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Greed and Power in Characters Macbeth and Lady Macbeth

by killing King Duncan. But, he is hesitant about doing such a thing. It is, however, Lady Macbeth who urges him on. It is Lady Ma...

Cider With Rosie Characters Conveyance

with a variety of people, all of whom Lee seems able to detail in vivid imagery, presenting us with powerful characters. In examin...

Othello by William Shakespeare and the Character Iago

no worse a place. / But he, as loving his own pride and purposes, / Evades them, with a bumbast circumstance / Horribly stuffd wit...

Character Ethics and the Film 'L.A. Confidential'

cost, even when it calls for doing things against his or the departments ethical code. His golden boy status within the police fo...

Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage and New Articles Based on Its Characters and Events

Prices suicide. Either of these incidents would provide material for a news article relating to sudden death; in the first instanc...

Characters by Trillin and Pham

Both Andrew Pham (Catfish and Mandala) and Calvin Trillin (It's Just Too Late), main characters die. This paper compares and contr...

New Criticism on the Character of Daisy in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

In five pages the new criticism of this classic old character is discussed in terms of its patterns of cause and effect, compariso...

Bleak House by Charles Dickens and the Character Esther Summerson

In six pages a character analysis of Esther Summerson is presented within the context of Dickens' novel. Eight sources are cited ...

'Old Bull Lee' Character in On the Road by Jack Kerouac

representation of his quest for authenticity among Americas "outsiders," he presented an example of how his artistic and literary ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and the Character Nick Carraway

In five pages this paper presents a character analysis of Nick Carraway as featured in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. T...

Character Analysis of John Yossarian in Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

is his life at risk every time he goes out on a bombing mission. His commanding officer, Colonel Cathcart, is constantly voluntee...

Character Analysis of Siblings in Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin

In five pages this research paper presents a character analysis of the brothers featured in this short story by James Baldwin. Fi...

Male Characters in Emma by Jane Austen

In eight pages this essay assesses the maturation or lack thereof of male characters Elton, Churchill, and Knightley in Emma by Ja...

Customs and Habits that Form the American Character

he saw. After the poverty, political and religious strife and injustice he had seen in Europe, he saw the American as "the new man...

Chaucer and His Characters

In five pages The Canterbury Tales are considered in terms of what they reveal about the author, his compassion, humor, thoughts a...

Ethan Frome Character Analysis

It means that anyone is capable of killing for example. In any event, in using this definition, it seems more likely that indeed,...

A Character Analysis for Jake and Brett in The Sun Also Rises

This ten page report analyzes the characters Jake and Brett, comparing them to the other men in the story. The thesis is presente...

Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer and the Character of Pandarus

In six pages a character analysis of Pandarus in Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer is presented. Five sources are cited in the bibl...

William Shakespeare's Othello and the Character Iago

II, scene 1, lines 83-181, Shakespeare pictures an interlude in which Desdemona "beguile(s)" the time before Othellos arrival at C...

Heathcliff Character Formation in Bronte's Wuthering Heights

In five pages the ways in which Heathcliff's character was shaped in terms of the nurture and nature debate are analyzed. There a...

Character Analysis of Biff in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

In five pages the development of Biff through different life stages from schoolboy to adulthood are examined with a discussion of ...

Hard Times by Charles Dickens and a Thomas Gradgrind Sr. Character Analysis

- Thomas Gradgrind, Sr. Even his name, which sounds like a derivative of "grindstone," has significance. Gradgrind was not only t...

The Element of Tragedy as Presented in Oates' Short Story Characters

Joyce Carol Oates intertwines the element of tragedy in The Crying Baby, The Passion of Rydcie Mather and Where areYou Going? Whe...

Parallels Between Kafka and the Character K in The Trial

This five page paper presents the character K as an alter ego of the author Franz Kafka. Six sources are listed....

Minor Characters in 'The Metamorphosis' by Franz Kafka

all, concerned with business profits, not with the welfare of his employees. The manager wastes little time in reminding Gregor o...

Tragic Characters in Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare

In five pages Octavius Caesar, Enobarbus, Cleopatra, and Antony are analyzed in order to determine which emerges as the most tragi...

Characters of Corin and Adam in William Shakespeare's As You Like It

In five pages the social satire portrayal of these characters and how Shakespeare used them to poke fun at the elite's pretentions...

Character of Bill Miller in 'Neighbors' by Raymond Carver

In five pages this undestated bookkeeper character is analyzed in terms of his importance to Carver's short story. Five sources a...

Female Characters, Gender Roles, and Humor in the Sex and the City TV Series

This HBO cable series is critiqued in 5 pages with gender roles, humor, and female characterizations analyzed....

As You Like It by William Shakespeare and the Characters of Rosalind and Orlando

In six pages this paper analyzes the characters of Rosalind and Orlando as they are featured in this play by William Shakespeare. ...