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Symbolism and Characterization in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

As such he makes a very good narrator. He also cares about people, which also makes him a reliable narrator. This is good because ...

Social Responsibility in Antigone and Oedipus the King by Sophocles

his infant son, Oedipus, die from exposure on a mountainside. The baby Oedipus was subsequently found and raised by the rulers of ...

Thomas Harris' Silence of the Lambs

make the lambs stop screaming, do you think theyd be all right too and you wouldnt wake up again in the dark and hear the lambs sc...

El Casamiento Enganoso by Miguel de Cervantes Summarized and Analyzed

the story told by a self-admitted liar be accepted as the truth, no matter how fantastic it might sound? Ensign Campuzano, an art...

Analysis of Agamemnon by Aeschylus

First, the author wanted to convey something political. It was a time when democracy was rising and this type of government was at...

The Jesus Myth by Andrew Greeley

edification of readers who seek, like him, to try to deepen their understanding of Christianity. In accomplishing this task, Gre...

Comparison of Thomas Aquinas's Writings and The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

greedy for gain" (Machiavelli 56). Men, Machiavelli argued, were by nature more interested in their own good than in achieving th...

Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez

the form of communication outside of the classroom. "An accident of geography sent me to a school where all my classmates were wh...

Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Willy Loman's Ignorance

is doing is supporting him and encouraging his dreams, although they are false. Because of this sort of set-up we are immediatel...

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 ...

Two Examples of Madness in Literature

loves to write, and obviously sneaks off to do because we are reading about it. Writing is her passion and while it is seen as an ...

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...

Comparative Style Analysis of Blake, Wordsworth, and Whitman

part. He and the Church had a love/hate relationship, to be certain. "Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy," st...

Review of 'A Room With a View' Film

times appears to be a prune. In one memorable scene, as the plot thickens, George is standing in the middle of a waving...

Tales of Devious Caribbean Women by Hispanic Authors

became increasingly diffident towards him" (Ramirez 79). Yet, when the manager asked the narrator what Francoise was saying, he wo...

Religious Commentary in 'A Good Man is Hard to Find'

"the trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled"(OConnor). This would seem to symbolize the wildern...

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's All the President's Men

and Bernstein who followed up on Sunday morning These two young reporters, Woodward was 29, Bernstein was 28, came from vastly ...

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 ...

'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...

Kevin Toolis's Rebel Hearts: Journeys Within the IRA's Soul

political activist organization known as Sinn Fein. Each chapter is subdivided in such a way as to concentrate on a specific aspe...

Love and Cinderella in Four Fairytale Interpretations

castle where he runs into a surly servant girl: Danielle(who beans him with an apple). Later, when he sees her in some of her si...

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...

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). ...

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...

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...

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...