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Poetic Metaphors Used by Boccaccio, Aquinas, Sidney, Shelley, and Aristotle

In twelve pages the poetic metaphor and its value is assessed within the works of these varied literary and philosophical icons. ...

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

legal husband was not even in the country. She will not reveal the childs fathers name, however, out of sincere love for the man w...

Garden of Eden in The Confessions by Jean Jacques Rousseau and Candide by Voltaire

truly a place of bliss where nothing but a good and wonderful existence greeted Adam and Eve each and every day. However, there w...

Life in Art: How Stephen Crane’s Life Influenced His Writings

played on him. Stephen Crane was born in Newark, New Jersey on November 1, 1871, the 14th child (only eight survived) of a Method...

Journey to Self-Awareness in Emma, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and My Name is Asher Lev

her better judgment, but she was initially dismissive. Emma prefers living through others instead of living for herself, and her ...

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...

"I'm Nobody! Who Are You?": An Analysis of a Poem by Emily Dickinson

To an admiring Bog! (846). The subject matter features a person who feels inwardly lonely who does not wish to advertise h...

Pressures and Identity

She states, "Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good" (Gilman). By the end of he...

Discussing Realism, Naturalism and Modernism

literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The following paper offer a description of the characteristics of...

Magical Realism and Marquez’s Death Constant Beyond Love

Garcia Marquez seriously or are they an absurdists slanted look at the world? This paper argues that even though they are often co...

Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville

metaphorically complex narrative that has been interpreted in a variety of ways. The story itself is deceptively simple. The narra...

Bathcat the Warrior: A Narrative Expression of Celtic Value

grassy hollow to be found in the frozen woods to the north. Here, he was told, he and his men would encounter the undead legions o...

Violence - the Monster that Torments Society

But in fiction it sometimes finds fuller expression than it does as a headline. This paper explores the concept of violence as it ...

Violence - the Monster that Torments Society Examined in Literature

of fiction. But in fiction it sometimes finds fuller expression than it does as a headline. This paper explores the concept of vio...

A Moveable Feast

errors, and so kind to people that I always thought of him as a sort of saint" (Hemingway 88). This is clearly a very high claim t...

"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...

Burmese Law Enforcement Experiences of George Orwell and How They Shaped His Views of the British Empire

Acquiescing to pressure from his father to also become a member of the Imperial Service, Orwell joined Burmas Imperial Police in 1...

The Story of Sonny’s Blues

problem is, he and Sonny have never really understood one another; or rather, his brother has never truly understood Sonny. For So...

The Outsider’s Viewpoint in Literature

the experiences their protagonists have growing up as young, ethnic women in America. However, the relationship between the fictio...

Creative Writing and Communications

A paper consisting of about seven pages incorporates literary quotes in this example of communications and creative writing with u...

'Passing,' Escape, and Hiding in Holocaust Literature

In eight pages these themes are examined in a comparative analysis of Holocaust literary works When Memory Comes, Dry Tears, and T...

Holocaust and Its Lessons

In eleven pages this paper discusses the Holocaust and its lessons as they are reflected in the literary works of Elie Wiesel and ...

Gothic Characteristics of The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In five pages this paper analyzes the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne in terms of the author's literary device usage and its Gothic c...

Realist Criticism of The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In seven pages this novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne is considered in terms of the 19th century Realist literary criticism it generate...

Life and Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne

This paper considers the life and most famous literary works of New England author Nathaniel Hawthorne, which include Twice Told T...

Pamela Joern/"Judgment Day"

This essay presents a literary analysis of "Judgment Day" by Pamela Joern. Three pages in length, one source is cited....

Ancient Greece and Homosexuality

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at homosexuality in the culture of ancient Greece. Nuanced insights into the topic are ...

Analysis of Great Expectations

In a paper of one page, the writer looks at Great Expectations. Literary devices are identified in a single excerpt. Paper uses no...

First World War and Its Cultural Influence

In ten pages this research paper discusses the profound influence the First World War had in terms of the music, literary, and art...