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Puritanism, Witchcraft, and 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In five pages this essay examines how Puritanism and witchcraft contribute to the setting of this short story by Nathaniel Hawthor...

Dream vs. Reality in 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In five pages this essay considers whether the events that transpired in this short story were real or were in fact a dream. Ther...

'The Black Cat' by Edgar Allan Poe and Dramatic Irony

the other until, in the end, exhaustion overcomes it. We see this not only in Maggie herself, but in Skipper and Brick, and the in...

Characters in Open Secrets by Alice Munro

happened, or what may have happened, to this young girl, and finds herself examining her own life as a result. Without even und...

Commentary on Virginia Woolf's 'The Lady in the Looking Glass'

distance, an unclear picture is present. It is this vision of the mistress that the narrator begins to imagine must be of some fan...

Violence in 'How to Tell a True War Story' by Tim O'Brien and 'Battle Royal' by Ralph Ellison

attention of the white community and gets him an invitation to deliver the speech at a gathering of the towns leading white citize...

'The Fall of the House of Usher' and 'The Cask of Amontillado' by Edgar Allan Poe

of his contemporaries, [Poe] refused to soften or idealize mortality and kept its essential horror in view But what is the "essen...

D.H. Lawrence's 'The Rocking Horse Winner' and the Character of Paul

Oscar often refers to "filthy lucre" (Lawrence 922). His mother explains that luck is "what causes you to have money. If youre l...

Human Depravity and Evil as Recurrent Literary Themes in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Ministers Black Veil Hawthornes The Ministers Black Veil is a short story that describes evil and depravity as developmental ...

Point of View in 'Araby' by James Joyce

according to her relationship to a male, Joyce subtly points to the gender hierarchy that was prevalent throughout the nineteenth ...

'Telephone Call' by Alifa Rifaat

In four pages this short story from Distant View of a Minaret is analyzed in terms of the call's symbolism. There is 1 source cit...

The Writing Techniques Alice Walker Uses to Address Her Concerns

In six pages the ways in which Walker employs fiction to express her concern about specific issues and love of humanity are consid...

'On the Road' by Langston Hughes

In one page the character of Sergeant featured in 'On the Road,' a short story by Langston Hughes, is analyzed. There is no bibli...

Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston on Female Power

In six pages this paper examines women's power and how it is portrayed in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Are Watching God and Ric...

Gothic Romance Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

In five pages this paper discusses how in her novel debut, Jane Austen parodied the Gothic literary genre with a comparison with o...

Analysis of Two D.H. Lawrence Characters

The characters of Mabel and Elizabeth that were featured in one of D.H. Lawrence's short stories are analyzed in four pages. Ther...

Setting in 'Araby' by James Joyce

In five pages this paper examines how the author effectively utilizes setting in this moving short story. Four sources are cited ...

Critical Reception to Alice Adams's Fiction

In eight pages the varied critical responses to Adams's fiction particularly as it portrayed class is discussed with reference mad...

Suffering in 'Sonny's Blues' by James Baldwin

In a paper consisting of three pages the theme of suffering is considered within the context of the short story written by James B...

'A Doll's House' by Katherine Mansfield

In seven pages this short story is analyzed in terms of primary themes, plot, and characterization. There are no other sources li...

What Life Is

In five pages this paper examines life and humanity in a comparison of the short stories Paul Fussell's 'Thank God for the Atom Bo...

An Analysis of The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara

This 3 page paper analyzes Toni Cade Bambara's short story The Lesson, which deals with a group of young children learning first h...

Prejudice in Education Confronted by Langston Hughes and Toni Cade Bambara

In five pages education and its prejudices are captured in the poem 'Theme for English B.' and the short story 'The Lesson.' Ther...

Identity and Trust Problems in 'Gorilla My Love' by Toni Cade Bambara

This short story by Toni Cade Bambara is examined in an analysis of identity and trust issues in a paper consisting of five pages....

E.B. White, John Cheever, and Existentialism

In four pages this paper discusses how existentialist thought manifests itself in the short stories 'The Door' by E.B. White and '...

Individual, the Majority, and Evil in 'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson

In ten pages this research paper analyzes the famous short story in terms of its conflict between minority or individual rights ve...

Social Message in 'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson

In five pages this paper analyzes the social message contained in this short story of human sacrifice to ensure fertile agricultur...

Ending Foreshadowed in 'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson

In five pages this paper examines how the ending is foreshadowed throughout various events in the short story with its symbolism a...

I'm Not Stupid by David Rodriguez and 'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson

In seven pages the controlling characters of Margaret Fletcher and Mr. Summers in Rodriguez's play and Jackson's short story are c...

Biography of Shirley Jackson

In five pages this paper discusses Shirley Jackson's life, writings, evil as a popular theme, and her most famous short story 'The...