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Public Life versus Private Life in The Aeneid, The Odyssey, and Oresteia

In four pages this paper compares and contrasts how the authors depict private life and public life in these ancient literary work...

Witness and Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi

In six pages this essay examines what literary tools the author employed in writing Survival in Auschwitz....

Literary Departure in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

In eight pages this paper examines the literary departure of James Joyce in this 1916 example of modernist fiction....

The Last of Cheri, The Handmaid's Tale, Beloved, and Faith

In four pages faith and its importance in these literary works and the characters featured within are discussed. There are no oth...

The Mask by Fumiko Enchi, Turn of the Screw by Henry James, and Gender

Enchis The Mask. The governesss crisis, as I read it, arises in her struggle to define herself (as we all must) in terms of the ga...

Classical Greek Literature and Women's Tragic Marriages

Aeschylus introduces a complete reversal of gender roles, placing the character of Clytemnestra in a ruling role over Argos in the...

'Essay on Literature' or 'Wen Fu' by Lu Chi

In six pages this report examines this ancient Chinese literary essay....

Rousseau and Equality Between the Sexes

This research pasper discusses the work of Jean-Jacque Rousseau and how his political philosophy was one of the guiding elements ...

Duong Thu Huong's Novel Without a Name and Howard R. Simpson's Someone Else's War

In five pages this paper examines the depiction of the Vietnam War in a comparison and contrast of these literary works. Four oth...

'The Fall of the House of Usher' by Edgar Allan Poe, Dualism and Literary Parallels

In five pages this paper examines how sense, characters, and event are connected by Edgar Allan Poe through dualism and literary p...

Virgil and Dante's 'Inferno'

In four pages the Virgil character is examined within the context of 'Inferno' and also considered as he actually existed as an ac...

The Role of the Common Man in Government

This paper analyzes the role of commoners in various governments from the 1500s through the 1700s as portrayed by the literary wor...

Life and Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

In five pages this paper analyzes the life and literary contributions of Ralph Waldo Emerson and also considers the website that f...

Life and Writings of Lois Lowry

stories and poems in notebooks" (IPL Kidspace). In this interview she also noted, "My books have varied in content and style. Y...

Guillien de Catro y Bellvis' La Mocedades del Cid

DIEGO: ...excesivamente honrado,...

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...

Vera Figner's Memoirs of a Revolutionist, Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons and Radical Russian Intelligentsia Images

with what respect that principle is surrounded" (Turgenev, 1996, p. 7). Although the...

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 ...

J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and Materialism

with money, as the underlying theme is that which revolves around Gatsby using the pursuit of money, and the acquisition of money,...

Literature and Psychoanalysis

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

Literary Nature of Comedy

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

Greek Literature and Blindness Symbolism

other senses. Might the lack of sight signify a heightened sense of smell or taste? The list goes on and on about special attachme...

Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and Imperialism

who assure the king that Gulliver is merely a trained animal and that the farmer, from which Gulliver was obtained, had trained hi...

Literature, Understanding, and the Lack Thereof

Verloc has used her brother, her foundation for understanding her husband dissolves and the two no longer are able to communicate....

Questions and Answers on New York Authors

respectively. He did perhaps change his ideology over time and student writing on this subject might say that he had softened his ...

Great American Author Ernest Hemingway

first publish Three Stories & Ten Poems in 1923 in Paris ("A Chronology" PG). In 1926 , the well known work The Sun Also Rises wou...

Similarities and Differences Among Female Literary Characters

learned of the pregnancy, and that she is not particularly impressed with his perspective on the situation....

SWOT Analysis of a Construction Site's Hazardous Working Conditions

project, with each employee being run through the rules, tested for their knowledge of the rules and demonstrating the correct and...

A Review of The Thief Lord

He steals so that he can make sure the boys get enough to eat and get clothes. At one point in the story there is a pawn shop o...

Living Like Weasels by Annie Dillard

the weasel. All existence seems to be put on hold and she cannot remember this empty space of time that the two brains seemed lock...