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Comparison of Medieval and Modern Views with William Shakespeare's Hamlet and Ben Jonson's Every Man

and turned" (Every Man - III, 2, pp. 48) and Hamlets "imagination" as he dwells on the experience of seeing his fathers ghost: "Th...

Bilingual Pupil and Literature

In seven pages this paper discusses how the bilingual pupil can be assisted through the classroom incorporation of American litera...

The Meaning of Life According to Leo Tolstoy

This 10 page paper examines Leo Tolstoy's literary works and personal philosophy, and argues that he sought simplicity and spiritu...

Works of Treitschke, Kipling, and Remark on Nationalism

In six pages this paper discusses the fear factor of nationalism as considered in such literary works as All Quiet on the Western ...

Chapters Twenty Two and Twenty Three of Waterworks by E.L. Doctorow

In five pages this paper discusses the author's uses of literary techniques and the development of characters in these 2 Waterwork...

False Human Experience Analysis Represented by 'The Death of Ivan Ilych' by Leo Tolstoy

In three and a half pages this paper argues that the criticism of this 1886 literary work by Leo Tolstoy that describes it as 'a p...

Comparing On the Road by Jack Kerouac and Go by John Clellon Holmes

In five pages this paper examines these two literary examples of the Beat Generation in a consideration of Stofsky's imaginary tri...

Romance and Epic Characteristics

individual stories into the tapestry that became his famous epics. He did not create the stories; they had come from hundreds of y...

'Gonzo Journalism' and Hunter S. Thompson

In five pages this paper examines 'Gonzo journalism' as pioneered by literary maverick Hunter S. Thompson. Three sources are cite...

Contemporary Literature and How Emotions Are Portrayed

In five pages this paper examines how emotions are portrayed in the contemporary literary works The Things They Carried by Tim O'B...

Power and Gender in Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure and Charles Dickens' David Copperfield

In twelve pages this paper examines the themes of gender and power as they are represented in these works of literary fiction. Te...

Gender Roles, Arranged Marriages and Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare and The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

In five pages this paper discusses how arranged marriages oppressed women in this analysis of these two literary works. Two sourc...

Epic Hero Transformation in Greek Literature

In six pages this paper examines the transformation of the epic hero in ancient Greek literary works such as Euripides' Medea, Sop...

Multiculturalism, Prejudice, and the Writings of Bernhard Schlink, Bessie Head, Patricia Grace, and Manuel Puig

In 5 pages this paper examines the prejudice featured in the multicultural literary works such as Grace's 'Potiki,' Head's 'Maru,'...

Classical Literature and the Portrayal of the 'Faustian Bargain'

In 5 pages this paper examines how the 'Faustian Bargain' is depicted in the literary works Faust by Goethe, Don Quixote by Cervan...

Life and Writings of James Baldwin

In six pages this paper celebrates the life and literary works of James Baldwin in a consideration of his writings' enduring impac...

The Role of the Common Man in Government

This paper analyzes the role of commoners in various governments from the 1500s through the 1700s as portrayed by the literary wor...

Book and Stage Versions of Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis

In 8 pages this paper discusses the theatrical challenges posed by this literary work by Franz Kafka. There are 5 sources cited i...

Influential Artists Harriet Beecher Stowe, Daniel Defoe, Leonardo Da Vinci and Pablo Picasso

its perpetual progress. As one who took pleasure in following his own calling, da Vinci also dabbled in human dissection, even th...

Sherwood Anderson's Winesburgh, Ohio and Distortion

In eight pages the ways in which distortion is utilized as a literary tool in this work in terms of character self identity, perce...

Epics of 'Ulysses' by James Joyce and 'The Odyssey' by Homer

In 8 pages these different literary texts are compared in terms of how they satisfy the epic definition in nation and character po...

Virgil and Dante's 'Inferno'

In four pages the Virgil character is examined within the context of 'Inferno' and also considered as he actually existed as an ac...

Protagonists in William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper'

The ways in which female protagonists are controlled by men are discussed in a comparative analysis of these literary works consis...

Act I, Scene iii Analysis The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare Lines 183-228

In five pages these lines are analyzed in terms of assessing Shakespeare's choices, his use of such literary techniques such as rh...

Overview of Modernism in Literature

In five pages literary modernism is defined and then illustrated in such works as James Joyce's 'The Dead' from Dubliners, 'The G...

C.S. Lewis, Emily Dickinson, and William Shakespeare on Friendship

In five pages this paper examines the nobility of friendship from the perspectives of these literary giants. Four sources are cit...

Children's Literature and How Adult Scenes Function

Inn 10 pages this paper analyzes the function adult scenes in children's literary works serve in Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers, Doc...

Concept of 'Natural Slave' in Politics by Aristotle and The Tempest by William Shakespeare

This paper contrasts and compares how the 'natural slave' concept is portrayed in these literary classics in five pages. There ar...

Nick Carraway and Fitzgerald's Novel, The Great Gatsby

few minutes I was going to enter into their lives, and no one would ever know or disapprove" (Fitzgerald 61). He soon finds that...

'Unknown Citizen' by W.H. Auden

In a paper consisting of five pages the ways in which Auden employs the literary techniques of allusion and irony in his poem 'Unk...