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Gender Differences in 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In six pages the social treatment of women is examined within the context of this story in an exploration of plot, characterizatio...

Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders and Identity

realize from that gain in herself. Moll is cautious, and definitely "aware of the market." As each time she is forced to re-evalu...

Use of Symbolism in Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

In five pages this paper examines how Salinger developed his alienation theme and deepened his characterizations through the use o...

Leslie Silko's Ceremony and 'Mother Earth'

This is an essay of 5 pages that argues that Silko employs literary devices and the characterization of Tayo to dramatize the spir...

Character Analysis of Philip Marlowe in The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

In six pages this essay analyzes the characterization of Philip Marlowe and how he reflects masculinity in The Big Sleep by Raymon...

Literary Devices in the Works of Stephen King

In five pages this essay examines the symbolism, characterization, and important use of Maine's rural setting featured in 'The Man...

Analyzing Oedipus the King by Sophocles

and in order to protect the city and its citizens, Oedipus was compelled to take drastic action. Also, he wished to cement his re...

Justice and Oedipus the King by Sophocles

In five pages essay examines how justice is conceptually portrayed in this tragic play by Sophocles. There are no other sources ...

Chapter Thirteen of Brendan Prairie by Dan O'Brien

In five pages this essay provides a chapter summary and also analyzes the author's employment of action, setting, and characteriza...

Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino's Style of Directing

In five pages this paper discusses how Quentin Tarantino addresses the human condition in his filmmaking style and in the violent ...

Plot and Character Analysis of 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner

no one save an old manservant -- a combined gardener and cook -- had seen in at least ten years" (Faulkner). To the outside wor...

Short Stories 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' and 'Everything That Rises Must Converge' by Flannery O'Connor

be the natural order of things, with themselves and those like them, of course, were divinely placed atop this orderly universe, g...

Sam Shepard and William Faulkner on Family Dysfunction

In twenty pages twentieth century family dysfunction is considered in a comparative analysis of its portrayal in the characterizat...

Religion and Oedipus the King by Sophocles

plague that threatens to annihilate most of its citizens. This plague is interpreted as an act of the gods, who are voicing their...

Deities and Fate in The Epic of Gilgamesh and Sophocles' Oedipus the King

Deities and the concept of fate are examined in this comparative analysis of these classical literary works consisting of 6 pages....

Lysistrata by Aristophanes

In five pages this paper argues that this comedy by Aristophanes is an example of feminism with its strong and intelligent female ...

Homer's Heroes Patroclus and Achilles

In this essay consisting of five pages the argument is presented that the friendship between these heroes in Homer's 'The Iliad' s...

A Literary Criticism and Analysis of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Reed childrens nurse, Bessie. After an argument with her cousin John, Jane was cruelly punished by being locked into what was ref...

Artists and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

In six pages this report examines the evolution of the artist as revealed in the characterization of Stephen Daedalus in A Portrai...

Comparing The Rainmaker Novel and Film

legal contemporaries, has grandiose dreams of landing for his firm "a client worth at least twenty million [and becoming] an insta...

A Jungle of Stars by Jack L. Chalker

In seven pages this novel is examined in terms of the theme of good and evil and social reflection it presents in terms of plot an...

Empowerment in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen and Medea by Euripides

they professed to love, with Medea most certainly taking the deed to great extremes. It is important for the student to understan...

Sophocles' Oedipus Trilogy, William Shakespeare's The Tempest, and Violence

In five pages this paper compares and contrasts how violence is featured in these two works of classical literature. Three source...

Morality in Bleak House by Charles Dickens and Light in August by William Faulkner

only to make the reader see. A novelist of course is supposed to show and not tell. Through showing the reader the story, a moral ...

'Young Goodman Brown' and 'The Crucible'

This is a 5 page essay that compares the characterizations of Goodman and Faith Brown and Elizabeth and John Proctor in these work...

Guilt and Innocence in Sophocles' Oedipus

As Sheppard explores the ramifications of Oedipus innocence, his argument draws in aspects of how the Greeks regarded the nature o...

Social Critic Charles Dickens in Oliver Twist

criticism of Victorian institutions as they dramatize the results of Britains Poor Law, which was passed in the early nineteenth c...

Trials Featured in Oedipus the King by Sophocles and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

The trials featured in these works are contrasted and compared in a report consisting of five pages. Two sources are cited in the...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet, William Golding's Lord of the Flies, and Their Parallels

In 6 pages the parallels that exist in these works in terms of literary similarities of allegory, metaphor, simile, irony, personi...

The Lingering Effects of War in 'Snow Falling on Cedars'

This is a 5 page essay that considers the lingering effects of World War II and its impact on the novel particularly in the charac...