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Comparing Greek Classics 'The Aeneid' by Virgil, 'The Bacchae' by Euripides, and 'Oedipus the King' by Sophocles

his rule to all those who regarded him as an interloper. He sought the assistance of his most trusted advisor, his brother-in-law...

Stories by Virginia Woolf, Their Themes and Symbolism

Lighthouse, there is a subtle form of cruelty that thrusts the female protagonist into society as the woman is expected to act lik...

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...

Symbolism, Symbols, and Themes in Jean Anouilh's Antigone and Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House

standing up rights and truth. In Henrik Ibsens play "A Dolls House" there are many symbols which represent different aspect...

Failure Caused by Company Successes

companies who were once complex become simple and then fail (Miller, 1993). It is that excessive simplicity that eventually causes...

Evil Theme in William Shakespeare's Macbeth

thoughts terrify him. The fact that Macbeth is thought of as a loyal and noble person at the beginning of the play is made eviden...

Jean de la Fontaine's Fables

outward recognition. Why do Fontaines epic fable poems work? Primarily, one could state that they work because they embody unive...

Bharti Mukherjee's Short Story 'A Father'

no simple way, for an old culture to adjust to a new one. New and Old World Beliefs The primary character in this story is the...

Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, One of the World's Great Novels

The choices which Anna and Vronsky make are disastrous for both. Through these choices, however, Anna will come to recognize the ...

Comparing Three Literary Works

writers overall mystique, utilizing such literary techniques as dialogue, imagery, figurative language and interpretation. ...

Evolution of the English Pub

continued in their Roman role, but in a much less organised manner. The names the taverns would receive reflected the role and tra...

Analysis of the Theme of Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

without them. The power in Umuofia society was deeply steeped in "masculine traditions" (Osei-Nyame 148). The reputation o...

Sufi Poet and Mystic Jelaluddin Rumi

they are found in the Koran, point to this constant interplay of Mercy and Wrath, Beauty and Power" (76). (As bibliographical data...

Emily Dickinson's Attraction To Death

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

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison and the Theme of Identity

subordinate role that he is expected to take in society (Eichelberger, 1999). This indoctrination occurs primarily in the chapel s...

Robert Frost's Favorite Theme

providing an avenue for the author to release the inner struggles of human conflict that can be set free through no other means th...

Ursula K. LeGuin's The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

is forced to live in darkness. The child, the reader is told, is about nine or ten years old, lives on a half bowl of cornmeal a...

Theme of Identity in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man

he must master the ability to live on the "borderlands, on the fault lines, and to write without depending on the founding myths o...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and the Theme of Appearance vs. Reality

give the appearance of being the blushing bride and groom, but their newlywed bliss is tempered by respectful grief for the belove...

Creative Essay on a Hometown Rendezvous

reveal the ages old cobblestones beneath. I am always amazed that the cobblestones, which are obviously older than the concrete ne...

Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

about prejudice first hand, and when a teacher separated the white and black children, he would go with the white. She corrected h...

Analyzing William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

and imprison-ment in the stocks. But there is something that excites in us a stronger feeling than all this-it is Violas confessio...

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...

Past Theme in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

One of the reasons for this is that Dickens expertly wove just about every emotion and every tale of human nature into this one gr...

Harold Pinter's The Caretaker

down and out derelict who calls himself Jenkins. However, his real name as they find out, is Davies. Aston, appearing to have a co...

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Themes of Power and Gender

All the women are intrigued with Darcy and the potential marriage material he represents, however he is nonplused by what he consi...