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Metamorphosis of Change in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth

me in the day of success, and I have learned by the perfectest report they have more in them than mortal knowledge. When I burned ...

The Concept of the "Other" in Alcott and Davis

and never will-even though hes making a lot of money. The Other, then, is someone who is not one of us. And having defined them on...

Two Views of "Oedipus Rex"

in which a drunk calls Oedipus a "bastard," thus forcing him to the extreme of looking for the cause of the plague on the city whe...

Cultural Scene Analysis of Paul Haggis’ 2005 Film Crash

on the marquee, the classic Frank Capra holiday film starring James Stewart. The night is clear as evidenced by the lack of umbre...

Weak or Strong: Ophelia and Gertrude

of Fortinbras, a military man and the individual who will now assume the kingship: "Go, bid the soldiers shoot" (V.ii.403). Cannon...

A Doll’s House, Trifles and Keeping Secrets

of the men involved. The men want things in absolutes, black and white; the women can tolerate ambiguity. In Noras case, things ar...

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...

Don Quixote

In looking at who Don is the reader can see quite a bit of his chivalrous and romantic ideals in the following: "So then, his armo...

Galaesus and Odysseus in The Aeneid and The Odyssey

is killed (Virgil, 2009). Paschalis has done a study of some of the semantics in the poem, and suggests that the name "Galaesus"...

Luchresi's Perspectives on "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe

his attire was a bit gaudy for a man of his social position. I have long suspected that Montresor and Fortunato were jealous of ...

The Things They Carried

incredibly exaggerated that his stories were immensely entertaining. But, in the case of OBriens novel one must perhaps insist tha...

What Agamemnon Tells Readers about Odysseus

hinting, not very subtly, that if Odysseus is dead it will be up to Telemachus to revenge him. But even more importantly and in a ...

Self-Centeredness in Dorothea and Reverend Casaubon

(Eliot 30). In addition she is "likely to seek martyrdom," then try to escape it only to have it befall her when she stopped looki...

The Narrator of Bartleby the Scrivener

and unknown. Given that he has no past, no present and no future, its obvious that Bartleby is not a character but a symbol. Wha...

Elizabeth Costello's Views on Animal Rights

Despite her poor reception by those that disagree with her philosophically, Costello makes many valid points about animal rights. ...

Othello the Moor and Zofloya the Moor

describe the way in which society considers those who are different. The psychological construct of the Other is applied to the pe...

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 ...

Was Hamlet Sympathetic or Unsympathetic?

lost her mother at an early age, was brought up in a very sheltered environment, with her father Polonius - one of Claudius best f...

The Novel - Everyone’s Favorite Literary Genre

novels are superior to plays, lets take a well-known play and consider how much more it could have done if it were a novel. Since ...

The Wanderer by Susan Creech

and Grand Manan Island. From this point, The Wanderer sets sail for England. Sophie writes that, after a week and a half, they had...

Greek Society Reflected in Literary Characterizations

era. The focus, then, of Eumenides was to bring about a sense of the life of Orestes, while also giving a view of the correlation...

The Grand Ladies of Shakespeare, Ophelia and Desdemona

not of noble blood and its no good for her to dream about marrying a prince "out of thy star; / This must not be" (II.ii.141-142)....

“Pulp Fiction” and Its Literary Constructions

the inherent flexibility of a non-sequential narrative, because things get too confusing. Tarantino apparently decided to let it b...

About Glen and Psychology

the safety needs (Maslows theory of motivation - Hierarchy of needs, 2009). Glen has already fulfilled the first two levels: he ha...

The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter and the Narrator

earlier life to the "unguessable country of marriage" (7). As the reader continues, though, it becomes evident that the hope sh...

Othello and Racism

and Othellos skin color. Othello is a Moor and is dark skinned while Iago is an ordinary Venetian. This is something that comes up...

Early Feminist Writings by Chopin and Ibsen

when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her" (Chopin). Her husband...

Exploring Vienna and Talking of Possibilities

enthralling" (1995). The film is a romance, but it avoids the trap of being formulaic; often films of this kind rely "more upon ac...

The Exception

group. She is a long time friend of Iben, a fact that was not revealed when Iben applied for and got the job with the organization...

Okonkwo and Oedipus

way out of his situation at all because no matter what he does to avoid the killing of his father and marrying his mother he has n...