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Telemachos and Odysseus in The Odyssey by Homer

In three pages these characters featured in Homer's epic poem are contrasted and compared in terms of their similarities and diffe...

Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

In five pages the author and narrator's character are examined. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton and Renunciation

In five pages this paper examines how renunciation is emphasized in the social structure and in 3 major characters of The Age of I...

Winnie the Pooh from a Taoist Perspective

In five pages this paper analyzes the Taoist being essence and how it is reflected in Pooh and character interaction. There is 1 ...

African American Women Playwrights

In five pages the ways in which black female playwrights confront sexist behaviors and conventional stereotypes in their female ch...

Othello by William Shakespeare and the Value of Irony

In 5 pages this paper analyzes the significance of dramatic irony in this Shakespearean tragedy in terms of character and plot dev...

Charles Dickens' Hard Times and Patriarchy

In twelve pages this paper examines how patriarchal concepts are expressed by characters featured in Hard Times, a novel by Charle...

Iago as the Villain of Othello by William Shakespeare

In 7 pages this paper examines Iago's villainy in a psychological analysis of character motives as featured in Othello by William ...

Confessions of Felix Krull by Thomas Mann

In four pages this paper presents a character analysis of the protagonist in this work by Thomas Mann. There are no other sources...

Heathcliff's Stormy Nights in Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

In five pages this research paper analyzes Emily Bronte's tortured Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights in a consideration of perspecti...

Mrs. Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

In six pages a character analysis of Linda Loman is presented as it relates to her own self control and the way in which she contr...

Beloved by Toni Morrison and Sixo

In five pages this character analysis of Sixo assesses how valid the Dysaesthesia Aethiopica was for wayward slaves in 1851. Two...

1828's US Presidential Election Candidates and Outcomes

In six pages this paper examines the 1828 US presidential election in a consideration of the candidates, their characters, how it ...

Society, the Individual, and Christina and Fred Sommers' Vice And Virtue in Everyday Life

In seven pages various readings featured in this collective volume consider topics of self respect, self interest, dignity, and ch...

Memory and Healing in Toni Morrison's Novel Beloved

understood the reasons or implications. "Days after it was taken out, goose fat was rubbed on the corners of the mouth but nothin...

Good and Evil Characterizations

work? If the reader proves victorious at ascertaining the entire concept as a whole, while comprehending the connection of the de...

3 Interpretations of Sir Gawain

Gawain and the Green Knights text persona is what separates the character from the other two representations. Would you grant me ...

Global Copyright Laws and Japan

In ten pages this paper discusses Japan's copyright law issues as they pertain to the characters like Popeye and Mickey Mouse. Tw...

UK Soap Opera Eastenders

In a paper consisting of 7 pages this soap is examined in terms of plot and character and the various cultural and social messages...

Independent Taylor Greer's Journey to Maturity in The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

aware that her and her mothers poverty had placed them at the bottom rung of Kentuckys socioeconomic ladder, with the chances of u...

Chopin and O’Connor

gently as possible the news of her husbands death" (Chopin). In these two simple descriptions it is very evident that the women ar...

Destructive Effects of Iago's Greed

the social acceptance that has been denied him because of his skin color. When Othello selects the relatively inexperienced Micha...

Goldsworthy's "Maestro" - The Thematic Value of Limited Narration

However, many critics still view the book itself as "young adult fiction", largely escapist and with little true insight. While Pa...

Macbeth

Introduction Macbeth by William Shakespeare is one of his most powerful and insightful plays as it illustrates human weakness and...

Film As Good as It Gets and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

to reduce the anxiety. Frequently occurring disturbing thoughts or images are called "obsessions," and the rituals performed to tr...

Reality and Illusion in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

she could display for all to see. She possessed all the "shallowness" (Fitzgerald PG) of a person who knew not how to love yet kn...

The Shepherd and Oedipus

when the play opens, he has no knowledge that he has actually done so; he believes he was successful in avoiding the prophesy. Th...

Maria Full of Grace

girl, Lucy, dies because one of the pellets broke inside her and caused an overdose. She is simply cut open and tossed aside by th...

Absurdity and Existentialism in Adams' Hitch Hiker's Guide

arise out of unexpected and irrational contradictions faced by the main characters on virtually every page. The absurdity is not j...

Portrayals of Women in Sunset Boulevard and Breakfast at Tiffanys

A 6 page essay reviewing how women are portrayed in these classic movies. The plots are outlined and compared. Societal circums...