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Dada and Impressionist Art as Political Statements

favorable in his time period (Art Archive [1], 2005). This author notes the following in regards to his work and his beliefs: "Yet...

Chapter XI of Bearing the Cross by Garrow

very powerful then and that point comes through loud and clear in the chapter. It is also noted that blacks and whites did not lik...

Philip Roth's The Counterlife, William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, and Journeys

that Nathan takes towards his death, traveling to various parts of the world in this journey. But, the opening chapter takes place...

Society, Racism, and Book of Lamentations by Castellanos

was, and it should be said that this was a different place and time. Yes, the people did not have abundance, but also, one can say...

Michael Kolhaas by Kleist and Justice

abiding citizen. He is a horse trader and is targeted by the government much in the same way a citizen of the United States may be...

Death and Love from William Faulkner's Perspective

In five pages this essay examines Faulkner's 'Barn Burning' and 'A Rose for Emily' as they represent the themes of death and love....

Opening Section of Part III in Toni Morrison's Beloved Analyzed

need for all women, especially of color, to assert themselves and claim their individual identity. This narrative adds texture to...

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck and the Effects of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl

portrayal of some shocking events of the thirties" (French 43). Its various conflicts consider the downside of American capitalis...

An Analysis of the Opening Passage of Anna Karenina

given notice (Tolstoy 1). As this illustrates, this opening passage accomplishes several purposes. It immediately announces the ...

Meeting Jesus Christ and Being Ready

where there is only anguish, grief and regret. The clear message of this passage is that the true believer, the true Christian, is...

Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Disillusionment

truly found happiness in his small level of success. It is simply his nature to have dreamed big and ignorantly, never having poss...

Comparison of Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz's The Divine Narcissus and Luis de Gongora's Polyphemus and Galatea

and transform his blood into a river, which flows down the sides of the volcano, Mt. Aetna, into the sea at Catana. De la Cruzs T...

Self Fulfillment and Identity in the Works of Ernest Hemingway

indicates they are seeking some answers, some way to self fulfillment. In this particular short story we see the doubt related t...

Social Commentary About The Gold Rush of Charlie Chaplin

in utter poverty and so always created characters that seemed to reflect that social class in society. One author notes, "Because ...

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper and Nature

introspection, but rather a view that seems to only see the nature around him as something of a frightening hindrance to his missi...

August Wilson's Play Fences

powerfully fertile environment for them all. She also loves to garden and this becomes a very vital part of the theme of fences in...

Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and Imperialism

who assure the king that Gulliver is merely a trained animal and that the farmer, from which Gulliver was obtained, had trained hi...

Comparative Analysis of The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving and Faust by Johann von Goethe

wiser than I was before: / Master, Doctors what they call me, / And Ive been ten years, already, / Crosswise, arcing, to and fro, ...

Psychosocial Theories of Erik Erikson

in Eriksons stages. Each has two names: Trust vs. Mistrust; Autonomy vs. Shame; Initiative vs. Guilt; Industry vs. Inferiority; Id...

Aspects of Celtic Mythology

see a great deal of intent on magic in a Celtic wedding, where there are many ways in which to honor the mystical forces, some of ...

Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited

by his effort to reject the constructs that hope to define him. "At Oxford, he carries a teddy bear named Aloysius, whom he scold...

An Ecological Vision Captured in All Creation is Groaning Edited by Carol Dempsey and Russell Butkus

non-human alike" (3). This feeling is contrasted against the sense of "lived inter-relatedness," which is the obtained by acknowle...

Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel and Death

death into her fictional drama. "The Stone Angel" is particularly interesting in regard to the contemporary way that we vie...

Formalism in the Films, Great Expectations and, The Night of the Hunter

them" (Trbic, 2005). At the same time there was a very powerful visual style that was insistence on losing the "polite look of his...

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen and Social Secession

of society with fewer rights than a woman was a child. Torvald would welcome his wife home from a shopping trip with condescendin...

Artemis Fowl The Opal Deception Book Four by Eoin Colfer Overview

assumed that both Haven City and the fairy universe are safe from Opal because she has been locked away in a psychiatric ward at J...

Defying Hitler by Sebastian Haffner

as subject to social trends as his peers, recounts how he remained somewhat detached by not becoming a Nazi. Nevertheless, he also...

No Good Friday by Athol Fugard

few characters, primarily Willie, Guy, and Rebecca. The powerful characters that are representative of the corruption, through cri...

Emile Zola's 'la fortune du Rougons'

humide "(Zola). Il y a un sens th?matique puissant dans ce langage figur?, un sens th?matique que droit du commencement lie ?troi...

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...