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Gender Relations in A Tale of Two Cities

world and symbolizes the ideal vision of a woman in a patriarchal world. This is why the embittered and lost man who is Carton lov...

Have International Human Rights Really Changed Over the Last Sixty Years?

is a law that is more basic that that which is made by man, supports of this such as Aristotle and the stoics such as Cicero and S...

Chaucer/Merchant's & Franklin's Tales

French fabliaux, which provide the source material on which many of the tales are based. Essentially, Chaucer use of gardens sugge...

Atwood & Bradbury/Best Dystopian Tale

his needs" (Atwood 8). Atwood obviously feared the emerging strength of the religious far-right and saw in its rejection of rights...

Gender in Beowulf

readers know that despite her monstrousness, Grendels mother is considered to be human (Porter). When Grendel enters the mead-ha...

Gawain & Green Knight/Wife of Bath

the entirety of those present that one of them should strike the Green Knight with the ax, which he has brought as a gift, and tha...

Barreca/Nighttime Fires

the children, "It was festival, carnival" (line 15). These contradictory images to how house fires are generally perceived are mad...

Analysis: "The Tell Tale Heart"

the murder has no real basis in reality; the old man had never hurt him, and he has no desire to rob him: "Object there was none. ...

Sophocles, Gilman & Browning/Oppressed Women

finer points of interpretation. However, the general consensus, down through the ages, is that Sophocles main theme had to do with...

Epic Poem Beowulf Contemporary Retelling

for protection against the creature that has been terrorizing his subjects, Beowulf can hardly refuse. It is not simply because H...

Supernatural and the Romantic in Works by Washington Irving and Edgar Allan Poe

before that night had I felt the extent of my own powers, of my sagacity. I could scarcely contain my feelings of triumph" (Poe). ...

Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and the 3 Castes

the classes. The prologue describes each character and framework of each story. Upon inspection, none of the characters are comple...

A Canterbury Pilgrim's Personal Tale

Pegasus. Every morning he woke and sharpened his blades while everyone else was at breakfast. When we finished eating he would ...

Creative Mountain Warrior Saga

forever working in the smithy, making horseshoes and farm implements. They had been friends since they were boys, and it seemed th...

Literary Analysis of Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery'

time reader has no idea why. "The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer...

Edgar Allan Poe's Works and the Themes of Evil, Insanity, and Guilt

been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe [3]). In this the reader is immediately told that the narrator is mad becau...

A Discussion Concerning African Literature

when examining the beauty in nature. According to a student writing on this subject, Bass (1990) provides many examples of the f...

Love's Power in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

love but rather sees it as simply a different option he is being offered in terms of continuing to love her and be devoted to her....

Love in Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities

of men" (Dickens V). Carton looks quite a bit like Darnay, however, and in this reality Darnay is set free because it cannot now b...

Chaucer's View of Religion, The Canterbury Tales

This essay pertains to the clergy members who are part of Chaucer's band of travelers in "The Canterbury Tales." The writer argues...

Various Approaches to Love in Literature

This essay presents an overview of how love is used thematic in various texts, which includes Dante's Divine Comedy, Chaucer's Can...

The Hobbit An Analysis

Tolkiens children's tale was significantly revised after its initial publication in 1937. There are five sources in this six page...

Satire: 12th Night vs. Miller's Tale

This essay discusses Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" and Chaucer's "The Miller's Tale." The writer asserts that Chaucer's narrative ...

"Othello" and The Canterbury Tales, Portrayal of Women

This essay pertains to the portrayal of women in "Othello," focusing on Desdemona, and in The Canterbury Tales, focusing on the Wi...

Gilgamesh, Genesis: Comparing Floods

This essay contrasts and compares the way that the "Epic of Gilgamesh" and Genesis describe the Flood. The writer argues that the ...

The Thirteenth Century French Greyhound St Guineforte

Although the tale of St. Guineforte revolved to a large degree around Christian iconography and teachings, it was condemned by the...

Confessions of Nat Turner, An Analysis

This paper focuses on "The Confessions of Nat Turner" and discusses the layer quality of the narrative. The writer also compares t...

The Iliad and "The Knight's Tale"

This essay presented an argument that Chaucer's "The Knight's Tale" reflects the ideals of Homer's The Iliad. Four pages in lengt...

Two Science Fiction Story Characterizations

stars for me, weaponed me to make my way in the world...Did I slay him, what horror would come upon me and mine?" (Anderson 305). ...

An Analysis of Virgil's Depiction of the Tragedy of Dido

a cave. They make love and, from this point on, Dido considers them to be married even though a ceremony has not officially consec...