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Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness and Bernard Malamud's The Assistant

which Alpine realizes by the novels end, through Bobers example, can be the foundation of a meaningful life. Bober is unsuccessf...

Tertius Lydgate and Dorothea Brooke in Middlemarch by George Eliot

perform surgeries. However, as philanthropic as Lyndgate sounds, his true colors would seem to be shown in his marriage t...

Self Deception and Silence in A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

tells Stella that hes done some checking on Blanche and found out about her unsavory past, including her affair with a 17 year old...

Bible, Book of James, and Leadership

humility, especially in relationship to the religion of Christianity, they are not successful leaders. And, even aside from Christ...

Pecola Breedlove and The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

is affirmed in Pecolas mind when Maureen comes to her aid to protect against the boys who are teasing her and they immediately sto...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson and the American Dream

"well aware of the way African American identity had become irreducible to a simple set of criteria" (Favor 28). In The Autobiogr...

Cotter's England by Christina Stead

be at odds with the prevailing stereotypes concerning lesbians at this time. In the same letter, Stead writes, "I detest Lesbians;...

The Magnificent Seven Film and the Cowboy Mentality

clearly an attempt to redefine the modern cowboy for modern audiences by penetrating the invincible stereotype and revealing vulne...

Catharina in 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' by Tracy Chevalier

tempered (Teenink). She also seemingly has an apparent lack of feeling for art (Hurley). But, Catharina is obviously wary of Griet...

The Depiction of Troy in The Iliad and in Film

is not identified as a goddess except for when a servant speaks to Achilles about the legends that have begun to be spun concernin...

Charles Dickens' Estella and F. Scott Fitzgerald's Daisy

none of the women in Gatsby are particularly likeable, but even so, the book retains its power. Daisy Buchanan Lets start with Da...

Gender, Women, and 2 Plays by William Shakespeare

the perspective of the other characters, they are acting as men, not women. This scenario is intriguing for its points out, within...

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines and Subjectivity

man, such as Jefferson. In essence, Jefferson is content to die and be considered a hog, while Grant is eager to be nothing more t...

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and Pecola

life of the white people in society. Morrison often uses excerpts, that gradually become very distorted and run together in lines,...

Hero or Fool 'Young Goodman Brown'

to be happening is that he feels he is risking his soul. If this is the case then a hero would emerge victorious in some way, havi...

An Analysis of The Kite Runner

in the same way that Afghanistan has endured invasion after invasion; and the way that Hassan fell and took Amirs courage with him...

Innocence in The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

of whom he believes himself to be, as well as his psychological coping mechanisms in surviving the war. Cross, by choosing to ca...

Analyzing the Film Educating Rita

for Rita. The result is that not only does Frank tutor Rita, but Franks learns from Rita as well. Initially Rita is portrayed as...

William Wordsworth and Luigi Pirandello

director, "having created us alive, then no longer wished, or was he able, to put us materially into a work of art. And this, sir,...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Chief Bromden

no real understanding of the heroic realities of the novel. Chief, and all his complexities, are indispensable in Keseys novel. ...

Play It, Sam

rest of the film details the relationships among the three principles, as well as the crafty Police Prefect, Louis Renault (Claude...

Amanda in Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie and Linda in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

for she "She breathes with motherly tenderness and love for all, for life itself. And Linda has a heart full and hands outstretche...

Moment of Truth in 'The Temple of the Holy Ghost' by Flannery O'Connor

It took place in the south, as did most of OConnors stories, and showed the ignorance of southern whites by using a certain predil...

A Critique of Harriet Jacob's Novel, Incidents From the Life of a Slave Girl.

ways, black women had to endure two types of prejudice. They had the stigmatism of being slaves, and then, as if the issue of race...

Literature and Society's Veils or Illusions

natural structure that has long been needed in order for the human race to survive. Without a society of some kind mankind would n...

Ian McEwan's Atonement

a bit of her future, and cleverly, McEwen foretells the tale. Briony had her first, weak intimation that for her now it could no ...

'Roman Fever' by Edith Wharton

both married before their husbands had died and left them widows. In the first section of the story, Wharton gives background prof...

The Film Moonstruck and Dionysian Love versus Apollonial Security

and stability and this is comfortable for each of them. But, as time will show, it does not provide excitement in the relationship...

'Fifty Grand,' 'The Natural History of the Dead,' and 'Hills Like White Elephants' by Ernest Hemingway

several symbolic connotations in this name, primarily the contrast to the happy little dance called the Jig and the fact that she ...

'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' and Setting

"Since this Britain was built by this baron great, / Bold boys bred there, in broils delighting, / That did their day many a deed ...