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Chantal Ackerman and Her Films Je, Tu, Il and Elle and the Eighties

attitude which pervades most of her works, even today, it can be stated. This is because feminism was asking women to redefine the...

Analyzing the 'Way of the World' by Congreve

to marry. Again, this takes place amid humorous circumstances and their dialogue is peppered with wit and sarcasm, but behind the...

Literary Analysis of Jeffrey Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides and Timothy Findley's Not Wanted on the Voyage

trademark. He occasionally collaborated with his partner, screenwriter Bill Whitehead, and was encouraged to embark upon a writin...

Gwen Harwood and her Poetry

(lines 3-4). It is clear that whatever aspirations that the woman had as a pianist have been supplanted by her role as a mother....

The Necessity for Labor Unions and Women's Place in Them

a woman named, Mother Jones, who was well into her sixties when she embraced the cause, continued to fight for womens rights in th...

Fire as a Theme in Virgil's Aeneid

the contest because she bribed Paris by offering him Helen of Troy, the fairest of mortal women, which is the basis for the confli...

Phillis Wheatley's Poetry

the population in America at the time would have preferred to not know that a black woman was capable of such complex and abstract...

Survival, Religious Faith, and Family in 'Go Tell It on the Mountain' by James Baldwin and 'Black Boy' by Richard Wright

to be a human being. These representations illustrate how and why a person acts the way he or she does, how moods, feelings and e...

John Updike's A Month of Sundays and Of the Farm Compared

those demons in his closet that he thought securely battened down. His mother will not stop with the accusations and insinuations ...

Medea, Wide Sargasso Sea, and Gender Roles

dynamics of the power relationship between them is more complicated than a simple balance between active and passive: at the start...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

An Analysis of Borofsky's "Hammering Man"

in the series, which is continually adding new entries to this day. The first "Hammering Man" was built in 1979 out of plywood, de...

The Moral Hijacking of "Dangerous Liaisons" by Populist Sentiment

"Les Liaisons Dangereuses" in 1782, a number of years before the French Revolution, and it stands to this day as a masterwork of p...

Inherit the Wind - Rachel’s Speech

against it" (Lawrence and Lee 8). And Cates returns, "I know that" (Lawrence and Lee 8). The real struggle is between science and...

Comparing and Contrasting Dracula and Nosferatu

is of excellent quality which is likely why it quickly became a classic, and one which others emulate. The ending is satisfying. S...

Analysis of Anthem by Ayn Rand

rather than "I." As he has always been taller and smarter than his peers, he has been criticized throughout his life by his teache...

Intrusion and Gwendolyn Brooks

little from life. And, they are seen as beautiful for they are all described as "oaken" which, while illustrating they are African...

Loneliness in Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men

in its effect (Goldhurst 49). Critical opinion agrees on this point. The time scheme covered by the narrative is from Thursday eve...

Detailed Analysis of Kate Chopin’s Short Story, ‘Desiree’s Baby’

of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...

Themes in Hemingway’s Old Man and the Sea and A Farewell to Arms

so closely related is dangerous for the reader. Its tempting to think that this is nothing more than Hemingway retelling events in...

Love in the Time of Cholera

Fuentes and Praust and then moves on to examining the power of the classic Don Quixote, indicating how there are not many, if any,...

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, ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

A Look at Great Expectations in the Context of the Author's Life

1824-1827 he was a "day pupil at a school in London" (Cody). But the year in the blacking factory "haunted him all of his life" t...