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Mark Twain's Life and Times

vocation was to become licensed as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River" which is where he came up with his literary name, M...

Belief and Disbelief in an 'Accidental Century'

and the use of technology in the form of the atomic bomb laid waste to the concept of an egalitarian Utopia. The postwar world us...

Book XXIV of 'The Iliad' by Homer

is somber (tragic). "...In great works of art all levels in which interpretation can be pursued fruitfully probably remain in som...

'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' Analyzed

the intent of the writer. Might he have an agenda hidden under the ghost story? At the same time, this is a classic supernatural t...

Rising Expenses in Maintaining Literary and Academic Journals

invited to speak, serve on a panel discussion and meet one on one with the public. Held in a public venue area, such as a conventi...

'Inscriptions' by William Wordsworth

exploration of human feelings and emotions. In the poem, Inscriptions, to which the first lines are: HOPES what are they?--B...

Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop

the people that they are there to convert, that they find peace for themselves, and are able to build a presence for the Church wi...

Ernest Hemingway's Life and Literary Works

suffered a severe leg wound and was twice decorated by the Italian government. His affair with an American nurse, Agnes von Kurows...

An Analysis of The Epic Poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

noble role in society, and reflects his attributes and responsibilities. First, there is the pearl, symbolic of natural perfectio...

Setting as Portrayed in Works by Richard Shelton and Leslie Marmon Silko

visit time and again, or which makes the reader have a strange sense of foreboding for the characters as the story unravels. Autho...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

were incapable of having the same feelings, the same needs, the same emotional attachments to loved ones that white people maintai...

Life and Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne

work which stands as the most famous of his novels. Not surprisingly, "Hawthorne came from a Puritan family of declining fortun...

Women's Roles in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and Bram Stoker's Dracula

contended to be a reflection of the culture in which he was purported by Bram Stoker as existing, so too are the women presented i...

Sylvia Plath's Literary Contributions

bees), and her mother, a former student of Otto Plaths, a high school teacher (Bloom 1). Although Dr. Otto Plath suffered from ca...

Italian Literature and the Themes of Escape, Alienation, and Entrapment

first the expulsion from the tennis club, then from the fascist party, then academic anti-Semitism, then more and more direct insu...

Edgar Allan Poe's 'Fall of the House of Usher,' Art and Literature

walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode, were but matters to w...

A Review of the Poem Burbank with a Baedeker Bleistein with a Cigar by T.S. Eliot

"The rats are underneath the piles," (Eliot 22) in combination with things such as "Money in furs. The boatman smiles" (Eliot 24) ...

Antigone and Medea

men. It is their rules and their decisions that determine how women should act and what role they can play in society. Antigones ...

Simile and Metaphor

arms off and place them somewhere, nor did she wage a real battle on the high window. Even the terms high window and shadow can be...

Literary Themes and the Life of Ambrose Bierce

literature and his father had an impressive library (Ambrose Bierce, 2002). Bierces family was considered to be "sternly religiou...

Mary Shelley's Dr. Victor Frankenstein, Joseph Conrad's Kurtz and Human Personality

In five pages this paper applies the human personality theories of Sigmund Freud to an analysis of these two classic literary char...

Allen Ginsberg's Life and Poetic Art

that its bizarre poetic form could also be attributed to Ginsbergs love of jazz music. The coffeehouses which reached their popul...

Child and Adult Voices in Literature for Children

not necessarily reliable, and that the imposition of an adult viewpoint on childhood events and emotions is bound to present a dis...

Identity Search and Death of Fathers

not been there for his two sons. In this respect both of the sons have had to grow up without their father, or with essentially an...

Theme of Revenge in Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, 'The Inferno' by Dante, Oedipus the King and Antigone by Sophocles, 'The Odyssey' by Homer

short temper gets him into trouble. In Book IX, Polyphemus, the son of the sea god Poseidon, decides to dine on a few Greeks who ...

'The Return of Simple' by Langston Hughes

essentially touched upon all that was important and relevant to the African American. He was born James Langston Hughes on Feb....

Concept of Heroism and Heroes Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes and Aeneid by Virgil

we have a man who is essentially being tossed with the tides. He is not nearly as determined or as confident as Odysseus. This is ...

Realism and Charles Dickens

Harmons son enter the picture, hiding his identity, in order to watch the woman his father said he was to marry. And, to make it e...

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 ...

Literary Critique of Guy de Maupassant's 'The Necklace'

the money she had borrowed to buy her friend a necklace that she lost.....All of her work was really for nothing" (Cortez ss1.html...