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Symbolism as it Appears in A Tale of Two Cities

This Dickens work is discussed in respect to the role that symbolism plays. This literary technique is highlighted in the context ...

The Lais by Marie de France

to aristocratic women, or it may have been included simply as a necessary literary device that aided Marie in recounting the condi...

Juvenile Literature and 'Outsider' Children

In five pages social exclusion of children for various reasons are examined within the context of such juvenile literary works as ...

Historical Literary Periods and Transporting Readers to Another Time

In eight pages the importance of setting historical setting in order to take readers back to an earlier period is considered in an...

Literary Techniques Seen In L'Amour's, Tucker

This paper discusses literary tools utilized by Louis L'Amour in the work, Tucker. This five page paper has six sources listed in...

Compare and Contrast: Works on Bismarck

This 6 page paper compares and contrasts two works on Bismarck: Bismarck, the Man and the Statesman by Taylor, and Bismarck and Mo...

Interpretation of Edgar Allan Poe's Writings

In eleven pages Poe's writings are interpreted in terms of its representation of conflict as well as pastoral with such works as '...

Critical Review of Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

In five pages this paper critically analyzes Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and addresses the various misconceptions often associated w...

Social Values Mirrored in Classic Literature

In nine and a half pages this paper considers how social values are reflected in the ancient literary works Phaedo, Euthyphro, Cri...

Contemporary Literature and the Maintenance of Identity

In five pages this essay examines maintaining identity in the first 50 years of the 20th century in a consideration of such litera...

Violence - the Monster that Torments Society

But in fiction it sometimes finds fuller expression than it does as a headline. This paper explores the concept of violence as it ...

Violence - the Monster that Torments Society Examined in Literature

of fiction. But in fiction it sometimes finds fuller expression than it does as a headline. This paper explores the concept of vio...

Villainy, Chaos and Death as Literary Devices

to illustrate important themes. This paper considers how an authors use of death, chaos and villainy bring other aspects of the wo...

Magical Realism and Marquez’s Death Constant Beyond Love

Garcia Marquez seriously or are they an absurdists slanted look at the world? This paper argues that even though they are often co...

Comparison of Alexander Pope's 'The Rape of the Lock' and Jane Austen's Mansfield Park

In five pages this essay presents a comparative literary analysis of these works in terms of how women's social behavior is portra...

Modern Literary Depiction of Families

In five pages this paper examines how families and their relationships are portrayed in the modern literary works White Angel by M...

Gilgamesh - A Review of Symbols and Themes

one might look at the very opening lines of the epic, which address the reader, even the contemporary reader, directly and states ...

Capitalism and Stereotypes in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and in James Fenimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans

In six pages this paper discusses how stereotypes and capitalism are depicted in these early American literary works. There are n...

Life in Art: How Stephen Crane’s Life Influenced His Writings

played on him. Stephen Crane was born in Newark, New Jersey on November 1, 1871, the 14th child (only eight survived) of a Method...

Roald Dahl Should Be Added to the Literary Canon

read and understood these books also feel somewhat superior to those who have not (Bridges, et al.). In addition, several of the t...

Garden of Eden in The Confessions by Jean Jacques Rousseau and Candide by Voltaire

truly a place of bliss where nothing but a good and wonderful existence greeted Adam and Eve each and every day. However, there w...

Pressures and Identity

She states, "Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good" (Gilman). By the end of he...

Burmese Law Enforcement Experiences of George Orwell and How They Shaped His Views of the British Empire

Acquiescing to pressure from his father to also become a member of the Imperial Service, Orwell joined Burmas Imperial Police in 1...

American Renaissance

This is not to say that the influence of European authors was not discernible in the work of these authors. For example, Melvill...

The Life and Works of Kate Chopin

This 6 page paper discusses the literary works and reputation of Kate Chopin, with emphasis on “The Awakening.” Bibliography lists...

What Drives Author Tim O’Brien to Write?

demonstrations and anti-Vietnam War protests. Majoring in political science at St. Paul, Minnesotas Macalester College, writing a...

Greek Virtue

the foot of power!/Nothing care I for Zeus" (Aeschylus). In other words, Prometheus will not succumb to tyranny and a power that r...

Contemporary Society and Love

become separate" (p.48). An interest point is made as Fromm investigates erotic love. Today, many equate eroticism with romanticis...

Spiritual Journey and Spiritual Growth

to return to the cave because its familiar and comfortable? The answer to all these questions is "yes." (Allegory of the Cave, 2...