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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...

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...

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, ...

Tragic Hero's Journey in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and William Shakespeare's King Lear

In five pages this paper examines how the tragic hero's journey is thematically portrayed in these plays. Three sources are cited...

The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambera, Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr., A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor, and Justice

story, "The Lesson," educates readers on the dual meaning of justice in American society, and how it is affected by income and edu...

Christine de Pizan's The Book of the City of Ladies

In six pages this landmark fifteenth century feminist text is analyzed in terms of how the author portrayed the connection between...

Epic of Gilgamesh and Relationships Between Parents and Children

In five pages this paper examines how parent and child relationships are portrayed in this epic in a consideration of Gilgamesh's ...

Zeus as a Leader in Hesiod's Theogony

Hesiod portrays Zeus as a leader due to the fact that he has authority. Wisdom is discussed as well. This five page paper has on...

History, Movies, First Knight and Jabberwocky

In five pages this essay examines how Middle Ages history and life are portrayed in the films Jabberwocky and First Knight. Two s...

TV Portrayal of Race

of a show called Wordpath, which is a 30-minute weekly public access television show about "Oklahoma Indian languages and the peop...

Family Reality TV The Cosby Show and The Brady Bunch?

get together, there was the typical conflict one would expect from step-siblings who are still wary of one another, but who know t...

The French Lieutenant's Woman, Christianity and Paganism

she stands at the coast, watching the stormy sea, hoping that her lover would return" (The French Lieutenants Woman (1981)). Fr...

Teiresias' Importance in Antigone and Oedipus

grown son would ultimately come to kill his father and marry his mother. When Oedipus was born, he was immediately abandoned on M...

Themes of Nature and Death in Simone Schwarz Bart's The Bridge of Beyond and Gabrielle Roy's The Road Past Altamont

environment, which is rare anymore, is often a very dangerous environment that can threaten ones life. This makes the reader under...

Relationship Between Paris and Helen in Homer's 'The Iliad'

a whole. According to Hector, Paris has brought ruin on his people and has allowed his lust for women to drive him to insane actio...

Native Son by Richard Wright and 'No Man's Land' of Racial Intolerance

they are granted by the patriarchal organization of American society more social intercourse with urban culture than his female ch...

'The Storm' by Kate Chopin and Marriage

the line, asking if he can remain there till the storm passes. "He expressed an intention to remain outside, but it was soon ap...

Generational Discord in The Killing Fields, Picture Bride, The Joy Luck Club, and Thousand Pieces of Gold

generational conflict, one can take example from Tans genuine connection with the Chinese heritage, eager to demonstrate that adop...

Defense of the Monster in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Monster, who is Frankensteins technological "son." While having the stature of a full-grown adult. Shelley makes it clear that the...

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and Revenge

monster and the monster does as he promised, killing Victors new wife. "Victors ignorance towards his creation, leads to the monst...

American History X Film and Portrayal of Group Norms

commit violence on anyone who is not white and protestant for any small reason. They will deliberately instigate events so as to d...

Katherine and Henry in William Shakespeare's Henry V

power was not necessarily through the might of his military, but from the popularity of a kings subjects. In Henry V, ther...

Archetypes in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Hurstons perspective of womanhood as a journey toward self discovery and ultimate independence. The student researching this top...

Ben Jonson's The Alchemist, Volpone, and Overreaching

and money. Masquerading as a commodore in an attempt to escape to Venice with all his riches, Volpone is unaware of how Voltore -...

Communism and The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

put aside old notions about social stratification as they do believe there is opportunity. Yet, at the time, things were dismal. A...

Santa Maria della Salute and Portrayals by Joseph William Mallord Turner and Atonio Canale

through brightness and shadows. With Turners painting we see a much more subtle and allusive. His forms are not concrete nor ar...

American Dream and Ernest Hemingway's Story 'A Clean Well Lighted Place' and John Ford's Film The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

sometimes the only way to achieve peace. Doniphon admires the idealism of Stoddard and the two form an unlikely bond. The movie cl...