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Courtly Love in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Troilus and Criseyde, The Romance of Tristan, and Beowulf

In six pages this report compares how courtly love is thematically developed in these classical literary works. Five sources are ...

Content and Meaning of Phaedrus by Plato

Lysias topic is love, which in the ancient Greek world referred to the love of a man for another man. Homosexuality was practiced...

Identity Searches in Literature

A.E. Housman. They are both young men who die before they age, before they have perhaps achieved a powerful greatness it would see...

A Look at Bataille's Erotism

tell the difference, but Batailles argument deserves contemplation. In trying to reach human limits in eroticism, one can go too f...

Four Essays On Literature

This paper bundles four essays into one. In five pages the writer separately discusses specific questions regarding Eliot's The L...

Relationships in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

relationships. In its advocacy of deriving the goals of life from social cooperation and the elements of natural selection, the c...

Illusions and the Concept of Love

This paper consists of five pages and discusses the illusions that can obscure the concept of love. Three sources are cited in th...

Almasy's Painting of Katherine's Face in The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

In five pages this report examines the 1992 novel regarding its themes of memory, love, and war with the incident between Katherin...

Do Humans Control Their Own Lives?

This 7 page paper asks to what degree humans control their own lives. It uses three literary works, Metamorphosis by Kafka; The Lo...

Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Forbidden Love

In 5 pages this paper examines how forbidden love is represented in these novels. There are 2 sources cited in the bibliography....

August Wilson and Leo Tolstoy

This 4 page paper compares and contrasts the protagonists of The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy and Fences by August Wilson. ...

A Reivew of Adam's Curse by W. B. Yeats

This 5 page essay explores the poem by W.B. Yeats. A correlation is made between the passage of time and love. 3 sources are cit...

Comparative Analysis of Scout in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and Mick in Carson McCullers' The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

In 10 pages this paper contrasts and compares the characters of Jean 'Scout' Finch and Mick Kelly in these novels in terms of the ...

Cult of Courtly Love and Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'

This paper consists of 10 pages and examines the reflection of courtly love in this poem and its false ideals. There are 9 source...

William Shakespeare's As You Like It and Love Relationships

In five pages this paper examines the love relationships of Rosalind and Orlando, Celia and Oliver, Phebe and Silvius, and Audrey ...

World Perceptions of the Victorian Era

In five pages this paper discusses how Victorian Era individuals perceived the world in a comparative analysis of Angela Thirkell'...

An Overview of Alzheimer's Disease

In a paper consisting of five pages the brain changes, symptoms, incidence, coping, and expressed feelings by loved ones and patie...

Love of Family and Homeland in Euripides' Medea

about Jasons desertion is the fact that Medea compromised her own existence as a means by which to save his life and is reciprocat...

Book I of A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway and the Conflict Between Reality and Illusion

In three pages the thematic conflict between reality and illusion is examined in a consideration of Book I's portrayal of the love...

A Romeo and Juliet Sociological Analysis

component. But were they all that different in Shakespeares original version? Many seem to think so and that high schools renditi...

Scottish Writer Andrew Lang the Arabian Nights

In three pages this paper applies Arabian Nights to an analysis of Andrew Lang's personality and love of fantasy. One source is l...

Issues of Morality in Louise Erdrich's Novel, Love Medicine

This paper discusses issues of morality, personal identity, and cultural tradition as seen in Erdrich's Love Medicine. This seven...

Romantic Poetry of John Donne

In six pages the romanticism featured in the evocative love poetry of John Donne is examined. Nine sources are cited in the biblio...

Love and Lovers in 'The Wife of Bath;s Tale,' 'The Knight's Tale,' and 'The Merchant's Tale'

In five pages this report compares and contrasts Chaucer's perceptions about lovers and love in these three tales that are part of...

South America, Visions of Mysticism, Loss, and Fear According to Costa Gavras, Feitlowitz, and Allende

In six pages this report focuses on the visions responsible for the creation of South America's nations as portrayed in Costa Gavr...

The Canterbury Tales and the Discussion of Love

In five pages this paper examines how contrasting attitudes about love are represented in The Knight's Tale, The Wife of Bath's Ta...

Literature Alternatives to Freedom

In six pages the concept of freedom through death as a release from life's hardships is examined through such works as William Fau...

Love Story The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In five pages this paper argues that a love story is what The Scarlet Letter is first and foremost. There are no other sources ci...

Renaissance Literature and Love

In five pages this paper examines how love is represented in Boccaccio's 'The First Day,' Peter Bembo's 'The Asolani,' John Milton...

Love According to Socrates

In five pages this paper considers how Socrates may have delivered a speech regarding love with references made to Symposium by ...