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John Wesley's Sermon 43: The Scripture Way of Salvation

poses some significant questions, including the question of what is salvation, the role that faith plays in salvation and how fait...

John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and Immorality

won the Nobel Prize for Literature (The National Steinbeck Center, 2002). John Steinbeck was very talented at creating s...

Lost Children As a Literary Theme

This paper discusses John Edgar Wideman's, Philadelphia Fire, and Shakespeare's, The Tempest as they relate to the common literary...

Themes of Acceptance in the Works of Okada and Rodriguez

is eventually free from this internment camp. With that in mind we present the following quote to be analyzed: ". . . I wish w...

Ungentlemanly Acts by Barnett

who wanted to believe that this military man would do something so heinous. While the work does involve the topic of incest, it a...

Common Themes in the Works of Welles and Shakespeare

is portrayed in the original Shakespeare. The exception is that Shakespeare spent more time and attention to historical details, w...

Fear as a Recurring Theme in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe

grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...

'Paradise Lost' by John Milton and Disobedience Themes

he learns that his sons will fight and one will die. Thus, the reciting of the story is a punishment for Adam, a demonstration of ...

Standing Up for Something Theme in 'A and P' by John Updike

has no drive in his life. This individual is not unlike Paul, another young man who has just left the safety of his home life and ...

Father and Son Themes in the Works of Farley Mowat

at all he tried. He was a dreamer. This was clearly passed down to his son, Mowats father, Angus. Angus was also a poet and a drea...

Themes of Futility and Furstration in the Works of Joyce

North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers School set the boys free. An...

Silence as a Recurring Theme in the Works of Harold Pinter

two major activities that take place in bed -- sleep and sex. After pausing, Harry asks if the caller is aware that it is four oc...

Human Depravity and Evil as Recurrent Literary Themes in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Ministers Black Veil Hawthornes The Ministers Black Veil is a short story that describes evil and depravity as developmental ...

Journeys in Dante's 'Inferno' and Homer's 'Odyssey'

and his courage will constantly be tested. Without going into great detail, and there is a large amount of it in this classic, we ...

Chamber of Blood Stories by Angela Carter

that many writers have used familiar themes and offered a new way of seeing the traditional elements of plot and character; howeve...

Grace Nichol's Collection The Fat Black Woman's Poems

seems to address in her works include that of lost culture and a sense of longing to return to a time which is perceived to be mor...

Link Between Death Theme in His Poems and the Personal History of John Keats

and his first brush with death came at the age of eight, when his father, a livery-stableman by trade, died of a fractured skull a...

Macabre Themes in the Works of Robert Frost

of his mind and spirit working in tandem to overcome natures obstacles as well as the more primitive creatures on the Earth. Frost...

Metaphors and Themes in Works of Louis De Bernieres and Primo Levi

make an appearance in the book until nearly mid-way through. However, it is quickly understood, once he appears, that he and his m...

A Review of Dancing at Lughnasa

Michael is illegitimate, a revelation that he accepts cheerfully-a very strange thing for a Catholic priest to do (Dancing at Lugh...

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...

Theme of Sexuality in Works by Sophocles, William Shakespeare, and Toni Morrison

to convey the importance of unquestioning obedience to the will of the gods; and, secondly, to emphasize the importance of familia...

Themes of Good and Evil in Two Works by Poe and Morrison

Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...

'The Pardoner's Tale' and Avarice

Before he begins the tale, he explains that he is a greedy devil, and it is through his physicality and his voice that they are di...

Themes in the Works of Alexei and Ivan, the Brothers Karamazov

to the religious ideologies of the Russian Orthodox church, and it is not surprising that Alyosha expresses ideals that are reject...

Virginia Woolf's Literary Themes and Styles in Three Works

which you are now for the first time entering?"(Woolf). And, even in the modern era, most women still find this to be a certainty,...

A Review of The Laramie Project and Indian Killer

the white race is far superior to all others. Reprogramming such ingrained concepts is not something that will ever be carried th...

Central Themes of 'A and P' by John Updike

clerk in the store, he has no respect for his boss or the people who use his services. At the same time,...

Theme of Identity Featured in Literary Works of Leslie Marmon Silko and Sandra Cisneros

there is the father, a man who feels a deep connection with the past, and perhaps more importantly, the Mexican Revolution. It is ...

Major Themes of 'The Chrysanthemums' by John Steinbeck

the glory when the farming goes well. Of course, this bitterness is something felt by most housewives of an earlier generation and...