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'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A section from this story is analyzed and then considered within the whole story's context in a paper consisting of five pages. T...

Cathedral by Raymond Carver

more poignant due to their downtrodden setting. The approach of the characters is generally reacted to events which are around th...

Sad Stories of Love: Tristan and His Parents

one last time. As this indicates, the love of Tristans parents is similar in intensity to that of Tristan and Isolde. As with the ...

Aspects of Celtic Mythology

see a great deal of intent on magic in a Celtic wedding, where there are many ways in which to honor the mystical forces, some of ...

Roman Mythology and Its Influence on Culture

great success was their habit of taking the best from the civilizations they conquered and incorporating it into their own. They g...

Hannibal Lecter as Hero

a woman-suit out of women (using their skin)-the ultimate in objectification" (Vorndam). Lecter is initially contemptuous of Starl...

Comparing and Contrasting Dracula and Nosferatu

is of excellent quality which is likely why it quickly became a classic, and one which others emulate. The ending is satisfying. S...

Comparing Greek and Roman Gods, Goddesses

Greek goddess Aphrodite, who is the "goddess of love, beauty and sexual rapture" (Lindemans "Aphrodite"). As with Aphrodite, Venus...

Creating a Mythology - Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country

is notable about Tolkien is that his world makes internal sense. Each race (Elves, Dwarves, Men, Orcs, etc.) has a distinct langua...

Studying Creation Myths

studying it in the same way we study language (Csapo, 2005, p. 220). His theory puts more emphasis on the meaning of myth rather t...

'The Pardoner's Tale' and Avarice

Before he begins the tale, he explains that he is a greedy devil, and it is through his physicality and his voice that they are di...

Islamic Story of Creation

We are expanding it (51:47)," is often contended by many scholars in light of the fact that it was not until fairly recently that ...

Works by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

family would become highly educated as well as become involved civically. Following with that, then, he took a position as a...

'As I Lay Dying' by William Faulkner

youngest, wants a toy train. The two remaining brothers, Jewel and Darl, want nothing for themselves, but the journey brings to it...

Human Isolation in The Country Doctor and Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

by some mysterious external power, capable of turning a man into a giant insect, is virtually ignored by the characters: their foc...

Violent Crimes and Female Perpetrators

"The mythology of Myra Hindley reveals, above all, that we do not have a language to represent female killing..."....

Suzanne Loncher's A Brooklyn Rose

a woman, not a man. In addition, much of the information in the book, while involving the social history of the Italians and the n...

Mythical and Religious Themes in the Eastern Art Tradition

in regard to religious art. Religion, of course, is very diverse in India. Hindu is the primary religion (comprising 82.6 percen...

An Analysis of The Big Lie

sets out to illustrate how Grace was "a onetime protege of Huey P. Long and virtually the only woman in Louisiana politics" and ho...

Caroline Knapp's 'Drinking A Love Story'

not aware enough to have often remembered it. Later she illustrates that when she first had sex she was told, by her friend, to si...

Hinduism and Mythology

came about where concepts such as heaven, divinity, truth, the sanctity of birth, and sacrifice (2005). These were new concepts in...

Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' Explicated

in a language that, though poetic, little resembles modern English: "By very force he raft hir maidenheed, / For which oppressioun...

Tlingit Mythology and the Raven

In four pages this paper examines Tlingit mythology and the Raven's role in a discussion of 3 myths. Five sources are cited in th...

Alcestis by Euripides

simply what it is on the outside but cutting into it reveals layers of different contrasts and flavors. The "Foundation" of the Pl...

Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell and American Society

In 7 pages the hero mythology is applied to the society of the United States in a consideration of 3 concepts from The Power of My...

MYTHOLOGY AND HUMAN HARDSHIP

no lack of literature about how gods and goddesses (goddesses, especially) are linked with death. The Greeks - Artemis, Niobe, Fer...

HALF THE SKY AND EDNA’S HOSPITAL

This 3-page paper discusses why "Edna's Hospital" is an important story in the book "Half the Sky."...

Mythology and Iliad, Aeneid

This research paper/essay discusses the "Iliad" and the "Aeneid" as two epic poems that mirror the values of Greek and Roman socie...

The Theatre of Ancient Greece

This 12 page paper gives an overview of the history of the theatre in ancient Greece and the connection with mythology. This paper...

Hebrew and Egyptian Mythology - A Comparison

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at Hebrew and Egyptian mythologies. A discussion highlights similarities between the tw...