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the work is the subject, while the insights that occur as a result of the interactions of characters represents the theme. For ex...

are more things in common with these two works than the simple fact that both deal, in a sense with the railroad industry....

as they face the discrimination with the power of togetherness, as a family. Much of the play also focuses on embracing on...

become separate" (p.48). An interest point is made as Fromm investigates erotic love. Today, many equate eroticism with romanticis...

what they want, remains universal and could easily fit into a contemporary drama or comedy. Lysistrata tells her fellows that "We ...

it would be remiss not to include it in an essay such as this. All Christians follow the Holy Bible, the Old Testament and the Ne...

to return to the cave because its familiar and comfortable? The answer to all these questions is "yes." (Allegory of the Cave, 2...

reader, who has the benefit of hindsight, to wonder why German Jews, such as the Oppermanns, did not react earlier to the Nazi thr...

bound to engage. While mythological women were strong of mind and spirit, they were not allowed to express their inner most being...

This sets the stage for a pessimistic story, despite any optimistic elements. This sense of pessimism is also one that is very u...

are proud. The main character, however, although she wants to own the house someday, is embarrassed by the house because she feels...

charities was remarkable. She was coming into her own, moving out of the extremely heavy shadow cast by the royal family (particu...

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

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

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...

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

It is interesting to note, however, that Molieres inspiration did not come from Corneilles comedic tendencies, but rather upon the...

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

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

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

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

ways, black women had to endure two types of prejudice. They had the stigmatism of being slaves, and then, as if the issue of race...

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 ...

of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!" (Conrad PG)....

to the devastating events of WWI and they are constantly searching for something. With their characters we find their attachment t...

with open galleries and porticoes. Bottles of milk were grouped on the steps, and occasionally light flickered from the kitchens w...

of women in medieval society, De Pizan wrote two of her most significant works, The Book of the City of Ladies and The Book of the...

feels that it was his fathers rough treatment of his employees that first propelled young Kafka toward the cause of workers rights...

OConnor (1925 - 1964) Novelist oconnormain.html). This illustrates her intense position as it involves the secular world that surr...

never formally addressing any attacks on his work, commenting on his popularity or penning any eulogy to any of the members of the...