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Mordecai Richler and Margaret Atwood on Self Victimization

"moves slowly, but surely into a plotline filled with many serious topics: abuse, rape, the inability to love, the immediate reper...

Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist

of this, more than likely, was due to the influence of modern industrialized society and the move from rural to urban settings, bu...

'The Merchant's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

and hoor; /Thanne is a wife the fruit of his tresor" (Chaucer 55-58). At this point, it is not certain that Januarie sees, as ce...

A Comparison of The Snows of Kilimanjaro” and The Yellow Wallpaper

his insistence that he does not love her, is accounted for by the delirium which is affecting his mental faculties. However, the g...

Poetry and Carpe Diem

the end, ones heart may win over ones intellect. In Diane Ackermans poem, which may very well be a modern retelling of...

Poetic Spiders

seems to be making a statement about independence of spirit, but an involvement with mankind. "I markd where on a little promontor...

Religion in Beloved by Toni Morrison and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

on a culture. Indeed, to mask such somber episodes as Umuofias abrupt European colonization as being an important part of global ...

Comparing the Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne

he urges Faith to deny the Devil and look to Heaven, he suddenly finds himself alone in the forest. Although Brown has escaped the...

Depictions of Nature in the Poetry of Dickinson and Frost

action so that the reader can easily imagine its intensity. It is a strikingly vivid image. Likewise, Frost is famous for his im...

'The Road Not Taken' and 'Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening' by Robert Frost

line assures us that we are in this world" (Ogilvie et al.). There is a very relaxed, yet very introspective, tone to the lines as...

William Shakespeare's Macbeth and Julius Caesar

the person seeking power truly does see how things can be improved if people listen to them. For example, in the simple of situati...

Critique of The Lexus And The Olive Tree by Thomas Friedman

It is like a winner-take-all schema that has widened the gap in incomes (Oram, 1999; Dunn, 2000). * When countries are involved in...

Identity Construct, Gender, and Sexuality

clearly defined socio-cultural parameters. Gauntlett (2002) states that in those societies where modernity is well developed...

Cyclical Time in One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Melquiades is a guide in Aureliano Babilonias quest for knowledge and helps him in regards to deciphering the prophecies. By the e...

Mirgorod Stories of Gogol

why things are so arranged, that women should seize us by the nose as deftly as they do the handle of a teapot" (How the Two Ivans...

Transcendentalism of Louisa May Alcott and Harriet Beecher Stowe

March sisters, Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth. Examination of this text reveals that, in particular, Alcott stressed the transcendental per...

Transcendentalism, Domesticity and Louisa May Alcott

womans place was perceived to be located securely in the private sphere, which she ruled as a domestic goddess, creating a haven o...

The Dreamers by Isak Dinesen and Identity

the skill they once had, but rather their passion for that subject matter. For example, an opera singer such as Leoni may well hav...

Puritan Themes in Jonathan Edwards' Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and Mary Rowlandson's Captivity and Restoration

Rowlandsons tale is subdivided into twenty removes, which are a combination of her own harrowing experiences as an Indian captive,...

The Mission of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life

This is a two part biography of the famed civil rights activist consisting of three pages with the theme of the first part applied...

Coen Brothers' Film O Brother Where Art Thou? and Marxist Themes

McGill spins a yarn about buried ill-gotten gains ($1.2 million) that he promises to share (Berardinelli). In their journey, the...

Oedipus Rex, the Book of Genesis, and Destiny

more many people are punished for not heeding the word of God. There are numerous people and numerous situations presented in G...

Leadership in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

twice the size of me" (Kesey 17). As this suggests, Bromden perceives the idea of the "big" man quite literally and sees the force...

Literary Analysis of Amy Tan's 'Two Kinds'

reader watches as a mother tries desperately to give her daughter all the advantages that she never had, reliving, to some extent,...

An Analysis of Mansfield's 'Miss Brill'

This paper provides an analysis of this short story in terms of theme, symbolism, and character development. This four page paper ...

Time in The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

the novel. He is caught up in the outdated cultural mythos of the South, where men were suppose to be strong and women were virgin...

The Death of Ivan Ilyich as Tolstoy's Commentary on Materialism

exorbitant fees for consulting them. Thus, Tolstoy is indicating that materialism diverts the true calling of the professional, su...

Comparative Analysis of 'The Uses of the Erotic' by Audre Lorde and 'Laugh of the Medusa' by Helene Cixous

One has to consider that what Cixous is stating is credible. Biologically it has been proven that women have a thicker medulla obl...

Macbeth and Blood

We can see that he is panicking because he has killed a man and there is blood on him that he cannot wash off. Even though his wif...

Sky So Close by Betool Khedairi

from the beginning of the novel, the narrators mother expresses her basic disapproval of her daughter. This is why she wants the g...