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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...

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...

'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 ...

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...

Character and Thematic Analysis of Graham Greene's The Quiet American

all the players in the love triangle. But, they are also more than that. All three characters embody some of the ideology that was...

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...

Character Analysis/Lady Macbeth

Western society, which envisions women as nurturing mothers and helpmates. Rather than being solely concerned with the domestic sp...

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...

Biographical Profile of Zossimov in Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Doestoyevsky

serve as a catalyst. It is because of Zossimovs prying and prodding that the reader is able to understand what is going on inside ...

Roderigo's Significance in Othello by William Shakespeare

he would have no one to do this task for him. And, Iago could not have well done all the spying himself for that would have looked...

Dan Cutler in the 1994 Film The White Mile

Dans personal and business personas are clearly linked in terms of his ethical belief system, and these impact the ethics of busin...

Justice and Truth in Death and the Maiden by Dorfman and Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

protagonist comes to this conclusion in Chapter ten at the paint factory. In Dorfmans Death and the Maiden, Pauline is the main c...

Fried Green Tomatoes and Relationship Psychology

with witnessing the violent death of Idgies brother, Buddy, serve to further connect them. They become, in essence, two halves of...

A Character Analysis of Chaereas

part of Chaereas, but because the decline of this young man serves to rally the entire community and the assembly appeals to Hermo...

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...

Candide by Voltaire and the Roles Fulfilled by Martin and Dr. Pangloss

at the end because they simply enjoy being, instead of attempting to compete with others. Dr. Pangloss maintains, in great satiric...

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson and the Character of Ishmael

man who may have once possessed dreams, but today is an angry and bitter individual. "He was a man of thirty-one with a hardened f...

1960s' Life and Mike Nichols' Film The Graduate

to comment on his future and to give him advice. The viewer comes to understand that Ben is expected to follow in his fathers foot...

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...

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...

'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 ...

Maya Angelou's Sister Flowers

a very well to do family. She attempts to foster a love of beauty and words to the narrator. In order to do this she encourages th...

The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman

try" (207). As this exposition suggests, Marshalls presence as an outsider to the dynamics of the Hubbard family and as an outsi...

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...

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...

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...

Thomas Harris' Silence of the Lambs

make the lambs stop screaming, do you think theyd be all right too and you wouldnt wake up again in the dark and hear the lambs sc...