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W.E.B. Du Bois/Double Consciousness

of measuring ones soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity" (Du Bois ch. 1, para. 3). In other words,...

Portrayal of Women in Merchant of Venice and As You Like It by William Shakespeare

of Orlando sets in motion the complex maneuverings that form the core of the plot (Kinney 299). The poems of Orlando are a mirror...

Comparative Analysis of Francis Ford Coppola's Film Apocalypse Now and Joseph Conrad's Novel Heart of Darkness

appears to be an observer in many ways, merely retelling a tale, Willard is a man who is driven by some uncontrollable force. It i...

Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Crane, Nature and Salvation

In five pages this paper discusses how nature adaptability influences a character's salvation in 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridg...

A Discussion of Those that Attempted to Help Holden in The Catcher in the Rye

at the prep school. In the beginning of the novel we see that Holden admires this man to some degree. Just prior to leaving his pr...

Analysis of William Shakespeare's Hamlet as a Religious Play

In five pages this research paper considers the religious aspects of Hamlet by William Shakespeare in an analysis of Hamlet's acti...

William Shakespeare's Historical Play 'Henry IV' Part I

This paper consists of 10 pages and considers the characters' many contrasts in terms of the play as well as their creation. Ther...

Ophelia's Character in Hamlet by William Shakespeare

In five pages this paper analyzes the character of Ophelia and the role she plays in this tragedy in terms of how other characters...

An Analysis of Comedy Of Errors

This seventeen page paper analyzes the intriguing characters in Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors. The paper emphasizes the critical...

Portraying Character on Screen

of the play, which is the fact that Toms continues to love his sister, miss her and long for a different past, as he pursues a dif...

Moral Crises in “Huckleberry Finn” and “Silas Lapham”

We learn that he forced his partner, Mr. Rogers, out of the business just as it was becoming successful; Lapham and his wife run i...

The Heart in The Story of an Hour

the end, of her heart and a possible "condition" and so the reader may well dismiss this fact in a first reading. But, at the same...

A View of Lucy Honeychurch in E.M. Forster’s A Room with a View

how socially shocking they might be. Lucys mother always has the best intentions and willing to share openly her thoughts and fe...

Dante's 'Inferno' and Chaucer's Pilgrims

have been a part of hypocritical ways will be confined. Likewise, the idea and notion of lust is a level of hell where those who h...

The Nettie Character in The Color Purple by Alice Walker

This is a character analysis tha consists of four pages and argues how Nellie is one of the only characters that possess strong et...

A Description of The Wife of Bath in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

the Wifes character, she obviously liked drawing attention to herself. Additionally, since the kerchiefs were of the "finest wea...

The Characterization of Pip in Great Expectations

Pip is a character in this Charles Dickens classic. His role in the work is the focus of attention in this six page paper that inc...

Role Playing in Great Expectations

It is claimed that the characters are playing roles and what they do is to contemplate various movements. Characterization is the ...

A Look at Miss Havisham in Great Expectations

This character is contemplated as this Charles Dickens work is carefully evaluated. Various details are relayed about the characte...

Heroes and Heroines in the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway

gained on the Italian front. Although Hemingway delicately avoids telling us precisely where the wound is, we know it is around hi...

Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

In four pages this paper provides an overview of the play and a character analysis of the self involved title character. There ar...

Character Analysis/Singin' In The Rain

This essay offers a character analysis of the two major characters from the film classic Singin' In The Rain, specifically Don Lo...

Verbal Kint from The Usual Suspects Verses Odysseus

A 5 page essay comparing Odysseus from Homer's The Odyssey with Kevin Spacey's character Verbal Kint. There are many parallels in ...

Comparing Mary Shelley's Creature and Dostoyevsky's The Underground Man

In six pages this essay compares the similarities and differences between these two characters featured in Shelley's Frankenstein ...

Archetypal Woman in Literature

In five pages this paper compares Euripides' character of Medea with the character of Penelope in Homer's 'The Odyssey.' There a...

Power in Lord of the Flies by William Golding

In five pages this paper analyzes how power determines character in this overview of Lord of the Rings by William Golding that com...

Friendship in Oliver Twist

Whether the characters are friends are enemies are discussed in the context of this research analysis. Several characters are anal...

Character Analysis of Alex and Angel in Tess of the D'Ubervilles

This 5 page paper compares and contrasts the characters of Alex and Angel, the two central men in Hardy's Tess of the D'Ubervilles...

The Character of Troy Maxson in August Wilson's Fences

if you could play ball then they ought to have let you play...Come telling me I come along too early. If you could play...then the...

Stage and Screen Adaptations of Hamlet by William Shakespeare

identity. It is interesting to note that as he pulls on his "cloak of madness" that his true intellect becomes completely clouded ...