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How the Tale Fits the Teller in 'The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

back" (Norton 85). The Tales themselves have a General Prologue and also a Prologue which precedes each individual tale. The Prolo...

Analysis of Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

In nineteen pages this paper analyzes the text in terms of the self identity search of the narrator and the author's notion of inv...

My Last Duchess/Robert Browning

This research paper discusses Browning's My Last Duchess and focuses on the information provided by the narrator as unreliable. Th...

Narration in 'Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman

In six pages this paper discuses how the narrator and the speaking eye impact the poem 'Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman. There ar...

Feminist Epic The Descent of Alette by Alice Notley

In five pages this paper examines this revolutionary price that traces the metaphorically hellish journey of the narrator. Seven ...

Hat Motif in The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad

In 5 pages this paper analyzes the novella by Joseph Conrad in an examination of what is symbolically implied by the stowaway Legg...

Tone of Sammy in 'A and P' by John Updike

sheep-like qualities of the old maids in the store and the unattainable status of the girls he so desires, Sammy is caught between...

Tadeusz Borowski and the Holocaust

prisoners and the captors into villains and victims. He views the entire situation as evil, not evil perpetrated upon the innocent...

'Sonny's Blues' by James Baldwin and Escape

In a paper consisting of 6 pages the escape from violence of both the narrator and Sonny in various ways is considered. There are...

'Mockingbirds' of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Scout is also a "mockingbird" and, as she is the narrator, the novel itself becomes her song. Throughout the novel, Lee brings out...

Drawbacks of Narration As Seen in Two Works By Conde and Carpentier

and an unquenchable desire to portray her inner pain, Conde favored a more simplistic approach to convey the immense pain and suff...

A Review of Season of Migration to the North

more. The narrator is returning from an extended trip to Europe where he studied in European schools and became conversant with E...

Schreber and Dostoyevsky

with his wifes hopes. In the case of the Underground Man one can see his hopes in the prostitute in the following: "I hated her ...

Comparative Analysis of Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried and Octavia E. Butler's Kindred

the slave mentality without thought it seems. As she develops in the book she comes to realize that it is very frightening how ...

Tales from Firozsha Baag, Forgetting and Remembering

seeing what has been remembered and what he, or others around him have forgotten, either by choice or as a result of personality d...

Carmen Martin Gaite's The Back Room and Popular Cuture

the narrators apartment and intrude upon her thought processes. She writes that they are "fingered for such a long time, they beco...

Virtue Critiques in Billy Budd, Sailor and 'Bartleby, the Scrivener' by Herman Melville

- he refuses to take nourishment or leave his place of business. Instead of taking a sympathetic view of his employee, the narrat...

Martel's The Life of Pi

his epistle that "he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind ... he is a double-minded man, unstable in...

Shammas: "Arabesques"

We make allowances for human failing-perhaps Jane remembers it as a sunny day when it was raining-but we dont expect them to lie a...

Analysis: "The Tell Tale Heart"

the murder has no real basis in reality; the old man had never hurt him, and he has no desire to rob him: "Object there was none. ...

A Reading of Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”

a room that "opened on the piazza and had roses all over the window, and such pretty old-fashioned chintz hangings! but John would...

Notes From the Underground and The Stranger

concerned that his mother died. Likewise the narrator in Dostoevskys story is unlikable from the beginning, establishing his wor...

Role of Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

affair. If the story were told by Gatsby, we would get the story of a poor but ruthlessly ambitious youth on the make. We would l...

Franklin’s Inner Conflict and Resolution in Judy Troy’s Short Story, “Ten Miles West of Venus”

May, Rev. Sanders decides to take a drive to her house to check on her. Mrs. Lyle has been keeping a very low profile since the s...

The White Heron by Jewett

people and clearly a young girl who does not talk to people often. Without the narrator her story would not be told. The narrator ...

Poems: Dickinson, Donne, Marvell, Parker, and Roethke

and taken blood from both. He tries to convince her that to give in to him, to give him herself, has been ultimately blessed by th...

Narrative Unreliability in Atwood and James

This paragraph helps the student begin to assess how trust is established in Atwoods text. Atwoods "Alias Grace" is something of a...

Evolution of Protagonist Kris Kelvin in Solaris by Stanislaw Lem

When the psychologists lofty expectations come crashing down around him, he tries to wash his anxieties away in a symbolic gesture...

The Poet’s Use of Shakespeare’s Themes in the Sonnets

but in actuality, its how to preserve beauty, which is still another favorite of his. The Poet is actually saying that comparing h...

The Shell Game

including short stories and plays. This paper considers his short story The Man in a Shell with specific attention to the narrator...