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Themes of Fifth Business by Robertson Davies

Ramsays family is more materially oriented than spiritually. The religious/spiritual side of life is represented by Mary Dempster...

Equality and the Birth of the United States

of Virginia going so far to offer slaves of anti-British masters their freedom if theyd desert their masters (Blackburn, 1991). Bu...

Realism and Fantasy in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

way of interacting with the world around her. Is this a...

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and Manipulation of Narrative

of the novel, the other narratives, we do not simply see him as a kind and gentle creature. We also have the narrative that com...

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson and the Character of Ishmael

man who may have once possessed dreams, but today is an angry and bitter individual. "He was a man of thirty-one with a hardened f...

Bleak House by Charles Dickens and the English Court System

novel and helps us see some of the critical sarcasm which Dickens offers in the preface to his novel. In the preface to this nov...

Thematic Elements in Celine's Novel, North

in. . .evening dress required? hell no! The vivisection of the wounded!. . .Thats it! so much art, centuries of so-called masterpi...

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton and Irony

most of the scandals and mysteries that had smouldered under the unruffled surface of New York society within the last fifty years...

Spirituality and Religion in Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo

hopefulness here in Comala; instead, the air is heavy with an oppressive guilt that is positively stifling. It soon becomes readi...

Great Britain and Nazism in Remains of the Day

were emphatically not members of the aristocracy that it was almost impossible for them to transcend their conditioning and upbrin...

Sofia in 'The Color Purple' by Alice Walker

is told that Sofia is a woman who does not know her place. She should not be allowed to talk back to her husband, or state her own...

1984 by George Orwell and Language's Power

everyone gets the aggressive tendencies out of their system in a controlled fashion) the Ministry of Truth is really full of decei...

Toni Morrison's Beloved, Motherhood, and Sethe

of Denver and Sethes children, and many others.This establishes the idea that family is very important and thus we can assume that...

The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745-1815

additional examples could be presented as well. The most interesting of Dowds examples concern the leadership strategies of the t...

The Sovereignty and Goodness of God by Mary Rowlandson

come about. At the same time, the authors depiction of the Indians is less than kind and while that is true, one can say that her ...

3 Novels and Q and A

In four pages student posed questions on the novels Conrad's The Light in the Forest, Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, and Steinbeck's T...

Blues, Growth, and Cultural Wisdom in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye

a reference to "St. Louis Blues" by W.C. Handy which is one of the very first, and most popular, of blues songs (Morrison 25). F...

The Legacy of Billie Holiday

music, which she may have initially embraced as a kind of personal salvation.3 While male lovers would betray her, seductive jazz...

Final Lines of the Novel Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

they go on another trip, but Lolita runs away with another man. Humbert finds her years later, when she is 18 and married and preg...

White Values versus Values of Native Americans

include any consideration of an alternate opinion to their worldview. They fully expected the Native Americans to accept that it w...

Flicker in the Porthole Glass by Desautels

cinematic and visual in their orientation. She describes, first of all, a night when Ruineux allows her into the projection booth ...

The Sociology and Social Work Perspectives of Black American Pioneers

a greater effect on African Americans than practically any other book published up until that time. William H. Ferris writes in 1...

Mukherjee's Jasmine

respect, everything that brought solidity to an individuals life in their former country, has been stripped from them. It is as if...

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurton and Spousal Abuse

who can take care of her and so Janie is married unhappily to a man named Logan Killicks. In Chapter Four, it is easy to see that ...

The Wealthy and American Criticism

"aggregate" was benefiting in this period, however, others were flailing desperately in the ever-deepening economic waters just tr...

Grendel by Gardner

of empathy or sympathy for mankind. He is not a man; he is a monster. And yet, he is a confused monster. "Ah, the unfairness...

Progress Disenchantment During the 19th Century

a weekend. Technology contributes to the state of constant activity that so many are used to and many elderly people remember a ti...

Comparative Analysis of the Film and Novel Versions of Beloved

In five pages this report contrasts and compares the 1987 novel Beloved written by Toni Morrison with the 1998 movie adaptation. ...

The Religious Views that Influence African American Beliefs

5 pages and 3 sources. This paper considers the nature of African American religious beliefs as they influence specific social/cu...

Large Social Processes and the 'Private' Sphere of Asian American Families

In a paper consisting of eight pages the problems that Asian Americans face in the United States are considered in terms of confor...