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Greed in D.H. Lawrence's 'The Rocking-Horse Winner'

life. And, it is the needless greed that is the culprit of death. This story could easily be seen as a story that preaches the ...

Symbolic Analysis of 'The Tyger' Poem by William Blake

the speaker--and the reader -- know that the answer is God. By using a question, Blake is questioning why a benevolent deity would...

Love, Marriage, and Women in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

In fact, Wilde seems to be making important commentary on Victorian society itself, contending that something may reveal a perfect...

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and its Social Criticism

Meckier 1993). This book can be said to have more dark overtones than those of some of his other novels. In most of his stories, o...

Relationships in As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

If the reader proves victorious at ascertaining the entire concept as a whole, while comprehending the connection of the detailed ...

The Nat Turner Rebellion

and deep spirituality even in his youth. To many of his people, he was considered already marked as "a prophet," who was "intended...

Advertising and Male and Female Images

popular culture today. It is though advertisements, movies, radio broadcasts, even bill boards that we have filled the cultural v...

David Guterson's Snow Falling on Cedars

heard that Carl Jr. was going to reacquire his familys farm, he went to Carl Jr. to try to negotiate for the purchase of he seven ...

Fictional Family Unit and Application of Family Theory

brief excursion into heterosexuality twenty years earlier, who Armand and Albert raised. Son Val (Dan Futterman) does not share A...

John Clare's 'Spring Comes' and John Keats' 'To Autumn'

sort of image of things that awe us. Even in these two simple words we are presented with a magical picture of a time of harvest, ...

Principle Theme of Antigone by Sophocles

men...so that we must obey in these things" (Sophocles, 2002). Antigone makes it clear in her reply t hat she is fully aware that ...

John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, the Great Dust Bowl, and Families

and set off to search for a way to survive. They were a people, a family, that illustrated how "The movement of people on the Plai...

Humanity According to David Hume and John Locke

that one already has some sense of who they are. Therefore, using ones senses cannot be used to initially gain an idea of humanity...

Families in the Movies Soul Food and My Family

one gets to that point, there is something that changes or something that does not fit well. For example, we could get a good look...

Real Courage and Its Essence in 1984 by George Orwell

his life -- and that of everyone elses, as well -- had become a mere mockery of human existence. "Winstons body dealt with his fr...

William Shakespeare and Cleopatra's Relationship with Mark Antony

power, but also begins to lose his friends as well. "As his Roman allies, even the ever-faithful Enobarbus, abandon him, Antony fe...

Comparative Analysis of Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

wish my own child to die?" (Frankenstein: The Novel) Frankensteins scientific protagonist, Victor Frankenstein, had, by his own a...

Jane Austen on Human Nature and Social Values

large family and its members extraordinary lives gave her much company and entertainment (one brother married their cousin, the Co...

Character Analysis of the Narrator in 'Fall of the House of Usher' by Edgar Allan Poe

types of decaying vegetation. The vegetation even permeates the external nooks and crannies of the house itself in the form of a ...

Life in America and the Works of William Carlos Williams and Carl Sandburg

Chicago are? Who knows?" Yet, there are evocative images that conjure images of the people that live there -- workers with big sho...

Women's Roles in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and Bram Stoker's Dracula

contended to be a reflection of the culture in which he was purported by Bram Stoker as existing, so too are the women presented i...

Marquez' Chronicle of a Death Foretold

the community live, Angelas twin brothers, Pedro and Pablo, feel compelled to enact revenge on Santiago in order to redeem the fam...

Naturalism and Realism in the Literature of the Nineteenth Century

is often an important feature. The individuals portrayed are not depicted as standing outside of their own historical background a...

Literature and Nature Images

the hierarchy, to base matter, at its lowest level, with man and the natural world between the two, and Donnes commentary reflects...

Treatment of Masculinity and Homosexuality in Cinema

would seem that the ones in power, ie, middle aged white males, were the only ones who were truly depicted in a favorable light in...

Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors and Ethics

In five pages this 1989 movie's portrayal of ethical and moral considerations is examined along with a discussion of how it portra...

George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion

she must attend an ambassadors party and again pass as part of Englands elite. These hurdles seem small in comparison to the hurdl...

Literary Realism and Social Problems

a very unexpected place: her fears. She is so terrified that life is simply going to pass her by that the thought nearly paralyze...

Lolita's Innocence

innocence. The ideal, at least the American ideal, is centered on youth. Lolita is young but may not be the innocent that Humber...

Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles and Denial

As mentioned before, the first edition of The Martian Chronicles was written in 1950, a time during which the Cold War was startin...