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Ophelia in Shakespeare’s Hamlet

This will sorrow Hamlet greatly and make him feel guilty, perhaps the only time he feels guilty, in his actions towards her....

Homecoming in "Omeros"

to understand his culture and find his place in it; its not surprising that his poems speak to his experience and his characters f...

Heart of Darkness & Social Expectations

darkest impulses are given free reign. Through the eyes of Marlow, Conrad makes it clear that Kurtzs nineteenth century notions of...

Quotations from Frankenstein

of all, the book begins as a series of letters by one "R. Walton" to "Mrs. Saville"; these letters comprise the first four chapter...

Dreaming in Cuban/Cristina Garcia

notions about Cuba, her grandmother and Cuban life. Lourdes has to cope with Pilars attitude, such as when she mocks her adopted c...

Comparison and Contrast of O’Connor’s Men

that is not present in the Bible salesman. The Bible salesman is more of a manipulator and is very subversive in his actions, no...

Honor and Family Names in The Count of Monte Cristo

his bravery and leadership" (Faulkner). And, like his father, Alexandre apparently went on to experience a life of debauchery and ...

Metamorphosis of Change in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth

me in the day of success, and I have learned by the perfectest report they have more in them than mortal knowledge. When I burned ...

The Way of the World by William Congreve

particular man, Mr. Fainall, is constantly trying to obtain money through devious means. One of those means involves his wife Mrs....

Jane Eyre as a Child

"sympathize" with her, as she was the opposite of them in "temperament, in capacity,...a useless thing, incapable of serving their...

Eliot & Thackeray

to the Siren and also in descriptions of her performance of Clytemnestra. Nevertheless, Thackeray leaves her in a life where she "...

The Concept of the "Other" in Alcott and Davis

and never will-even though hes making a lot of money. The Other, then, is someone who is not one of us. And having defined them on...

Born on the Fourth of July

person that John F. Kennedy was addressing when he said "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your co...

Two Views of "Oedipus Rex"

in which a drunk calls Oedipus a "bastard," thus forcing him to the extreme of looking for the cause of the plague on the city whe...

Clinical Issues in the Film “Transamerica”

who were obscuring their identities by dressing as American Indians (Levine, 1994). Times have most certainly changed s...

"Jasmine" by Mukherjee

instead. And she approaches relationships almost from a mythical standpoint. For instance, when she falls in love with Prakash, h...

The Mystery of Melchizedek

King of Salem (ancient Jerusalem) befriended Abraham and his men after their victory over those kings that had taken Sodom and Gom...

And the Shadows Took Him by Daniel Chacon

simply going along with life in many respects until one day his friend, Ricky, tells him about a play he is going to try out for. ...

Analysis of "The Burning Bed"

be defined only in relation to the men in their lives, not as themselves. That is, they are somebodys wife and somebodys mother, n...

Bunraku: Costumes and Wigs

material as they manipulate a puppet. It is considered to be a very powerful form of art and it is considered a great honor for o...

Hamlet: Thought, Feeling, Action

"When a potential suicide reflects on the prospects of facing an unknown fate after death, he is dissuaded from action" (Buttry). ...

Scorsese to the Second Power: "Goodfellas" and "Casino"

errand boy to a "coke and gun dealer" (Quart). This is a twisted version of the American dream. Scorsese populates this film wit...

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

doing so (Kingwood College Library). However, he accidentally kills another member of the tribe and is sent into exile for 7 years...

Tolstoy: "After the Ball"

the physical setting and the Vasilievichs thoughts and emotions with exquisite clarity, though he doesnt tell us what Varinka is t...

Titus’ Aaron and Othello’s Iago

thunders crack or lightning flash; Advanced above pale envys threatening reach...Then, Aaron, arm thy heart, and fit thy thoughts....

The Thing in the Forest by A.S. Byatt

Primrose, the chubbier and blonder of the two, is an average girl, like Penny, and she really has no concept of the war that is go...

Roger Chillingworth's Imitation of the Devil

Hester, who is horrified by the revelation that he is still alive, and then sets out to find out who her lover is. He is single-mi...

Changes in Othello and in His Relationship with Desdemona

character, Iago is also difficult to grasp, because he has no motivation that we can find to do what he does. It appears that he s...

The Tragic Flaw in Oedipus

have to hear; and he ends up discovering the truth about himself, a truth so agonizing and abhorrent that he blinds himself (Sopho...

Hamlet and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

directly to the psychiatrist-patient encounter" than the real thing, because the fiction is after all written by real people (Podr...