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Women's Aspects Concerning Marriage and Equality in Excerpts from Wollstonecraft, Ibsen, Mill, Chopin, and de Pizan

is considered a step in the right direction for women of the era who were trapped in unhealthy and unequal marriages. Regardless o...

Structural Functionalist Perspectives on 'The Souls of Black Folks' by W.E.B. Du Bois

Durheim, now looks on the structural functionalism theory as being useful in illustrating why certain sociological phenomena unfol...

Authors of the Latin American Boom Era Carpentier and Cortazar

indicative of what the new emerging countries might become. Julio Cortazar does...

Comparative Thematic Analysis of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'A New Leaf' and Edith Wharton's 'Roman Fever'

much of a respected figure. One author, in noting this states that his "playboy image impeded the proper assessment of his work" (...

Readings on Family Reunion Theme

generation, perceiving life and important family relationships very differently. They do not come from the same position, in terms...

Old Testament Book Of Ruth

(Ruth 1:3). The sons married Moab women but about ten years later, both sons died (Ruth 1:3). Ruth was one of the widows of Naomis...

3 Works on Women's Social Role

out with flowers and shod with dainty little slippers? (Aristophanes). As this indicates, women, at least the upper class women,...

Literature and Psychoanalysis

or morality/values. In addition, Freud also theorized that inherent in every newborn child is the urge to engage in sexual ...

Bram Stoker and Dracula

of the novel is concerned with conflict in one form or another: the overt differences between the fictionalised East Europe of Sto...

Life, Literature, and Criticisms of James Joyce

to death, illustrating, as mentioned, how his life was not necessarily strange or completely outrageous. The second half of the pa...

Book Report on Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

down his memoirs to convey his personal experiences as a slave. One wonders how much of Douglasss memoirs were tainted by the cont...

William Gibson's Cyberfiction Novel Johnny Mnemonic

The new literary genre dubbed 'cyberfiction' is considered in a five page research paper that discusses how technology's complicat...

Joseph Conrad's 'The Lagoon'

thinks the woman will die. Arsat is very sad and while he waits out the long night he begins to tell his friend about how he came ...

Author Virginia Woolf

The Voyage Out would be published, followed by Night and Day, and Jacobs Room, which was based in part on the life of her beloved ...

Comparative Analysis of Three Works of Isabel Allende

then that Of Love and Shadows takes place in a Latin American country that is suffering under a brutal dictatorship. Irene Beltran...

Contemporary Hero Mother Teresa

Beyond ordinary or normal human ability, power, or experience" (Dictionary.com, 2004). Applying this we can look at the way she c...

Gerard Manley Hopkins' 'God's Grandeur'

Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;...

Uses of Propaganda in Oronooko by Aphra Behn, Spectator Number 69 by Joseph Addison and A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift'

take a closer look at where it is headed in the overall scheme of existence upon this earth. Through his use of syntax...

Self Discovery and French Literature's Evolution

good deal of the literature at the time. Lyric poetry more than likely arose from the songs of the minstrels and the singers whi...

Literary Period Known as the Anti Heroic Age

and most of her poetry concerns her love and admiration and gratefulness to her husband. However, later in life she began writi...

Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children

a significance in the fact that precisely at midnight on August 15, 1947, the actual date of independence, two babies would come i...

Literary Nature of Comedy

this suggests, comedy provides numerous benefits. When the famous Shakespearean actor Edmund Kean lay on his deathbed, it is reput...

Discussing Justice and War A Hypothetical Dialogue Between Hector from 'The Iliad' and Socrates from Plato's 'Republic'

you not, such as you are, get your following together and sail beyond the seas? Did you not from your a far country carry off a lo...

American Horror Writing and the Influence of British Authors

fantasy), horror has generated the most serious study. Fright master Stephen King credits this to the acclaimed literary trilogy...

The Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson and The Surrounded by D'Arcy McNickle

frame. Archilde says: "One had only to go into daylight to realize how preposterous such things were" (McNickle, 1935, p. 106). ...

Ralph Ellison's Life and Literary Career

However, any hope for a middle-class life died in 1917 with the death of Lewis Ellison (Rogers 12). Nevertheless, the...

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...

E.M. Forster's A Passage to India, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Setting

will discover and find, much of which is seen in things that are black and things that are white. This critic notes that, "Signs ...

Common Themes in Literature

see this throughout the world. It is not something peculiar to a time and place. Only communism was supposed to alleviate the clas...

Literary Criticisms of the Style and Works of O. Henry

does so in a most subtle way. It is as if O. Henry plays on the expectation of a terrible demise, then, at the last moment, as a s...