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Classical Greek Literature and Women's Tragic Marriages

Aeschylus introduces a complete reversal of gender roles, placing the character of Clytemnestra in a ruling role over Argos in the...

An Analysis of Robert Frost's Stopping By Woods

This paper analyzes one of Frost's most famous works, which many critics interpret as Frost's own longing for death. However the ...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet, William Golding's Lord of the Flies, and Their Parallels

In 6 pages the parallels that exist in these works in terms of literary similarities of allegory, metaphor, simile, irony, personi...

Knowledge Theme in 'Paradise Lost' by John Milton and Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

the point that there is false knowledge and true knowledge, and that false knowledge can be very persuasive. From the "War in Hea...

Nadine Gordimer's Writings and the Theme of Intolerance

In 10 pages this paper considers the theme of intolerance as represented in the works of this South African Jewish author. There ...

How Robert Herrick's Poem, 'To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time' and Andrew Marvell's Poem 'To His Coy Mistress' Seize the Day

This paper consists of 5 pages and explores how the theme of seizing the day is reflected in both works. There is 1 bibliographic...

Childhood Loss in Obasan and The Stone Angel

Isolation, privation and loss in childhood are major themes in literature. This report discusses the work of two Canadians, Joy Ko...

Maturity in Legacy, a Novel by James A. Michener

with methodical, journeyman style. As he told a radio interviewer in 1992: "My job is to be a hard-working man who sits at a moder...

Failed Marriages in The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James and The Awakening by Kate Chopin

to pass her by that the thought nearly paralyzes her emotions. She learns from years of fighting those bottled up emotions that s...

Edith Wharton, Charles Dickens, and Charlotte Bronte on Experience and Innocence

In 5 pages the themes of innocence and experience as they are depicted in these Victorian and post Victorian literary works The Ho...

The Storm by McKnight Malmar

created characterization that was both believable and fully developed, which is a feat not easily accomplished in such limited spa...

Themes in The Analects by Confucius

In six pages the Confucian Analects are examined in terms of the themes ths ancient Chinese philosophical work presents. There ar...

Tragic Themes in Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, Sophocles' Antigone and William Shakespeare's Macbeth

Shakespeares characters that the audience (or the reader) immediately understands will not have an easy time of it. The story of "...

Analysis of 'Desert Places' by Robert Frost

contemporaries, Frost sees no meaning in nature. It is simply emptiness. There is no God there, no Creator, just emptiness. In the...

Robert Stone's Dog Soldiers

In a paper consisting of 5 pages this novel is examined in terms of whether or not it should be considered a work of art based upo...

Slavery Theme in Dawn by Octavia Butler

power structures and organization are often present in her writing. In fact, it would be more accurate to describe her writing as ...

Punishment in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Dante's 'Inferno'

manner in which both people and society are viewed. The very basis of the story is perhaps the biggest symbol, where Hester Prynn...

Comparative Analysis of Ozment's The Burgermeister's Daughter and Marx and Engels' The Communist Manifesto

Engels still present the view of a society that could be idyllic if they only could bring it into concert with human emotion and m...

Comparing Margaret Atwood Novels Alias Grace and The Handmaid's Tale

that there is always a tidy or satisfactory resolution to the womens dilemmas. In fact, in the case of the intentionally ambiguou...

Poetry and Style of Emily Dickinson

and it was this heart-felt emotion that elevated her works from ordinary to the ranks of extraordinary. Music had long play...

Comparing Flannery O'Connor and Anton Chekov

His narratives, rather than having a climax and resolution, are a thematic arrangement of impressions and ideas" (Anonymous Anton ...

Immigrant Experiences and Angel Island

Before actually describing the art and poetry that came out of detainees from Angel Island, a look at the locations history would ...

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 ...

Modern Expressionist Painter Georges Rouault

revolution and the advent of World War I. These factors must have had a tremendous impact on the art community. This could, one mi...

Oedipus Rex and Othello Compared “Oedipus Rex”

to speak out. Of course, Oedipus is infuriated by such statements and knows that they must have been instigated by one of his enem...

Italian Literature and the Themes of Escape, Alienation, and Entrapment

first the expulsion from the tennis club, then from the fascist party, then academic anti-Semitism, then more and more direct insu...

Charisma and Power in The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli and The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius

to vote for them, even though another candidate is more qualified. Suetonius writes in the Twelve Caesars something akin to Pri...

Comparative Analysis of Lear's The Jumblies and Carroll's Jabberwocky

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe(Carroll, 4)....

Life and Art of Poet Pablo Neruda

from a different era. Considering that he saw some of mans worst atrocities to his fellow man, it is no wonder that his poetry r...

Comparative Analysis of the Works of Ueda Akinari and Haruki Murakami

The works of Akinari and Murakami are contrasted and compared in 7 pages with the primary emphasis being on the alienation themes ...