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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne and Freedom

this man. Not only had he put himself beyond the pale of human laws, but he had made himself independent of them, free in the stri...

Love in Phaedra by Jean Racine

the love she has inside of her will consume her as long as she is living. Feeling much the same way that Aphrodite has felt, rej...

Othello by William Shakespeare and Betrayal

na?ve Desdemona, he marries her without hesitation or reservation because he believes he has finally found someone with whom he ca...

David Guterson's Snow Falling on Cedars

heard that Carl Jr. was going to reacquire his familys farm, he went to Carl Jr. to try to negotiate for the purchase of he seven ...

Oedipus Rex by Sophocles and Unwritten Law's Power

marry his mother. This involves a very powerful unwritten law concerning incest. While there was perhaps no laws concerning this p...

Literature and Freedom Themes

freedom is conveyed in The Awakening. Edna yearned to be free but she lived in a society where she felt a prisoner. She could not ...

Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot and Unreality

by going to church, trying to do the right things in life and communication with him beforehand. Yet, it will only be after their ...

Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Futility

are constantly fighting a futile battle. As one author states, the two main characters are the epitome of confusion and futility a...

Principle Theme of Antigone by Sophocles

men...so that we must obey in these things" (Sophocles, 2002). Antigone makes it clear in her reply t hat she is fully aware that ...

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Freedom

of the Puritan ideal that humans born into the world had a tendency to sin and he went on further to theorize that the human subco...

Edgar Allan Poe's Poetry

Other Poems, and the poem Dreams, which was referenced above, is contained in this book (Misery is Manifold). His second book of ...

Utopian Analysis of Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

Swift employed satire to convey his message, and his target was, naturally, Europe, as it existed during the sixteenth century, bu...

Harlem Renaissance and Zora Neale Hurston

her age and a man that treats her badly. In many ways he enslaves her and she feels helpless to leave him. Finally, Janie shares t...

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Marriage

in hopes that Jane will be forced to stay over at the estate and therefore seal the deal that she has been looking for her daughte...

Lolita's Innocence

innocence. The ideal, at least the American ideal, is centered on youth. Lolita is young but may not be the innocent that Humber...

Literature and Homosexuality

`Omit: a reference to the unspeakable vice of the Greeks" (M 50). By insistently linking Greece to a physical realization of homos...

Robert Frost's Poetry and Despair

San Fransico but he would grow up primarily in Massachusetts where he, his siblings, and his mother would move to after the death ...

Responsibility and Parenting in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

abandoned his supposed love for this ideal of his. He also demonstrates no sense of responsibility in this particular theme. "[I...

Medieval Literature's Portrayal of Honor and Dishonor

In seven pages this paper examines how Medieval literature thematically portrayed honor and dishonor in a comparative analysiis of...

Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler and A Doll's House and the Theme of Confinement

The ways in which confinement in its various forms such as psychological, social, financial, and emotional are thematically repres...

Attila Jozsef's Perched on Nothing's Branch

This poetry collection and the nihilism that is thematically expressed by poet Attila Jozsef are analyzed in four pages. There ar...

Medieval French Literature and Deception

In seven pages this report discusses Middle Ages' French literature in an overview of how deception is thematically developed in T...

Guilt in Macbeth by William Shakespeare

In five pages this paper examines how guilt is thematically developed in Macbeth by William Shakespeare. There is no bibliography...

Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad, Portrait of a Lady by Henry James, and Individuality

In 12 pages the naivete of individuality as it is thematically developed in both novels is examined. There are no additional sour...

American Dream in Death of a Salesman and The Great Gatsby

as "The Jazz Age." When not numbing themselves with superficial pleasures, young people were pursuing the American Dream, as tran...

Good v. Evil in Mihailovich Dostoevsky's The Idiot

In five pages this paper examines how this conflict is thematically portrayed in Prince Mishkin's nature. One source is listed in...

Thomas Hardy's Works on Society and the Individual

In 8 pages this paper discusses characterizations, relationships, and how they thematically represent society and the individual i...

Local Color in Three American Literary Works

In seven pages the way local color is used by the authors in such short stories as Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's 'The New England Nun,...

Alice Walker's The Color Purple and Oppression

In five pages this paper analyzes how Alice Walker thematically develops oppression in her novel The Color Purple. One source is ...

Women, Gardening, and Artist Mary Cassatt

In five and a half pages this paper examines how women and gardening are thematically portrayed in the uses of composition, perspe...