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Contrasting and Comparing Plot Motifs in George MacDonald's The Princess and the Goblin and Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland

In five pages the plot motifs featured in each of these tales are contrasted and compared. Two sources are cited in the bibliogra...

Comparative Analysis of How Mood, Atmosphere, and Place Are Used in 'The Horse Dealer's Daughter' by D.H. Lawrence and 'Barn Burning' by William Faulkner

His soul seemed to melt...He had never thought of loving her...When he rescued her and restored her, he was a doctor, and she was ...

Children's Fairy Tales and Their Morals

In three pages this paper discusses how preschool children learn morals and important life lessons through fairy tales. Five sour...

A Midwife's Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

see the beauty of everyday life, of children laughing, of planting a garden, of building ones own world in midst of all the change...

Death's Role and Meaning in Fairy Tales

necessity. Beyond the obvious, however, lurks an even deeper meaning to the employment of death as an integral part of fairy tale...

Govinda's Importance in Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

willingness to be led. He seeks truth but truth as a facet of faith rather than truth as a realization brought on through experie...

Gaelic Ulster Mythical Cycle

In six pages this paper discusses the Ulster Cycle in a consideration of characters, tales, legends, and myths. Ten sources are c...

The Short Reign of Queen Mary I of England

A 6 page discussion of Bloody Mary, the heartless queen that became known for her relentless tactics. Mary did not hesitate to bu...

Literary Heroes Come of Age

The tale of a hero becoming an adult is a staple of literature. This essay compares heroes Han Solo and Odysseus, Luke Skywalker a...

'Oriental Tale' Motif and If On a Winter's Night a Traveler

In two pages this paper examines the motif of the 'Oriental Tale' in terms of its significance to the relationship between the sto...

Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House and Henry James' The Turn of the Screw

In eight pages these two supernatural tales are analyzed in a comparison and contrast of similarities and differences. There are ...

English Literature and Virtue

when the Beowulf poet writes "Fate always goes as it must" (43) and "Fate often saves an undoomed man when his courage is good" (...

Racism in Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain and Classism in Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

away. He stands as a man of a higher social class who has integrity. His mother, however, represents all that is bad in the upper ...

Fear as a Recurring Theme in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe

grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...

The Real Costs of Consumer Credit

how so many consumers have come to think of shopping and accumulating things as something of a hobby, even a passion. People ident...

Growing Up in Frances H. Burnett's The Secret Garden and L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

with the color of Oz, which is lush and green. In Oz, Dorothy has many adventures, but keeps working to find a way to get back ho...

Ancient Irish Tale 'How Ronan Slew His Son'

not take a sedate woman? That would be more fitting than a little skittish thing of a girl." However, Ronan could not be stopped, ...

Jonathan Swift and Modernity

by pairing books against each other, thus pitting classical works against modern counterparts. For instance, Swift includes such ...

Childhood Tale on the Mystery of the Disappearing Barbie

Elisa carried with her always, always feeling and smelling and tasting the day. The garden hose water, which tastes like no other ...

Women in the Literary Works of Edward A. Abbott and Thomas More

to take up arms; they are not compelled as are the men. They are also encouraged to strive professionally and intellectually and c...

Comparative Analysis of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

slept wherever he could. For associating with Huckleberry Finn, Tom was whipped by the schoolmaster and ordered to sit on the girl...

Women as Objects

the reader is actually living the life of Offred, seeing and making the same assumptions she is making. This style of approach to...

Setting in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe

of the protagonist that Poe sets up the terror inherent in the story. The sheer madness of his thought processes are chilling, bu...

An Address of Four Specific Questions in Literature

him an hour just to move his head into the room. The protagonist exclaims, "Ha! Would a madman have been so wise as this?" which i...

Questions on 9 Stories Answered

meant to illustrate the dichotomy between and among all the interwoven traits attributed to a girl of her age. On the one hand, s...

Masculinity in The Tale of Genji

women throughout history. In these respects we see how Genji is attractive. Genji seems to know what women feel, how they think,...

How Shirley Jackson Employs Allegory in Her Tale, 'The Possibility of Evil'

or purchased by her ancestors. For example, she notes the rugs that her mother and her grandmother made in her house that was buil...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes Mysteries' The Man with the Twisted Lip, The Red Headed League, and The Adventure of the Speckled Band

most minute of clues. (After all: "There is no vehicle save a dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you sit...

A Reading of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

imagine the author mocking him in the following description, "Having quite lost his wits, he fell into one of the strangest conce...

Themes of Good and Evil in Edgar Allan Poe

- Chapter 4 - The Romantic Period, 1820-1860: Fiction). Poe seemed to regard society and the Industrial Revolution in particular ...