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Hamlet's Character and Revenge

runs the eavesdropper through; the Hamlet who sends his school-fellows [Rosencrantz and Guildenstern] to their death and never tro...

William Shakespeare's King Lear and Love

In ten pages this paper analyzes unconditional and conditional love as it is featured in King Lear by William Shakespeare with the...

Huck Finn and Sound and Fury, A Comparison

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner. While vastly different in tone, each author addresses the fact that slavery and the le...

How Hamlet's Father Affects the Prince of Denmark's Life

no less) a mere three months later. Hamlet has been shattered by his loss and his mothers betrayal, and plunges into a period of ...

Southern Literature and Themes of Communication Lacks and Self Absorption

and even tells her grandfather that "I never dreamed [your beard] was a birds nest" (Welty, 47). Stella-Rondo had accused Sister o...

Reflection on Two Diverse Articles

This essay summarizes the highlights of two documents: a bibliographic memoir of Roger Williams Brown, father of developmental psy...

Short Stories by William Faulkner Compared

of her life. One of the children asks her whats wrong: " I aint nothing but a nigger, Nancy said. It aint none of my fault " ("Tha...

Society and the Individual in The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

and "marrying well". In the twentieth century, however, the Compsons breed a retarded child; two of the siblings have an incestuou...

Characters Analyzed in As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Character strengths and weaknesses and their family relationships are examined in this analysis of As I Lay Dying by William Faulk...

Darl as a Tragic Hero in As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

The entire story of the Bundren family is tragic with its tale of poverty in the South and a family whose members are so caught up...

Point of View in 'Barn Burning' by William Faulkner

lends variety to a work that otherwise might become monotonous. But in short stories, only one point of view is generally used, a...

William Ellery: Founding Father

in the place of Samuel Ward who was dead (Signers of the Declaration of Independence, 2009). As a founding father he becam...

Southern Literature and Communication

What is particularly interesting about these observations as they relate to such works as Carson McCullers A Member of the Wedding...

Faulkner: “The Reivers”

whats wrong, one character yells, "HES SLOW!" But Ned knows a secret: the horse will run through almost anything for a sardine! He...

Use of the Vernacular in

of the bible belt that anyone who is connected to the clergy are inherently good people when in fact clergy are human beings, subj...

Eight Works of Literary Fiction and the Influence of Social Position

- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...

Paternal Loss in Hamlet by William Shakespeare

now he is praying; And now Ill dot. And so he goes to heaven; And so am I revenged" (Hamlet III iii). He stops, however, and truly...

Nineteenth Century Surveyor and Contemporary Map Inventor William Smith

rocks carefully and diligently (University of California/Berkeley, Museum of Paleontology). While examining the rocks, Smith had ...

Biography of William Faulkner

This was only the first of many contradictions that would emerge in William Faulkner that would make his life more difficult than ...

A 'Barn Burning' Marxist Analysis

limited means to make a living. The fires he sets may be construed as the rage that burns inside of him. This arsonist is continua...

Delayed Reaction of Hamlet to Seek Vengeance for His Father's Slaying

of character. He knows that, for many reasons, his actions have consequences, but his major miscalculation is in what form they w...

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner and Italics

cohesive literary glue that holds it all together. One of the ingredients of that glue is the use of language. His particular use ...

Literature and Issues of Gender and Race

how Over three thousand die in the Macondo massacre, and the only surviving witnesses are Jose Arcadio Segundo and a small child. ...

Death of Addie Bundren in As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

death, Addie exerts control over her family because they seek--by fulfilling her last wish--to somehow make a connection with her ...

William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, and Modernism

her best friend, about Joe Starks, who is an ambitious man that soon becomes the mayor of a small town called Eatonville. But Jani...

Relationship Between Henry IV and Prince Hal

that he has mercy as well as wisdom. None of this his father sees. King Henry IV tells his son in scene ii, Act III, that familia...

Quest for the Purpose of Life in 'Absalom, Absalom!' and 'Their Eyes Were Watching God'

overrule her inherent independence as a strong, black woman by telling Phoeby she can "tell em what Ah say if you wants to. Dats ...

Toni Morrison, William Faulkner, and the Uses of Syntax and Language

cohesive literary glue that holds it all together. One of the ingredients of that glue is the use of language. His particular use ...

Values According to William Faulkner, Willa Cather, and D.H. Lawrence

sort of injustice, it would have engendered a certain amount of sympathy for him in the reader. Faulkner goes to great lengths to ...

Violence and How It Functions in the Writings of Richard Wright, William Faulkner, and John Steinbeck

who would stretch the definition to include all living beings, but then that would open the interpretation and debate to include a...