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Charles Dickens' Tale of Two Cities and the Characterization of Madame Defarge

Madame Defarge. There is an exception however, for a few years back she did play the Wicked Queen in Snow White, which could perha...

Dracula by Bram Stoker and the Themes of Sexuality and Perversity

antagonist, Count Dracula that encompasses both sexuality and perversity. In the oft-analyzed Chapter III, the unconscious Harker...

Middlemarch and How it Illuminates Sympathy

seeks adventure of "martyrdom in the country of the Moors," and the woman interested also in becoming the warrior with beating "hu...

Women of William Shakespeare's Hamlet

and leave her father, or suffer through this madness with Hamlet. While she is still deciding, her father is killed and she is sur...

Marion in On Tidy Endings by Harvey Fierstein and Nora in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

are both controversial in these regards. Where "A Dolls House deals with the themes of a woman fulfilling her dreams and her disho...

Tertius Lydgate and Dorothea Brooke in Middlemarch by George Eliot

perform surgeries. However, as philanthropic as Lyndgate sounds, his true colors would seem to be shown in his marriage t...

Sofia in 'The Color Purple' by Alice Walker

is told that Sofia is a woman who does not know her place. She should not be allowed to talk back to her husband, or state her own...

Maya Angelou's Sister Flowers

a very well to do family. She attempts to foster a love of beauty and words to the narrator. In order to do this she encourages th...

Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness and Bernard Malamud's The Assistant

which Alpine realizes by the novels end, through Bobers example, can be the foundation of a meaningful life. Bober is unsuccessf...

Lena, the American Dream, and Willa Cather's My Antonia

seeing her dressed up for she was obviously a young woman who was bare foot and bore unkempt hair. When the conversation progre...

Analyzing A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

This is his attempt at asserting himself and struggling to find his own way. Clearly he is trying to gain his independence but th...

Cotter's England by Christina Stead

be at odds with the prevailing stereotypes concerning lesbians at this time. In the same letter, Stead writes, "I detest Lesbians;...

Analysis of Frank Conroy's Stop Time

that night, or of what they would be doing at school the next day. They are only thinking about the moment at hand. Frank speaks...

Heartless Women in the Works of Henrik Ibsen and Charles Dickens

quite clear that Edith has just cause to feel alienated from her husband and her marriage from its inception. In the first half of...

Character Influences in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper' and John Updike's 'A & P'

excitement in the place. It is not necessarily a nurturing environment for one who wants something more out of life than to be a b...

Psychological Analysis of the Film Leaving Las Vegas

1996, p. 3), which she accepts as a way of demonstrating her unconditional support of him and his intention to literally drink him...

Identity in 'Omeros' by Derek Walcott

visionary odyssey that actually takes him beyond time and space. In this odyssey he finds himself connecting with the history of h...

The Theme of Identity in Derek Walcott's Omeros

the chariot that Hector bought. . . . Each row was a divan of furred leopardskin. . . . te...

Comparative Analysis of Prospero and Vincentio in William Shakespeare's The Tempest and Measure for Measure

city, broadening his knowledge, which, in turn, improves his skill as a ruler. While there is a logical explanation for his knowle...

Lover and Warrior Odysseus

traits he possesses that is less than admirable, one thing is clear. He exhibits loyalty and trustworthiness. He respects the gods...

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

man and religion, which changes the society. Through all of these events and conditions we are witness to incredible change, most ...

Sandra Cisneros' House on Mango Street and the Identity of Esperanza

also knows that she cannot abandon all that she is or all that she has experienced. We watch as she confronts her strengths and ...

Kindred by Octavia Butler and the Influences of the Past and Present

less skilled because she is temporary. Another parallel is that most of the workers there do not want to get close to her or make ...

'The Physican's Tale' and 'The Merchant's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

from Middleburgh to Orwell town./ At money-changing he could make a crown./ This worthy man kept all his wits well set;/ There was...

Yuan Tusng Chen's The Dragon's Village

be restored to its former glory and she wants the internal civil wars to end. It is because of this constant strife that Ling-ling...

Macon in The Accidental Tourist and OCD

safe with American restaurant choices, avoiding human contact, and the like. What is interesting about this story is tha...

The Role of Conflict in Literature and Film

The basic structure of most fiction stories follows a simple Act one, Act Two, Act Three kind of format. In the first part of the ...

'Woman Hollering Creek' by Sandra Cisneros

Latino barrios in Chicago and she understands the plight of young Chicanos in addition to women feeling trapped between two cultur...

Characterization and Ibsen's A Doll's House and Williams' The Glass Menagerie

and makes his way to her dressing room. He knocks, but then quickly enters the room, knowing that she is expecting him. The dan...

Everyman A Critical Analysis

was assumed to make up to the overall personality of nay man, hence the title everyman, with seventeen characters representing a...