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Irony in the Short Stories 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor and 'The Birthmark' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Therefore, Aylmer is destined to live a life of unhappiness, based not upon any inherently horrible thing about his life, but base...

Raymond Carver's Poems

to have a relationship. The narrator tells us that he loves his father, and indicates that he cant handle his alcohol either (hint...

Metamorphosis and Vengeance in Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare

wronged, as Philomela was . . . (IV. I. 52). The book is also mentioned in Act V, scene three, when Titus asks Saturninus" the...

Nella Larsen's Novels and Awareness of Gender and Race

begins to see herself as somehow less than the rest of humanity, a sub-human at best. This self hatred continues throughout the ...

Case Studies on Revenge and 'The Cask of Amontillado' by Edgar Allan Poe

In a research study on the factors which lead to acts of revenge, University of Arkansas psychologists tested a number of voluntee...

Renaissance Art - Three Works

Madonna is another version of the Madonna/Child pairing, but this time Christ is an infant. The relief, which is 74.5 x 69.5 centi...

William Shakespeare's Use of Sexuality in the Plays Antony and Cleopatra, Hamlet, and Othello

In twelve pages this paper examines how sexuality is thematically portrayed in these plays in terms of obsession, interracial love...

Treason in Henry V by William Shakespeare

In eight page this paper discusses how treason is thematically developed in William Shakespeare's patriotic play Henry V. Six sou...

Jealousy in Othello by William Shakespeare

In eight pages plus a Roman numeral outline of one page this paper examines how William Shakespeare thematically develops jealousy...

Competition in 'The Odyssey' by Homer

is presented as an outright competition in the story of their contest for recognition as the patron deity of Athens" (65). In Boo...

Reality and Disguise in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

from such a cultured youth. This is a very symbolic disguise and one that establishes how Huck is searching for his identity throu...

Past Theme in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

One of the reasons for this is that Dickens expertly wove just about every emotion and every tale of human nature into this one gr...

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Themes of Power and Gender

All the women are intrigued with Darcy and the potential marriage material he represents, however he is nonplused by what he consi...

Deception in Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue and Tale'

"General Prologue" of The Canterbury Tales, is one of only two pilgrims who tells no story of his own (Conlee 36). While critic J...

Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, King Lear by William Shakespeare, and Sacrifice

do him wrong. She is all but banished and ends up marrying into wealth and power in another region of the continent. Still she sid...

20th Century Literature and Self Determination

In 6 pages this paper examines how self determination is thematically portrayed in 'The Red Wheelbarrow' by William Carlos William...

Love in the Poetry of Adrienne Rich

In five pages this paper analyzes the poems 'At a Bach Concert' and 'History' in an examination of how Adrienne Rich thematically ...

Order in the Character of Macon Leary in The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler

In five pages a character analysis of Macon Leary focuses upon how he thematically represents order and systems. There are no oth...

'A and P' by John Updike and Self Discovery

In 5 pages this paper examines how detail and contrast are employed by the author to thematically depict self discovery in this sh...

Society and the Individual in the Writings of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Edgar Allan Poe

In 8 pages this paper considers how society and the individual is thematically portrayed in the stories 'The Masque of the Red Dea...

Poetry of William Blake and William Wordsworth and the Theme of Poverty

smooth stone/ That overlays the pile; and, from a bag/ All white with flour, the dole of village dames,/ He drew his scraps and fr...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

Short Story Analysis: Three Literary Works

way his eyes move continually to the fact that he cannot stand to be touched: "Once, when he had been making a synopsis of a parag...

Sexism and Racism in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye

In five pages this paper examines the novel by Toni Morrison in terms of how it thematically portrays sexism and racism. There ar...

Love as the Theme of The Coquette by Foster

In four pages this paper examines how this 18th century novel thematically represents love. There are no other sources listed....

Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Sacrifice

prompts one to question what type of institution would deem the truly normal as actually crazy. While many thematic elements app...