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American Dream in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman II

II, Miller was able to show that the American Dream as a way of life is a sham -- and why. Death of a Salesman tells the story of...

Thematic Elements of Tragedy in Shakespeare's Macbeth

will be the real winner in the scheme. Macbeth talks to himself about his desire to murder. He is tortured by it, thinks...

Imagining if Medea Had Been Written by Euripides and Not Sophocles

he would take a dim view of Jason abandoning his duty to his wife and children in favor of selfish gain. The chorus would be the...

Themes of Human Limitation in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House and Franz Kafka's 'Metamorphosis'

beneath, the concept of such themes will satisfy most readers and explicators of fiction, there may be hidden, deeper meanings in ...

Virginia Woolf's Literary Themes and Styles in Three Works

which you are now for the first time entering?"(Woolf). And, even in the modern era, most women still find this to be a certainty,...

Theme Treatment in an Example of Creative Writing

screen. He ran his fingers through his hair. At what point was it a sin to work? Perhaps his resultant weight loss was a sign from...

Comparative Analysis of Three Works of Isabel Allende

then that Of Love and Shadows takes place in a Latin American country that is suffering under a brutal dictatorship. Irene Beltran...

Themes in French Literary Classics

daughters, only to have them essentially through it all in his face for it was not enough. This simple understanding presents us w...

The Myth of Er and Scipio's Dream as They Relate to American Society

not go to reincarnation necessarily, but rather to the idea that death does not end life. On the other hand, New Ageism, Buddhism,...

Mohsin Hamid's Moth Smoke, Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things and Class

see him, comes from how many people think he feels he is better than others. The men in the factory thinks he is somewhat pretenti...

Analyzing White and Blue by Kieslowski

In eight pages the trio of color symbolic components along with themes and plots from the films White and Blue are analyzed. Ther...

Themes of Good and Evil in Two Works by Poe and Morrison

Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...

Miss Julie by August Strindberg and Themes of Class and Gender

station in life is far higher than that of Jean and yet she wants to escape. She begs Jean to help her get away, and promises to t...

Examples of Post-Colonial Strife In Literature

the British rule has officially ceased. And so, through his personal experiences, the character of Camagu mirrors the turbulence ...

Hamlet, Romeo, and Responsibility of the Individual

all thoughts of Rosaline in favor of his new love, Juliet. This rashness is further exemplified in the famous balcony scene, which...

Injustice Theme of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables

(Hugo). As this demonstrates, the only effect that nineteen years of mistreatment has had on Valjean is to turn this kind-hearted ...

Graham Greene's The Destructors and D.H. Lawrence's 'The Rocking Horse Winner'

world, in which society is restructuring itself after the devastation of the war - a devastation which T, at least, seems to feel ...

Commitment in Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring

about them that is unknown to pagan literature (Byfield 2). This is true not only for the book authored by Tolkien but also for th...

Literary Criticisms of the Style and Works of O. Henry

does so in a most subtle way. It is as if O. Henry plays on the expectation of a terrible demise, then, at the last moment, as a s...

'Montana 1948' and 'To Kill a Mockingbird'

that Scout understands is that she saw, and responded to, familiar faces in the crowd. We, however, are aware that it is this iden...

Similar Themes in Thomas Wolfe's You Can't Go Home Again and August Wilson's Fences

situation that is changing at that time. Bono asserts that times have changed and Troy just came along "too early." To which, Troy...

The Dead and the Living by Sharon Olds

suggests, there is often a political context to Olds observations. For example, in "The Death of Marilyn Monroe," Olds suggests ...

Defiance in 'Sweat' by Zora Neale Hurston

and the house that she purchased with sweat and labor. However, Delia makes it clear that she will not be driven out. She tells hi...

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Education Thesis, and Outline Example

has. The education that Dr. Frankenstein sought was for the express goal of going against nature, to beat God at his own game. The...

Hayden, Roethke, and Silverstein Compared

the euphemism waltz to indicate the routine beatings which occurred. Lastly, in Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden, another t...

Resistance and Violence in Richard Wright's Native Son and Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

belly pulsed with fear...and the rat emitted a long thin song of defiance, its black beady eyes glittering" (Wright, 10). ...

Plato's 'Phaedrus'

Platonic love reflects the deepest love possible between two people, in that it does not abide by the notions of restriction, jeal...

John Keats' 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'

the viewer. The next stanzas, however, bring the reader and the viewer, a more sobering message. In comparison to the characters ...

Understanding and the Supernatural in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Gloria Naylor's Mama Day

lived with her before her death and that Sethe sought her out after escaping from slavery. The presence of the baby girls ghost ...

Comparison of Wim Wenders' Film Wings of Desire and Plato's Phaedrus

Naucratis in Egypt there dwell one of the old gods of the country, the god to whom the bird called Ibis is sacred, his own name be...