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Hermia's Speech/Midsummer Night's Dream

to a convent or even death. The image of a snake conjures the possibly of death, and suggests that Hermia is not as brave as she...

A Comparison of a Biblical Story with Racine's Phaedra

both works. The fact that Joseph rejects the advances of his bosss wife does not mean he is not interested in her. While she was p...

"I Had Seen Castles"

terrible sense of foreboding when Joe says that his father came home early from the university: "It was his face ... On any other ...

My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story by Abraham Verghese

coming home from the city, he is ill and he knows why but when he is admitted to the hospital no one has any idea what his trouble...

Survival Stories

This man, stranded on an island, also living there for 4 years, like Selkirk, and also managing to survive on what he could find a...

Witnessing Violence

repeatedly when she thinks the girl is being insolent or "disrespecting" her (Cruz). We do know, however, that Jose beat Carmen, s...

Characters in Shakespeare’s Work

of Cassio. Cassio was given the position, by Othello, that Iago wanted and so Iago employs the usefulness of Cassio, pretending to...

Mary Tyler Moore Show & Feminist Theory

photogenic, but air-headed newscaster. Additional cast members were Valerie Harper, as Marys best friend Rhoda; Cloris Leachman, n...

The Bill Gates Story

emphasize that it is a Microsoft world already. His childhood was rather ordinary. Bills father was a lawyer and his mother, a sc...

Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun: Dreams

dreaming all their lives for one thing or another the arrival of the insurance money is something that makes the possibility of ac...

Macbeth and Macduff

heath. There is something essentially uncivilized about Macbeth, which may be why he is such an outstanding soldier. Macduff does...

Puritanism and the Formation of the American Character

and that the Puritans did not come to America to seek their freedom, but to "improve their economic well-being."3 At least that wa...

Orson Welles and Citizen Kane

or arrogance, in life that would have made him proud to be the subject of a film. Kane was too simple for that in relationship to ...

A Theophrastan Character Sketch of Goody Two Shoes

are great fun, probably because we can see ourselves or people we know in them. In the case of Goody Two Shoes, it turns out that...

Changes in Othello and in His Relationship with Desdemona

character, Iago is also difficult to grasp, because he has no motivation that we can find to do what he does. It appears that he s...

"O Brother Where Art Thou?"

The film follows the three hapless goofballs as they come across the sirens (three gorgeous women washing clothes in a river); alm...

Roger Chillingworth's Imitation of the Devil

Hester, who is horrified by the revelation that he is still alive, and then sets out to find out who her lover is. He is single-mi...

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

In six pages this novel is analyzed in terms of its style, language, setting, conflict, character, and theme. There are no other ...

Female Oppression and Self Liberation in Mother Courage and Her Children, Tartuffe, and The Rover

reason for the rather wimpy Mariane. Dorine appeals to Orgon to preserve his daughters happiness and when he refuses to listen, s...

The Wilding of America by Charles Derber

and this becomes a motivation that people pursue over and above everything else. Derber asserts that we distance ourselves from s...

Pedro Paramo's Character

so affable to the outside world but toward their families are tyrannical and hateful. Rather, Paramos tyranny extended to all ove...

Three Characters Speech Analysis from Oedipus the King by Sophocles

This paper consists of five pages plus includes an outline of one page and analyzes three speeches from King Oedipus, and two spee...

Robert Perske's Show Me No Mercy A Compelling Story of Remarkable Courage

In five pages this paper presents an overview of the text by Robert Perske in a consideration of families with Down Syndrome chi...

Order in the Character of Macon Leary in The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler

In five pages a character analysis of Macon Leary focuses upon how he thematically represents order and systems. There are no oth...

Henry Fielding's The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling and Sophia's Characterization

In five pages this paper examines the duality of Sophia's character as both a position and an independent female in this novel by ...

Comparing Daisy from The Great Gatsby with Amanda from The Glass Menagerie

flower, hence the name chosen for her by the author; however, a brightly appealing as she might be on the outside, she harbors the...

The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes

war, he also lost the only woman who ever loved him. Fuentes has him pay for his greed and love of power in that all of the subseq...

The Iliad, Aeneid and Heroism

Heroism is the focus of this paper on these two classic works. Achilles and Hector, in addition to Aeneas and Turnus are character...

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck and the Characters of George and Lennie

In six pages this paper provides a character analysis of George and Lennie as featured in John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. Six s...

Characterization and Irony in A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

In six pages this paper examines irony as it shapes character development and relationships. Five sources are cited in the biblio...