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Character, Setting, and Culture in 'A Pair of Tickets' by Amy Tan

In five pages this story featured in The Joy Luck Club is analyzed in terms of the connection that exists between characters and c...

An Analysis of The Merchant's Tale in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

This essay presents in in depth analysis of The Merchant's Tale. The author presents a synopsis of the story, the theme of sarcas...

Marriage in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales -Merchant and Wife of Bath

A paper comparing and contrasting the views of marriage by two of Chaucer's characters in The Canterbury Tales, the Merchant and t...

Change in Character at the Conclusion of Candide by Voltaire

In five pages this paper discusses how the 'happy' novel conclusion was the result of story and character changes. There are 2 so...

Character and Symbolism in 'Araby' by James Joyce

In seven pages this paper examines the character and symbolism featured in this story by James Joyce. Seven sources are cited in ...

Comparative Analysis of The Destructors by Graham Greene and Paul's Case by Willa Cather

In six pages these stories are compared and contrasted with regard to the portrayal of character rebellion in each. There are no ...

The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen

In five pages this paper is analyzed in terms of characters and the female characters' role, symbolic elements, and themes such as...

Comparative Analysis of Ernest Hemingway's 'Soldier's Home' and Herman Melville's 'Bartleby the Scrivener'

In five pages Hemingway's Harold Krebs is compared with Melville's story narrator in an argument that asserts that confrontation f...

Edgar Allan Poe versus Arthur Conan Doyle

In six pages this paper compares Poe's 'The Purloined Letter' and 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' with Doyle's 'The Adventure of t...

Creative Writing Exercise on Personal Character Trait

Jason never listened. He raced after a floating leaf and lost his balance. Ron chased Jasons seemingly lifeless body as it float...

Summer Vacation Exercise in Creative Playwrighting

In six pages this original play that is based upon a genuine news story discusses a sexually compromising situation involving a ma...

Late 19th Century Character Development and the Importance of Landscape

In seven pages this paper discusses how character development during this time period was influenced by landscape in a considerati...

Natural Born Killers Film by Director Oliver Stone

In five pages this 1994 film is analyzed in terms of story with character, cinematics with editing, and meaning with theme. Three...

Overview of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle

In five pages this paper presents an overview of the story and characters featured in Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. There are no o...

'Oryx and Crake' by Margaret Atwood

as the world is filled with poison and chaos and destruction. They meet Oryx at a time when they are perhaps struggling to find so...

Analyzing Mrs. Kearney in Dubliners by James Joyce

1984). They are "depicted as powerless, passive, and silent or, if they do act, as monstrous; Mrs. Mooney, after all, has the sens...

'No Place for You, My Love' by Eudora Welty

a whole, while comprehending the connection of the detailed statement as compared with the storys absolute objective, what is left...

Greek Society Reflected in Literary Characterizations

era. The focus, then, of Eumenides was to bring about a sense of the life of Orestes, while also giving a view of the correlation...

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and Objects

to. He also carried a strobe light to illuminate their oftentimes-dark path, and he also carried "the responsibility for his men"...

Film Portrayal of Schizophrenia

show the director she can be seductive. When he kisses her, she bites him. His anticipation for further sexual intimacy is never r...

Allegory and Exemplum in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

are knit by Chaucer into a complex tapestry in this allegorical tale, illustrating the instability of lifes joys, but also the sam...

Critical Analysis of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner

are not so lucky; they remain in Afghanistan under Soviet rule and then later are subjected to the tyranny of the Taliban regime d...

Macabea in The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector

These innate classifications can represent significant social power, as in the case of beauty, wealth and status, or they can symb...

Portraying the Victim in Harvey Fierstein's On Tidy Endings

of their relationships with him. They meet in...

Tolkein and Fellowship of the Ring

tale is primarily told in a book titled "The Hobbit," wherein he has many adventures and comes into possession of the one ring of ...

A Character Analysis for Heart of Darkness and Typhoon

(Anonymous Joseph Conrad 47.htm). In the beginning we Marlow as a very energetic and eager young man who wants adventure and excit...

General Tilney in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey

we are talking of a coming of age story it is appropriate that this character serves as a foil for the young lady in question. The...

Scarlet Letter A in Nathaniel Hawthorne's Novel

of the letter "A" We are using the word "symbol" to indicate one thing that stands for another. Xs and Os for example at the end...

Analysis of Charlotte Bronte's Protagonist Jane Eyre

instance, is that she will feel safe if she is hidden, and may feel prone to attack if she is seen. It would seem to balance the ...

A Review of That Evening Sun

This 5 page essay examines the character Nancy in the book by William Faulkner. 2 sources....