Coming, Aphrodite!" by Willa Cather

This essay offers analysis of "Coming, Aphrodite!" by Willa Cather, focusing on how each of the major characters define and percei...

Ordinary People and the Kubler-Ross Model of Grief

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at Guest's "Ordinary People". Kubler-Ross's model of grief is used to analyze the novel...

Social Work Film Analysis, Requiem for a Dream

This essay analyzes Darren Aronofsky's 2000 film "Requiem for a Dream" and discusses how its characters illustrate the effects of ...

"Tito's Good-bye" by Christina Garcia

This essay relates a brief summary of Christina Garcia's "Tito's Good-bye," analyzes the characters and her use of setting and ima...

Willie Talos in All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren

smooth and convincing as he states the following: "If they had politicians back in those days, they said, Gimme, just like all of ...

Independent Taylor Greer's Journey to Maturity in The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

aware that her and her mothers poverty had placed them at the bottom rung of Kentuckys socioeconomic ladder, with the chances of u...

Goldsworthy's "Maestro" - The Thematic Value of Limited Narration

However, many critics still view the book itself as "young adult fiction", largely escapist and with little true insight. While Pa...

Absurdity and Existentialism in Adams' Hitch Hiker's Guide

arise out of unexpected and irrational contradictions faced by the main characters on virtually every page. The absurdity is not j...

Point Counterpoint by Aldous Huxley

In a paper that contains seven pages the book's style, subject, and changing story pace are explored and a character analysis is a...

Call of the Wild by Jack London

Buck is just an animal, but to many people, animals-and particularly dogs-are very smart and have intense feelings. Buck seems to ...

James Thurber's 'The Catbird Seat'

Paris and worked as a reporter for the Columbus Dispatch. Two years later, he married Althea Adams. Their only child, a daughter w...

Religious and Sociocultural Settings of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Crucible by Arthur Miller

neglected to train her in this mode of behaviour; it is evident that she has been treated primarily as a servant rather than as a ...

Comparative Character Analysis of Olunde in Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman and Obi in Chinua Achebe’s No Longer At Ease

their native primitive cultures and European colonial modernization. Back in the 1940s, few Nigerians were accorded the opportuni...

Analysis of Harry in Hemingway’s The Snows of Kilimanjaro

really did what he wanted to do. As one critic notes, he is "a disillusioned writer" (Arthur). But, in reality he is far more than...

'Hills Like White Elephants' by Ernest Hemingway

conforming to gender role expectations in other areas, such as his taking the bags to the train. It is not that she is portrayed ...

References to Hamlet and Hercules in The Father by August Strindberg

this paper discusses how women behave and the Captain's character in this analysis of August Strindberg's play The Father with ref...

Is Okwonko a Sympathetic Character in Things Fall Apart?

In five pages the character of Okonkwo is analyzed in terms of whether or not he can be regarded as sympathetic and also assesses ...

Analysis of August Strindberg's The Father

Circe and Medusa. In The Father,...

Lysistrata's Character

In five pages Lysistrata as featured in the famous ancient Greek play is the focus of this character analysis. Three sources are ...

Cathedral by Raymond Carver and the Blind Man Robert

In five pages this short story by Raymond Carver is examined in an analysis of the blind character Robert and what he symbolizes. ...

Dave Saunders in 'The Man Who Was Almost A Man' by Richard Wright

all, it appears that the author addresses social stratification by putting the protagonist in this particular setting. What the p...