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Essays 1951 - 1980

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...

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...

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...

Two Literary Views on the Rural South

full of material and that I could get it without hurt, harm or danger" (Mules 2). However folks "dont cotton to" Hurston as easil...

Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen King, and Literary Portrayals of Fear and Madness

In five pages this paper examines how fear and madness are depicted in Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Pit and the Pendulum' and in Stephen...

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...

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...

Focusing on Medieval Literary Suffering

In this paper of five pages the human suffering featured in 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' and 'Beowulf' along with other theme...

Role of Marriage as Represented in 2 Literary Works

In five pages this paper compares North and South by Gaspell and Vanity Fair by W.M. Thackeray in terms of how marriage and its ro...

Literary Devices in the Works of Stephen King

In five pages this essay examines the symbolism, characterization, and important use of Maine's rural setting featured in 'The Man...

Heroic Literary Symbolism

In six pages an analysis of the heroic symbolism in the epics 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,' 'Beowulf,' and 'Epic of Gilgamesh...

Literary Classics, Knowledge of Death and Religion

it would seem. Socrates agrees for he sees that by having such an argument with Euthyphro he may find a better way to plead his ow...

Literary Portrayals of the Conflict Between Illusion and Reality

her book The Feminine Mystique. Not all fifties kids turned into sixties hippies. Goodwin talks about baseball and the pleasures o...

The Cider House Rules by John Irving Literary Review

this argument with great compassion. While Homer develops a sincere admiration for Dr. Larch, he disagrees with abortion because ...

Human Depravity and Evil as Recurrent Literary Themes in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Ministers Black Veil Hawthornes The Ministers Black Veil is a short story that describes evil and depravity as developmental ...

Madness as a Common Literary Theme

This paper examines Shakespeare's play, King Lear, as well as Ibsen's work, Ghosts to discuss madness and delusion as common theme...

Book of Genesis Definitions of Literary Terms

involves not only examining the authors words for literal meaning, but also considering the meanings behind symbolism and imagery....

Bret Harte and the Literary Uses of Local Color

o his." (Harte NA). We find the following lines to be incredibly colorful, illustrating that Harte clearly made use of the color a...

Greek Society Reflected in Literary Characterizations

era. The focus, then, of Eumenides was to bring about a sense of the life of Orestes, while also giving a view of the correlation...

Literary Religious Themes, Symbolism, and Imagery

rejected this kind of philosophical process. In Chapter 27, Forster wrote: The chief point was that God lives inside the sun,...

Literary Portrayal of the Aboriginal

believed that the Puritans were more organized, unified, visionary and disciplined certainly had not done a great deal of study of...

Literary Overview of 'A Tale of Two Cities' by Charles Dickens

the commoners, Darnay renounces his title to the Evremonde Estate and goes back to England to live. He proposes to Lucie and she a...

Literary View of Creationism

is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel; at is worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable; and first and...

Literary and Poetic Examples of True Love

even to the edge of doom" (Shakespeare 9-12). In the end he claims that if he is wrong then he never wrote and no man ever loved. ...

Civil War Context of Literary Characters Henry Fleming and Huckleberry Finn

. . . Dont go a-thinkin you can lick the hull rebel army at the start, because yeh cant" (Crane 5). In his innocence, however, he ...

The Feminist Literary Works of Mary Wilkins Freeman

are powerfully illustrative of the claim that many female writers of the time used the ghost story as a means of examining, indire...

Literary Representations of King Arthur's Death

the beginning, the play of the sword, and the final passage of Arthur. Malory and Tennyson: The Beginning In Malorys version o...

Comparing Three Literary Works

writers overall mystique, utilizing such literary techniques as dialogue, imagery, figurative language and interpretation. ...

Literary Device of Symbolism

Morrisons work because water is symbolic of Beloveds need to fulfill a basic desire, but also a thirst for freedom. Another impo...

An Attention Deficit Disorder Literary Review

This paper of five pages provides a critical overview of the material that addresses ADD. There are eight bibliographic sources c...