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Essays 1981 - 2010

Gogol's Dead Souls

to be changed. Unfortunately, though technology seems to advance, human relationships and nature does not seem to advance. ...

Daniel Defoe's Protagonist Moll Flanders

where Moll informs workers that she wants to grow up to be a gentlewoman. What this means is that she wants to support herself and...

Depiction of Women in D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love and James Joyce's Ulysses

the chapter "Penelope", the readers is somehow seduced into believing that Mollys thoughts and monologue are somehow unmediated (S...

Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop

the people that they are there to convert, that they find peace for themselves, and are able to build a presence for the Church wi...

Marquez's No One Writes the Colonel

His wife does not seem to be well and is anxious all the time about what is to become of them. Obstinately refusing to believe tha...

Distress by Greg Egan and Human Values

ordinary life, one can take the comments at face value, or use them as somewhat of a springboard for further thought or discussion...

Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Realism

Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary. Aunt Polly -- Toms Aunt Polly, she is -- and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in ...

Political and Personal Beliefs Reflected in Tillie Olsen's Writing

Indeed, Olsens socialist upbringing and working class background, as well as her experience as a single parent, provides a major s...

Big Trouble by Dave Barry

that group of people "who, merely by existing, tended to violate laws that solid citizens never even thought about, like how long...

Yossarian in Joseph Heller's Catch 22

in a most hideous way, Yossarian pleads with Doc Daneeka to ground him on the basis of insanity. Doc Daneeka replies that Yossaria...

The Beauty of the Lilies by John Updike

"tumbles" his family into a "financial ruin from which they do not recover for two generations" (Bottum 64). Clarence finds that a...

Unique Voice of Sandra Cisneros

the reader what Esperanza is thinking and feeling at the most important moments in her life, but other than that exact moment, the...

The Diviners and Women's Role

born on July 18, 1926 and died on January 5, 1987 (Margaret Laurence). Laurence was married in 1947 and then moved to London with...

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...

Huckleberry Finn Critically Analyzed

began disappearing from school library bookshelves, denying students the right to draw their own conclusions. The Adventures of H...

Saving Grace by Lee Smith and Religious Psychosis

In 5 pages Reverend Shepard's religious 'psychosis' is examined in an analysis of Lee Smith's novel. There are no other sources l...

Concept of Quests in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and Moby Dick by Herman Melville

In five pages these two novels are compared in an analysis of how the concept of a quest is featured within each. There are no ot...

Lydia McQueen in Wilma Dykeman's The Tall Woman

to build a school for her own children., as well as the other children in the community. (He has) "The power of a rock. But, th...

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

In five pages character analyses of Lucetta Templeman and Michael Henchard as featured in Thomas Hardy's 19th century novel are pr...

Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville, Images of Christ and Themes

In five pages a thematic and symbolic analysis of this novel by Herman Melville are presented. Four sources are cited in the bibl...

Sociological Analysis and Summary of The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

In five pages this paper summarizes Steinbeck's great American novel and then presents a sociological analysis that considers conc...

Gothic Author Mary Shelley

In seven pages this paper considers the Gothic characteristics of Mary Shelley's writings in an analysis of short stories 'Transfo...

The Third Wedding by Costas Taktsis

In five pages a sociological analysis of Taktsis's novel is presented in terms of the heroine's limited life choices. There are n...

Sociological Perspectives on Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy

section, the author paints a tragic portrait of inner city life that is characterized by violence, cruelty and desperation. For ex...

The Princess of Cleves by Marie de Lafayette

the end of her days, the Princess abided by societal expectations. For example, when the young heroine first comes to the court,...

Pearl Buck's Dragon Seed

"Dragon Seed" details the circumstances surrounding Japanese invasion and occupation of mainland China during World War II as they...

Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Irony

depicting what he discovered about each of the victims. The first of these characters is the Marquesa, who is the daughter of a we...

Review of Paul Auster's Moon Palace

truncated at some point in the past by an Ellis Island clerk, Fogelman thus becomes Fogg. Fogg is an orphan in search of his fath...

Universal Confusion and Evil in William Golding's Lord of the Flies and J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye

be credited to each authors belief in the universality of evil and disorder, an evil and disorder which often as not can be relate...

Minor Characters in A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

of reference. The priest represents the possibility of attaining the ideal in life and in love, especially as it applies to the r...