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Refusing Immortality in 'The Odyssey' by Homer

In five pages this essay considers Odysseus' refusal to transform from mortal to immortal in terms of reasons why this stance was ...

Penance Rather Than Death in Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

In five pages this essay discusses the moral belief in atonement as represented by the irony and symbolism featured in Oedipus Rex...

Human Love versus Godly Love in 'Prometheus Bound' and 'Hippolytus'

In an essay consisting of five pages the role of love is compared and contrasted in these two works. There is one other source ci...

History and the Epic Poems of Homer

In five pages this essay examines what is revealed about ancient Greek history in Homer's poetic epics 'The Iliad' and 'The Odysse...

Citizen Example of Oedipus

In five pages this essay discusses the complexities involved with the citizen example served by Oedipus the King in Sophocles' pla...

Battle of the Sexes in Lysistrata, Medea, Antigone, Oedipus, and The Oresteia

In five pages this essay examines gender conflict within the contexts of these 5 dramas from ancient Greece. There are no other s...

Sanity, Insanity and Society From A Swiftian Viewpoint

Jonathan Swift's satiric work A Digression Concerning the Original, the Use and Improvement of Madness in a Commonwealth provides ...

Prioress Character in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

In five pages this essay focuses on the Prioress as described in the General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales and argues that whil...

Dust Tracks on a Road Autobiography by Zora Neale Hurston

home at an early age. Hurston described this period of her life as "a series of wanderings." She did occasional work as a wardrobe...

Lilliput, Satire, and Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

This essay consists of five pages and examines the first book of Gulliver's Travels in terms of how Swift satirizes eighteenth cen...

Geoffrey Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales

This essay delves into the man behind The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer. The author utilizes both an in depth reading of the...

Imperialism Symbols in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

It is no surprise that Conrad was a critic of British colonialism in Africa. This was not a bitter disregard for the whole country...

Predictions and Reality in 1984 by George Orwell

have been a jewess was sitting up in the bow with a little boy of about three in her arms? (Orwell, 1949, p. 10); the little life ...

J.R.R. Tolkien's Imaginary Worlds and Philology

related poems that I never read entitled The Adventures of Tom Bombadil. In my research, I found that other fiction he published ...

Boy's Dream in 'Araby' by James Joyce

In five pages this essay discusses the political and religious symbolism featured about a boy's first love. There are no other so...

Inland Passage by Jane Rule and Araby by James Joyce

In five pages this essay considers the journey of the soul in a comparative analysis of these literary works. Two sources are lis...

Essays on Dubliners by James Joyce and Graham Greene's Works

In about five pages this paper presents 3 brief essays pertaining to Graham Greene's works and topics featured in Dubliners by Jam...

Romantic and Victorian Literature Contrasted

In five pages this essay contrasts these very different literary styles with the Romantic period's 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' b...

The Business World from a Literary Viewpoint

pictured as giving them a chance to live as equals with everyone-no upper classes-everyone doing as he or she pleased. Sinclair...

Samuel Butler, Lord Byron, and Marriage

In five pages this essay discusses how Butler and Byron perceived marriage in a comparative analysis of Butler's The Way of All Fl...

Insurance Coverage for Alternative Health Care Argument

This is an argumentative essay composed of five pages that disputes contentions that alternative health care represents quackery a...

Character Analysis/Singin' In The Rain

This essay offers a character analysis of the two major characters from the film classic Singin' In The Rain, specifically Don Lo...

Fantasy and History in The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende III

In five pages this essay discusses how fantasy and history are represented in Isabel Allende's classic novel. There are no other ...

Carmen Laforet's Nada

that a woman can only be truly understood within the context of a relationship with another woman?whether thats within the origin...

Martin and Nabokov in Glory

In five pages this essay compares and contrasts the character of Martin in Glory with the life of author Nabokov in a consideratio...

Writer's Impressions of War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Vasili Kuragin. Also through their conversation, the reader is first introduced to Prince Vasilis sons, Ippolit and Anatol. The ...

Greek Tragedies and 4 Views of Women

wife of Agamemnon who has been off fighting the Trojan War for ten years. The goddess Artemis had left the fleet organized by Aga...

Book of Kings in the Old Testament

In six pages this essay discusses gods laws, obedience, rewards and punishments as they pertain to 2 Books of Kings in the Old Tes...

Supreme Being, Time, and Eternity

In five pages a God or supreme being is considered in a discussion of time and eternity relevance with reference to Brian Davies' ...

Cultural Influence of the Book Of Genesis

In five pages this essay examines the influence of the Book of Genesis on such authors as William Faulkner and Thornton Wilder. T...