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Dominick in Wally Lamb's I Know This Much is True

In ten pages a behavioral character analysis of Dominick's personality as presented in Lamb's text is examines and also compared w...

Charles Dickens' Tale of Two Cities and the Characterization of Madame Defarge

Madame Defarge. There is an exception however, for a few years back she did play the Wicked Queen in Snow White, which could perha...

'The Tell Tale Heart' and 'The Black Cat' by Edgar Allan Poe

My tenderness of heart was even so conspicuous as to make me the jest of my companions. I was especially fond of animals, and was ...

Character of Starbuck in Moby Dick by Herman Melville

wonder of nature, or the natural balance of things as he is determined to kill the whale. As one author notes, "Ahab destroys hims...

Characterization of Mrs. Ramsay in To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

cannot go when he obviously want it so badly. James feels that his fathers sarcastic rejection of the idea of visiting the lightho...

Claudius's Character in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

wife. Claudius states, "Though yet of Hamlet (the late king was also named Hamlet) our late brothers death/The memory be green" (I...

Women of William Shakespeare's Hamlet

and leave her father, or suffer through this madness with Hamlet. While she is still deciding, her father is killed and she is sur...

Charles Dickens' Great Expectations and the Character of Pip

is Miss Havisham. He believes that she is funding his education so that he can become educated and then wealthy and then be worthy...

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...

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...

Truth Blinds Oedipus Rex: A Protagonist Analysis

the plague will end and his grateful subjects will worship him like a god. However, the aging oracle Tiresias (sometimes spelled ...

Beneatha Younger in A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansbury

name is ironic in that Beneatha is beneath no one in her family. Her intellect and her passion for knowledge are unsurpassed. Sh...

Jeremy's Story An Analysis

events because one parent or the other couldnt take them there. Most of all it would mean that there would be a constant tug of w...

A Review of Holes

A 5 page analysis of irony and dark humor in the book by Louis Sachar. Character and plot development revolve around both. 1 sourc...

Students and Teachers in The Tempest and Frankenstein

This paper consists of three pages and considers student and teacher relationships and the role conformity plays in an analysis of...

Othello's Yin and Yang

interracial marriage in this work is one that highlights societal notions of race and marriage, accentuating norms and uncovering ...

Mary Shelley's Victor Frankenstein as an Extension of His Own Creation

The protagonist of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is the subject of this character analysis that includes Sigmund Freud's doubling p...

Contemporary Antihero in The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

Tom is central to defining the family stratification in the play, and also shapes a distinct view of the way familial associations...

Tragic Hero Analysis of William Shakespeare's Richard the Second and Prince Hamlet

which we, the reader or viewer, can relate to. We see them as noble individuals who demonstrate weakness, yet still battle against...

Good v. Evil in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

The conflict between good and evil and how it is represented through characters and symbolism are considered in this analysis of U...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

Lorraine Hansberry's 'A Raisin in the Sun' and Eternal Hope

fact deliberately so. Hansberry does not leave it there, however. Though the play seems to be going headlong in that direction fo...

Minor Characters in A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

of reference. The priest represents the possibility of attaining the ideal in life and in love, especially as it applies to the r...