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Literary Portrayals of Lost Innocence

to a degree and ultimately comes to recognize that there is indeed a certain undercurrent of evil in the world. In doing so he de...

1930s' Issues and the Works of Clifford Odets and Richard Wright

and asks his mother why that happened. His mother says "The white man did not whip the black boy...He beat the black boy" (Wright ...

Element of Horror in Fiction Stories 'The Monk' by Matthew Lewis and 'The Castle of Otranto' by Horace Walpole

style presented in this story, a style that clearly speaks of a dark and foreboding reality, we present some of the opening paragr...

Guillien de Catro y Bellvis' La Mocedades del Cid

DIEGO: ...excesivamente honrado,...

Kate Chopin and Raymond Carver on Love

quietly, knowing something is coming her way, some feeling, some understanding, some epiphany. Then, it comes. It tells her she is...

'On Being Young - A Woman - and Colored' by Marita Bonner and 'How It Feels to Be Colored Me' by Zora Neale Hurston

what governs their overall behavior. Conspicuously absent in this story is the weak and fragile persona; instead, Hurstons ...

A Ficticious Literary Panel Discussion

its extreme, I pointed out the evil being perpetuated against the Irish." Lady Macbeth interrupts, "I am familiar with this wo...

Experiences of Chinese and Filipino Immigrants in the US

were sold for five dollars each to work in the fish canneries in Alaska, by a Visayan from the island of Leyre to an Ilocano from ...

Similarities and Differences Among Female Literary Characters

learned of the pregnancy, and that she is not particularly impressed with his perspective on the situation....

Great American Author Ernest Hemingway

first publish Three Stories & Ten Poems in 1923 in Paris ("A Chronology" PG). In 1926 , the well known work The Sun Also Rises wou...

Literature, Understanding, and the Lack Thereof

Verloc has used her brother, her foundation for understanding her husband dissolves and the two no longer are able to communicate....

Questions and Answers on New York Authors

respectively. He did perhaps change his ideology over time and student writing on this subject might say that he had softened his ...

Literature and Psychoanalysis

or morality/values. In addition, Freud also theorized that inherent in every newborn child is the urge to engage in sexual ...

Life, Literature, and Criticisms of James Joyce

to death, illustrating, as mentioned, how his life was not necessarily strange or completely outrageous. The second half of the pa...

3 Works on Women's Social Role

out with flowers and shod with dainty little slippers? (Aristophanes). As this indicates, women, at least the upper class women,...

Bram Stoker and Dracula

of the novel is concerned with conflict in one form or another: the overt differences between the fictionalised East Europe of Sto...

Analyzing 'The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg' by Mark Twain

was many years ago. Hadleyburg was the most honest and upright town in all the region round about. It had kept that reputation uns...

Hell in Dante's 'Inferno' and Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus

down into the depths, and the church of Dantes medieval Italy labeled any direct and persistent questioning soul as heretical. ...

Supernatural and Dreams in The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann and The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

themselves whether or not the writer is referring to the natural or supernatural world as often the storyline it intercepted or ov...

Women's Aspects Concerning Marriage and Equality in Excerpts from Wollstonecraft, Ibsen, Mill, Chopin, and de Pizan

is considered a step in the right direction for women of the era who were trapped in unhealthy and unequal marriages. Regardless o...

Comparative Analysis of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness

reckless without hardihood, greedy without audacity, and cruel without courage" (Conrad 102). In Ellisons novel we see a young B...

Depiction of Women the Story of Kenreimon'in, 'The Wife of Bath's Tale,' and Antigone

still powerfully under the control of a patriarchal society. "For Antigone, there could never be any laws that could stand in t...

Magical Applications of the Legend of King Arthur

King Arthur was the only one who could have united all of England because he was the embodiment of the old and new ways. As such, ...

Children of the River by Linda Crew and Roots by Alex Haley

he was sent to another culture and made a slave. With his plans and expectations already in place Kunta finds himself in Americ...

'Unreal' Experiences, Society and the Individual in Wild Swans, The Survivor, and All Quiet on the Western Front

through the Japanese, then the Russians and then the Chinese Communists. Reality and everyday actions became skewed as people live...

Chinese Literary Examples The Fox Fairy and The World Inside a Pillow

At the same time, however, the stories which are presented to not necessarily unfold in a clear chronological pattern. Instead va...

Analysis of Literary and Film Versions of The Color Purple

a young girl who has only her inherent strength and her faith in God to help her survive. She is not especially intelligent, nor i...

Literature and the Use of Newspapers

Frank Norris, who was working for Doubleday, helped Dreisers first novel, Sister Carrie (1900), to be published....Dreiser continu...

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...

Child and Adult Voices in Literature for Children

not necessarily reliable, and that the imposition of an adult viewpoint on childhood events and emotions is bound to present a dis...