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Dream Imagery in August Strindberg's A Dream Play and Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries

In five pages this paper discusses dream imagery and its logic as it is represented in Strindberg's play and Bergman's film. One ...

Analyzing The Call of the Wild by Jack London

up by identifying Buck as a dog, but throughout the course of the text, the complex dog-hero is amazingly human in terms of his pe...

Wild Thorns by Sahar Khalifeh

true in the modern non-fictional Palestinian reality, survival as individuals and as a culture is the primary goal of Khalifehs fi...

The Abstract Wild by Jack Turner and Philosophy

being destroyed, ironically enough, by the very systems designed to preserve them. In his book, he manages to leave no one in th...

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 ...

A Review of How to Tame a Wild Tongue

considered to be bad, considered to be an arrogant young girl who betrayed her people by speaking the language of the oppressors. ...

Nora in A Doll’s House

her husband. She has little identity and really does not seem interested in finding much of an identity. However, as the story evo...

Biff in Death of a Salesman

sons that they need to look good, be friendly, and essentially to be what he is not. He has always possessed many different notion...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

"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...

Cultural Scene Analysis of Paul Haggis’ 2005 Film Crash

on the marquee, the classic Frank Capra holiday film starring James Stewart. The night is clear as evidenced by the lack of umbre...

Strength of Love and Tim McLaurin’s Woodrow’s Trumpet

to Southern society but also how the strength of love could unite individuals to meet formidable challenges. His perhaps na?ve an...

The Breakfast Club/A View of Adolescence

"poor little rich girl or the princess," and is drive to school by her father in a BMW (The Breakfast Club, 1995). Allison is the ...

Oedipus the King: Character

intelligent man, a man of integrity, and a man who is willing to seek answers, even if those answers point to him as the problem. ...

Brooklyn's Lower Class as Depicted in Selby's Last Exit to Brooklyn

This 6 page paper provides quotes and an analysis of three characters in this thesis paper that focuses on social stratification. ...

Frederick Henry in Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms

pictured offering ironic commentaries on sculpture and art, with his conversation peppered with "allusions to Samuel Johnson, Sain...

"O Brother Where Art Thou?"

The film follows the three hapless goofballs as they come across the sirens (three gorgeous women washing clothes in a river); alm...

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...

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. ...

The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller and the Character of Robert Kincaid

food as a measuring cup of personality, a leavening for plot, and an ingredient in the theme" (Kellman 435). The contradictions i...

Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie

was that the protagonist is not sorry for her illicit relationship with the married man, and in fact seems to have benefited her l...

Characters Myrrha and Byblis in Ovid's Metamorphoses

that Byblis argued with herself that such desires were acceptable to some degree: "Twas thought no sin to wonder at his charms,/ H...

The Wife of Bath Examined Critically

which also includes the tales of the Friar, Summoner, Clerk, Merchant, Squire and Franklin and consist of tales or perceptions rel...

Margaret Street in Tar Baby by Toni Morrison

money, and she now has nothing. With this simple background in mind we note that she, at one time, wanted to explore herself an...

Christine in Michael Dorris' A Yellow Raft in Blue Water

tribal office. She is still close with her brother in many ways, but is very distant from the rest of the world, even those men wh...