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Comparison of John Donne and Christopher Marlowe

this?...(Marlowe 7). As this illustrates, Faustus is rationalizing his desire to elevate himself, to live as a god himself. Rat...

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe Compared

In six pages these famous literary works are compared. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

Ahab and Faustus, Deals with the Devil Seen in Melville and Marlowe

not know when to stop. Faustus is not happy with the knowledge he has obtained. He feels there is more. He is much like an addic...

Servants in Faustus

become more clever. The townspeople find out about his delving in the black arts and they confront him. Before Faustus can show th...

Warning of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

an even darker meaning upon striving to achieve ones own distinctiveness and the role one assumes amidst social order. Satan begi...

Character Studies: Dr. Faustus, Macbeth

This essay discusses the characterization of Christopher Marlowe's "Dr. Faustus" and William Shakespeare's "Macbeth," identifying ...

Gunther/Death Be Not Proud

A 3 page book review of John Gunther's memoir of his son's illness and death. The title of this book is drawn from John Donne's Me...

Poetry Presentations

In five pages this paper informs as to how to have fun with poetic presentations of Andrew Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress,' John D...

Hell in Dante's 'Inferno' and Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus

down into the depths, and the church of Dantes medieval Italy labeled any direct and persistent questioning soul as heretical. ...

Knowledge Theme in 'Paradise Lost' by John Milton and Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

the point that there is false knowledge and true knowledge, and that false knowledge can be very persuasive. From the "War in Hea...

John Milton and John Donne's Metaphysical Poetry

In nine pages this paper analyzes the poetry of John Donne and John Milton in terms of the metaphysical aspects of each poet's wor...

Love in the Poetry of Katherine Philips and John Donne

context changes and it seems more logical given the tone of the rest of the poem. Thus, the word as is reflective of the way that ...

Themes of Death and Disease in John Donne, Thom Jones, and Margaret Edson

Edson shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes c...

Andrew Marvell and John Donne's Neo Platonism

to be a tumultuous coupling that would inspire some of the greatest and most controversial works of Western prose. I. Neo-Platoni...

John Donne's Seventeenth Century Love Poetry

in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest ;...

John Donne and God

to its logical conclusion, reasoning, that there was nothing in the power of humanity capable of effecting personal salvation. The...

'The Flea' by John Donne

In five pages religious satire, the notion of metaphysical conceit, argument, and metaphor are all considered within the context o...

Religion and Romance in John Donne's Poetry

In six pages this report discusses how religion manifests itself in John Donne's love poetry with the soul's passions and spiritua...

Death in the Poems of John Donne

In five pages this paper analyzes how the theme of death and John Donne's depression regarding death are reflected in 2 of his 'Ho...

John Donne's Feminist Poetry

This paper details a feminist reading of three John Donne Poems, The Undertaking, A Valediction, and The Good Morrow. The author ...

John Donne's Works and the Themes of Sin and Death

In fifteen pages the themes of death and sin as they manifested themselves in John Donne's poems, sonnets and Biathanatos are disc...

John Donne's Poetry and Themes of Love and Death

In ten pages John Donne's poetry including 'Valediction Forbidding Mourning,' 'The Sunne Rising,' and 'The Anniversary' are exami...

'Batter My Heart' by John Donne

In five pages this paper compares the expressions of love in John Donne's poem 'A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning' as compared w...

'The Anagram' by John Donne

a good face." His voice is directly personal as he enumerates the many faults of "thy Flavia." He reminds the man who would marry...

John Donne's Poem 'The Flea'

In six pages a poetic summary and explication of John Donne's 'The Flea' are presented. There are no other sources included....

Donne and Marvell on Seduction

This essay analyzes Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" and John Donne's "The Flea" and offers the writer's reaction to these a...

Poems: Dickinson, Donne, Marvell, Parker, and Roethke

and taken blood from both. He tries to convince her that to give in to him, to give him herself, has been ultimately blessed by th...

The Art of Indirection

in seconds. He continues this catalog of things she is not by comparing the color of her lips to coral (coral is redder); compari...

John Donne

take on religion and his faith which would later lead to his renouncing the Catholic Church (Jokinen). In many ways Donne ...

Hero and Leander/Marlowe

of the youth that generate that this assessment, that is, his pleasant smile, his eyes, etc. There is a allusion to Narcissus, who...