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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...

A Moveable Feast

errors, and so kind to people that I always thought of him as a sort of saint" (Hemingway 88). This is clearly a very high claim t...

The Story of Sonny’s Blues

problem is, he and Sonny have never really understood one another; or rather, his brother has never truly understood Sonny. For So...

The Outsider’s Viewpoint in Literature

the experiences their protagonists have growing up as young, ethnic women in America. However, the relationship between the fictio...

"I'm Nobody! Who Are You?": An Analysis of a Poem by Emily Dickinson

To an admiring Bog! (846). The subject matter features a person who feels inwardly lonely who does not wish to advertise h...

Examples of Different Humor in Mark Twain

he cannot recall which. But he does remember that "I was not celebrated and I did not give the banquet. I was a Literary Person, b...

Violence - the Monster that Torments Society

But in fiction it sometimes finds fuller expression than it does as a headline. This paper explores the concept of violence as it ...

Violence - the Monster that Torments Society Examined in Literature

of fiction. But in fiction it sometimes finds fuller expression than it does as a headline. This paper explores the concept of vio...

Discussing Realism, Naturalism and Modernism

literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The following paper offer a description of the characteristics of...

Magical Realism and Marquez’s Death Constant Beyond Love

Garcia Marquez seriously or are they an absurdists slanted look at the world? This paper argues that even though they are often co...

Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville

metaphorically complex narrative that has been interpreted in a variety of ways. The story itself is deceptively simple. The narra...

Bathcat the Warrior: A Narrative Expression of Celtic Value

grassy hollow to be found in the frozen woods to the north. Here, he was told, he and his men would encounter the undead legions o...

How Women Are Treated in "Sweat" by Zora Neale Hurston

refusal to come to Sykes assistance after the snake bites him represents the decline in her spirituality, the sweat of her hard wo...

Spiegelman, Remarque, and Wiesel: The Transformative Quality of Violence

device to thematically distill the essence of war and genocide, present its reality in a way that is more humanistic than statisti...

Peter's Confession of Christ

was the bishop of Hierapolis and who identified John Mark as the author (Smith, 2008; NIV, 1995). Mark was also known to travel wi...

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 ...

Exegesis of Psalm 3

the image it conjures of a king about to go into battle is accurate. In line with this position, Craigie indicates that he believe...

"To Build a Fire" by Jack London and the Use of Setting as an Antagonist

chill in the air (London 143). But his canine companion knew better. He was all-too-familiar with this icy terrain, and his inst...

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...

Ibsen's "A Doll's House" - Masculinity And Marriage

are no different in this regard, inasmuch as they are inherently diverse by nature yet are also further divided by social dictates...

Diane Arbus/Identical Twins

and dark, black and white. The girls stand very straight, with their A-line dresses creating a soft curve between shoulder and kne...

Women in Candide

social spectrum. The old womans story also charts the fall and misfortunes of an individual who was once a beautiful young woman, ...

The Middle Passage/Deslauriers

depiction of explicit violence, rapes, flogging, etc. are "implied rather than shown," he seems to feel that this is an artistic a...

Sitcom Portrayal Of Homosexuality

TV" (Holleran 65). II. THE TIDES OF CHANGE The typically flamboyant portrayal of homosexuals like Sean Hayess Jack McFarland on ...

Scholarship (True Historical Analysis) And Contemporary Entertainment (Popular Culture): Erroneousness And Embellishment

the directors chose to employ properties of historical revisionism speaks to the inherent influence the concept of truth versus fi...

Catalina de Erauso's "Lieutenant Nun: Memoir Of A Basque Transvestite In The New World" - Human Conflict

a will toward vengeance and little desire for stability. Her personal account illustrates how she wholly embraced the life she fo...

Interpretations of First and Second Generation Romantic Poets A Chance Encounter

In a paper consisting of 7 pages an examination of the first and second generation Romantic poets is presented. A fictional descr...

Depiction of Female Characters in The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann von Goethe and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

knowledge and hands; while Werther kills himself with a pistol because he cannot stand to share the same lifetime with the woman w...

Depiction of Reality by Woody Allen in Mighty Aphrodite, Purple Rose of Cairo, Zelig, and Annie Hall

In ten pages this paper discusses filmmaker Allen's portrayal of reality in four of his most critically acclaimed motion pictures....

Depiction of the Civil War in Barbara Brackman's Civil War Women and the Film Birth of a Nation

In five pages this paper compares Barbara Brackman's text and D.W. Griffith's film in terms of how each portrayed the Civil War. ...