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Opium and the Life of Thomas DeQuincey's as Revealed in Confessions Of An English Opium Eater

English Romantic Thomas DeQuincey no only used opium but was addicted to it. It possessed his life and played a critical role in ...

Cantos 1 through 11 of Dante's 'Inferno'

A paper consisting of eight pages that is broken down into appropriate sections, the first eleven cantos of 'Inferno' are reviewed...

Cantos 13 through 24 of Dante's 'Inferno'

A paper consisting of eight pages that is broken down into appropriate sections, Cantos XI through XXIV of 'Inferno' are reviewed ...

Scientific Knowledge and Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne

In six pages this report analyzes Verne's text in terms of how scientific knowledge influences plot, character, and subplots. Fou...

Writing the Future and the Accurate Jules Verne

In four pages this paper examines the accuracy of Jules Verne's technological predictions in such works as Paris in the Twenty Fir...

Philosophical Analysis of Candide by Voltaire

This paper presents a critical analysis of the Utopian society portrayed in Voltaire's Candide in nine pages. Five sources are ci...

Period Representation of Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott

In five pages this paper reveals how Ivanhoe actually represents the time period in which it was written. There are 3 sources cit...

1973 Film Time Period Setting of American Graffiti

In five pages this paper examines how the 1950s are represented in the drive-in, 'hot rods,' and early rock and roll music feature...

Poor Little Rich Girl Shirley Temple Film

In five pages this paper presents a critical analysis of a Mary Pickford film remake featuring popular 1930s' child star Shirley T...

Stylistic and Formal Characteristics of Gus Van Sant's 'My Own Private Idaho'

Such cinematic techniques as mise-en-scene are discussed in a paper consisting of 6 pages as thematic and narrative expression are...

How I'm Not Rappaport Defies Ageism

In five pages this paper explores how Herb Gardner's 1985 play defies ageism through its characterizations and themes. There is d...

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...

The Summer After the Dark by Doris Lessing and Culture

In twelve pages Western society and cultural roles of women are discussed within the context of Lessing's novel with other critica...

Feminist Criticism and Literature

theory. The author has a long history of reaching out and inviting her audience to experience with her the sometimes intense and ...

Critical Analysis of Utopia by Sir Thomas More

In three pages this essay presents a critical analysis of this work in an examination of various topics including treatment of ani...

The Role of Women in The Knight's Tale of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

This paper presents a critical analysis of womens' roles as seen in The Knight's Tale of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The author a...

Meaning and Teaching a Stone to Talk by Anne Dillard

In seven pages this paper considers the quest to attach meaning to life in a critical analysis of Teaching a Stone to Talk by Anne...

Walter Mosley's Devil in a Blue Dress and the Detective Fiction Genre

In six pages this paper examines the detective genre as represented in this critical assessment of Walter Mosley's novel. There a...

Explication of The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

In five pages a critical analysis of the novel by Claude Clayton Smith in which The Sun Also Rises is linked with The Crystal Tren...

Catcher in the Rye from a Critical Perspective

Seminal works like J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye spawn reams of critical opinion. This paper presents three views on this...

Comparing Four John Keats' Poems as 'A Thing of Beauty'

Agnes). While Keats has been described as one of the most commonly recognized creators of Romanticism, he should also be no...

Critical Evaluations of Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley

In six pages this paper examines changing critical assessments of Percy Bysshe Shelley's poetry from past to present in a consider...

The Ugly American by William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick

to the American way must be regarded as the enemy. MacWhite has to explain his World War II association with Deong and the develo...

Alienation Concept of Karl Marx

In five pages this paper examines the alienation concept of Karl Marx as it relates to social value, time, and labor with critical...

Eternal Happiness and God

In ten pages free will and God are analyzed in this philosophical essay with a critical examination of theories by Hume, Kierkegaa...

Robert Frost's Poetic Themes

In five pages this research paper considers how farming and nature are favorite themes of poet Robert Frosts. There are 5 sources...

Transcendentalist Emily Dickinson

her mid-twenties Dickinson was on her way to becoming a total recluse. Although she did not discourage visitors, she literally nev...

'The Soul Selects Her Own Society' by Emily Dickinson

just a few words (McConnell). The first stanza shows the thesis. The soul or the individual person is sovereign in deciding who ...

Magical Realism in the Works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Rudolfo Anaya

In six pages the genre dubbed as 'magical realism' is examined through the works of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Bless Me, Ul...

Early Colonial Period and the Life and Survival of Native Americans

In three pages this paper presents an article review on the early Europeans in America and how their attempts to imitate the Nativ...