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Unconventional Women in Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma by Jane Austen

pleasantly perched atop the social ladder, she picks and chooses with whom she associates. Her values, as well as those of her be...

Women’s Refusal in Euripides’ Medea and Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

to her on the basis of her sex. To further complicate her situation, she was an exile from her primitive Colchis homeland, forced...

Characters of Nancy and Jane Eyre Compared

In seven pages these female protagonists from Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre are contrasted and co...

Symbolism in "The Great Gatsby"

so pervades The Great Gatsby that Fitzgeralds true achievement was to appropriate American legend."1 The book gives us both romanc...

Management/Labor Conflict in "The Grapes of Wrath"

people were desperate for jobs, the owners and those who hired the migrants paid them pennies; as Steinbeck says: "They were hungr...

Outside Looking In

he realizes are poor quality. The boys awakening to reality is a shock. He suddenly understands that he has built up an entire f...

Krakauer's Into the Wild and London's To Build a Fire

to civilisation? Probably not. We can, therefore, only speculate as to whether or not McChandless might have seen his death as mer...

Nonconformist, Society, and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

reactions and evolution are rooted in the desire for individuality, which represents to Huck Finn and to Mark Twain, saying and do...

Views of Wollstonecraft and Austen

treatment of women. Her novel, Sense and Sensibility considers the social position of the early nineteenth-century woman, and thr...

Gregor Samsa Must Transform Into a Beetle in Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis

the past into the present in support of a future. Sigmund Freud believed that only by freeing repressed happiness, can an individu...

Imagery in Two Short Stories by Kate Chopin

This essay describes how Kate Chopin, a nineteenth century female author ahead of her time, utilized imagery in writing the "Desir...

The Tragedy of King Richard III by William Shakespeare and the Evil Protagonist

In five pages this paper presents a psychological analysis of Shakespeare's evil protagonist Richard III....

1798 to 1832 British Writers

In five pages this paper examines the Romantic Age and considers the writings of female authors Mary Wollstonecraft, Ann Radcliffe...

Conforming By Way of Nonconformity in 'Bartleby, the Scrivener' by Herman Melville

In five pages the ways in which Melville's short story protagonist can only conform to social demands through nonconformity and no...

'The Company of Wolves' by Angela Carter, 'The Swimmer' by John Cheever, and Short Story Journeys

In six pages the deceptiveness of appearances is examined in a consideration of the journeys each of these short story protagonist...

George Eliot's Characterizations of Women

In twenty two pages this paper discusses the Victorian female characters featured in the writings of George Eliot in a considerati...

Comparing Achilles and Odysseus

Odysseus was renowned for both his brain and his brawn. He was also had bravery, and competence at his skills. Odysseus was an a...

King Oedipus, Prince Hamlet, and Their Tragic Flaws

In five pages the tragic flaws of these play protagonists are contrasted and compared....

Analysis of My Lady Ludlow by Elizabeth Gaskell

In five pages this research paper discusses the 1858 novel by Elizabeth Gaskell in an analysis of the title protagonist....

John Donne's Feminist Poetry

This paper details a feminist reading of three John Donne Poems, The Undertaking, A Valediction, and The Good Morrow. The author ...

Female Gender Roles in the Writings of Jonathan Swift

takes on the tone of condescension and intolerance for the manner in which women have historical been portrayed. Swifts interest ...

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

In five ways the protagonist Frederic Henry's transformation from boy to man through his wartime experience and romance with Cathe...

Tragic Personality of Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

of this play, we find Ibsens comments for what he called his "modern-day tragedy," He says, "There are two kinds of moral law, tw...

What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage

they frown and give me one last chance to redeem myself. If I dont know who, do I at least know how many? By that time I cant deci...

Gregor Samsa's Changes in Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis

concerned that he cant get up and go to work to support his family. Even from the start, he does not want to be a burden on his fa...

America and Being Black and Female

love and cherish them for who they are. But it does not happen in these stories, nor does it seem to be happening within the moder...

Protagonist's Ruin in Macbeth by William Shakespeare

whetted it for a more impressive title. It was a seemingly innocuous meeting with a trio of witches that would sow the seeds of M...

Protagonists' Waiting in Waiting for Godot

up life. Most people will not do this, although there are some who are willing. Some of the kamikaze pilots who crashed into build...

PSA Writing

of their favorite radio shows. Thus, if they miss something, it is missed forever. While people walk away from the radio often, ...

Protagonist's Insanity in 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner

It is clear early-on that it was common knowledge in the town that Emilys father was abusive -- if not physically, then certain m...