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Female Characters in William Shakespeare's Othello and Hamlet

In each, their gestures of submission paradoxically enable the expression of desire. This shows female characters that inhabit th...

Effects of Disharmony and Harmony in 'Romeo and Juliet'

In 6 pages this essay compares and contrasts Act II:1 with Act V:3 as a way of evaluating how Shakespeare attempts to establish ha...

William Shakespeare's King Lear and the Disguise Motif

In five pages this paper examines Shakespeare's use of the disguise motif and how deception and disguises manifest themselves in b...

'My Son's Story' by Nadine Gordimer

In four pages this paper analyzes the work in its representation of the society and politics of South Africa and also considers th...

Fathers and Sons by Turgenev

In six pages this essay analyzes Turgenev's novel in terms of how the nihilistic and pastoral is contrasted with characterization ...

Macbeth by William Shakespeare and the Motifs of Blindness, Sight, Darkness, and Light

In ten pages this paper examines Shakespeare's characterizations of Lord and Lady Macbeth regarding how they enable him to masterf...

Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Journal Observations

In eight pages this journal observation critiques and evaluates this novel by Betty Smith in a consideration of setting, plot, ton...

Ulysses by James Joyce and the Heroic Ideal of Leopold Bloom

In five pages this paper discusses the differences in the heroic ideas presented in literature, art, and film contained within the...

Analysis of A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

In five pages this paper subjects Ibsen's social drama to a literary analysis that focuses on characterization, plot, and irony. ...

Medieval Literature and Male Role Model Challenging

theological thought (Moritz). Some of the fundamental thoughts within the texts maintained that women should be kept meek and subm...

Supporting Female Characters in The Awakening by Kate Chopin

the narrator informs the reader, looks at his wife as she were a "valuable piece of personal property" (Chopin 4). It is largely E...

Male Characters in The Men of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor

black women -- they strive, sometimes they fail, but they are who they are. Ben As narrator for this novel, Naylor brings back t...

A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch

is blunt when she explains to Martin why their marriage has failed: "Its partly my being so much older and being a sort of mother...

Misogyny in Portrait of an Artist as a Man by James Joyce

fails to align sex and love. Does that mean he is a misogynist, treating women solely as wither virgins or whores, or does it mere...

Harold Pinter's The Caretaker

more remote, because he has undergone electric shock therapy because of emotional disturbances and deep depressions. Micks one goa...

Western Civilization's Failure in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

In 5 pages this paper examines how Western civilization's failure is conveyed by Joseph Conrad by the characterization of Kurtz in...

South African Victimization and the Novels of Nadine Gordimer

In twelve pages this paper critically analyzes the novels of Nadine Gordimer in a consideration of characterization and the victim...

Analysis of Flannery O'Connor's 'A Good Man is Hard To Find'

criminal is so small, few would talk about it. Another way to look at the situation is that the author hones in on one story in ...

William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and the Supernatural

In five pages this analysis of A Midsummer Night's Dream focuses upon the supernatural and how it is represented in plot, settings...

'The Pit and the Pendulum' by Edgar Allan Poe

In five pages the representation of the author in this short story is considered with an analysis of the story's plot, setting, ch...

Comparative Analysis of 'Aeneid' by Virgil and 'The Odyssey' by Homer

In six pages this paper compares these two classical works in terms of plot, characterization, setting, thematic portrayals of war...

Writing Stylistic Comparisons of John Milton and Timothy Findley

In five pages this paper examines how the writing styles of each author develops the characterizations of Satan in 'Paradise Lost'...

Soldier's Home by Ernest Hemingway and Harold Kreb's Inner Conflict

not, be constrained by his parents domestically centered world. Krebs, for his part, has seen much more of the world--especially ...

Analysis of 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer and 'Tenth Tale' by Giovanni Boccaccio

Virginity is fine but wives are not condemned; the Apostle said that my husband would be my debtor, and I have power over his body...

An Oveview of Agoraphobia

In five pages the DSM IV Axis classification of agoraphobia is presented and compared with the film Copycat and the characterizati...

Factors Behind FDR's Splendid Deception

This paper examines the ways and means FDR utilized to hide his paralysis from the American public. The author also discusses lai...

Erich Maria Remarque's 'All Quiet on the Western Front' and the Depiction of War

In five pages this paper examines how the 1929 novel depicts war in terms of plot and characterization. Five sources are cited in ...

Depiction of King Richard the Third in Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey and The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare

In four pages this paper considers how Richard III is depicted in a contrast and comparison of these works which points out the re...

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

In five pages the deceptive novel that is short on story but high on characterizations and vignettes discussing the neighborhood a...

Analyzing The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen

In five pages the point of view, structure and characterization of Ibsen's play are analyzed. There are no other sources listed i...