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"Politics of Fantasy" by Peter Firchow

This essay summarizes and the describes the principal points of Peter Firchow's "The Politics of Fantasy: 'The Hobbit' and Fascism...

Robert Herrick's 'Julia's Petticoat'

there, pleasd with transgression evrywhere." This is hardly the action a petticoat could manage were Julia demurely seated at a t...

Alice in Wonderland and Harry Potter

his introduction to The Annotated Alice, Martin Gardner relates some of the complex meanings that have been attributed to Alice. F...

Becoming a Greater Sports Fan with Fantasy Sports

Before playing fantasy football, I gave little thought to the function of a commissioner or the importance of the role in team ope...

Writing a Fantasy Story

parents simply abandoned the children. There are many directions such a story could take. In this case one could claim that the pa...

Gatsby’s Fantasy

believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your...

Reading Romantic Fantasy and Living Reality in Don Quixote and Madame Bovary

lifetime - to become the knight-errant hero like those of the Round Table he always fantasized being. The life of a 50-year-old w...

Medieval Literature and Common Themes

is a serious offence. But Ganelon, the man who is held, has a friend who challenges his accuser to a match and the friend loses. T...

An Analysis of The Things They Carried

This five page report analyzes the structure utilized by Tim O'Brien. The contention is presented that this utilization effectiv...

That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis and Reality

In five pages this paper discusses the reality of this literary combination of fantasy and myth. Two sources are listed in the bi...

Controlling Past, Present and Future

so now that it seems to be coming true. With newspapers disappearing and media companies merging into fewer and fewer giant corpor...

Orwell’s Nightmare Made Real

them open to all kinds of abuses, including torture. Many Americans feel that torture is justified if it will save innocent lives,...

Innocence and Its Burdens

in love, but "the happiness that should have followed this love not having come" she thought she must have made a mistake (Flauber...

The Scale of Adolescent Dissociative Experiences

human being to respond in a way that intensifies the inherent manifestations of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Noted by a...

Uncertain Vision in "Oedipus the King" and "Othello"

woman who was now a widow, he fell in love and married her-his mother (Sophocles). Apollo curses Thebes and says that the city wil...

The Fantasy of Romance in Three Novels

of the characters faces so that we can see, for instance, how Mr. Darcy reacts to Elizabeths snub or the reaction of the Bennett w...

Juan Rulfo's 'Pedro Paramo'

of Mexico and its people, as well as the fantasy that has been presented. For example, one with a passionate culture truly imagine...

Around the World in Eighty Days by Verne

detail as his protagonist, Phileas Fogg. Phileas Fogg is the central character, without whom there would be no novel, and yet o...

Parallel Reality in The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bar...

Dracula by Bram Stoker

emphasized. Harker is clearly in foreign territory. This point is even emphasized by the Count who tells Harker, "We are in Trans...

Literary Analysis of The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

length on the hard bricks"(Baum). This line from Baums book indicates that Baum has some particular point to make when he chooses...

'Magical Realism' Creative Writing Sample

at the on-site school for the city orphanage, Jessie stood out in my history classroom as if a spotlight were on her. Naturally, s...

Themes of Fantasy and Reality in Woody Allen's Film The Purple Rose of Cairo

her favorite actor in it, Tom Baxter. After the movie is over she finds herself unable to go home to face the reality of a man who...

Importance of Setting in A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

consents not to give sovereignty (Shakespeare, Act 1, Sc. 1). However,...

Dark Stories of Gaitskill and Braverman_

track marks still showed. The fact that Lenny articulates the protagonists hidden thoughts and desires provides substantiation th...

Fantasy and Science Fiction Mythology Uses

troubles of Dr. Morbius and his daughter Altaira who have been living on a desolate planet. A rescue team finally arrives lead by ...

Comparative Analysis of Works by Franz Liszt and Franz Schubert

extending it, varying it. Schubert accomplishes extending the rhythmic motif by added extra beats at both the beginning and the en...

Tragedy in Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

In four pages this paper presents the argument that living in a fantasy world invariably leads to tragic consequences. There are ...

Descartes and "The Matrix"

essentially wrong is when words appear on his computer screen-something that should not happen-and hes told to "follow the white r...

Fantasy: Death of a Salesman and The Glass Menagerie

slowly come to a point where he realizes he is out of time and "His mind has run out of control. He is confused and no longer able...