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Quantity v. Quality in Utilitarianism

This 5 page paper analyzes John Stuart Mill's theory of Utilitarianism, how it works and how it evaluates actions, both quantitati...

Huckleberry Finn and Don Quixote

In four pages this research paper examines each work as it represents the picaresque tradition classification....

African American Playwright August Wilson

as befits an author who had been writing virtually one play a year since Ma Rainey had its first reading in 1982 at the Eugene ONe...

The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox and Cecilia by Frances Burney

In four pages this paper compares how inheritance is thematically depicted in each of these works....

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

In five pages this paper considers the portrayal of utopia in each work in terms of freedom and the individual....

Labyrinth of Solitude by Octavio Paz

In six pages this essay examines how the author utilizes Mexican pachuco in his work....

'Aeneid' and 'The Odyssey' Number Three

In four pages this paper examines evaluates the acceptability of the protagonists' actions in these classic literary works by Virg...

Death in Aeschylus's Agamemnon 'Oresteia' and Flannery O'Connor's 'Wise Blood' 2

In two pages this essay examines how the theme of death is depicted in these two literary works....

Society, Characters, and Crick Crack Monkey and Nectar in a Sieve

In two pages this paper examines the conflicts of minorities in society in a consideration of these two works of literature....

Comparing 2 Short Stories by Franz Kafka

In nine pages Kafka's 1913 short story 'The Judgment' is compared with his classic 1915 work 'The Metamorphosis.'...

The Politics and Metaphysics of Thomas Hobbes

same time that other men pursue the same desires (Hobbes 185). The development of enemies comes from this course of natural compe...

Hamlet - A Poetic Analysis

In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at poetics in Hamlet. Key lines are analyzed in detail. Paper uses one source....

Beowulf - The Translations of Heaney and Raffel

swords" (Heaney 2; Raffel 2). 2.) Comment on the differences in Heanys and Raffels translations and the authors of literary/rhet...

Hebrew Poetry - An Analysis

In a paper of ten pages, the writer looks at Hebrew poetry. Short essay answers and definitions to common poetic terms are given. ...

"The Dream of the Rood" Analysis

Rood indicates he was "taken from my stump, strong foes seized me there". Just as the poem casts Christ in a militaristic warrior ...

Georg Lukacs on Novalis' Conceptualization of Poetry

on the world (Vazsonyi 14). Browsing through Lukacss writing, it is clear that Novalis highly influenced his worldview and manner ...

Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl"

what to plant and where, and so forth, comprehensively covering the major areas of a womans life. Thrown into this long rambling...

'Patterns' of Life and in the Poem by Amy Lowell

and the bright blue squills. I walk down the patterned garden-paths In my stiff, brocaded gown. With my powdered hair and jewelled...

Social Commentary in King Lear - Men and Beasts

"King Lear". In the passage, Lear is reacting to the latest treacherous ploy by his daughters Goneril and Regan, who have suggeste...

Comparing the Book and Film, Shaara's The Killer Angels

to achieve dramatic effect. In Shaaras book, Armistead simply comments to Longstreet that he would like to see his old friend one ...

Comparing poems by Atwood and Smith

also differences in style. Smith, for example, uses less alliteration than Atwood, and his short, clipped lines emphasize and isol...

Sarah's "Bounty" and Circular Poetic Structure

This 3 page paper explores how circular poetic form can create a sense of grief in Robyn Sarah's "Bounty" through a change of mete...

Poetry Defined

This paper defines poetry and considers its development and various structures in four pages with Ogden Nash and Emily Dickinson's...

'Annabel Lee' by Edgar Allan Poe

of similar words and create definitive alliteration that supports the flow of the work. Alliteration of the words "love" and "li...

'The Raven' by Edgar Allan Poe

In seven pages this poetic explication reveals how Poe was able to achieve his morbid atmosphere through the literary elements of ...

'The Haunted Palace' by Edgar Allan Poe

This paper consisting of six pages examines the grotesque implications of what the writer describes as a 'poetic tragedy' in this ...

Poetry, Recreation, Cinema, and Ethnicity

In five pages social and cultural ethnic representations in a Johnson short story, Divakaruni and Clifton poetic themes are discus...

Aristotle and Greek Tragedy

Poetics by Aristotle is used as a springboard for this topic. Aristotle's take on tragedy is the focus of this paper. This five ...

History and the Epic Poems of Homer

In five pages this essay examines what is revealed about ancient Greek history in Homer's poetic epics 'The Iliad' and 'The Odysse...

Armor of Achilles in 'The Iliad' by Homer

In five pages Homer's poetic epic is examined in a consideration of the significance of the armor worn by Achilles and the effects...