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Nina and Alik in The Funeral Party by Ulitskya

to speak to a Rabbi, but she wont hear of it. She continues to stand in the way of his speaking with the Rabbi. He also becomes he...

Vulnerability: Chopin and Godwin

A 4 page paper which compares and contrasts the characters in The Story of an Hour by Kate Choping and A Sorrowful Woman by Gail G...

Hester Prynne and Edna Pontellier

publicly punished for it, while no one ever learns of Ednas adultery. There are those who have their suspicions, but she is carefu...

Class and Geoffrey Chaucer

If so, he is giving an analogy to say that it is impossible. It is with this presumption that Chaucer creates his religious charac...

Comparative Character Analysis of Meursault in The Stranger by Albert Camus and Sydney Carton in Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

her, for he is consumed with desire and love despite his weaknesses and his inadequacies. He will, in essence, do anything for the...

Same-Sex Behavior And Pederastic Relationships In Athens: Not All Ancient Authors Approved

and Socrates meander along the countryside, they talk about the various facets love harbors like heavenly passion all-important fr...

The Glass Menagerie and A Raisin in the Sun

these women are not too controlling in relationship to every move their children make. This does not mean that one or the other wi...

Shirley Jackson and Flannery O’Connor

and dangers inherently possessed in all of these elements. For example, the grandmother will ultimately be killed by the Misfit, J...

Born on the Fourth of July and A&P

Ron ultimately serves as an example of how young people "should not" live their lives. Ron essentially tells people they do not wa...

Critical Analysis of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner

are not so lucky; they remain in Afghanistan under Soviet rule and then later are subjected to the tyranny of the Taliban regime d...

The Film Adaptation of Children of Men

through exploring the screen writers intent and vision can one figure out why the changes were made. First, it should be said th...

Comparative Analysis of Characters Mark Antony and Caius Cassius in William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar

meant he was not "someone to take seriously" as a threat to his power (Derrick 14; McMurtry 41). Others seriously underestimate A...

The Shepherd and Oedipus

when the play opens, he has no knowledge that he has actually done so; he believes he was successful in avoiding the prophesy. Th...

Chopin and O’Connor

gently as possible the news of her husbands death" (Chopin). In these two simple descriptions it is very evident that the women ar...

"A Rose for Emily": William Faulkner's Elegy for the Old South

literary criticism entitled, The Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fiction, Judith Fetterley described "A Rose for...

Comparing and Contrasting Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd: The Demon of Fleet Street and The Odyssey by Homer

Odysseus and Polyphemus (or Cyclops), the protagonist and antagonist in "The Odyssey." Like Odysseus, Todd is banished from his w...

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen and Nora and Torvald Helmer

beginning of the story she is simply a doll, a pretty thing that plays her role as the good wife and mother. As one author notes, ...

Tertius Lydgate and Dorothea Brooke in Middlemarch by George Eliot

perform surgeries. However, as philanthropic as Lyndgate sounds, his true colors would seem to be shown in his marriage t...

Early French Modern Society and a Hypothetical Debate on the Status of Women and Men at the Time

woman. She was portrayed as being virtuous, committed to her family, and obstinately determined to succeed in her tasks. Davis nee...

"Lanval" - Subversion of Gender Norms in Arthurian Legend

of masculinity. As the poem opens, Lanval, a noble knight in the service of Arthur, is overlooked during a feast at which Arthur g...

Gertrude in Hamlet and Jocasta from Oedipus Compared

all. However, Hamlet does not see it this way and becomes very angry with his mother for marrying Claudius. Because of this, Ham...

Mishima's Stories Patriotism and Death in Midsummer

The honour code which decrees that those who bring shame on the community must remove themselves from it was the ethical system wh...

Comparative Analysis of Prospero and Vincentio in William Shakespeare's The Tempest and Measure for Measure

city, broadening his knowledge, which, in turn, improves his skill as a ruler. While there is a logical explanation for his knowle...

Lover and Warrior Odysseus

traits he possesses that is less than admirable, one thing is clear. He exhibits loyalty and trustworthiness. He respects the gods...

Heartless Women in the Works of Henrik Ibsen and Charles Dickens

quite clear that Edith has just cause to feel alienated from her husband and her marriage from its inception. In the first half of...

Working by Studs Terkel and the Character Jack Currier

have perfectly followed the Phenomenological Model Of Work and Culture, always keeping his life and his identity predominantly ma...

The Street by Ann Petry

financially running a vegetable store. Lutie ponder their situation, "Who would have thought that this old Italian couple...would ...

Character and Values Education

approach in terms of providing moral education to students primarily because it was based on the supposition that youngsters inher...

Kurtz and Marlow in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

and explored his own intellectual and moral identity (p. 122). This suggests that Conrad created Marlow in order to explore his ow...

Comparative Analysis of Lorraine Hansberry's Raisin in the Sun and Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie

the additional mouth to feed will put the family into jeopardy. The audience knows that she is considering abortion. To end all of...