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Roald Dahl Should Be Added to the Literary Canon

read and understood these books also feel somewhat superior to those who have not (Bridges, et al.). In addition, several of the t...

Characterization as a Literary Technique

remarried-his fathers brother, no less. Then, to his horror, he finds out that his fathers death was no accident, but fratricide: ...

Literary Epiphanies

a future where she could do as she pleased, without the burden of a husband. She was not imagining a life where she lived wildly, ...

Masculinity in Early Literary Structure and Narratives

If we look to biology the definition of masculine is related to that of male. The male animal has testicles as opposed to ovaries...

Four Classic Literary Works and Human Nature

linked to societal ideas of the early eighteenth century as to what constituted a "proper" middle class English life. This is evid...

Literary Genres Modernism and Postmodernism

it stop, nights in bed, drunk, when you knew that that was all there was" (Hemingway 13). He is a man lost in a world with no dire...

Tudor Literary Tradition and Utopia by Thomas More

as long as the economy were flourishing, they reasoned they were prospering as well, so there was no need for rebellion (Kautsky, ...

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,...

Themes in French Literary Classics

daughters, only to have them essentially through it all in his face for it was not enough. This simple understanding presents us w...

Literary Image of Mulattos

thinking that pretending to be something she is not will somehow make her life more pleasant and simple. However, she learns that,...

The Literary and Film Versions of Alcott's Little Women

are pleasant individuals who go through many different dilemmas, relatively simple dilemmas in the beginning. They become friends ...

Madness And Depression As Common Literary Themes

for the best. Soon, however, a sudden sense of calm overcomes her as she whispers "free, free, free" (Chopin PG). Mrs. Mal...

Literary Criticisms of the Style and Works of O. Henry

does so in a most subtle way. It is as if O. Henry plays on the expectation of a terrible demise, then, at the last moment, as a s...

Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Religious Literary Devices

in a manner that was often regarded as blasphemous by her Puritan and Calvinist neighbors. Emily Dickinsons approach to poetry wa...

Characters in Literary Works Contrasts

success and leading a happy life. Willys attitude toward being liked and being popular do not change at all. This is evident when ...

Irony as a Literary Device

You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. AT LENGTH I would be av...

Literary Psychological Growth and Spiritual Transformation

no nurturing. Neither story has a good ending, but the characters do emerge somewhat enlightened. Candide takes a very differen...

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 ...

Villainy, Chaos and Death as Literary Devices

to illustrate important themes. This paper considers how an authors use of death, chaos and villainy bring other aspects of the wo...

Strange Life and Literary Journey of Hunter S. Thompson

be permanently altered when Thompson ran afoul of the law (Medenhall, 2004). A series of arrest would eventually land him...

Literary Works of Stephen Crane and Kate Chopin and the Masculinity Concept

an awareness of who she is and wants to be. The unfortunate thing about this discovery is that society and her husband stand as ma...

Eighteenth Century Literary Satire in the Works of Daniel Defoe and Jonathan Swift

her Imperial Majestys Apartment.(1) The Rabelaisian joke has often been deciphered in the light of early eighteenth-century topica...

Literary Portrayals of Lost Innocence

to a degree and ultimately comes to recognize that there is indeed a certain undercurrent of evil in the world. In doing so he de...

Giovanni and the Literary Canon

African American poet of extraordinary power, skill and insight who is extremely deserving of inclusion in the American literary c...

Jackson’s Literary Devices

at times the exact opposite of what is being said. The once well-known short stories of O. Henry are masterpieces of irony: in one...

Hawthorne and Anti-Transcendentalism

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at literary anti-transcendentalism. Hawthorne's short story, "Dr. Heidegger's Experimen...

Ancient Greece and Homosexuality

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at homosexuality in the culture of ancient Greece. Nuanced insights into the topic are ...

Interpreting the American Dream

in the sense that opportunities for success are not actually equally distributed, but the ideal holds true in some sense in that t...

Gilgamesh - A Review of Symbols and Themes

one might look at the very opening lines of the epic, which address the reader, even the contemporary reader, directly and states ...