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Apocalypse Now, Heart of Darkness, and the Importance of Setting

Williards mission is more severe then Marlows. While Marlow endeavors to bring Kurtz back to civilization, Williards mission is to...

Ulysses by James Joyce

In 5 pages this paper examines the complexities of this great 20th century novel and considers how it serves as a biography of the...

Love as the Theme of The Coquette by Foster

In four pages this paper examines how this 18th century novel thematically represents love. There are no other sources listed....

British Imperialism and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

of it was wiped out during the 1800s and 1900s. Things Fall Apart is the story of Okonkwo, an ambitious...

Adolphe by Benjamin Constant

narrative. Eventually, however, he rejects her, and the pain of this separation results in her death. Instead of prospering, now t...

Interpretation According to Ronald Dworkin and Charles Darwin's Bleak House

In fifteen sources this paper discusses philosopher Ronald Dworkin's views on interpretation and offers a legal comparison between...

Early US Penitentiaries and 3 Concepts

In three pages this paper examines 3 concepts on 18th century penitentiaries with Pennsylvania and the Quaker influence the primar...

The Five Minute Marriage by Joan Aiken

In five pages this paper examines how 19th century English greed is portrayed in Joan Aiken's novel, The Five Minute Marriage. Th...

Hard Times by Charles Dickens' and Impact of Rapid Industrialization

In five pages the effects of rapid industrialization in 19th century England are examined within the context of Dickens' novel in ...

Eighteenth Century Prostitution and Eroticism in Fanny Hill by John Cleland

In twelve pages this report examines how Cleland presents prostitution and eroticism in his scandalous eighteenth century novel Me...

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway and Modernism

In 5 pages modernism of the 20th century is defined and then applied to this American novel by Ernest Hemingway. There are 3 sour...

Lazarillo de Tormes in New York City

yours. Stand still, shut your eyes, and wait." I did, and something began to happen. The air began to hum.. I tried to open my ey...

Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House as a Reflection of 19th Century Social Issues

In four pages this paper examines how the playwright represents social issues in this 19th century dramatic play....

Roles of Women in Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Ilyich and Anna Karenina

to them" (Rowe, 3). Intensely shy, he was nonetheless intensely sexual, and this was to present problems for him for the rest of h...

Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

In 7 pages this paper examines how German Romanticism is rebutted in this novel by Thomas Mann, which also symbolically represents...

2 Movie Versions of Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders

In 5 pages this paper examines what the film versions of this novel reveal more about the times in which they were made than the e...

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf and the Characters of Clarissa and Septimus

In five pages this paper examines the characters in this Virginia Woolf novel in terms of how they reflect changing social moods o...

Contemporary Relevance of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

In 5 pages the contemporary relevance of this 16th century play is assessed in terms of the cloning debate and a similar theme fea...

Oroonoko by Aphra Behn and Historical Background

In 5 pages this paper examines the depiction of slavery in the 17th century novel by Aphra Behn in terms of historical accuracy. ...

The Octopus by Frank Norris

This point of view gives Norris freedom from having to make all of the action occur to a protagonist or observer and also, the rea...

19th Century France and the Influence of Romantic Author Victor Hugo

This paper considers Victor Hugo's influence on France during the 19th century in an analysis of the significance of his novels Th...

Historical Plausibility of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

In 5 pages this great American novel is analyzed in an historical overview of the relevant 19th century issues including children'...

Dream of the Red Chamber by Tsao Hsueh-Chin

In six pages this Chinese novel from the 18th century is analyzed. There are no other sources listed....

Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg

seen that Gide identifies this novel as a psychological parable. By dramatizing the evil that lurks within Roberts psyche, Hogg of...

Epistolary Novel Pamela by Samuel Richardson

In six pages this 18th century epistolary novel is examined in terms of how the author moved the plot along and developed characte...

Language and Realism in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

In five pages this paper discusses how dialect is used for the purposes of realism in this late 19th century American novel. Ther...

Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth

In seven pages this paper analyzes how the author depicts the 20th century Jewish male coming of sexual age in this amusing and in...

Fools Crow by James Welch

In five pages this research paper examines the Blackfeet Native American tribe of the 19th century as depicted in James Welch's no...

DEATH, DYING AND AMERICAN CULTURE: 1900-2010

all that terrific. What is wrong with this picture? Why would an elderly man put himself through such discomfort, simply to...

Paul Kennedy's Preparing for the Twenty First Century

general. Kennedy does an admirable job of demonstrating how the population explosion that the world is currently experiencing is i...