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American Dream as a Nightmare in Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man' and F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby'

In five pages this paper provides a comparative analysis of these two famous American literary works in terms of the acquisition o...

Acculturation and Richard Rodrigurez's Hunger of Memory and Liu Zongren's Two Years in the Melting Pot

This paper considers the characteristics of acculturation by comparing and contrasting these two literary works in seven pages. T...

Historical Portrayals of Women in Literary Works

This paper contrasts and compares the female characters in The Birds by Aristophanes, Hamlet by William Shakespeare, and Buried Ch...

Literature and the Use of Language

In five pages The Tempest by William Shakespeare and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe are discussed in a consideration of how th...

Symbolism as it Appears in A Tale of Two Cities

This Dickens work is discussed in respect to the role that symbolism plays. This literary technique is highlighted in the context ...

That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis and Reality

In five pages this paper discusses the reality of this literary combination of fantasy and myth. Two sources are listed in the bi...

Characterization as a Literary Technique

remarried-his fathers brother, no less. Then, to his horror, he finds out that his fathers death was no accident, but fratricide: ...

American Literature

little concern for the development, the past, of the relationships that play a very important part in the stories. One could well ...

Emily Dickinson's Poems 341 and 465 Compared and Contrastd

power. I willed my keepsakes, signed away What portion of me I Could make assignable,-and then There interposed a fly, With blue...

Psychoanalysis and Literary Criticism

In eight pages this paper discusses how literary critics often assume the role of psychoanalyst in terms of textual interpretation...

Literary Transcendentalism by Lawrence Buell

In six pages this paper discusses the American Transcendental movement in a summary and analysis of Lawrence Buell's Literary Tran...

Andrew Crumey's Second Novel fitz

fanciful conceits, the same thing that Escher has done with line and image. Interestingly enough, the comparison doesnt stop ther...

Modern Literary Depiction of Families

In five pages this paper examines how families and their relationships are portrayed in the modern literary works White Angel by M...

"We Be Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks, "The Lesson" by Toni Cade Bambara, and "Shiloh" by Bobbie Ann Mason and the American Dream

The thematic representation of the American dream in two literary genres (1 poem and 2 short stories) is discussed in 9 pages. Th...

Literary and Cinematic Portrayal of Slavery

In seven pages this paper considers how slavery has been portrayed in cinema, stories, and books. Eleven sources are cited in the...

Literary and Historical Meaning of Boris Godunov by Alexander Pushkin

In five pages this report discusses the historical tragedy that was inspired by the ill fated czar of the late sixteenth and early...

Analyzing Three Tales by William Faulkner

In eight pages characters from 'Barn Burning,' 'A Rose for Emily,' and 'Percy Grimm' are contrasted and compared and a discussion ...

Two Literary Examples of Colonial Attitudes Towards Natives

An essay comparing and contrasting colonial attitudes towards natives in both Rudyard Kipling's The Man Who Would be King and Edga...

Death and Dying as a Literary Theme

This paper examines Mitch Albom's book, Tuesdays with Morrie, and Kenneth Kramer's work, The Sacred Art of Dying. The author expl...

Social Values Mirrored in Classic Literature

In nine and a half pages this paper considers how social values are reflected in the ancient literary works Phaedo, Euthyphro, Cri...

Morality in Oedipus the King by Sophocles and 'The Odyssey' by Homer

In five pages this essay compares and contrasts these two literary works regarding the portrayal of morality in each. There are n...

Intimacy vs. Paradox, a Literary Comparison

an adult. A common situation in comedy is when capable, resourceful, sophisticated individuals are turned into a caricature of a...

Literary Uses of Symbolism and Imagery

In 5 pages this paper Bogarad and Schmidt's Legacies are featured in a consideration of how literature is enhanced by the uses of ...

Contemporary Literature and the Maintenance of Identity

In five pages this essay examines maintaining identity in the first 50 years of the 20th century in a consideration of such litera...

Literary Criticism, Romantic and Classical Traditions

In ten pages this report compares romantic and classic traditions as they are reflected in literary criticism. Five sources are c...

Jesus Christ's Origins

In five pages this paper discusses the origins of Jesus Christ in myth in a comparative analysis of possible literary precursors H...

Comparison of Alexander Pope's 'The Rape of the Lock' and Jane Austen's Mansfield Park

In five pages this essay presents a comparative literary analysis of these works in terms of how women's social behavior is portra...

Samson Agonistes by John Milton

In five pages this paper discusses the literary concept of classical tragedy and how it can be applied to Samson Agonistes by John...

'To Build a Fire' by Jack London and Literary Style

In five pages the literary style in this short story is analyzed in terms of the story's direct and indirect evidence, deductive o...

Misguided Intentent in Literary Characters

of his mother during her long illness, however, he primarily, marries her because he does not want to be alone during the long New...