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A Case of Need by Crichton

novel. He would go on to not only write other, more compelling best selling novels, but he would also become involved in televisio...

Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life, Doc Hata

endeavor to keep the comfort women debate controversial by providing arguments that call into question whether or not the comfort ...

A Look at Great Expectations in the Context of the Author's Life

1824-1827 he was a "day pupil at a school in London" (Cody). But the year in the blacking factory "haunted him all of his life" t...

'A Rose For Emily' Short Story Analysis

Her neighbors believed she never married because "none of the young men were quite good enough" (Faulkner 437). It was only when ...

A Review of Spiderwoman's Granddaughters

usually considered a teacher, or guide. The point is that the stories in this book use a great deal of symbolism, perhaps because...

Chaucer's View of Religion, The Canterbury Tales

This essay pertains to the clergy members who are part of Chaucer's band of travelers in "The Canterbury Tales." The writer argues...

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

This essay describes how Austen uses characterization and irony in a manner that causes contemporary readers to identify with the ...

Howard Hawks' His Girl Friday (1940)

This essay provides analysis of several aspects of this 1940 screwball comedy directed by Howard Hawks. The analysis focuses on as...

Characterization and Production Values: Classical Hollywood

This research paper pertains to methods and features of characterization and its associated production values used during the age ...

Double Characterization in Mrs. Dalloway

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway". The bond of "insanity" between Clarissa and Septimus is ex...

Character Studies: Dr. Faustus, Macbeth

This essay discusses the characterization of Christopher Marlowe's "Dr. Faustus" and William Shakespeare's "Macbeth," identifying ...

Elizabeth Bennett, Characterization in Pride and Prejudice

This essay pertains to the way in which Elizabeth Bennett is characterized in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. The writer partic...

Character Study of Hamlet

This essay presents a discussion of Hamlet's character. The writer argues that Shakespeare's characterization of Hamlet focuses on...

Much Ado About Nothing: The 'Comedy' of Scapegoats

This paper examines how scapegoats propel the comedy of William Shakespeare's play in the characterizations of Don John, Claudio, ...

Chekhov's The Duel, Nature and Atmosphere

This essay pertains the way in which Chekhov uses nature and atmosphere to underscore characterization in The Duel. Seven pages in...

Alexie's "How to Write the Great American Indian Novel" - A Post-Colonial Criticism

In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at Alexie's "How to Write the Great American Indian Novel". The harmful American charact...

Bronte's "Wuthering Heights" and the Art of Characterization

skillfully mirrors the complex reality of how first impressions are often subverted in real life relationships as well. In "The A...

Images of Ophelia

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Hamlet's Ophelia. Fine art depictions of the character from history are used to exp...

A Rose for Emily and the Art of Characterization

as a proper Southern lady, with the pretention of adhering to a moral code above that of the common person, but in reality, she fo...

Sadism And Masochism: A World In The Dark

originated. Traces of S&M span millions of years in mans history (Seaman, 1996), however, based upon the sexual preferences of tw...

John Updike/The Rumor

circle. It soon becomes apparent that everyone with whom Sharon and Frank come into contact know the rumor and believe it. This cr...

Money/Thackeray & Carlyle

degradation and turns against him. On the other hand, Mr. Osbornes immediately approval of Miss Swartz perfectly satirizes the way...

Frankenstein/Symbolic of Women's Fate

are equated by Frankenstein as emotionally synonymous to pursuing and conquering a woman. From this sexual conquest of nature, Fra...

Flannery O'Connor/Good Country People

OConnors characterization of Joy/Hulga carefully builds up an image of a woman who has been very badly scarred by life, both physi...

Milton/Satan in Paradise Lost

who displays unconquerable courage. In this manner, Milton portrays Satan as a heroic figure, and elicits sympathy for him. As Sat...

Cisneros and Roethke

a room of her own and a house of which she can be proud" (Sandra Cisneros, 2003). Among the issues Esperanza faces are the "disadv...

Children's Costumes: Ancient Egypt And Rome

of childrens costumes in ancient Egypt and Rome. VI. Conclusion a. Culture is the great equalizer when it comes to establishing th...

Characterization in The Blue Max: The Novel and Film Compared

respect to the character of this man, but the film is limited to visual aspects only. This tends to be true for most any book turn...

Conflict and Characterization in Romeo and Juliet

volatile for no apparent reason. The conflict, in other words, has no real foundation but it is tradition. The lovers marr...

Shakespeare/Comedy of Errors & Imagery

"teach" him "how to think and speak" (3.2.35) and "create" him new" (3.2.41), which is a reversal of the Elizabethan gender stereo...