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take a closer look at where it is headed in the overall scheme of existence upon this earth. Through his use of syntax...
themselves. It is in adjusting to change that people lose their ground. Meaning and purpose in life is lost. Thus, clinical depres...
the everyday eye, Dorian does not seem to age a day, nor does his beauty fade. There are several indications of a homosexual nat...
for the best. Soon, however, a sudden sense of calm overcomes her as she whispers "free, free, free" (Chopin PG). Mrs. Mal...
will discover and find, much of which is seen in things that are black and things that are white. This critic notes that, "Signs ...
are proud. The main character, however, although she wants to own the house someday, is embarrassed by the house because she feels...
to return to the cave because its familiar and comfortable? The answer to all these questions is "yes." (Allegory of the Cave, 2...
become separate" (p.48). An interest point is made as Fromm investigates erotic love. Today, many equate eroticism with romanticis...
what they want, remains universal and could easily fit into a contemporary drama or comedy. Lysistrata tells her fellows that "We ...
This paper analyzes the literary technique of foreshadowing as seen in Kate Chopin's work, The Story of an Hour. This five page p...
This paper addresses Kate Chopin's Nineteenth-Century novel, The Awakening. The author contends that the literary techniques util...
gloried in the proud history of the plantation South that secured a place of honor for the aristocrat, and yet he abhorred the opp...
In eight pages this paper discusses how love is expressed within such literary works as Songs of Innocence and Experience by Willi...
(Silverman, 76). In a surprisingly large number of Poes stories, the revenant theme is coupled with some sense of a double -- two...
This 15 page paper comprises a series of essays in various literary genres. Works examined include the speeches of Sojourner Truth...
This paper examines Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Henry James' Washington Square in terms of how Szacz's The Myth of Mental Illn...
In twelve pages the poetic metaphor and its value is assessed within the works of these varied literary and philosophical icons. ...
it. A well constructed plot, therefore, must neither begin nor end at haphazard, but conform to these principles" (Aristotle 7-8)....
This paper discusses various elements of Shelley's novel that classify the work as Gothic, one of the nineteenth-century's literar...
and turned" (Every Man - III, 2, pp. 48) and Hamlets "imagination" as he dwells on the experience of seeing his fathers ghost: "Th...
American students great vistas of the world of Indian civilization" (Lutgendorf Intro.htm). It is important to note, however, tha...
In six pages this paper examines 20th century modernist literature in a consideration of such concepts as impressionism, postmoder...
In six pages this paper discusses the fear factor of nationalism as considered in such literary works as All Quiet on the Western ...
In three and a half pages this paper argues that the criticism of this 1886 literary work by Leo Tolstoy that describes it as 'a p...
In five pages this paper considers the Victorian concept of feminine identity as depicted in Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White an...
levels of power and position. It would be foolish to argue that women havent made progress, because they have, but it would also ...
-- but to deny their husbands sex until the men agree to sign a treaty. It is the women, therefore, who actually end the war. Rea...
are pleasant individuals who go through many different dilemmas, relatively simple dilemmas in the beginning. They become friends ...
In seven pages this paper examines how society treated women in these respective time periods in a comparative analysis of 'The Ae...
light. But still, few heroes emerged from literature or non-fiction of that century to truly portray the strong women who did exis...