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Short Story Analysis: Three Literary Works

way his eyes move continually to the fact that he cannot stand to be touched: "Once, when he had been making a synopsis of a parag...

Toni Morrison as a Stylist in Sula

bedroom and gently holds him. Then she pours kerosene over the sleeping man and burns him to death. Morrison writes that Plum ope...

Fathers and Sons - The Relationship Explored in Three Literary Works

times (Faulkner). Fed up with Snopess carelessness and laziness-Harris provides wire for Snopes to repair his hog pen, but the man...

Irony in Shirley Jackson’s Short Story, ‘The Lottery’

careful selection of names and how they reflect the personalities of the characters, and in the hypocritical nature of the charact...

Herman Melville’s Message in Moby-Dick

whale (55). Naturally, this represents the books climax, but how would Melville fill the huge writing gap between the introductio...

John Keats Deserves His Place in the Literary Canon

he was struck by the "ways in which evil and beauty, love and pain, aspiration and finitude, are not so much balanced as interwove...

Act II: Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

and his life. He does not allow, or expect her to be anything more. He berates her like a child for spending money and for eating ...

Frances Fitzgerald's "America Revised: History Schoolbooks In The Twentieth Century"

multiculturalism and reconstruction to cloud the truth and cultivate biased perspectives has caused Americas history textbooks to ...

The Environment in Literature: Ecocriticism, Ecofeminism and the Concept of Dwelling

That is, non-ecocritics appear to be uncomfortable with criticism that acknowledges the fact that it is possible the natural world...

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf and its Literary Contribution

and the whole is held together; for whereas in active life she would be netting and separating one thing from the other; she would...

Literary Analysis of Jeffrey Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides and Timothy Findley's Not Wanted on the Voyage

trademark. He occasionally collaborated with his partner, screenwriter Bill Whitehead, and was encouraged to embark upon a writin...

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Jonathan Edwards

the audience immediately. Edwards then frames four implications from the verse that begin with the lead-in sentence just quoted an...

William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, and Epiphanies

all of his lessons come into play and culminate to create a powerful epiphany. We note some of this in the following excerpt: "Spi...

Ernest Hemingway's Primary Literary Themes

he presents. There is pain and violence and death in Hemingways world, and he struggles to show his readers this aspect of life....

William Bradford: History of Plymouth Plantation

the light of the gospel in our honorable nation of England...what wars and oppositions ever since, Satan hath raised, maintained a...

English Literature and Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

an employee of the Company who has become erratic, and bring him home. In so doing, Marlow has to face his own "heart of darkness"...

Epics of 'Ulysses' by James Joyce and 'The Odyssey' by Homer

In 8 pages these different literary texts are compared in terms of how they satisfy the epic definition in nation and character po...

Teenage Depression A Literary View

Inn ten pages teen depression is examined by examining the Columbia University's Health Education Program guidebook Go Ask Alice a...

4 Western Literary Works and Free Will

In 6 pages the theme of free will as it appears in Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley, King Lear by William Shakespeare, Docto...

Virgil and Dante's 'Inferno'

In four pages the Virgil character is examined within the context of 'Inferno' and also considered as he actually existed as an ac...

Children's Literature and How Adult Scenes Function

Inn 10 pages this paper analyzes the function adult scenes in children's literary works serve in Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers, Doc...

C.S. Lewis, Emily Dickinson, and William Shakespeare on Friendship

In five pages this paper examines the nobility of friendship from the perspectives of these literary giants. Four sources are cit...

Tides of Revolution According to Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon and Georg Buchner's Danton's Death

In five pages these two literary works are used to consider the differences and similarities between the Bolshevik and French Revo...

Classical, Neoclassical, and Romantic Music and Literature

In five pages this report contrasts and compares literary and musical distinctions as illustrated by Voltaire's Candide neoclassic...

Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw and Journey's End by R.C. Sherriff

In five pages this paper discusses reality and appearance as each clashes in these literary works. There are no other sources lis...

Animal Symbolism in Dante's 'Inferno' and William Shakespeare's King Lear

In 7 pages this paper examines what the animal symbolism represents in a comparative analysis of these two literary works. There ...

The Lais of Marie de France and Erbyggia Saga

In five pages this research paper considers the role of women in Medieval society as depicted within these literary works. Three ...

Literary Examples of Desire and Reason

In five pages this research paper examines how literature portrays the conflict between reason and desire in a consideration of Ut...

Masculinity and Its Nature

This research paper offers a detailed examination of the characeristics of masculinity asdescribed in several literary works, whic...

Literary Geography of Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

In six pages this paper analyzes the complex literary geography that comprises Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. Five sources ...