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Essays 1711 - 1740

John Updike's A Month of Sundays and Of the Farm Compared

those demons in his closet that he thought securely battened down. His mother will not stop with the accusations and insinuations ...

Black Elk Speaks and Themes of Structural Functionalism

are most often found within family units and the social roles each member of the family plays within the unit in order to increase...

Ben Younger's Film Boiler Room

saying: "Either youre slinging crack rock or youve got a wicked jump shop -- nobody wants to work for it any more. Theres no honor...

Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho

her quickly into a world which is dictated by the whims of the men who surround her, both her father and a potential lover....

David Lynch's Film Mulholland Drive

couple of cars who happened to be drag racing. This gives the woman a chance to get away. She runs into the city and for some reas...

Abandonment Theme in Sula by Toni Morrison

extremely close friends. Nel is abandoned by her husband, Jude, when she catches him making love to Sula. This is a double loss fo...

Learning as a Theme in Milton's Paradise Lost

primitive society. Adam is the embodiment of perfection, and he is clearly defined as the intellectual superior of the two. He i...

Phillis Wheatley's Poetry

the population in America at the time would have preferred to not know that a black woman was capable of such complex and abstract...

Guy Johnson's Standing at the Scratch Line

the stage for the entire story. Leroi is sent off to the military rather than prison, and we note a sense of understanding that cl...

Analysis of a Page from E.M. Forster's Book Howard's End

any ideas borrowed from this research in his or her own words and to cite the Paper Store as one source for their own paper. If th...

Emily Dickinson's Attraction To Death

to a twentieth-century Existentialist philosopher, Ford opines, "Emily Dickinson felt great anxiety about death... She apparently...

Theme of Evil in The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

is not the impression one gets from reading The Prince," for according to Oldham it "becomes clear to the reader that Machiavelli ...

Mishima's Stories Patriotism and Death in Midsummer

The honour code which decrees that those who bring shame on the community must remove themselves from it was the ethical system wh...

Madness Theme in Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

servants. She physically attacks him and bites his arm. Convinced of her madness, he takes her back to England where she is locked...

Continuity in Indian Art

be contended to be one of the most integral components of Indian expression through the ages. From the most primitive aspects of ...

Analyzing An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen

In all honesty, Dr. Stockmann fails to think outside his scientific reasoning. He is, in a sense, blind to those who do not believ...

Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, and Their Poetry of Death

transcribe concerning the inevitable. One author notes that "The central theme arouses from Whitmans pantheistic view of life, fro...

Nelle Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

and illustrating that we are all a curious mix of devil and divine. During the 1930s, Lee illustrates the tensions that existed be...

Nurture and Nature in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

nature holds a great sway over the human condition. She sees the futility of forging an alliance with Linton, while at the same ti...

Modernist Theme in 'The Waste Land' by 'T.S. Eliot

is mocking our hopes, and at the same time the teasing promise of Spring is false. With the coming of this Spring we can also envi...

'Song' by Allen Ginsberg, 'Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin, and Love

those around her surely believe that she loves her husband and is grieved by the news. The characters slowly approach her, planni...

Freedom Theme in the Film Deliverance and the Social Contract of Jean Jacques Rousseau

freedom supersede mans other concerns in daily life. Before exploring philosophy in respect to freedom, a student writing on this...

Anita Shreve's The Weight of Water

review of The Weight of Water, "There is so much factual information about the Shoals here -- geographical, historical, nautical, ...

Standing Up for Something Theme in 'A and P' by John Updike

has no drive in his life. This individual is not unlike Paul, another young man who has just left the safety of his home life and ...

Live Burial Theme in Edgar Allan Poe's Writings

stupor, Montressor begins to wall him in...alive. As Fortunato begins to sober up and realize what is going on he begins to scream...

Gargantua by Francois Rabelais and the Relationship Between Grangousier and Picrochole

making ready, went to see his artillery mounted upon the carriage, to display his colours, and set up the great royal standard, an...

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

the worst storm to batter England in recorded history in late November through early December, 1703 (De Wire 34). One DeFoe schola...

Superhero Films, Comics, and Cartoons and Their American Significance During the Second World War and the Cold War

Comics and cartoons which appeared in daily newspapers and magazines in the 1930s and 1940s were considered originally to be an ex...

Themes of Love and Death in the Epic of Gilgamesh

through his loving he begins to see the fragile condition of life itself. However, these ultimate realizations take their time in ...

Phenomenal Women in Literature

Such is the case, in my experiences in reading the authors noted above. No one can contest the fact that these women have indeed ...