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'Hills Like White Elephants' by Ernest Hemingway

conforming to gender role expectations in other areas, such as his taking the bags to the train. It is not that she is portrayed ...

Richard II by William Shakespeare

In five pages this paper discusses the treachery of Shakespeare's protagonist in an analysis of his characterization, images, abdi...

Allegories in The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan

to friends to see what their feelings were about what he had written. He explains that some told him it was wonderful while other...

Comparing 'Two Kinds' with 'Bartleby'

ending is quite compelling, letting on that the narrator is much more insightful than first appears. Certainly, the narrator is no...

Act II and the Characterization of the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro

underscore the tension between the Count and Countess Characterization of the Countess The Countess is alone on the stage w...

'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings' by Maya Angelou

looked down upon. Many religious groups look down upon the upper classes, who have great wealth, but do not give to the poor. Gran...

Act I, Scene iii of William Shakespeare's Othello

Othellos stories that she would fall in love with this dark soldier. Furthermore, Desdemona has always been a meek and gentle daug...

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

the far corners of the globe, and also describes the whaling operations. Queequeg becomes ill and is so convinced he is dying tha...

Characterization in the General Prologue of Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

the "decorum of natural, as well as social, order," is preserved (Williams 31). The description of the Knight in the General Prolo...

Harold Pinter's The Caretaker

more remote, because he has undergone electric shock therapy because of emotional disturbances and deep depressions. Micks one goa...

Analysis of Flannery O'Connor's 'A Good Man is Hard To Find'

criminal is so small, few would talk about it. Another way to look at the situation is that the author hones in on one story in ...

Misogyny in Portrait of an Artist as a Man by James Joyce

fails to align sex and love. Does that mean he is a misogynist, treating women solely as wither virgins or whores, or does it mere...

Evil and Characterizations in William Shakespeare's Macbeth

travelling with Banquo, a general in the army, meets three witches. MACBETH Speak, if you can: what are you? First Witch All...

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and an Intertextual Comparative Analysis with Francis Ford Coppola's Film Apocalypse Now

in binary opposites, most commonly represented symbolically, in contrasts of light and dark, black and white, culturally in civili...

Clint Eastwood;'s 1992 Film Unforgiven

what is being portrayed is hero against the world and right against wrong. Certainly, those factors are present in "Unforgiven." H...

Characterization in Hard Times by Charles Dickens

their reactions. For example, Josiah Bounderby is the mill-owner and principal villain in Hard Times. Bounderby is so unremittin...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and the Characterizations of Ophelia and Queen Gertrude

the throne of Denmark. This is why Hamlet frequently verbally attacks his mother. Gertrudes role was expected to be that of wife...

F. Scot Fitzgerald and a look at the American Dream

Ambition and a self-made determination, and the freedom to achieve anything that one sets his or her mind to were the basic concep...

Geoffrey Chaucer and Antifeminism

as to the message it may or may not portray. The firmly established gender roles in medieval society are seen by many scholars as...

An Analysis of Alfred Hitchcock's Film Rear Window

In five pages this research paper considers how voyeurism is depicted in this 1954 suspense thriller particularly as it relates to...

A Production Analysis of Citizen Kane

This research report looks at camera angles used as well as characterization in this classic film. A comprehensive analysis is pr...

Individualism and Utilitarianism in Orson Welles' Citizen Kane

In five pages the thematic development of individualism and utilitarianism as it relates to the characterization of Charles Foster...

Literature v. Film in William Shakespeare's As You Like It and While You Were Sleeping

In four pages comparisons between the two heroines are made with emphasis upon plot, theme, and characterization in a consideratio...

How I'm Not Rappaport Defies Ageism

In five pages this paper explores how Herb Gardner's 1985 play defies ageism through its characterizations and themes. There is d...

Mary Chase's Play Harvey and Contemporary Theater

In four pages this 1950 example of contemporary theater is examined in an analysis of plot, dialogue, type, and characterization e...

The Labyrinth of Solitude by Octavio Paz II

In six pages this paper examines the Mexican pachuco characterization and what it symbolizes in this work by Octavio Paz. Four so...

Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

In five pages this paper discusses the sexual orientation themes in each novels with a contrast and comparison of characterization...

Conflict and Characterization in Faulkner, Joyce, and James

In five pages the interaction between character and participation in an event that generates conflict is considered in 'Barn Burni...

The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen II

In ten pages this play is analyzed in terms of themes, plot, and characterization. Six sources are listed in the bibliography....

Homer and William Shakespeare's Portrayal of Women

In three pges this paper contrasts and compares the characterizations of Penelope in 'The Odyssey' by Homer and Desdemona in Othel...