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Classic Literature's Portrayal of Male Characters

In five pages this paper evaluates the realistic depiction of male characters in literature past and present in a consideration of...

Classic Western Literature and the Portrayal of Women

The portrayals of Cunegonde by Voltaire in Candide and Gertrude by William Shakespeare in Hamlet are contrastes and compared in fi...

Character Analysis of Esteban Trueba in Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits

Author Karen Castellucci Cox notes in her literary analysis of The House of the Spirits, "Esteban speaks for an entire class and g...

Tolkein and Fellowship of the Ring

tale is primarily told in a book titled "The Hobbit," wherein he has many adventures and comes into possession of the one ring of ...

A Feminist Reading of Shakespeare's Hamlet

conflict, whereas Gertrude and Ophelia are blatantly constructed to subordinate and to submit to all of the whims and desires of t...

Sophocles vs. Jean Anouilh's Character Interpretations of Antigone

actions is shaped by the other characters around her. Creon is of particular importance in shaping the character Antigone in both...

Gender Portrayals in Homer's 'The Iliad' and Sophocles' Antigone

of Helen of Troy in marriage if she wins. This starts the war. In this we see that the war is being fought over a woman, Helen, c...

Female Characters as Spectators in Early Cinema

This paper examines the heavily male-influenced film industry as it related to the roles played by female characters. The author ...

Male and Female Relationships in William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and John Milton's 'Paradise Lost'

Cleopatra is a very sensual woman who is aware of her own passion. This, however, does not detract from her ability to rule...

Women in Works Such as Jane Eyre, The Scarlet Letter, and Lysistrata

This paper contrasts and compares various female characters throughout the history of literature which includes Lysistrata, Jane E...

The View of Women in Jane Austen's Society

This paper examines the roles played by male and female characters in the society created within Jane Austen's literature. This f...

Nigerian Characters in Two Novels

commanding warrior, whose exploits had become legendary among the Igbo villagers. Unfortunately, Okonkwo was more successful on...

A Consideration of 'Three Negro Classics' in African American Literature

unknown to him. He grew up in a time where the country was changing. The Civil War had ended and he and his family possessed freed...

Dante's Hell and Characters

to house arrogant souls who are guilt of other things as well. While Aeneas may not be guilty of betrayal or other crimes, he may ...

Walter and Ruth in A Raisin in the Sun

that the African American male is simply not given the same opportunities, or not as many opportunities, as the white man. This pl...

Brain Response/Males & Aggression

et al, 2006). In this study, it was found that girls at every age demonstrated "more self-regulated, committed compliance and less...

Hemingway's Turning of Tables in "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"

Macomber." Review of the Binaries Argument One way that Hemmingway explored the question...

Wild Thorns by Sahar Khalifeh

true in the modern non-fictional Palestinian reality, survival as individuals and as a culture is the primary goal of Khalifehs fi...

Women Compared in Defoe and Diderot

Women were simply sex objects, even when they were the main characters, in the beginning of the novel. This paper compares the mai...

Literature's Classic Adventure

far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy" (Homer The Odyssey PG). The Odyssey was written in 800 B.C. and woven in...

Virginia Woolf’s Descriptions of Literary ‘Beacons’ Antigone and Desdemona Applied to Nora in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...

Medieval Literature's Portrayal of Honor and Dishonor

In seven pages this paper examines how Medieval literature thematically portrayed honor and dishonor in a comparative analysiis of...

Feminist Literature's Portrayal of Prejudice and Oppression

observance of her passage past his house. Anne knows that she does not look like she fits in, and black person in a white suburb o...

American Literature's Portrayal of Immigrant Families

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the way immigrant families are presented in Brown Girl, Brownstones by Paule Marsh...

A Comparison of Huck Finn and the Misfit From A Good Man is Hard to Find

footsteps. This is demonstrated through the parallels between Huck and his father. In the part of the novel where Huck is abducted...

A Discussion of Those that Attempted to Help Holden in The Catcher in the Rye

at the prep school. In the beginning of the novel we see that Holden admires this man to some degree. Just prior to leaving his pr...

Literature and Male Power Myth

the two characters that are struggling to get back into it: Krogstad and Kristina. By comparison, we can see that Torvald deligh...

Man and Woman in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

hand, is a model of blunt decorum and steadiness, a man ruled by his class and conventions rather than feeling: basically, a guy ...

Honore de Balzac's Eugenie Grandet and George Eliot's Middlemarch

using money for good. This also illustrates how her position was far less than that of men, even her own son were she to have one....

The Characterization of Pip in Great Expectations

Pip is a character in this Charles Dickens classic. His role in the work is the focus of attention in this six page paper that inc...