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'Pet Cemetery' by Stephen King and the Acceptance of Death

starts out dealing with death simply enough. The family cat is killed by a car on the highway. The neighbor asks "Louis if hed lik...

Consciousness in Olympia by Manet

another nude he had done. The fact that Manet was surprised at the reaction to his work, and considering that Manet was consider...

Literature of Early Africa and Identity

how Africa had been at some point before its development. While the old works cited above do provide a sense of identity for the p...

Comparison of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

had previously been reserved only for God. He works feverishly on what he believes will be a perfect human form for it was manufa...

Theme of Desire in 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Henry V

namely, the crown/ And all wide-stretched honours that pertain/ By custom and the ordinance of times/ Unto the crown of France" (S...

Brian De Palma's Scarface

as the crime film genre became more sophisticated, the line between good/evil oftentimes became blurred. De Palma elected to take...

Cyclical Time in One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Melquiades is a guide in Aureliano Babilonias quest for knowledge and helps him in regards to deciphering the prophecies. By the e...

Jane Kenyon's 'Depression in Winter'

seems to add to the depression, the unhappiness that the narrator is speaking of because there is a sense of futility in trying to...

Life Experiences and Poetry Themes

ethical judgements. While the students perhaps though that these old people are no longer young and can offer nothing of value to ...

Spirituality, Cultural Identities, and Alienation Themes in Castillo, Morrison, and Silko

forced to give up many of their stories which reminded them of who they were as a people and as individuals. As a...

Setting and Theme in The Man to Send Rain Clouds by Leslie Marmon Silko

right in their eyes for one who has died. They paint his face, sprinkle corn meal and pollen, and thus give him a very fitting wra...

Poets Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, and Nature

the spider and it is true for man as well. Obviously, he doesnt actually say this specifically but he instead illustrates it thro...

Neoclassical and Romantic Themes in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility" (42). As this suggests, an ...

Defiance in 'Sweat' by Zora Neale Hurston

and the house that she purchased with sweat and labor. However, Delia makes it clear that she will not be driven out. She tells hi...

Sexuality and the Sonnets of William Shakespeare

as a means of insuring the others immortality than it is an _expression of love. Sonnet 130, however, is to a woman, and the rela...

Mirgorod Stories of Gogol

why things are so arranged, that women should seize us by the nose as deftly as they do the handle of a teapot" (How the Two Ivans...

Transcendentalism of Louisa May Alcott and Harriet Beecher Stowe

March sisters, Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth. Examination of this text reveals that, in particular, Alcott stressed the transcendental per...

Albert Camus and the Theme of Imprisonment

see how the people in this town were essentially imprisoned in their own little useless lives as they went about getting rich, imp...

Postwar British Fiction and Decline Theme

reality of the war, of its physical wounds were to be seen. This had to have had a psychological impact on the people of the count...

Major Themes of 'The Chrysanthemums' by John Steinbeck

the glory when the farming goes well. Of course, this bitterness is something felt by most housewives of an earlier generation and...

Three Themes Relating to Audience Studies

that they may have a different response to it, actively choosing to either accept the message, or to reject it and interpret it di...

Literary Analysis of Amy Tan's 'Two Kinds'

reader watches as a mother tries desperately to give her daughter all the advantages that she never had, reliving, to some extent,...

Time in The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

the novel. He is caught up in the outdated cultural mythos of the South, where men were suppose to be strong and women were virgin...

Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Fall of the House of Usher' and Themes of Terror and Evil

nothing of pleasantry or peace. The windows seem as though they are "vacant," and "eye-like" and the narrator continues in this ...

The Dreamers by Isak Dinesen and Identity

the skill they once had, but rather their passion for that subject matter. For example, an opera singer such as Leoni may well hav...

Coen Brothers' Film O Brother Where Art Thou? and Marxist Themes

McGill spins a yarn about buried ill-gotten gains ($1.2 million) that he promises to share (Berardinelli). In their journey, the...

Oedipus Rex, the Book of Genesis, and Destiny

more many people are punished for not heeding the word of God. There are numerous people and numerous situations presented in G...

Timeless Appeal of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story

has to credit the famous bard for organizing the tale in to a form that has lasted and continue to inspire throughout the ages. O...

Common Themes in Jane Eyre, Silas Marner, and Wuthering Heights

sway over the human condition. She sees the futility of forging an alliance with Linton, while at the same time knowing that she a...

Works of John Keats, Mary Shelley, and Lord Byron and the Common Theme They Share

pains and sees the sadness and realities around him, urging him into a state of despair. In the end there is an understanding t...