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Comparisons Between A Hero of Our Times by Lermontov and Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky

tries to conceal his guilt before hes forced to acknowledge it or go insane (fortunately for him, the love of a good woman "saves"...

Candide by Voltaire and the Roles Fulfilled by Martin and Dr. Pangloss

at the end because they simply enjoy being, instead of attempting to compete with others. Dr. Pangloss maintains, in great satiric...

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...

Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and the Characters of Bernard and Biff

who has always studied hard and done what is right in order to get ahead. He has gone to college and is a successful lawyer. In es...

Characters of Bertha and Clarissa Dalloway in Katherine Mansfield's Bliss and Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway

who thinks about her own weaknesses, yet also truly sees what she perhaps should be. We note how Clarissa, though strong and se...

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

This essay presents the argument that Frankenstein's monster in Mary Shelley's novel is a sympathetic, sensitive character who is ...

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson and the Character of Ishmael

man who may have once possessed dreams, but today is an angry and bitter individual. "He was a man of thirty-one with a hardened f...

Jose Maria Arguedas' Deep Rivers

to them. This begins the series of compounding events which propel him toward the tragic end. Symbolically, the changes tha...

Epic of Gilgamesh and the Character Enkidu

wild state Enkidu represents the noble savage, the noble animal that is pure of spirit and strong. He was to balance out the negat...

Fools Crow

the favor of the spirit world, of the gods, and yet they both approach it differently. Fast Horse is presumptuous and arrogant whi...

Character of Old Major in Animal Farm by George Orwell

farm listens to him and believes him and looks up to him. "Word had gone round during the day that old Major, the prize Middle Whi...

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and Character Development

adventurous spirit that is within man, and certainly within Huck, that allows him to pursue adventure with such fervor. Of course,...

Leadership and Character

self and applies a moral message to his way of being in the world. Others may not agree with this moral message, but a man of cha...

Slave Owners in Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Tom rescues his daughter (Little Eva) from a drowning death. St. Clare is one who believes in paying his debts and, in fact, promi...

Character Analysis of Philip in Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster

to others had amused him, but it was disheartening when used against himself" (Forster, chapter 5). We are constantly remi...

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler and Rufus and Dana's Relationship

small boy, but to insure my familys survival, my own birth" (29). Through the next several years, Dana returns to the Weylin plan...

Lucy in the Heat of Despair by Jamaica Kincaid

even "seeing" that in marrying a man, Lucy would not be happy (81). Lucy understands then that her mother is only concerned with L...

Grendel by Gardner

of empathy or sympathy for mankind. He is not a man; he is a monster. And yet, he is a confused monster. "Ah, the unfairness...

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and Pecola

life of the white people in society. Morrison often uses excerpts, that gradually become very distorted and run together in lines,...

The Notebook Film Psychosocial Analysis

Clearly, the leaders are Noah and Allie, who refuse to surrender their cause (love) despite the diversity that frequently forces t...

Relationships in Denise Chong's 'The Concubine's Children'

to insure a good life back in China. The strain between the two begins to show, however, as May-ying criticizes Chan Sam when he ...

Janie in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

provide Janie with financial security. Many women, less independent than Janie, would suffer and endure. Janie leaves with another...

Billy and John Claggart in Billy Budd by Herman Melville

endeavors to avoid such a punishment by doing an exemplary job. Nevertheless, trouble develops and Billy seeks the advice of an ol...

Thomas Harris' Silence of the Lambs

make the lambs stop screaming, do you think theyd be all right too and you wouldnt wake up again in the dark and hear the lambs sc...

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway and the Character of Jake

Hemingway offers the tone and internal dialogue of Jake that sets the stage for understanding his emotional rut: "This was Brett t...

Comparative Analysis of Dances With Wolves Novel and Film

main character, but is predominantly depicted as a sympathetic witness to a way of life that he senses will soon be lost forever. ...

Major Themes in "A Hazard of New Fortunes" and "The House of Mirth

opportunity to exercise their intellects--they went away to college, and if they were not encouraged to enter business or a profes...

Grief in The Lovely Bones

woman going, but she was not happy. There is much evidence of this. Susie, the dead fourteen year old is the narrator and observes...

Realization of Two Women Characters in Mrs. Dalloway

this errand for herself rather than having someone do it for her. A few lines later we read "What a lark! What a plunge!" (Woolf 3...

Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun: Dreams

dreaming all their lives for one thing or another the arrival of the insurance money is something that makes the possibility of ac...