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slave Tom to the sadistic and unscrupulous plantation owner Simon Legree. While the slave Tom is Christ-like and the epitome of g...

the institution of slavery and as such the focus is on slaves, slavery and race relations. That is the theme of the work overall. ...

In five pages the gender differences regarding freedom and slavery issues are considered within the context of the writings Uncle ...

story. To be sure, Melville possessed a definite sense of the dramatic, which can be witnessed merely by engaging in the rhetoric...

In eight pages this paper presents a character analysis of Pip and his racial significance especially given the practice of slaver...

appears on the scene, he is an imposing figure of a man whose scars tell the tale of his battles with nature and with God. "Threa...

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares the vengeance and madness of Shakespeare's Hamlet and Melville's Captain Ahab. Sev...

In ten pages this paper examines the powerful symbolism within Melville's novel especially as it pertains to the whale's significa...

the far corners of the globe, and also describes the whaling operations. Queequeg becomes ill and is so convinced he is dying tha...

journey. Immediately, the reader is shocked by Ahabs assertion and assumption that he is like God, that he holds the ultimate po...

Ishmael as he relates to Ahab and his quest for the whale. The second section examines the survival of Ishmael. The last section o...

my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm; and while ponderous planets of unwaning woe revolve round me,...

even on good speaking terms with him. This leads the rest of the townsfolk to determine that Brown is crazy making Hawthornes poin...

These literary characters are contrasted and compared in four pages. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

In five pages this report discusses the importance of struggle in these nineteenth century American literary masterworks that feat...

In eleven pages this paper contrasts and compares past and present reactions to Uncle Tom's Cabin by blacks and whites alike. Twe...

In five pages this paper discusses how stereotypes are emphasized while appearing to eliminate them in these works by Stowe and Ta...

the most important economic realities involving the slaves is that which involves the selling off of slaves by Shelby to less than...

for the institution so melodramatically described"(Anonymous 1094). The storys popularity was such that, when introduced to Stowe...

business--wants to buy up handsome boys to raise for the market. Fancy articles entirely--sell for waiters, and so on, to rich un...

knows that it would put Mr. Shelby even further in debt and that he might be forced to sell off more of the slaves from his home....

were incapable of having the same feelings, the same needs, the same emotional attachments to loved ones that white people maintai...

has weakened him, we cannot be sure - certainly he could be the metaphor for the weakened and suffering male of the South. He is ...

freely expressing their sinful temptations to the minister. The cause of Reverend Hoopers alienation, it would appear, was not an...

sends through the voices of her characters. Stowe is a master at crafting conversations and employing just the right words for he...

Carolina, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Louisiana, Texas and Virginia decided that they would succeed from the union and...

In six pages this paper discusses the expression of cultural nationalism in African American literature and music as depicted in t...

fair average kind of man, goodnatured and kindly, and disposed to easy indulgence of those around him, and there had never been a ...

many ways, this novel is the quintessential slave narrative. The character of Uncle Tom has come to epitomize the racial st...

given a place to sleep. All of this is done by a man who had just voted on a bill that would prohibit whites from helping fugitive...