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Puritanism and the Formation of the American Character

and that the Puritans did not come to America to seek their freedom, but to "improve their economic well-being."3 At least that wa...

Characters of Corin and Adam in William Shakespeare's As You Like It

In five pages the social satire portrayal of these characters and how Shakespeare used them to poke fun at the elite's pretentions...

A Theophrastan Character Sketch of Goody Two Shoes

are great fun, probably because we can see ourselves or people we know in them. In the case of Goody Two Shoes, it turns out that...

Character Comparison in King Lear and Heart of Darkness

quite obvious, if one probes them more deeply, these characters reveal striking similarities worthy of analysis. Charlie Marlow i...

Characters of Athene and Poseidon in Homer's 'The Odyssey'

In five pages these characters as they are featured in Homer's epic are examined in terms of how they contribute to the tale overa...

'The Odyssey' by Homer and Characters Penelope and Athena

more fidelity than did her missing husband. However, while Penelope is keeping Odysseus home fires burning, it is Athena to whom ...

William Faulkner's Character Joe Christmas and his Labels

lives, and all this really comes out as people and their relationships to the place that formed them (Smith ppg). Duality shown i...

Female Characters, Gender Roles, and Humor in the Sex and the City TV Series

This HBO cable series is critiqued in 5 pages with gender roles, humor, and female characterizations analyzed....

Classical Literature, Character Vision and Irony

In five pages this paper discusses irony and lack of vision in such works as The Canterbury Tales, The Decameron, Lysistrata, and ...

William Shakespeare's Othello and the Character Iago

II, scene 1, lines 83-181, Shakespeare pictures an interlude in which Desdemona "beguile(s)" the time before Othellos arrival at C...

The Element of Tragedy as Presented in Oates' Short Story Characters

Joyce Carol Oates intertwines the element of tragedy in The Crying Baby, The Passion of Rydcie Mather and Where areYou Going? Whe...

Parallels Between Kafka and the Character K in The Trial

This five page paper presents the character K as an alter ego of the author Franz Kafka. Six sources are listed....

Alice Walker's The Color Purple and Character Growth

In five pages this paper examines the growth of characters Albert and Celie as a result of their experiences as presented in The C...

Narrative Fiction and the Portrayal of Female Characters

This paper considers how prose, drama, fairytales, and religious narratives portray female characters in 9 pages. Eleven sources...

Developing Character and the Value of Faith

This paper consists of twenty pages and considers how faith develops character. Twelve sources are cited in the bibliography....

Eighteenth Century Novel Characters Pamela and Fantomina

In six pages the title characters featured in eighteenth novels by S. Richardson and E.F. Hayward are compared in terms of these w...

Character Development in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

the way this search takes over his life when he declares: I entered with the greatest diligence into the search of the philosopher...

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Characters of Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale and Hester Prynne

In seven pages this paper considers how Hawthorne's unconventional lovers challenge conventional gender perspectives. Three sourc...

Complex Character of the Wife in Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Wife of Bath's Tale'

This paper examines how the Wife's complexities are portrayed by Geoffrey Chaucer in 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' in 7 pagess. Three...

Realism of Characters in John Steinbeck's 'Travels with Charley'

This is a 5 page papers that addresses the qualities which make the characters of Harry, the girl, and the marshals realistic. Th...

American Farmer Letters and Characters

that this is a new country where breeding and birth rights are nit of primary concern in the formation of society, it is a land of...

Tom's Character and the Thematic Development of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

This paper examines how thematic development is achieved through Tom's characterization in Pudd'nhead Wilson in terms of scientifi...

Tragic Characters in Macbeth by William Shakespeare and Antigone by Sophocles Compared

In five pages the tragic characteristics these plays' feature in terms of such conflicts as male and female, good person or monarc...

Rebecca West, Virginia Woolf, and Characters 'Under the English Queen Mother's Umbrella

This discussion topic focuses on Rebecca West and Virginia Woolf and consists of nine pages. Eight sources are cited in the bibli...

Overview of Character Education

kindness, manners, the Golden Rule, patience, tolerance, respect, responsibility and values speaks to the need for greater focus u...

William Shakespeare's Characters Macduff and Macbeth

Macbeth says only "We will speak further" (I, v, 71). The next time we see Macbeth he has a long soliloquy in which he enumerates...

Characters of Simon Legree, St. Clare, and Shelby in Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

that matter. At one point a little boy, named Jim Crow, comes in and he tosses raisins at him and tells him to pick them up. The b...

William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and the Character of Puck as Protagonist

Oberon and make him smile/ When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile,/ Neighing in likeness of a filly foal:/ And sometime lurk I in...

Vietnam War in Literature and the Powerlessness of Characters

reality in many ways. In this work there are many young men in the war, men that are clinging to whatever they can in the devastat...

The Characters in Tartuffe and Candide

of Tartuffes virtues. Orgon tells Cl?ante that when he first saw Tartuffe, they were in church: "He came to church each day, wit...