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Plato and Euripides on Human Nature

wine and pleasure, and rejecting the cold and structured nature of Apollonian society. For them, to be human is to follow ones bas...

Nietzsche, Kant, and Locke Perspectives on Western Philosophical Causality Since Descartes

In five pages the issue of causality and its nature regarding human existence understanding are examined from the philosophical pe...

David Hume and Immanuel Kant

In five pages this paper considers these two philosophers' views regarding empiricism and the origin of reason in a comparative ex...

Adaptive Consciousness

Human consciousness has proved very adaptive throughout our existence. This paper discusses the nature of human consciousness and ...

Depictions of Nature in the Poetry of Dickinson and Frost

action so that the reader can easily imagine its intensity. It is a strikingly vivid image. Likewise, Frost is famous for his im...

Gender Role and Asian Depictions in Film

demanded. They were depicted as speaking little or no English and as sticking out in terms of being different due to their distin...

Depiction of Humans and Gods in the Book of Genesis and the Epic of Gilgamesh

is that the creationist deity has no gender, and it is a characteristic peculiar to humans and animals. As William Hallo (...

Raymond Carver's 'Cathedral'

able form a friendship with the blind man over that summer. However, it is interesting to note that he only asks to feel her face ...

Copyright Protection of Literary Works

the written word, either as a creative work or as a study (Lefevere, 1992). Under the 1988 a literary work has a broader definitio...

Chinese Literary Works

the mountain (Fox Volant of the Snowy Mountain). As the characters wait for Fox Volant, they start to recall incidents from the p...

Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun and Symbolism

In five pages this paper examines how within her award winning play Lorraine Hansberry makes the most of the symbolism literary de...

The Fifth Child, Angela's Ashes, Death of a Salesman and the Theme of Family Disintegration

play, wants this to the exclusion of reality. At the beginning of the play it becomes apparent that Willy is in trouble. Suffering...

Witness and Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi

In six pages this essay examines what literary tools the author employed in writing Survival in Auschwitz....

Imagined Debate Between Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Locke, and Niccolo Machiavelli

In five pages this paper imagines a debate among this quartet of political theorists are reflected in their literary works....

Love in a Small Town by Wang Anyi

sees the cultural upheavals which have befallen the mainland in its over forty years under socialism as a backdrop, not a major pl...

'Aeneid' and 'The Odyssey' Number Three

In four pages this paper examines evaluates the acceptability of the protagonists' actions in these classic literary works by Virg...

Death in Aeschylus's Agamemnon 'Oresteia' and Flannery O'Connor's 'Wise Blood' 2

In two pages this essay examines how the theme of death is depicted in these two literary works....

Families and Ghosts and Isabel Allende

In five pages Allende's global literary contributions are discussed. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

Literary Departure in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

In eight pages this paper examines the literary departure of James Joyce in this 1916 example of modernist fiction....

Literary Nature of Comedy

this suggests, comedy provides numerous benefits. When the famous Shakespearean actor Edmund Kean lay on his deathbed, it is reput...

Portrayal of Women in Griselda by Boccaccio, Brothers Menaechmus by Plautus, and 'The Odyssey' by Homer

a distraction, as a goal, as a guide, and as an agent of social recognition (The Odyssey in Transit, 2000). Odysseus is indeed co...

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe Compared

In six pages these famous literary works are compared. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

Order and Chaos in Homer's 'Odyssey' and the Epic of Gilgamesh

In five pages this paper examines the relationship between order and chaos within the context of these two classical literary work...

Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, William Shakespeare's Othello and Social Issues

In 5 pages the ways in which these literary works consider past and present social issues are discussed....

'The Fall of the House of Usher' by Edgar Allan Poe, Dualism and Literary Parallels

In five pages this paper examines how sense, characters, and event are connected by Edgar Allan Poe through dualism and literary p...

Comparative Analysis of Voltaire's Candide, Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

In five pages this paper examines how society changed from individual acceptance to individual oppression in a comparative analysi...

'Essay on Literature' or 'Wen Fu' by Lu Chi

In six pages this report examines this ancient Chinese literary essay....

Greek Virtue

the foot of power!/Nothing care I for Zeus" (Aeschylus). In other words, Prometheus will not succumb to tyranny and a power that r...

Renaissance Art's Depiction of the Human Body

In ten pages this paper discusses Renaissance art in a consideration of how the human body was depicted by Italian and German art ...

Reflections on Several Famous Literary Works

as being mostly unforgiving of mans shortcomings, inasmuch as he implies that humanity has turned into a selfish, egotistical and ...