SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Old Testament Larger than Life Characters

Essays 331 - 360

Ivan Ilych versus 'Slave Girl' Linda Brent

In one page this paper compares the characters Ivan Ilych from Leo Tolstoy's short story 'The Death of Ivan Ilych' and Linda Brent...

Madness of Hamlet

In six pages this essay examines the self destructiveness of Shakespeare's tragic character and how this life negation contributes...

Tripitaka in Wu Cheng'en's 'Monkey'

In an analytic essay consisting of five pages the Tripitaka character in Monkey is examined in terms of his representation of man ...

Society in the Novel Great Expectations

hostile, choosing to abide by his inner instinct and institute avoidance. "Better not try to brew beer there now, or it would tur...

The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes

war, he also lost the only woman who ever loved him. Fuentes has him pay for his greed and love of power in that all of the subseq...

Wilde's Dorian Gray and Art

In a paper consisting of 3 pages the relationship between life and art as reflected in the novel is considered in terms of the onl...

Comparing Salinger's Catcher with Lee's Mockingbird

This essay contrasts and compares J.D. Salinger's coming of age novel Catcher in the Rye with Harper Lee's account of a Southern c...

Life Choices in Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors

In a paper consisting of 5 pages this film is analyzed in terms of how the lies of the protagonist affect both himself and his vic...

Achieving Order in Life Through Language in 'After the Denim; and 'The Bath' by Raymond Carver

In five pages this paper discusses these two short stories in terms of how language is employed by the characters to achieve order...

David Lurie in In the Beginning by Potok

David was well aware of his shortcomings in the eyes of the robustly healthy bullies. His own frail health prevented him from tak...

Who Was Anne Frank?

In two pages the young girl who was Anne Frank is considered through her diary recollections and observations that provide compell...

Three Dimensional Heroine Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

In five pages this title character is examined in terms of her powerful characteristics of honesty, courage, and outspokenness as ...

The character of St John as portrayed in Jane Eyre

This paper looks at the role of the mysterious St John in Bronte's Jane Eyre. The two characters are presented as having lives whi...

A Comparison between Sula by Toni Morrison and The Fox by D.H. Lawrence

This 5 page paper discusses the relationship among the female characters in Toni Morrison's Sula and The Fox by D.H. Lawrence. The...

Character Destiny and Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot

one has. Thus, it would seem, based on the two stories that Eliots assertion that character is destiny is not necessarily a univer...

Eskimo by Alice Munro

In three pages this essay concentrates on some elements of the inner lives of the characters to assess how the reader is impacted ...

Martin and Nabokov in Glory

In five pages this essay compares and contrasts the character of Martin in Glory with the life of author Nabokov in a consideratio...

Comparing Elie Wiesel and Kurt Vonnegut's and Their Works about the Holocaust

outrage and sorrow. However, Vonneguts protagonist, Howard Campbell, is not precisely a victim in the Holocaust at all. He stress...

Paper Life of Ernest Hemingway

In seven pages the ways in which Hemingway's real life mirrored his characters and fiction are examined within the context of vari...

Reflections of Life in the Work of Ernest Hemingway

developed what became known as the definitive Hemingway narrative style -- dispassionate, objective and oftentimes ironic. Life i...

W.B. Yeats/An Irish Airman Foresees His Death

people of Kiltaran, there is not likely end to the war that will affect them deeply one way or the other. Furthermore, it was not ...

Kurtz in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

central point of the narrative. The company accountant is the first character to refer to Kurtz and he tells Marlow that Kurtz i...

1960s' Life and Mike Nichols' Film The Graduate

to comment on his future and to give him advice. The viewer comes to understand that Ben is expected to follow in his fathers foot...

Malcolm X's Life and Character

Muslim traded his slave-master surname for X and began prescribing militance as the only cure for his peoples ills. Then a pilgri...

Charles Dickens' Great Expectations and the Character of Pip

is Miss Havisham. He believes that she is funding his education so that he can become educated and then wealthy and then be worthy...

1956 Film Adaptation/Moby Dick

the injustice that fate as inflicted upon him, as he has pursued the whale for years, coming close numerous times, but never actu...

Chicano Author Sergio Troncoso

can be different for different people with the interpretation being subjectvie. By looking at this work there is a reflection of...

The Meaning of Life According to Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky

quite a bit about himself, he insists that he is lying. There is no point in this narrative in which the Underground Man becomes ...

Faulkner, Poe, and Chopin Bringing Characters to Life

did not allow her to be an individual. This offers us a subtle vulnerability that all people possess to some extent. And that vuln...

Ivan Ilyich and Socrates

from the fact that I realized that I knew nothing. A man of my era named Chaerephon once asked the Oracle at Delphi is there w...