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Literature and Fate

In seven pages the literary device of fate is examined within the context of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Edgar Allan...

Dramatic Tragedy and How It Has Evolved

did not attract the attention of the gods. This was still true in Shakespeares time. The few commoners he included were never cen...

Homer's 'The Odyssey' and William Shakespeare's Hamlet

and the tales of this one mans adventure. The man is Odysseus and his adventures are legendary. He is not a man searching for the ...

Uncertain Visions in Oedipus the King and Othello

In five pages this paper examines a common literary theme as it pertains to Oedipus the King by Sophocles and Othello by William S...

Tragic Heroes King Oedipus and King Lear

In five pages Aristotle's definition of a tragic hero is applied to these two literary monarchs. One source is cited in the bibli...

Public Life versus Private Life in The Aeneid, The Odyssey, and Oresteia

In four pages this paper compares and contrasts how the authors depict private life and public life in these ancient literary work...

Themes of Bood and Evil in The Bible, Crito, and The Oresteia

This paper addresses the nature of morality as portrayed in these three works. The author compares and contrasts how good, evil, ...

Greek Literature and Love

In five pages this paper examines how love and relationships are depicted in such ancient Greek literary works as Lysistrata, Anti...

Society's Treatment of Women in Literature in an Analysis of Female Characters Daisy, Harriet, and Lucie

This essay consists of eleven pages and examines society's treatment of women in the female characterizations featured in the lite...

William Blake, James Joyce, and Oscar Wilde on Love

In eight pages this paper discusses how love is expressed within such literary works as Songs of Innocence and Experience by Willi...

Use of Foreshadowing in Chopin's, The Story of an Hour

This paper analyzes the literary technique of foreshadowing as seen in Kate Chopin's work, The Story of an Hour. This five page p...

Life, Moral Judgments, and 'The Death of Ivan Ilych' by Leo Tolstoy

In five pages this report examines whether or not Ivan's death represents a moral judgment resulting from his life in this classic...

Os Lusiadas by Luis Vaz de Camoes

In four pages this Portuguese literary classic is examined within the contexts of history and the life of the author's life. Thre...

An Analysis of Heroism and the Journey in Star Wars

An eight page research paper considering the literary concept of the hero's journey in this classic science fiction film by direct...

Romantic and Victorian Literature Contrasted

In five pages this essay contrasts these very different literary styles with the Romantic period's 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' b...

The Dead Who Refuse to Die in The Hunter Gracchus by Franz Kafka and 'The Fall of the House of Usher' by Edgar Allan Poe

(Silverman, 76). In a surprisingly large number of Poes stories, the revenant theme is coupled with some sense of a double -- two...

Various Essays on World Literature

This 15 page paper comprises a series of essays in various literary genres. Works examined include the speeches of Sojourner Truth...

Mental Illness in Shelley and James

This paper examines Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Henry James' Washington Square in terms of how Szacz's The Myth of Mental Illn...

Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen

In eight pages this paper presents a literary analysis of Ibsen's play in a consideration of dramatic plot development, theme, lan...

Marianela by Benito Perez Galdos

for conflict that occur between human beings and social institutions (Berkowitz 143). It appears to be a simple story of idyllic...

Bilingual Pupil and Literature

In seven pages this paper discusses how the bilingual pupil can be assisted through the classroom incorporation of American litera...

The Meaning of Life According to Leo Tolstoy

This 10 page paper examines Leo Tolstoy's literary works and personal philosophy, and argues that he sought simplicity and spiritu...

Comparing 'Home' by Grace Nicholas to 'Wherever I Hang' by Anne Bronte

In three pages the literary devices of simile, metaphor, rhythm, rhyme, and alliteration are used in a comparative analysis of the...

Comparison of Medieval and Modern Views with William Shakespeare's Hamlet and Ben Jonson's Every Man

and turned" (Every Man - III, 2, pp. 48) and Hamlets "imagination" as he dwells on the experience of seeing his fathers ghost: "Th...

Writings of Ben Jonson and Their Significance

to tell than did the others. His work, whether comedy, drama or poetry, also had an extra acerbic "bite" that audiences enjoyed (...

Literature and Modernism

In six pages this paper examines 20th century modernist literature in a consideration of such concepts as impressionism, postmoder...

Chapters Twenty Two and Twenty Three of Waterworks by E.L. Doctorow

In five pages this paper discusses the author's uses of literary techniques and the development of characters in these 2 Waterwork...

False Human Experience Analysis Represented by 'The Death of Ivan Ilych' by Leo Tolstoy

In three and a half pages this paper argues that the criticism of this 1886 literary work by Leo Tolstoy that describes it as 'a p...

Comparing On the Road by Jack Kerouac and Go by John Clellon Holmes

In five pages this paper examines these two literary examples of the Beat Generation in a consideration of Stofsky's imaginary tri...

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, a Gothic Masterpiece

This paper discusses various elements of Shelley's novel that classify the work as Gothic, one of the nineteenth-century's literar...