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Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, William Shakespeare's Othello and Social Issues

In 5 pages the ways in which these literary works consider past and present social issues are discussed....

War and its Compelling Literary Themes

In nine pages this paper examines how war's compelling themes are depicted in the literary works the Bhagavad Gita and the writing...

Order and Chaos in Homer's 'Odyssey' and the Epic of Gilgamesh

In five pages this paper examines the relationship between order and chaos within the context of these two classical literary work...

'The Fall of the House of Usher' by Edgar Allan Poe, Dualism and Literary Parallels

In five pages this paper examines how sense, characters, and event are connected by Edgar Allan Poe through dualism and literary p...

Literary Works of Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, and Eudora Welty and Theme of Inadequacy

In 5 pages this paper examines how inadequately is thematically expressed in such literary works as 'The Secret Sharer' by Joseph ...

Ernest Hemingway's Primary Literary Themes

he presents. There is pain and violence and death in Hemingways world, and he struggles to show his readers this aspect of life....

Madness And Depression As Common Literary Themes

for the best. Soon, however, a sudden sense of calm overcomes her as she whispers "free, free, free" (Chopin PG). Mrs. Mal...

Themes in French Literary Classics

daughters, only to have them essentially through it all in his face for it was not enough. This simple understanding presents us w...

The Fifth Child, Angela's Ashes, Death of a Salesman and the Theme of Family Disintegration

play, wants this to the exclusion of reality. At the beginning of the play it becomes apparent that Willy is in trouble. Suffering...

Virginia Woolf's Literary Themes and Styles in Three Works

which you are now for the first time entering?"(Woolf). And, even in the modern era, most women still find this to be a certainty,...

Chinese Literary Works

the mountain (Fox Volant of the Snowy Mountain). As the characters wait for Fox Volant, they start to recall incidents from the p...

Literary Religious Themes, Symbolism, and Imagery

rejected this kind of philosophical process. In Chapter 27, Forster wrote: The chief point was that God lives inside the sun,...

Irish Literary Themes in 1916 by Morgan Llywelyn

conflict rages within, there are conflicts aplenty without. The passage of time also brings with it change, often initiated throu...

Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun and Symbolism

In five pages this paper examines how within her award winning play Lorraine Hansberry makes the most of the symbolism literary de...

Lost Children As a Literary Theme

This paper discusses John Edgar Wideman's, Philadelphia Fire, and Shakespeare's, The Tempest as they relate to the common literary...

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 ...

Literary Themes and the Life of Ambrose Bierce

literature and his father had an impressive library (Ambrose Bierce, 2002). Bierces family was considered to be "sternly religiou...

Portrayal of Women in Griselda by Boccaccio, Brothers Menaechmus by Plautus, and 'The Odyssey' by Homer

a distraction, as a goal, as a guide, and as an agent of social recognition (The Odyssey in Transit, 2000). Odysseus is indeed co...

Analyzing 'Your Dog Dies' by Raymond Carver'

is perhaps the first experience they will have when they lose someone very close. The poem goes on: "you feel bad about it/ you fe...

Madness as a Common Literary Theme

This paper examines Shakespeare's play, King Lear, as well as Ibsen's work, Ghosts to discuss madness and delusion as common theme...

Literary Representations of King Arthur's Death

the beginning, the play of the sword, and the final passage of Arthur. Malory and Tennyson: The Beginning In Malorys version o...

Literary Classics, Knowledge of Death and Religion

it would seem. Socrates agrees for he sees that by having such an argument with Euthyphro he may find a better way to plead his ow...

A.E. Housman/An Athlete Dying Young

and comments that the young man was "smart" to "slip betimes away/From fields where glory does not stay" (lines 9-10). Housman the...

Ecological Warning Signs

in check, but toxic algae thrives on "nitrogen, phosphorus, and iron," which enters the ocean by the ton each year from "partially...

Death and the Poetry of Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the death perspectives featured in the poetry of Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson ...

Literary Aspects in Frost's Death of the Hired Man, and Home Burial

This paper analyzes the use of theme, imagery, tone, and subject matter in these two poems by Frost. This six page paper has seve...

Heroism and its Characteristics

In 5 pages this paper examines how the characteristics of heroism are defined in such literary works as A Simple Heart by Gustave ...

Literary Considerations of Greed

typical, but maybe too stereotypical. He is someone who today would appear on The Jerry Springer Show. His life has always been dy...

The Meaning of Life According to Leo Tolstoy

This 10 page paper examines Leo Tolstoy's literary works and personal philosophy, and argues that he sought simplicity and spiritu...

King Lear, Beowulf, the Concepts of Kingship and Hero's Downfall

In five pages these literary characters are contrasted and compared in terms of their deaths with the concept of kingship and what...