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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 He is caught up in the outdated cultural mythos of the South, where men were suppose to be strong and women were virgin...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 Death of Ivan Ilyich as Tolstoy's Commentary on Materialism

exorbitant fees for consulting them. Thus, Tolstoy is indicating that materialism diverts the true calling of the professional, su...

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...

Comparison Between Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Chronicle of Death Foretold and Toni Morrison's Sula

Sula because she has divorced herself so completely from her own emotions. By the end of the novel, both characters come to the re...

Analysis of A Dream Play by August Strindberg

of human beings. Each character comes with their own subplot in which a facet of human existence is discussed and examined. S...

The Theme of Forgiveness in Bronte's Novel, Jane Eyre

to see, more objectively, the struggles of her aunt and the sad state of her aunt, thus giving her the ability to be kind and comp...

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...

Postcolonial Literature and Symbols

each. Before going on, it pays to define post colonialism. DeHay (2004) explains that the definition she likes to use for postc...

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...

Place and Self Themes in E.J. Gaines' A Lesson Before Dying

not part of the solution. He begins to understand that change does not happen in one fell swoop, but that it is a slow process, mu...

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...

Presley in The Octopus by Frank Norris

manufactured goods which moved the process further. Thus, owning the railroad became a very large piece of the overall puzzle. But...

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 ...

Hermann Hesse's The Glass Bead Game and Intellectualism

capacity for sublimation. . . Soon afterwards philology followed this method and began to measure linguistic configurations as phy...

"The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant: Short Story Analysis

the late nineteenth century (the same time the story was written). This setting is of vital importance because at that time, weal...

Intrusion and Gwendolyn Brooks

little from life. And, they are seen as beautiful for they are all described as "oaken" which, while illustrating they are African...

Analysis of Anthem by Ayn Rand

rather than "I." As he has always been taller and smarter than his peers, he has been criticized throughout his life by his teache...

Shakespeare's Tempest/Act III Scene 1

Milan (Sutton 224). To further exemplify these features, consider a close examination of one scene. As Act III, scene 2, opens, ...

Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things

entire novel is the childrens experience with love. Rahels relationship with her twin brother goes far beyond love; despite the fa...

Corruption of Power: Hawthorne and Miller

hath an infant immortality, a being capable of eternal joy or sorrow, confided to her care-to be trained up by her to righteousnes...

Henry Ford as He Appears in Doctorow's Ragtime

to society is well known and many see this as admirable. Yet, there are some critics. Not everyone agrees that capitalism is the b...

“To Kill a Mockingbird”: Murder in the Deep South

Tom is convicted for only one reason: hes black. Although hes sentenced to death, the sentence is commuted to life in prison; even...

Journey to Self-Awareness in Emma, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and My Name is Asher Lev

her better judgment, but she was initially dismissive. Emma prefers living through others instead of living for herself, and her ...

Maximus In Catland: Philosophical Messages For Parents And Children Alike

the very nerve of human existence, both good and bad. Writers like Izzo attempt to reach out to their audiences by way of specifi...

Theme of Colonialism in Sembene Ousmane’s God’s Bits of Wood and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus

in this instance French Dakar-Niger railroad owners (toubabs) versus impoverished workers in pre-Independence era Senegal who soug...

Buero Vallejo: “Story of a Stairway”

active service with the Republicans, though not as a soldier but as a medical corpsman (Donahue). Although such a position was a "...

Mouse Lessons: “Gino Badino” by Diana Engel

than saturated; the cover is a dark hunter green with a scalloped red border top and bottom; in the center is a square, also rimme...

Sociological Themes in the Film “Crash”

his dashboard. There is a common thread between the two men, but Hanson reacts to the fantasy he has constructed, not the reality,...

The Theme of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”: Things Aren’t Always What They Seem

run away, thus setting up the main action of the plot, because the man she loves, Lysander, agrees to run away with her. They end ...