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A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving and the Character of Dan Needham

In five pages the relationship between Dan Needham and his stepson Johnny is examined as presented in Irving's novel. Three sourc...

Othello by William Shakespeare and its Depiction of Women

In five pages this paper discusses whether or not women are depicted as complex people trying to survive in a patriarchy or serve ...

'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' Analyzed

the intent of the writer. Might he have an agenda hidden under the ghost story? At the same time, this is a classic supernatural t...

La Morte D'Arthur, Beowulf, and Gender

time, Grendels mother is literally a monster, so one could in fact give Beowulf some slack in that he took on a woman. Can a monst...

Patriarchy Shackled Women in The Awakening by Kate Chopin and Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

over her life. While she can have an affair, and while she can perhaps pretend to have an important life, she is retrained from tr...

Depiction of Female Characters in The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann von Goethe and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

knowledge and hands; while Werther kills himself with a pistol because he cannot stand to share the same lifetime with the woman w...

Happiness Levels and Life Span Development

search for sameness; "a synthesis is the making of a collection, the finding of a pattern ... [W]hen we synthesize, we make a new ...

Happiness, Psychological Health, Scholastic Success, and Intelligence

be a two way argument, There is also little doubt that this did not bring him happiness. With these examples and the...

Comparative Analysis of Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, and Alexander Pope

of land in the area and with whom Pope considered his family belonged. When Robert, Lord Petre had cut off a lock of Arabella Ferm...

Literature and Happiness Through Virtue

In five pages this paper discusses how happiness can be achieved through virtue as illustrated in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibil...

Hawthorne's Symbolic Use of Mirrors in, 'The Scarlet Letter'

This paper addresses Hawthorne's use of symbolism in 'The Scarlet Letter.' The author contends that Hawthorne uses mirrors to sym...

'Good Life' and Personal Ethics

not to take action. Self-defense is one defense of murder that has not only moral acceptability in our culture, but also excuses ...

Chapter 5 'Equality and Impartiality' in Utilitarianism by J.S. Mill

In five pages this paper discusses this work's concluding paragraph in an analysis of its meaning regarding equality and happiness...

Gayle Gullett's "Women Progressives And Immigrant Women"

every forward progression middle class women had made. So it was to be that the California Daughters of the American Revolution s...

Morality in The Scarlet Letter

sin and transgression. For example, this discussion could bring out the ways in which both Hester and her daughter Pearl are socia...

Enlightenment Values in the Character of Phaedra in Euripides’ Hippolytus

what is bothering her, Phaedra seems to describe the Enlightenment philosophy in her observation: "We understand and recognize wha...

"Jane Eyre" and the Repression of Societal Roles

Bronte condemns the repressive nature of gender-based societal roles by showing how it is Janes constant rebuking of the roles int...

American Literature

little concern for the development, the past, of the relationships that play a very important part in the stories. One could well ...

Erikson as Applied to Poe

Psychosexual Development or Eriksons Stages of Psychosocial Development. Since Erikson is more compressive in terms of early exper...

Plague Theme in 'The Masque of the Red Death' by Edgar Allan Poe

In five pages Poe's short story is subjected to a psychological analysis that contends Poe related the many deaths that surrounded...

Comparative Analysis of William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and Nathaniel Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables

This paper considers the similar falls of each family in a comparative analysis of these novels by Nathaniel Hawthorne and William...

Original Sin in the Characterization of Pearl in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In five pages this paper examines how original sin is represented by Nathaniel Hawthorne in the characterization of Pearl in The S...

Nineteenth Century Prejudices and Obstacles Against Women in the Workplace

In five pages this paper discusses the formidable obstacles that have been in place preventing women from achieving professional e...

Women and the Delicate Balance Between Work and Family

In fourteen pages this paper discusses how women attempt to achieve the delicate balance between family and work obligations. Thi...

'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...

4 Questions on Literature

In five pages four questions pertaining to Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emily Dickinson, and Edgar Allan Poe are consi...

Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Horror Genre

In 5 pages this paper examines how the horror short story genre was developed in 'Rappaccini's Daughter' by Nathaniel Hawthorne an...

Complex Union of Marriage

does begin to notice the details of her life that she used to overlook, such as returning home, windblown and sunburned, and disco...

Scarlet Letter A in Nathaniel Hawthorne's Novel

of the letter "A" We are using the word "symbol" to indicate one thing that stands for another. Xs and Os for example at the end...

Fiction Writing and Philosophy of the Romantic Era

truly fulfilled, and in fact he likens this fulfillment to a nearly spiritual ideal. On the other hand, there was...