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Love Theme Compared as Reflected in Literature of Emily and Charlotte Bronte

specifically, it was an obsession as opposed to true love. What distinguishes these from each other is the element of personal sa...

Raymond Carver's Perspectives on Family

who are very young and very old and this paradigm really only involves an individuals life for an eighteen year time span. For exa...

Willa Cather's O Pioneers! and Love

emotional release. This may be seen as giving the different types of love a balance. This book was published in 1913, a...

Summarizing Harold S. Kushner's 'When Bad Things Happen to Good People'

find faith during their times of troubles (Kushner, 1981; Muder, 2002). In the Introduction to the book "Why I Wrote This Book" K...

Comparing T.S. Eliot and William Shakespeare

accompanied by his son, Ferdinand, the heir to his throne; Antonio, the Duke of Milan; Sebastian, the brother of Alonzo; and Gonza...

Medieval Concepts of Love, Sex, Marriage, and The Bible

This could be seen, for example, in the practices of the ancient Egyptians, whose culture remained stable for a long period of tim...

Analyzing the Novel Love in the Time of Cholera

characters live lives of extremes, and the magic which pervades their lives eludes to the surreal nature of the story. The Use o...

Historical Views and Times Represented in the Writings of Toni Morrison, Adrienne Rich, and T.S. Eliot

to her poetry is the element of history. For Rich, the "sea is another story/ the sea is not a question of power / I have to lea...

Jealousy and Love in William Shakespeare's Othello

to why Iago hates Othello to such a degree. Presumably, Iago is angry over being passed over for promotion in favor of Cassio. The...

Literature and Sex

authors life, itself. What has he or she experienced in his/her lifetime that has contributed to this unique perception and turn o...

Love of Othello Used by Iago

from the beginning of the play, leaving no doubt that Iago is a conniving and deceitful individual (Anonymous Iago the Liar Othell...

Underlying Themes of Various Poems

woods, peopled with the wild creatures of the forest, witches and all sort of magical folk, including Satan, himself. Tam stops to...

NY Television and Cultural Messages

wanted to visit. Perhaps the episode that most prominently features differences in race and ethnicity is when Jerry convinces the ...

Yusef Komunyakaa's Poetry

loss and redemption. If one were to move deeper into the meanings of both poems, or on an emotional, cognitive tour of the poem, ...

William Shakespeare's Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet and the Themes of Love and Madness

Two beings created for each other feel mutual love at the first glance; every consideration disappears before the irresistible imp...

Petrarchan Love Poetry of Lady Mary Wroth and John Donne

The first lines of "The Canonization" read: "For Gods sake hold your tongue and leg me love/ Or chide my palsy, or my gout,/ My fi...

George Stevens' Film A Place in the Sun and Doomed Love Affairs

true it probably isnt," the outcomes of the story may easily be predicted. Added to the overall sense of "too-good-to-be-true" is ...

Seventeenth Century Love in Poetry

celebration of Gods love, as well as a poet that addressed the purity of a love for a woman. In better understanding this we discu...

Woody Allen's 1977 Film Annie Hall and Its Ill Fated Love Affair

comedy has been a staple of American movies since movies were first created. There is an undeniable connection that exists betwee...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, and Themes of Lovers and Love

by his friend Lieutenant Rinaldi who is determined to arrange for the two of them to meet up with some British nurses. At this poi...

Emily Dickinson's Private Affairs and Their Influence on Her Poetry

born (The Life of Emily Dickinson). Although her childhood was typical of most, by the time she was a young adult she had retreat...

Laura Sonnets by Petrarch

most tragic play" (line 8). Furthermore, he attests that this love is his "constant gate and fountain" of grief" (line 12). This ...

'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by T.S. Eliot and Frederik L. Rusch's Critique of the Poem

the street, / Rubbing its back upon the window-panes; / There will be time, there will be time / To prepare a face to meet the fac...

Anger of the Author Revealed in Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende

In five pages this report discusses the author's anger and her spiritual strength and determination as they manifest themselves in...

Philosophies of Love and Friendship

This paper examines the philosophies of Aristotle as seen in the Nicomachean Ethics, and the views of C.S. Lewis in his work, The ...

Love in Novels by Agnes Desarthe, Raymond Plante, and Michele Marineau

In ten pages this paper examines the images of love depicted in three French novels by authors Desarthe, Plante, and Marineau. Th...

Jane Eyre's Life Journey in the Novel by Charlotte Bronte

In five pages this paper examines Charlotte Bronte's heroine as she strives to obtain social acceptance and love in the novel Jane...

Establishing Writing Connections and the Native American Writers Sherman Alexie and N. Scott Momaday

spotted horse grazed on the plain, and there was a dark wildness on the mountains beyond. The land was still and strong. It was ...

Relationships and Love in 'Porphyria's Lover' by Robert Browning and Othello by William Shakespeare

This paper contrasts and compares how relationships and love are thematically represented in Robert Browning's poem and William Sh...

Contemporary Literature and the Maintenance of Identity

In five pages this essay examines maintaining identity in the first 50 years of the 20th century in a consideration of such litera...