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Herman Melville's Narrative Voice

critic notes that, "Whether in a brief novella or in an epic tome, one common technique utilized by many writers is a framing of a...

An Analysis of Fitzgerald's Gatsby and Larsen's Passing

basis for Nicks disillusionment with the decadence of east coast American society (Fitzgerald 3). Gatsbys pursuit of the American ...

Researching the Poem ‘Ars Poetica’ by Archibald MacLeish on the Internet

scanned text files, featured a scanned version Frank St. Vincents important exposition of the poem that was first published in Exp...

Comparative Analysis of 2 of Kate Chopin's Short Stories

until it breaks. This inner storm mirrors the outer storm which brings Calixta and Alcee together. "When he touched her breasts t...

Society, the Individual, and Sociology

themselves. It is in adjusting to change that people lose their ground. Meaning and purpose in life is lost. Thus, clinical depres...

Homosexuality in Le Fanu's Carmilla and Wilde's Dorian Gray

the everyday eye, Dorian does not seem to age a day, nor does his beauty fade. There are several indications of a homosexual nat...

Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and the Blues of the African-American Experience

a subtle reminder particularly to African-American women of how far they had come as a race and how much further they needed to go...

Power of Language in Langston Hughes’ Poems ‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers’ and ‘Mother to Son’

human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my ...

Irony in Shirley Jackson’s Short Story, ‘The Lottery’

careful selection of names and how they reflect the personalities of the characters, and in the hypocritical nature of the charact...

Herman Melville’s Message in Moby-Dick

whale (55). Naturally, this represents the books climax, but how would Melville fill the huge writing gap between the introductio...

Discovering the Ancient World

be a study of the process of recording history, may be as important as history itself (Crawford, 1983). In other words, we might w...

Jesus and Socrates

For example, Bostick (1935) makes copious use of footnotes, drawing on the works of Plato and Xenophon, who were two of Socrates d...

Comparative Analysis of Evelyn Lau’s Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid and the Anonymously Written Go Ask Alice

she had no particular interest in helping or educating others. For Lau, her diary represented the ultimately self-expression her ...

"To Build a Fire" by Jack London and the Use of Setting as an Antagonist

chill in the air (London 143). But his canine companion knew better. He was all-too-familiar with this icy terrain, and his inst...

Gilgamesh - A Review of Symbols and Themes

one might look at the very opening lines of the epic, which address the reader, even the contemporary reader, directly and states ...

Bathcat the Warrior: A Narrative Expression of Celtic Value

grassy hollow to be found in the frozen woods to the north. Here, he was told, he and his men would encounter the undead legions o...

Exegesis of Psalm 3

the image it conjures of a king about to go into battle is accurate. In line with this position, Craigie indicates that he believe...

Spiegelman, Remarque, and Wiesel: The Transformative Quality of Violence

device to thematically distill the essence of war and genocide, present its reality in a way that is more humanistic than statisti...

Peter's Confession of Christ

was the bishop of Hierapolis and who identified John Mark as the author (Smith, 2008; NIV, 1995). Mark was also known to travel wi...

How Women Are Treated in "Sweat" by Zora Neale Hurston

refusal to come to Sykes assistance after the snake bites him represents the decline in her spirituality, the sweat of her hard wo...

Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville

metaphorically complex narrative that has been interpreted in a variety of ways. The story itself is deceptively simple. The narra...

A Moveable Feast

errors, and so kind to people that I always thought of him as a sort of saint" (Hemingway 88). This is clearly a very high claim t...

The Story of Sonny’s Blues

problem is, he and Sonny have never really understood one another; or rather, his brother has never truly understood Sonny. For So...

"We Be Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks, "The Lesson" by Toni Cade Bambara, and "Shiloh" by Bobbie Ann Mason and the American Dream

The thematic representation of the American dream in two literary genres (1 poem and 2 short stories) is discussed in 9 pages. Th...

Burmese Law Enforcement Experiences of George Orwell and How They Shaped His Views of the British Empire

Acquiescing to pressure from his father to also become a member of the Imperial Service, Orwell joined Burmas Imperial Police in 1...

Examples of Different Humor in Mark Twain

he cannot recall which. But he does remember that "I was not celebrated and I did not give the banquet. I was a Literary Person, b...

The Outsider’s Viewpoint in Literature

the experiences their protagonists have growing up as young, ethnic women in America. However, the relationship between the fictio...

Discussing Realism, Naturalism and Modernism

literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The following paper offer a description of the characteristics of...

Magical Realism and Marquez’s Death Constant Beyond Love

Garcia Marquez seriously or are they an absurdists slanted look at the world? This paper argues that even though they are often co...

Mark 4:1-20 Parable Of The Sower Exegesis & Sermon

this Gospel. This theory can be supported by the fact that Peter spent his last days in Rome and it was in Rome that Peter was mar...