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Macbeth by William Shakespeare and Kingship

price because, as author Isaac Asimov observed in his consideration of Shakespeares works, "To kill a king... was to commit the hi...

Ebola by William T. Close

of nuns drawn from farms in the Flemish countryside near Antwerp" (Close, 1995, p.6). One gets a sense of not only the setting, bu...

Sigmund Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents and Johann von Goethe's Faust

of human beings is of far greater impact than the behavior of human beings as separate individuals. How humans act based on their...

How Aristophanes Depicted Women in His Works

possessed through their control of sex with their men. The entire idea of controlling the men was essentially the idea of Lysistra...

A Consideration of The Rape of the Lock

since the Middle Ages as the models for literature at its grandest" (McDaniel 1-15pope.htm). It is a general consensus that Popes ...

The Term 'Hazard' Analyzed Within the Context of The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

again. This time, however, Bassanio urges Antonio to loan it one more time while Bassanio will bring the latter hazard back again...

Chinua Achebe and Victor Frankenstein

that he has chosen for himself. Yet when he, after months of disgusting, horrifying work, finally brings his creation to life, he ...

Catholic Church Corruption and The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

In six pages the corruption that existed in the Medieval Catholic Church as reflected in the text in the irony of the characters i...

Mr. Kurtz and Charlie Marlow in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

139). While he observes the effects of the slave trade and colonial avarice firsthand and protests such injustice, he never makes...

Around the World in Eighty Days by Verne

detail as his protagonist, Phileas Fogg. Phileas Fogg is the central character, without whom there would be no novel, and yet o...

Emotional Maturity and Independence in Charles Dickens' David Copperfield and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

between people and between the individual and society in general. These contrasts are all intricately detailed in the work of Cha...

Comparative Analysis of Settings in The Merchant of Venice and Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

as they seem. It is recommended that the student who is writing about this topic consider that Messina is also the center of law,...

Juvenile Deliquency as Revealed in Rebel Without A Cause

is an eternity to teenagers. It was his intention to tell the story of a generation coming of age in one night" (Hyams et al PG)....

A 'Norman Bates' Analysis

studying the film Psycho, does Norman represent a typical psychopath? First, does Hitchcocks film create an accurate repres...

Analyzing A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

point that in order to become complete, we must learn more about ourselves and who we are. In order to do this, we need to experi...

Fathers in William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and A Midsummer Night's Dream

love and regards them as intrusions between his will and his daughters future. He says that Lysander has Turnd her obedience, whic...

Religious and Sociocultural Settings of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Crucible by Arthur Miller

neglected to train her in this mode of behaviour; it is evident that she has been treated primarily as a servant rather than as a ...

Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club and Erich Fromm

In five pages Erich Fromm's theory on marketing orientation is applied to the character of Harold, husband of Lena, in Amy Tan's t...

James Thurber's 'The Catbird Seat'

Paris and worked as a reporter for the Columbus Dispatch. Two years later, he married Althea Adams. Their only child, a daughter w...

Literary Tools in Thurber's, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

This paper addresses literary elements such as character development as seen in James Thurber's story, The Secret Life of Walter M...

'The Odyssey' by Homer and Sports

Antinoos and Eurymakhos, presided" (IV 654-657). In this way, sports is used as competition for a womans hand in marriage. The c...

An Analysis of Madame Bovary

that a reader can visualize them and envision the place in which their story takes place; but to describe each corner of a room, e...

Obligation and Impulse in Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

books in particular undergo a metamorphosis in regard to the way that they deal with the eternal conflict between impulse and obli...

Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Dante's 'Inferno'

hes writing" (Steinberg inferno.htm). It is the Canto which presents us with the innocent and frightened Dante. He is just beginni...

What is Normal? Lahiri vs. Chabon

Mr. Pirzada Came to Dinner by Jhumpa Lahiri and Spikes by Michael Chabon are good sources for comparisons of what is considered a ...

Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare and Enobarbus' Role

exists between Antony and Cleopatra and through his overblown language show the audience that the romance between Antony and Cleop...

Biographical Overview of Colin Powell

strife ("Powell," 2001). One would think that Powell, because he is a minority, might be the one to turn things around. He did. He...

Analyzing Emma by Jane Austen

of Victorian societys patriarchal structure. In Emma, she constructed her characters in such a way that they could speak for her,...

A Review of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder As Reflected in the Movie Good As It Gets

habits are partially responsible for keeping him at arms length from the rest of the world. Considered for decades to be a diseas...

Comparative Analysis of Children's Novels Sachar's Holes and Baum's The Wizard of Oz

is also something of a loner, not being part of the popular set at his school. These themes with regard to the definition of a mai...