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The Films Taxi Driver and Angels with Dirty Faces and the Portrayals of Antiheros

America, the concept of the antihero was revised to better reflect the attitudes of its citizens, and was defined to be an individ...

Film Gone With the Wind and Black Representation

darkies" (Leab 99). Focusing on the Atlanta plantation of Gerald and Ellen OHara, Gone With the Wind represented life for souther...

Love and Cinderella in Four Fairytale Interpretations

castle where he runs into a surly servant girl: Danielle(who beans him with an apple). Later, when he sees her in some of her si...

Asians As They Are Depicted in The Legend of Miss Sasagawara by Hisaye Yamamoto and Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn

the mid-80s, and concentrates on the chaotic Seventies, in which martial law was firmly in place. Perhaps the books most memorabl...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey and its Authenticity

and kills himself in the end. In Chapter 19, Sefelt who is considered to be one of the Acutes, is epileptic and has convulsions...

Montaigne, More, and Diaz on Non European Societies

His faithful soldier, Bernal Diaz, recorded much of these conquests in "The History of the Conquest of the New Spain." In Diaz w...

Defense of Socrates in Plato's Apology

wiser (21a). This news confused Socrates greatly as he realized that he was not particularly wise. He, therefore, set out to find ...

The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey

In the end, what emerges is the realization that it was quite possibly Henry VII that used various tactics to blacken the name of...

Utopian Literature's Similarities and Differences

be attacked as while many analysts will agree that Plato clearly states this in The Republic, his other works suggest other ideas....

Strong Women in Ellen Glasgow's Barrow Ground and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God

In six pages this essay compares and contrasts these two female authors' depiction of strong women protagonists in their respectiv...

Face of an Angel by Chavez

In five pages this novel's protagonist is the central focus with comparisons to the depiction of Latin American culture to America...

Clergy in Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding

he was provided with a handsome Income of twenty-three Pounds a Year; which however, he could not make any great Figure with: beca...

Good versus Evil in The Milagro Beanfield War and Salt of the Earth

In seven pages this paper contrasts and compares these two films in terms of the symbolic depiction of good and evil in each. The...

Black Robe by Brian Moore and Its Depiction of Native Americans

In six pages this paper discusses the tone of the depiction of Native Americans and what traits the author chose to stress in his ...

Violence in the Narrative of Frederick Douglass

he had no real knowledge of his actual age ? "Having never seen any authentic record containing it" (Douglass, 2001). According to...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet and the Depiction of Women

This paper examines how Shakespeare's depiction of women in Hamlet was a reflection of their Elizabethan social roles in eight pag...

Comparing Mark Twain Novels Life on the Mississippi and Roughing It

In seven pages the ways in which Mississippi River people and towns are presented in Twain's Life on the Mississippi are compared ...

C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters

In five pages this paper critically reviews The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis in terms of the author's values and how they manif...

Fact, Legend, and Fiction of King Arthur

In five pages this paper discusses the various depictions of King Arthur in the 1960 musical Camelot by Alan Jay Lerner and Freder...

Asian Films, Displacement and Relationships

In five pages this paper discusses Akira Kurosawa's Dersu Uzala and Wong Kar Wai's Happy Together in a consideration of understand...

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines and Heroism

In 5 pages this paper examines the novel's depiction of heroism within the context of characters Wiggins and Jefferson. Two sourc...

The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

In five pages this essay examines Lewis's use of humor and satire in his depiction of how people can be led away from a godly path...

Article Critique on Prejudice

In six pages this paper critiques various articles regarding their depiction of societal prejudice. Six sources are cited in the ...

T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land' and D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover

In ten pages the depiction of sexuality in Lawrence's novel and Eliot's poem are compared and contrasted. There are 8 bibliograph...

Reflections of the Nineteenth Century in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

In five pages this paper analyzes the author's depiction of marital significance, social class, and women. There are no other sou...

Asian American Experience in Mona in the Promised Land by Gish Jen Number 2

This paper discusses how emotion is used by the author in the depiction of the Asian American experience in the novel. There are ...

Women in Frank Norris's McTeague and Willa Cather's My Antonia

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares the depiction of women in these novels. There are 2 sources cited in the bibliogra...

Topsy Stereotyping in Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

little girl, partially to contrast her as completely as possible with Little Eva, but also to make her as incorrigible as possible...

Moral Value and Women in the Works of William Faulkner

In five pages this paper examines the moral value and depiction of women in William Faulkner's Sanctuary, The Unvanquished, As I L...

Comparing Elie Wiesel and Kurt Vonnegut's and Their Works about the Holocaust

outrage and sorrow. However, Vonneguts protagonist, Howard Campbell, is not precisely a victim in the Holocaust at all. He stress...