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Lord of the Flies: Jack & Hitler

but he was placed in charge of hunting. Jack then pushes this role to the limit, getting more and more boys to join him in an incr...

"Obasan"

work on a road gang, where his frail health will ultimately doom him, the girl is raised by her aunt and uncle, and it is this aun...

The Shipman in The Canterbury Tales

way down the social ladder. The Shipman, i.e., the "sailor," is placed between Chaucers description of the Cook and the "Doctor of...

Pygmalion's Liza Doolittle in the Context of Early Twentieth Century Britain

panacea when it came to womens rights. Liza was caught in this time period where she wanted to strike out on her own but was held ...

Flaubert's A Sentimental Education

friendship that endures, but had been weak and strong at different times in the lives, largely due to circumstance. Prior to the n...

Henrik Ibsen: Developing His Characters

leaves, but in Hedda, both Eilert and Hedda die. In his introduction to The Feast at Solhoug, which came in for its share of cri...

Naming Conventions in "Beloved"

harrowing existence would lead a mother to that sort of desperate act. But still, no matter why she did it, and even if death is b...

Sitcom Portrayal Of Homosexuality

TV" (Holleran 65). II. THE TIDES OF CHANGE The typically flamboyant portrayal of homosexuals like Sean Hayess Jack McFarland on ...

Death in Chopin’s The Story of an Hour

her emotions to get the better of her. But, then again, if one looks back in history, at the time this story was written, that hea...

Guilt or Innocence of Santiago Nasar in The Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

virginity before she marries Bayardo San Rom?n. To ascertain the guilt of innocence of Nasar the events need to be considered and ...

Analyzing Don Fausto Tejada's Journey

wearing halter tops and shorts (40). He nods at them and makes a "clicking sound" with his tongue (40). Clearly, it is a "come on"...

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare and the Characters of Portia and Calpurnia

A lioness hath whelped in the streets; / And graves have yawnd, and yielded up their dead; / Fierce fiery warriors fight upon the ...

Self Discovery and French Literature's Evolution

good deal of the literature at the time. Lyric poetry more than likely arose from the songs of the minstrels and the singers whi...

Dreams and Their Function in Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

such as George Eliot and Fyodor Dostoevsky constantly show the "complexity of the individual consciousness" and reduce it often to...

Snow Crash by Neal Stephensonn and Technology's Effects

counterparts "brain-drained" (2). Because America was responsible for the technological fusion, it paid the greatest price with p...

Persuasiveness of Iago in William Shakespeare's Othello

lines of the opening curtain, Roderigo says "Thou toldst me thou didst hold him in thy hate" (I, i, 7), to which Iago replies, "De...

Research Proposal: Nick in "The Great Gatsby"

his personal life, and physically; hes a bigot, hes a racist, and he has a mistress who he makes little effort to hide from his wi...

Danny Zuko From The Movie Grease

for constant friendship and status both in the group and in the school. The group gives each member protection from being alone an...

Personal Fulfillment in 'Rabbit, Run' by John Updike

(in the context of marriage), religion cannot be sexual. "Sexuality may be spiritual, but spirituality may not be sexual, it seems...

Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables With a focus on Hepzibah

how deceiving appearances can actually be, and also illustrates how despite the rapid change from old-world values to modern sensi...

A Character Analysis from The Kite Runner

to torment me anew. Suddenly the air in Rahim Khans little flat was too thick, too hot, too rich with the smell of the street" (H...

Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote as Literature's 'First Novel'

as Garcia Marquez. These are often too artistic to really be a novel. While these are only a few of the types of written stories...

Dante's 'Inferno' and Chaucer's Pilgrims

have been a part of hypocritical ways will be confined. Likewise, the idea and notion of lust is a level of hell where those who h...

The Character of Troy Maxson in August Wilson's Fences

if you could play ball then they ought to have let you play...Come telling me I come along too early. If you could play...then the...

Utopian Literature's Similarities and Differences

be attacked as while many analysts will agree that Plato clearly states this in The Republic, his other works suggest other ideas....

Stage and Screen Adaptations of Hamlet by William Shakespeare

identity. It is interesting to note that as he pulls on his "cloak of madness" that his true intellect becomes completely clouded ...

Queen Gertrude of Denmark's Character

guilty. What he does not know is how involved his mother, Gertrude, is in the plotting of the old Kings death. Her over hasty marr...

Youth Violence In The United States

in a society where proper parenting has become a thing of the past. Detachment of this extent can reach epic proportions when men...

Author's Word Choices and Altered Impressions of Characters

his speech has often included long pauses with "ummm" or "well" or some other phrases to fill the void, the actual speech between ...

Supporting Characters and Foils in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

serves to foil Nora in Acts I and II by tearing down Noras optimistic attitude with her own weighty pessimism. Mrs. Linde has not...