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Cultural Oppression in Rabbit-Proof Fence and Storyteller

- and still is to a great degree - the focal point of cultural existence speaks to the way in which Silko (1989) reveals the strug...

Early Feminist Writings by Chopin and Ibsen

when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her" (Chopin). Her husband...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's Short Stories and the Theme of Perfection

the world of all evil by silencing any voice of dissention. This short story clearly illustrates the idea that evil is in the doin...

A Look at the Parson and the Pardoner in Canterbury Tales

relishes the fact that he finally has the opportunity to share what he considers to be his innate brilliance. He knows that this ...

Literary Analysis of William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily'

with the ideas of the era have made her a prime target for heartache, as her suitor, not as devoted as Ms. Emily thinks, goes out ...

'Loverboys' by Ana Castillo

our traditional notions regarding love and romance. She doesnt want any one "box" to define love or sex. The lesbian with a man ...

Timeline by Michael Crichton

stay in the past, feeling that early France is his destiny. This time travelers name is Andr? Marek. II. Mareks Method of Coping...

A Comparison of Two Christian Tragedies

representative of the many generations of Church representatives that have pummeled the Ojibwe with its Christian doctrine. Endri...

Virtue in Henry V and Brave New World

are eventually reintroduced to the "regular" world and everyone finds out that John was born of Linda (his mother) and they become...

“Pulp Fiction” and Its Literary Constructions

the inherent flexibility of a non-sequential narrative, because things get too confusing. Tarantino apparently decided to let it b...

About Glen and Psychology

the safety needs (Maslows theory of motivation - Hierarchy of needs, 2009). Glen has already fulfilled the first two levels: he ha...

The Exception

group. She is a long time friend of Iben, a fact that was not revealed when Iben applied for and got the job with the organization...

Othello and Racism

and Othellos skin color. Othello is a Moor and is dark skinned while Iago is an ordinary Venetian. This is something that comes up...

Exploring Vienna and Talking of Possibilities

enthralling" (1995). The film is a romance, but it avoids the trap of being formulaic; often films of this kind rely "more upon ac...

Jeremy's Story An Analysis

events because one parent or the other couldnt take them there. Most of all it would mean that there would be a constant tug of w...

Okonkwo and Oedipus

way out of his situation at all because no matter what he does to avoid the killing of his father and marrying his mother he has n...

Fiction Novels, Latin and Non Latin Authors

In eight pages this paper examines novels featuring Latino characters written by Latin and non Latin author and concludes that in...

The Meaning of Life According to Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky

quite a bit about himself, he insists that he is lying. There is no point in this narrative in which the Underground Man becomes ...

Dominick in Wally Lamb's I Know This Much is True

In ten pages a behavioral character analysis of Dominick's personality as presented in Lamb's text is examines and also compared w...

Chicano Author Sergio Troncoso

can be different for different people with the interpretation being subjectvie. By looking at this work there is a reflection of...

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky and the Dream of Raskolnikov

met them" (Dostoevsky 54). These figures, the darkness, can easily represent the turmoil within Raskolnikov. His thoughts and plan...

The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara

features suggest, Miss Moore, first of all, does not try to change her appearance to meet white standards, hence, her hair is "nap...

Fear as a Recurring Theme in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe

grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...

Cinema and Rebellion

child who is the product of a failed system, this film seems to be saying. This film was a social commentary of sorts, which use...

Hamlet and Historic Literary Figures in Film

is not overly sad that he is gone. Finding herself in yet another situation, she is making the best of it. She realizes that to be...

Fatal Attraction as an Example of Borderline Personality Disorder

an adult and mourning the loss of her relationship, Alex places much of her self-identity into her role in the relationship, and t...

Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver

the sky and became stars where the spirits anchored them in order to "remind parents to love their kids, no matter what". The seve...

Eight Works of Literary Fiction and the Influence of Social Position

- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...

Social Status and Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens, Emma by Jane Austen, and Beloved by Toni Morrison

do not possess social status, a reality that makes for a tragedy waiting to happen in her efforts to match Harriet with someone be...

Ivan Ilyich and Socrates

from the fact that I realized that I knew nothing. A man of my era named Chaerephon once asked the Oracle at Delphi is there w...