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Janie in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

provide Janie with financial security. Many women, less independent than Janie, would suffer and endure. Janie leaves with another...

'Oryx and Crake' by Margaret Atwood

as the world is filled with poison and chaos and destruction. They meet Oryx at a time when they are perhaps struggling to find so...

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and the Character Mrs. Joe

became blindly furious by regular stages" (Dickens 120). In other words, her behavior reflects o real emotion at all. Similarly, P...

Willa Cather's 'Paul's Case'

down, pistol in hand, and he had cried out in time to save himself, and his father had been horrified to think how nearly he had k...

Caliban, Political Powers, and The Tempest by William Shakespeare

political systems: Antonio represents what we might call the "real" government in Milan and Prospero represents a "state of nature...

Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and the Character Algernon

dandy was a man who may well have lived off of others, being a freeloader, an individual intrigued by the arts and by living out f...

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and the Character Norman Bowker

old man talks about, nothing else. How he cant wait to see my goddamn medals" (OBrien, 1998; 36). In this the reader...

Ferdinand and Regan/Goneril

never a bone int" (I.284). Again, the lamprey (a type of eel) and the reference to its bonelessness, is a reference to the penis. ...

Elinor in Year of Wonders

of creamy silk. A few fine pearls gleamed in her pale hair. But more than her delicate beauty, Colonel Bradford appreciated her su...

Queen Gertrude in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

wicked wit, and gifts that have the power, So to seduce!--won to his shameful lust, The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen" (A...

Oedipus and Antigone

her. Antigone The second question involves characters in the story of Antigone. The characters under discussion are Antig...

Creon as an Idealist and Statesman in Antigone by Sophocles

In three pages this paper presents a character analysis of Creon in Antigone by Sophocles and discusses his roles to Zeus and to t...

Telemachus in 'The Odyssey' by Homer

In two pages this essay provides a character analysis of Telemachus in an assessement of his maturity. There are no other sources...

Hero Justification of Odysseus in 'The Odyssey' by Homer

the examples of the main characters, a certain amount of wit and common intelligence is necessary to possess as an essential work ...

Dido's Character in 'The Aeneid' by Virgil

the direction of the Fates. Didos love for Aeneas became all encompassing, and directly contrasted the pragmatic side of Aeneas...

The Aeneid by Virgil

In three pages a character analysis of the protagonist Aeneas in Virgil's 'The Aeneid' focuses upon his heroic characteristics. I...

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...

Women's Movement and La Petite Fadette by George Sand

The origins of the women's movement are discussed in 5 pages in this character analysis of Fadette featured in La Petite Fadette b...

Iago's Character in William Shakespeare's Othello

In five pages this paper examines how Iago is able to psychologically manipulate others in this character analysis of the antagoni...

Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger

In 5 pages a character analysis of Franny as portrayed in this novel by J.D. Salinger is presented. There are 6 sources cited in ...

Portrait of a Lady by Henry James and Isabel Archer's Characterization

In 5 pages this paper presents a character analysis of Isabel Archer, the protagonist of Henry James' Portrait of a Lady. There a...

'Low Lifes' in Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

fair average kind of man, goodnatured and kindly, and disposed to easy indulgence of those around him, and there had never been a ...

Lucy Steele's Character in Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

In seven pages this paper presents a character analysis of Lucy Steele in an evaluation of her importance to the novel. There are...

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Outcasts

In three pages Huxley's novel is examined in a character analysis of John and Bernard. There is 1 source cited in the bibliograph...

Dorothea in Middlemarch by George Eliot

In nine pages a character analysis of Eliot's protagonist is presented in a discussion of how limitations define her. There are n...

Happy Days by Samuel Beckett

the direction of Winnies loneliness becomes clear. Willie is, as far as we can see, the only person in her life. She desperately...

Characters in All the King's Men vs. The Sound and the Fury

success is also her own. Jacks mother dotes on him, and in turn, she becomes the center of his universe. However, Jacks mother a...

Mrs. Mooney in 'The Boarding House' of James Joyce's Dubliners

Mr. Mooney because of his atrocious act of violence. One must conclude that Mrs. Mooney was not only in fear for herself, but als...

Heroism and Hamlet by William Shakespeare

In 5 pages this paper examines the concept of heroism in a character analysis of Prince Hamlet, King Hamlet, Fortinbras and Claudi...

Man of Straw by Heinrich Mann

In seven pages this paper presents a character analysis of Diederich Hessling as featured in Man of Straw by Heinrich Mann. There...