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Abel. Smeagol is analogous to Cain; he is his brothers murderer, and the audience is aware that the Ring is both powerful and evil...

This paper discusses different parts of Plato's Republic. There is a discussion of natural law legal theory and legal positivist t...

This essay is on Kate Chopin's short story "Desiree's Baby." The writer discusses the plot charter, metaphor and symbolism used by...

This essay discusses the themes, symbolism and context of the conflict between the genders that defines this Hemingway short story...

This essay pertain to Charlotte Perkins Gilman's famous short story "The Yellow Wallpaper." The writer discusses plot, metaphor, s...

This essay pertains to William Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning," and the changing attitudes of its 10-year-old protagonist Sa...

This essay presents the argument that "The Yellow Walllpaper," a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman should be interpreted as ...

This essay presents an overview of Donald Barthelme's "The School," Zitkala-Sa's "The School Days of an Indian Girl," and Toni Mor...

This essay pertains to the literary features of this short story, focusing on its plot and symbols as the writer describes how the...

This essay offers a summary and discussion of themes and characters in "Winter Dreams," a short story by Fitzgerald. Three pages i...

This essay pertains to Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning" and focuses on the character of Abner Snopes. The writer argues that ...

This essay pertains to "How to date a brown girl (black girl, white girl, or halfie)" by Junot Diaz. Referring to a description if...

This essay offers analysis of Pamela C. Joern's short story "Running in Place." The writer focuses on Joern's skill in regards to ...

This essay discusses short stories Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat," contrasting...

This essay pertains to Margaret Edson's play "Wit," and Alice Walker's short story "Everyday Use." The writer argues that each of ...

This essay presents an analysis of "Everyday Use, " a short story, by Alice Walker. Nine pages in length, seven sources are cited....

was not a matter of live or die. There was no real peril. Almost certainly the young man would have passed by. And it will alwa...

of the idea of adopting a Native baby than is her husband, who "grimaces briefly then smiles" (Alexie). The question arises, why w...

She is dismissive about feeling hurt or jealous that she was little more than another notch on Tims belt. For this young girl, se...

In the OConnor story, a family comprised of a husband and wife, their two children and the husbands mother take a road trip. Altho...

the last thing he says is "My boots are filling" and hes gone (Erdrich). Lyman jumps in and searches for him until the sun sets, b...

each. An allegory, while closely associated with symbols or symbolism, is a unique literary element in that everything within the...

what to plant and where, and so forth, comprehensively covering the major areas of a womans life. Thrown into this long rambling...

events because one parent or the other couldnt take them there. Most of all it would mean that there would be a constant tug of w...

wife Virginias slow death, the narrator focuses on every detail of his wife Ligeia as she lies dying: "The pale fingers became of ...

meeting with the other man, calling in elders and others to witness the exchange. The other man renounces his claim and takes off ...

The thematic representation of the American dream in two literary genres (1 poem and 2 short stories) is discussed in 9 pages. Th...

point of Hawthornes story, however, is the hypocrisy that riddles society-any society. Its no secret that the author was very fond...

tries to tell the girl that her physical problems are minor and not noticeable-when the girl has her leg in a brace (Williams). Th...

notes the following: "He wondered why he did not feel some keen agony of fear cutting his sense like a knife. He wondered at this,...