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Theme of The Great Grandmother by Nancy Hale

as life slips away alongside the wonderment borne of childhood is, perhaps, some of the most intense and illustrative of all Hales...

Civil War Context of Literary Characters Henry Fleming and Huckleberry Finn

. . . Dont go a-thinkin you can lick the hull rebel army at the start, because yeh cant" (Crane 5). In his innocence, however, he ...

A Lovely Tomorrow by Mabel Esther Allan

of the background. It is not as if Frue picks up a gun and joins the military. Rather, this girl goes from London, a place where s...

Oscar Wilde's Gothic Novel The Picture of Dorian Gray

the landed wealthy(Frank 1981). The heroine is often too perfect and too sweet, whereas the heroes are usually young and dashing, ...

Film and Novel Versions of The Green Mile

of just a few prisoners, including John Coffey. Edgecombes reflections, though, address some major themes, including his own effo...

Religious and Individual Tensions in Othello by William Shakespeare and Antigone by Sophocles

classic confrontation between the forces of good and evil in the Christian biblical tradition. The society of ancient Greece was ...

Guillien de Catro y Bellvis' La Mocedades del Cid

DIEGO: ...excesivamente honrado,...

Wise Fool in Shakespeare

discussing how the character of Enobarbus fits with these definitions, presenting us with the fool of "Antony and Cleopatra." Fo...

Harold Pinter's The Caretaker

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

Satire in Hard Times

in which the employers basically had the ability to "starve" their employees back to work, on the employers terms. The 1850s in En...

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, Boundaries and Limitations

the irony of the Congo River, which is described as the antithesis of the Thames, which is the location from which Marlow tells th...

Ian McEwan's Atonement

a bit of her future, and cleverly, McEwen foretells the tale. Briony had her first, weak intimation that for her now it could no ...

Sense and Sensibility Novel and Film Compared

Dashwood) and director Lee were steadfastly committed to presenting a screen adaptation that was faithful to the novel, and with a...

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and the Theme of Illusion

that his old manager would have given him a promotion. Now, in all honesty, we do not know that Frank would have promoted Willy at...

Statesmanship in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace

victory, not a French one" (Bell 221). Undoubtedly, Tolstoys anger was also influenced by the fact that he had recently been fight...

J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan and Satirical Commentary

eros, or cupid, in that the dust from her makes a person fly. Pixie dust coupled with happy thoughts send one skyward...just as fi...

'The Three Strangers' by Thomas Hardy

are portrayed in this story range from shepherds to artisans, and in this way Hardy stays true to the types of characters that wou...

Moliere's Works Compared - Plautus, The Miser and The Pot of Gold

of Harpagon is the counterpart to Plautus Euclio, but in many ways Harpagon is far preferable. Where the character of Euclio exhi...

Book Review of The Artificial Silk Girl

soul, for cash? Throughout the work, the theme of money is inherent. She gets a job as an office worker. She wants to be on stage ...

Analysis of Filmmaker Federico Fellini's Satyricon

sexual encounter with a slave girl on an island, and the discovery of a nymphomaniac (whom they must satisfy before they can move ...

Oedipus Rex, Enkidu, and Gilgamesh

who others looked upon with envy, and characters who others judged for their actions and essential character. The paper looks at G...

Native American Short Story 'High Horse's Counting'

speaking with the man directly, or setting about to use his mind to figure out a logical answer, he resorts to unethical behavior....

The Hot Zone by Preston

like tornadoes and earthquakes but also include diseases that can kill. The Plague for example took out many lives during the Midd...

Clarke County, Georgia's Lynching

his own protection since it was felt that he would not receive fair treatment in Oconee County. The murder victim was a farmers wi...

Mourning and Melancholia by Sigmund Freud

constantly referenced through the mourning process. In contrast, melancholia often occurs after such a difficult and unsuccessful...

Overview of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

the townspeople, although they dont agree with him being Tom Robinsons legal counsel, respect his integrity and honesty. He repre...

Coen Brothers' Film O Brother, Where Art Thou?

in this film provides a means of relating the voyage that takes place without actually showing scene after scene of constant motio...

An Introduction to Robert Bolt's A Man for All Season

In this paper consisting of ten pages the play that explores Sir Thomas More's conflict with Henry VIII and his conscience are dis...

Carol Henning and John Steinbeck's 'The Chrysanthemums'

In 9 pages this paper analyzes the short story by John Steinbeck in order to determine whether or not his wife Carol Henning was t...

Blade Runner and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

In a paper consisting of 5 pages Ridley Scott's film and Philip K. Dick's novel are compared in terms of characterization and huma...