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Similarities and Differences Among Female Literary Characters

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

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 ...

Roles of Women in Mary Barton and Madame Bovary

In five pages this paper examines the domestic boundaries that dictated the roles of women during the 19th century in a considerat...

Love in a Small Town by Wang Anyi

sees the cultural upheavals which have befallen the mainland in its over forty years under socialism as a backdrop, not a major pl...

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...

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

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

History and Literature

In six pages this paper considers such literary works as Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown,' Sarah Orne Jewett's 'The Whi...

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...

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...

'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...

Examples of Post-Colonial Strife In Literature

the British rule has officially ceased. And so, through his personal experiences, the character of Camagu mirrors the turbulence ...

Comparative Analysis of Three Works of Isabel Allende

then that Of Love and Shadows takes place in a Latin American country that is suffering under a brutal dictatorship. Irene Beltran...

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...

Literary Criticisms of the Style and Works of O. Henry

does so in a most subtle way. It is as if O. Henry plays on the expectation of a terrible demise, then, at the last moment, as a s...

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 ...

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...

Literary Analysis of Wislawa Szymborska’s Poem ‘True Love’

love between two ordinary people: "Placed on the same pedestal for no good reason, drawn randomly from millions but convinced it h...

What Drives Author Tim O’Brien to Write?

demonstrations and anti-Vietnam War protests. Majoring in political science at St. Paul, Minnesotas Macalester College, writing a...

Gilgamesh - A Review of Symbols and Themes

one might look at the very opening lines of the epic, which address the reader, even the contemporary reader, directly and states ...

Comparison of Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys and Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

the womens circumstances and the move to change those circumstances. Rochesters dismissal of Antoinette, her family and her commun...

Themes in French Literary Classics

daughters, only to have them essentially through it all in his face for it was not enough. This simple understanding presents us w...

Huckleberry Finn and Don Quixote

In four pages this research paper examines each work as it represents the picaresque tradition classification....