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Contemporary Society and Love

become separate" (p.48). An interest point is made as Fromm investigates erotic love. Today, many equate eroticism with romanticis...

Greek Literature and Blindness Symbolism

other senses. Might the lack of sight signify a heightened sense of smell or taste? The list goes on and on about special attachme...

J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer, and Journeys

is on his own journey for he too is aware of the murderer Injun Joe. As such their journeys, while different, essentially stem fro...

British Literature of the Seventeenth Century Examined

and women to enjoy each other. The Philosophical Viewpoints We want to relate the conflict and the writings to various philosop...

Philip Roth's The Counterlife, William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, and Journeys

that Nathan takes towards his death, traveling to various parts of the world in this journey. But, the opening chapter takes place...

Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and Imperialism

who assure the king that Gulliver is merely a trained animal and that the farmer, from which Gulliver was obtained, had trained hi...

Octavio Paz and Gabriel Garcia Marquez A Comparative Analysis

college (although neither received a degree) and developed an early interest in writing. Although Marquez initially intended to b...

Margaret Laurence's The Loons, Thomas King's The Borders and the Theme of Initiation

in that simple narrative position we know the story is important, even if the boy does not know it yet. The story involves the ...

Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov and the Character of Ivan

all-knowing, loving God. In the chapter entitled, "The Brothers Make Friends," Alyosha and Ivan are talking and Ivan goes off on a...

Zadie Smith's White Teeth, Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters, and Themes of Gender and Race

all her fights are useless, futile, for there seems to be no positive movement, no positive gains made for women or blacks. She em...

Postcolonial Literature and Symbols

each. Before going on, it pays to define post colonialism. DeHay (2004) explains that the definition she likes to use for postc...

Comparing Colonialism Themes in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

the traditional society to fall apart," observes G.D. Killam. "Okonkwo is unable to adopt to the changes that accompany colonialis...

Madness And Depression As Common Literary Themes

for the best. Soon, however, a sudden sense of calm overcomes her as she whispers "free, free, free" (Chopin PG). Mrs. Mal...

E.M. Forster's A Passage to India, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Setting

will discover and find, much of which is seen in things that are black and things that are white. This critic notes that, "Signs ...

Vera Figner's Memoirs of a Revolutionist, Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons and Radical Russian Intelligentsia Images

with what respect that principle is surrounded" (Turgenev, 1996, p. 7). Although the...

Minor Characters in Willa Cather's The Professor's House and William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury

story (Sparknotes). Her husband is Roskus, a man who suffers greatly from rheumatism, a condition that will kill him. T.P. is...

American Minorities and Culture

in these traditional groups try to retain their language and keep their heritage alive to an extent. Their native languages of cou...

Lyrical Left Wing Greenwich Village Community

the writers within Greenwich Village had in the late 19th century and throughout the 20th century. The Greenwich Village writers i...

An Analysis of the Arthurian Legend

and the Lion which he saves from a snake dragon. ANALYSIS: The story of Yvains reconciliation with Laudine mimics that whic...

American Horror Writing and the Influence of British Authors

fantasy), horror has generated the most serious study. Fright master Stephen King credits this to the acclaimed literary trilogy...

An American Literature Study

There is no question that Bradford was a Puritan, and as such, offers his religious views and interpretations throughout his writi...

18th Century Literature and Reflections of Commerce and Trade

The Life, Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton have as their basis international trade and commerce and the way...

Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys, Volume III by Jawanza Kunjufu

black children. For example, in chapter 1, Kunjufu cites a study that shows that from infancy through three-years-old, black chil...

English Literature and Virtue

when the Beowulf poet writes "Fate always goes as it must" (43) and "Fate often saves an undoomed man when his courage is good" (...

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...

Guillien de Catro y Bellvis' La Mocedades del Cid

DIEGO: ...excesivamente honrado,...

Victorian England and the Rural Life Philosophy of Richard Jeffries

an almost detached amusement. He describes them rushing about, in a hurry to get to work and to work as hard as they can. However,...

Comparative Analysis of Three Works of Isabel Allende

then that Of Love and Shadows takes place in a Latin American country that is suffering under a brutal dictatorship. Irene Beltran...

Literary Criticisms of the Style and Works of O. Henry

does so in a most subtle way. It is as if O. Henry plays on the expectation of a terrible demise, then, at the last moment, as a s...

Society, the Individual, and Sociology

themselves. It is in adjusting to change that people lose their ground. Meaning and purpose in life is lost. Thus, clinical depres...