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British Literature and Issue of Class

pride, and vainer ties dissever, / And give herself to me forever" (Browning 1235). According to Professor Gerald McDaniel, the r...

Bleak House by Charles Dickens and the Supernatural

In five pages this paper examines how supernatural and ghosts were perceived by society during the 19th century in an analysis of ...

Philosophers on Life's Meaning

one looks at a variety of lifetimes via reincarnation, its purpose explained by knowledge. In other words, people are born and liv...

Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain and Books

states, "In this blockbuster first novel, former college lit instructor Charles Frazier weaves a tale of two Civil War journeys; I...

A Christmas Carol - Two Critiques

at this time, there was, there were very few public works to help the poor," a reality that Dickens understood well for the Cratch...

Life's Message in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

I couldnt ever feel any hardness against them any more in the world. It was a dreadful thing to see. Human beings can be awful cru...

Review of Anne Twinam's Public Lives, Private Lives

inter-relationships of family, sexuality, and social mobility, are discussed an illuminated as well as the history of Bourbon rule...

Ebenezer Scrooge's Emotional State in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol

all intents and purposes, Ebeneezer Scrooge was extremely narcissistic, self-absorbed, vain and uncaring. According to the origina...

Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy and the Influence of Charles Darwin

notch to become a tale about the near-extinction of a species - that is, the family called the DUrbervilles - and how they attempt...

World Perceptions of the Victorian Era

In five pages this paper discusses how Victorian Era individuals perceived the world in a comparative analysis of Angela Thirkell'...

Social Discrimination in Hardy and Dickens

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy and Great Expectations by Charles Dickens both deal in major part with discrimination. T...

Culture of Poverty

In seven pages this paper examines the 'culture of poverty' as defined by Oscar Lewis and considered by theorists Charles Murray a...

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens and Primary Major Themes

In five pages this paper presents a thematic analysis of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. One source is cited in the bibliog...

Original v. Contemporary Ending of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

for their one great chance. Dickens own sons are seen through the actions of characterization, demonstrating the authors exaspera...

Victorian Literature and Women

In five pages this paper discusses how social commentary during the Victorian Age was expressed through female characterizations i...

Charles Darwin's Evolutionary Theory and Christianity Creationism

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares these differing theories in a presentation of the argument that the evolutionary co...

Leadership of France's Charles de Gaulle

Charles de Gaulle and his extraordinary leadership are the focus of this paper consisting of nine pages. Seven sources are cited ...

Interpretation According to Ronald Dworkin and Charles Darwin's Bleak House

In fifteen sources this paper discusses philosopher Ronald Dworkin's views on interpretation and offers a legal comparison between...

Life's Meaning in 'Metamorphosis' by Franz Kafka and 'Ivan Ilyich' by Leo Tolstoy

In 4 pages this paper examines how life's meaning is conveyed through physical and spiritual changes in a contrasting of these two...

Socrates' and Life's Objective

In three pages this paper discusses 'the pursuit of excellence' deemed by Socrates as life's goal. There are no other sources lis...

Black Mountain Poets Robert Duncan and Charles Olson

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the words, movement, and music of Black Mountain poets Robert Duncan and Charles O...

A Comparison of Two Depictions of WWII

Soldiers of Destruction by Charles Sydnor and How Hitler Lost the War, the film documentary, are compared and contrasted in this t...

Romantic Literature and the Idealization of Children

In ten pages this paper examines how children were idealized in the romantic writings of Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, Charlotte...

Similarity in Message Between Heart Of Darkness and Islam Observed

A 5 page analysis of the similarities that exists between the views of authors Joseph Contrad and Charles Geertz. 2 sources....

Fairytale Modernization

In ten pages this paper examines the modernizing of Charles Perrault's fairytale classics including Little Red Riding Hood, Sleepi...

Great Minds Discuss Life's Meaning and Purpose

In five pages this paper examines how life's meaning and purpose are viewed by such great thinkers as Albert Camus, Friedrich Niet...

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert in a Thesis of 2 Parts

In five pages this 2 part thesis on this novel first considers Charles Bovary's role in his wife's adultery and depression and the...

Phenomenology Philosophies of Charles Pierce and William James

The phenomenology philosophies of Charles Pierce and William James are contrasted and compared in five pages. Two sources are cit...

Primary Themes of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

has no heart, and is comfortable without it. We might say that Dickens is opposed to such an attitude in women, as Estrella recei...

Life's Absurdities and Thomas Nagel

In six pages this report considers how Nagel regarded life as absurd in this overview of his thoughts about life. Five sources ar...