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Penelope, Wife of Odysseus

fathers death, she sets to the task of making a funeral shroud. Every day she spends hours working on it, then when night comes, s...

Leggatt and Captain in Joseph Conrad's The Secret Sharer

Although "The Secret Sharer" was not written until 1909, some thirteen years after his last sea voyage, it is considered one of Co...

A Literary Analysis of Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid

she has the red girls attention, she dumps Gwen. She is always looking for the greener grass on the other side, and...

Hermann Hesse's Narcissus and Goldmund

It is always simpler to diagnose someone elses life than ones own, and so it is that the reader watches as Goldmund slowly unravel...

'If You Touched My Heart' by Isabel Allende

human being. Her song on the "blond wood psaltery" produced a "crystalline sound like water purling between stones" (82). As this ...

'Fifty Grand,' 'The Natural History of the Dead,' and 'Hills Like White Elephants' by Ernest Hemingway

several symbolic connotations in this name, primarily the contrast to the happy little dance called the Jig and the fact that she ...

Lady Brett in The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

their lives and their emotions. These men did not need a woman to encourage them or to make them feel like they were men. Inter...

Comparative Analysis of the Educational Theories of James Banks and John Dewey

of growing social concerns. As such, the impact and theories developed about human development and growth, as well as the learning...

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and the Character of Happy Loman

is the assistant to an assistant. Hap lacks even the smallest spark of introspection or self-analysis, but rather is the embodimen...

Andrea in Carmen Laforet's Nada

and overcome her family and poverty. Andrea is in search of self definition at this point, though she is not consciously aware of ...

Comparative Analysis of Krogstad in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House and Iago in William Shakespeare's Othello

shall my purpose work on him" (Shakespeare I iii). From there on out we begin to realize that we, as the audience, are the only on...

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and Race Construction

helmsman awfully... Perhaps you will think it passing strange, this regret for a savage who was of no more account than a grain of...

Passage Analysis from John Milton's 'Paradise Lost'

Adam is astounded by the plethora of life, beauty and vast expanse of nature to which he is bearing witness. While Raphael assert...

Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain and Minor Characters

and they offer comfort and information, as in Adas case. Minor characters have the dual purpose in this book of offering more info...

Archetypal Analysis of 'Leaves' by John Updike

it is nurtured and kept in the right place, it is golden. When it is kept in the shadows, it turns brown and falls to the ground. ...

Lucy in the Heat of Despair by Jamaica Kincaid

even "seeing" that in marrying a man, Lucy would not be happy (81). Lucy understands then that her mother is only concerned with L...

Impact of Adultery in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

to delve deeper into their own spirituality. Thus, each of the four major characters are guilty of acquired knowledge which stems ...

An Analysis of Mansfield's 'Miss Brill'

This paper provides an analysis of this short story in terms of theme, symbolism, and character development. This four page paper ...

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler and Rufus and Dana's Relationship

small boy, but to insure my familys survival, my own birth" (29). Through the next several years, Dana returns to the Weylin plan...

Torvald Helmer in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

the complete ignorance that the male of Torvalds type had toward women during this time in history. They are seen as incapable of ...

Prufrock's Character in 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by T.S. Eliot

be a lover and an optimist. But we begin to see images of tension in the fact that he describes the evening sky spread out as "a p...

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

There is no question that death plays a major role in this story, as evidenced not only by all the dying patients but also through...

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...

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...

Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare and the Character of Isabella

her brothers wrongful imprisonment she requests an audience with Angelo. When she asks for her brothers release Angelo is so taken...

Othello by William Shakespeare and the Antagonist Iago

Iago and others are not around, we know that Iago is a liar. Our first true indication of how Iago plans to use Othellos love a...

An Analysis of All's Well That Ends Well

the ribald joke or two. Of course, considering that the entire play revolves around Helenas ability to get her promised husband in...

Research of Erin Brockovich

problems and the pollution of the towns water table by Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E). Brockovich instinctively felt that the case ...

Analysis of Sen. John Kerry's Economic Policy

2. Cutting middle class taxes/reforming corporate taxes 3. Balancing the budget...

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky and the Dream of Raskolnikov

met them" (Dostoevsky 54). These figures, the darkness, can easily represent the turmoil within Raskolnikov. His thoughts and plan...