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Lingering Power of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

dysfunction goes far beyond the limits of the household, hinting at a world that is itself out of sync and in a state of disarray....

Language Elements in House of Usher

A 5 page analysis of language elements in the classic tale by Edgar Alan Poe. The author highlights setting, theme, imagery and p...

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

of the reading event" (Serafini, 2003). Further, each text has one main idea that "only competent readers have access to" and the...

Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and Images of Darkness and Light

with the world of tradition, the world of civilization. Huddled within the womb-like interior of the Congo, he retreats ever furth...

'A and P' by John Updike and 'The Man Who Was Almost a Man' by Richard Wright Compared

aftah he done worked hard all day" (Wright 860). As the author wastes no time in revealing, Dave "is frustrated by social control...

Comparing Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest

reigns supreme, The Tempest is more contemplative and probes the more sinister side of humankind. The mood, setting, and themes a...

Analysis of the Poem 'The Horse and His Rider' by Joanna Baillie

In it, the warrior would ride off to war astride his four-legged companion. But when after the war, instead of treating his faith...

Nature as Used in Dante's 'The Purgatorio' and 'The Inferno'

II). Through this imagery, Dante suggests that the human soul is naturally inclined to journey towards the light and to wish to as...

Battle Royal in Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

and is confused by his grandfathers sudden rejection of this template of behavior as "treachery." The grandfather says to live wit...

The Wanderer by Susan Creech

and Grand Manan Island. From this point, The Wanderer sets sail for England. Sophie writes that, after a week and a half, they had...

Cinema Persuasiveness

G-1). While such anecdotal evidence certainly suggests that films affect how we behave, the empirical evidence on this subject is ...

Homer's 'The Iliad' and Achilles' Shield

of mortal men exceeding fair" (18.490). The image of "two cities" mirrors the basic plot of the Iliad, which is a ten-year-long ...

Memory and Brain Effects of Classical Music

two separated mood dimensions - arousal and pleasantness - as they related to mood-dependent memory (MDM), having respondents spea...

Jane Kenyon's 'Depression in Winter'

seems to add to the depression, the unhappiness that the narrator is speaking of because there is a sense of futility in trying to...

'Early Snow' by Mary Oliver

nature in which the numbers play a role. She writes, "I thought of dried leaves/drifting spate after spate/out of the forests/th...

Archetypal Analysis of 'Leaves' by John Updike

it is nurtured and kept in the right place, it is golden. When it is kept in the shadows, it turns brown and falls to the ground. ...

Shakespeare's Comedy No Error

for supper. Meanwhile her REAL husband returns home, but is denied entry by Antipholus slave. During the course of the meal, Antip...

Jean de la Fontaine's Fables

outward recognition. Why do Fontaines epic fable poems work? Primarily, one could state that they work because they embody unive...

David Lynch's Film Mulholland Drive

couple of cars who happened to be drag racing. This gives the woman a chance to get away. She runs into the city and for some reas...

Ten Poems by Emily Dickinson

of mourning and regret, while singing the praises of something wondrous. I Came to buy a smile -- today (223) The first thing...

Whitman Poetic Comparison of A Noiseless Patient Spider, Drum Taps, and Song of Myself

for repetition and free flowing verse to express his ideas and was considered not only exceptional because of these elements but a...

Images in the Paintings of Frida Kahlo

challenge to remain sexually faithful to his wife. These tremendous setbacks, including the reality of being bisexual in a patria...

A Poetic Explication of Robert Frost's 'Birches'

the trees brings back an plethora of memories for the poet, images of himself as a "swinger of birches," when life was not so comp...

'The Merchant's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

and hoor; /Thanne is a wife the fruit of his tresor" (Chaucer 55-58). At this point, it is not certain that Januarie sees, as ce...

An Analysis of Virginia Woolf's, Jacob's Room

death in The Great War. Unlike classical protagonists, Jacob exists not in the center of the action but always on the periphery (...

Robert Frost's 'Now Close the Windows'

theme (including any symbolism and imagery), and the technical aspects of rhythm, rhyme, and meter. Frost tended to use both categ...

'She Had Some Horses' by Joy Harjo

a "drum" that becomes like the pounding of the womans bloodstream, a life force that remains rhythmic no matter what happens. In...

Overview of Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

some of lifes toughest questions, questions that are still asked by todays family. Those questions include family values, abuse an...

Literary Analysis of The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

length on the hard bricks"(Baum). This line from Baums book indicates that Baum has some particular point to make when he chooses...

Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television by Jerry Mander

of the Long Island environment. II. TV REPLACES HUMAN IMAGES Like its computer counterpart, Mander (1978) indicates that televis...