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Complex Character of the Wife in Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Wife of Bath's Tale'

This paper examines how the Wife's complexities are portrayed by Geoffrey Chaucer in 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' in 7 pagess. Three...

The View from a Bridge by Arthur Miller

In five pages this paper examines the tragedy of the protagonist's failure to face his own feelings as portrayed in Arthur Miller'...

Babe Film and Oppression

In five pages this paper examines how animal oppression is portrayed in this 1995 children's film and also in Animal Farm by Georg...

Charles Dickens on Childhood

In seven pages the ways in which Dickens' portrays childhood during the 19th century in his classic novels Great Expectations, Oli...

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 ...

Bleak House by Charles Dickens and Representation of the Poor Class

In five pages this paper considers how the socially conscious Dickens portrayed the poor in this and in other novels. Three sourc...

Gender Roles, Photography, and Cindy Sherman

setting, however, the model would be male and dressed in a costume of the old west, complete with chaps, spurs, boots and a cowboy...

Literature and Fabric's Symbolic Uses

In five pages this paper discusses how fabric is symbolically portrayed in the plays Riders to the Sea by Synge and Trifles by Gla...

John M. Del Vecchio's The 13th Valley

to set the record straight. There were stories coming out claiming how bad American troops were in Vietnam. This infuriated me. ...

Love and Death in William Faulkner's 'Barn Burning' and 'A Rose for Emily'

The ways in which Faulkner portrays the themes of death and love in these two short stories are considered in five pages. There a...

Symbolism in Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea

In five pages this paper analyzes how loss, endurance, and religion are symbolically portrayed in this Ernest Hemingway novella. ...

Racism in the United States

This researech paper offers an overview of American racism, describing several famous incidents that portray the nature of racism ...

Gender and Race Issues in 19th Century Literature

passionately involved in the struggles of minorities and minority issues, Childs biographer, Carolyn Karcher (1998), readily admi...

Langston Hughes and Toni Morrison on Individual Choices

In five pages this paper compares Beloved by Toni Morrison with Langston Hughes' 'Montage of a Dream Deferred' in a consideration ...

Novel and Film Adaptation of The Perfect Storm

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares the book and movie versions of The Perfect Storm and how each portrays man and natu...

Chicano Family Relations in the Fiction of Rudolfo Anaya

In five pages this essay discusses how family relations are portrayed in Zia Summer and Heart of Atzlan by Rudolfo Anaya. There a...

Euripides' Medea and Ibsen's Nora

society has determined what their roles are and how long they are to enact them. Enter Nora and Medea, who both prove to have min...

The Iron Wall by Shlaim

In five pages this paper considers the U.S. role in the relationship between the Arabs and Israelis as portrayed in this foreign p...

20th Century China in Jung Chang's The Wild Swans

This paper of six pages answers 15 questions on China of the 20th century as portrayed by Jung Chang in The Wild Swans. There are...

Social Inequities According to Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, and Eugene O'Neill

just enough on the ball to attempt to rise to a higher level. However, the plays hero is not a particularly unique or sensitive i...

The Use of Figurative Language in Plath, Keats, and Layton

her own, and ultimately committed suicide in 1963, one year after completing "Lady Lazarus;" Keats was noted for his romantic natu...

American Dream's Failure in The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser, and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

This sense of optimistic euphoria was forever captured in F. Scott Fitzgeralds 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby. Its featured charact...

Epic Heroes Gilgamesh and Hercules and Violence

In ten pages this paper discusses how violence is portrayed in the heroic epics of ancient Greece and Mesopotamia. Six sources ar...

Portrayal of Families in Robert Frost's 'Home Burial' and John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation

imaginative young man. Initially, Ouisa and Flan are entertaining and doing their best to suck up to South African businessman, ...

Irish Literary Themes in 1916 by Morgan Llywelyn

conflict rages within, there are conflicts aplenty without. The passage of time also brings with it change, often initiated throu...

Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and its Psychological Effects

In five pages this paper examines how the psychological effects of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima is portrayed in Hiroshima by He...

The Language of the Land by James Stephenson

who have changed little since the Stone Age (Stephenson, 2000). This essay examines a number of issues relevant to Jemzis develo...

Religion and Morality Views of Freud, Nietzsche, Ibsen, and Dostoyevsky

In eight pages the perspectives of Nietzsche and Freud regarding morality and religion are examined as they are portrayed in Enemy...

Comparing News Stories in History

job. Though the headlines from these dates varied significantly in terms of their focus, one element was shared by all of the s...

Employees and Management in the Plays How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and Death of a Salesman

Willy is worn out, aging, and nearly at the end of his rope. But, we also note that he has perhaps not gained any significant succ...