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The Element of Tragedy as Presented in Literature

in his society. Sometimes he is one who has been displaced from it, sometimes one who seeks to attain it for the first time, but ...

19th Century Literature A Comparison of Heroines from Two Stories

This paper compares Charlotte Bronte's heroine of Villette with Jane Austen's heroine of Persuasion. It discusses the roles of the...

Theme of Identity in the Literature of Sharon Olds and Sylvia Plath

not constitute beauty; it only reflects back the physical parameters of what it sees. The fact that occasional "faces" disturb its...

Literature Review on Culture, Aging, and Women

This paper examines culture and aging as each relates to women in a review of Figuring Age by Woodward, Mother Time by Walker, and...

Classic Western Literature and the Portrayal of Women

The portrayals of Cunegonde by Voltaire in Candide and Gertrude by William Shakespeare in Hamlet are contrastes and compared in fi...

Classical Literature and The Role of World Leaders

This paper discusses three classic literary works, Gilgamesh, Hayy Ibn Yaqzan, and Oedipus Rex. The author draws comparisons from...

The Concept of Ambition as Reflected in Literature

In five pages the idea of ambition is discussed in an examination of such literary works as A Delicate Balance by Jose Armas, Balt...

Literature and Free Will v. Fate

In 5 pages this paper examines this thematic conflict as it is represented in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, Macbeth by William S...

Literature, Humor, and Morality

In four pages this paper discusses how morality is humorously depicted in Goldoni's Servant of Two Masters, Machiavelli's Madragol...

Defining Aspects in Literature

This paper examines the essential elements that make up a literary work and define the writer. The author discusses Shakespeare, ...

Romantic Literature and the Idealization of Children

In ten pages this paper examines how children were idealized in the romantic writings of Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, Charlotte...

Literature and Women's Social Status

close to his sister, one has to contemplate the possibility of incest which adds to the seductiveness that many authors attribute ...

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...

Literature and Social Isolation

In seven pages this paper considers how social isolation is represented in Philoctetes by Sophocles, Apology by Plato, and Night b...

Literature and the Element of Science

The individual who has placed the ad in the paper is none other than a telepathic gorilla. Suspend judgment if you will. Call the ...

Literature Review of Probation and Policing Fields Discriminating Against Women

a considerable difference between the garment worker of the nineteenth century and the beat cop of the twenty-first century. Howe...

History and Literature

In six pages this paper considers such literary works as Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown,' Sarah Orne Jewett's 'The Whi...

Literature in The Gilded Age

popular movie in which Dorothy wore ruby red slippers, in Baums text the shoes were silver. The story of Dorothy, as the quintesse...

Life Lessons in Classic Literature

This paper examines the themes of death in Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich, and Miller's, The Death of a Salesman. This five p...

Four Essays On Literature

This paper bundles four essays into one. In five pages the writer separately discusses specific questions regarding Eliot's The L...

Sin's Differing Degrees in Various Works of Literature

In seven pages this paper examines sin and punishment in a contrast of how they are portrayed in The Thousand and One Nights, Don ...

Literature and Human Relationships

sense one gets at the end of the work, that under the humorous aspects, there is something very sad occurring. It does appear that...

Socioeconomic and Political Settings in Victorian Age Literature

In seven pages this paper discusses how the Victorian Age's socioeconomic and political landscape are reflected in William Thacker...

Propaganda and Literature Relating to British Imperialism

... The English in the Americas in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were as driven by ideological convictions, by a belief ...

Literature and Happiness Through Virtue

In five pages this paper discusses how happiness can be achieved through virtue as illustrated in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibil...

Literature Alternatives to Freedom

In six pages the concept of freedom through death as a release from life's hardships is examined through such works as William Fau...

Renaissance Literature and Love

In five pages this paper examines how love is represented in Boccaccio's 'The First Day,' Peter Bembo's 'The Asolani,' John Milton...

Victorian Literature and Class Consciousness

In 5 pages the Victorian class consciousness that reached a pinnacle during the mid to late 19th century is examined as it is refl...

'Essay on Literature' or 'Wen Fu' by Lu Chi

In six pages this report examines this ancient Chinese literary essay....

Birds in Literature

In three pages this paper examines the symbolic meaning of birds in Walt Whitman's poem 'Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking' and ...