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In seven pages George MacDonald's The Princess and the Goblin and C.S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe are compared ...

the two characters that are struggling to get back into it: Krogstad and Kristina. By comparison, we can see that Torvald deligh...

Chandler was famous for his evocative descriptions of L.A.; the heat and light, the flowers, traffic, noise and above all the vivi...

Throughout history, until very recently, women have been little more than property, things men could do with as they pleased. But...

guiding light for Gilgamesh. It is also important to note that Gilgamesh himself seeks immortality as this is important to the sto...

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

who simply drank and tried to find themselves once again. This "Lost Generation" was very reflective of the changes in the world...

authors here Addison and Alexander Pope as well as Swift, Steele and influences from Voltaire. In the age of Johnson between abo...

family. He reveals that the stereotypical image of the money hungry Jew is in a sense a reality, that desperation can turn even th...

relationship with both the mother and her family and the father and his family (also in relation to property and/or inheritance la...

no inherent interest. A round character reacts to events and interacts with them, usually showing some facet of human behaviour or...

(Sophocles). In this she is arguing how she has not followed the laws of "men" or even of the gods in this case, but rather per...

thou noble youth, / The serpent that did sting thy fathers life / Now wears his crown." Ham. "O my prophetic soul! My uncle?" (I, ...

under them split asunder; and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and all the men that belonge...

are very important elements in a romantic novel. There is also the woman who loves Frankenstein without question. She is, of cou...

writer, is even more emphatic in warning against reading books about cultures written by those outside the culture, in particular ...

yet they were incredibly symbolic and modern in their approach. It was not enough to say life was harsh, or to illustrate a beauti...

reality in many ways. In this work there are many young men in the war, men that are clinging to whatever they can in the devastat...

theme of the story is up in the air, up to interpretation. In the students essay there is no room for interpretation or explicat...

and actually wrote several novels and short stories during the period ("F. Scott Fitzgerald"). Interestingly, his novels were neve...

out what women were like because of the way in which history is written. Dependent on what is studied, it seems that some texts l...

points out that "communal Italy" is "historians shorthand for the high urbanized areas of Lombardy and Tuscany between the twelfth...

when examining the beauty in nature. According to a student writing on this subject, Bass (1990) provides many examples of the f...

her white friends would agree with her that she was about as Chinese as they were, indicating she really possessed little of that ...

throughout the novel. This is adventure and romance and in essence offers up a very tense story that is filled with emotions, fear...

reflected the continued influence of the Crusades, it also sprouted a period of romanticism that was more than apparent in most ev...

became sculptural" (Make It New: The Rise of Modernism). From another perspective one author notes, "It is usually thought that ...

What is particularly interesting about these observations as they relate to such works as Carson McCullers A Member of the Wedding...

and even tells her grandfather that "I never dreamed [your beard] was a birds nest" (Welty, 47). Stella-Rondo had accused Sister o...

In two pages this research paper discusses how the Age of Reason is reflected in Candide by Voltaire, Tartuffe by Moliere, and Gul...