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Themes of Good and Evil in Edgar Allan Poe

- Chapter 4 - The Romantic Period, 1820-1860: Fiction). Poe seemed to regard society and the Industrial Revolution in particular ...

Italian Literature and the Themes of Escape, Alienation, and Entrapment

first the expulsion from the tennis club, then from the fascist party, then academic anti-Semitism, then more and more direct insu...

Elements and Themes of Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle

homestead and did not have a job, but he was a good and kindly man, and in that there are admirable qualities of a husband. But, t...

Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie and Escape

at home. He has to find some way to escape without destroying his family the way his father had sixteen years ago. It is for this ...

Trilogy of J.R.R. Tolkien and Identity

be a journey towards finding himself once again. Now, this is not to say that he will ever become what he once was, for this is im...

Temptations in C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters

thinking about and towards that which we shouldnt. The manner which he does so is pure stealth. Screwtape is delighted, for exam...

Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles and Denial

As mentioned before, the first edition of The Martian Chronicles was written in 1950, a time during which the Cold War was startin...

Kawabata's 'Beauty and Sadness' and Pa Chin's 'Family'

strongly influenced by foreign attitudes and ideas, and undergoing some difficulty in reconciling these new cultural parameters wi...

Environmentalist Paul Shepard's Nature and Madness

that covered human ecology and the so-called "deep ecology" movement. Madness and exploitation Once upon a time, according...

Analysis of 'Desert Places' by Robert Frost

contemporaries, Frost sees no meaning in nature. It is simply emptiness. There is no God there, no Creator, just emptiness. In the...

Analysis of Emily Dickinson's Poetry

The truths of our lives are such that we often see only a part for a time and perhaps even forever. Even those truths...

Contemporary Influence of the Myth of Pandora's Box

has "opened Pandoras Box." In addition to the nomenclature of Pandoras Box that has entered into todays society as a descr...

Martin Scorsese's 'Raging Bull'

It is likely that DiNiro, a highly acclaimed actor put a lot of himself into the film and also Scorcese was brilliant as usual. Go...

Macbeth by William Shakespeare and the 'Dark' Theme of Revenge

the result of the action he has taken and that such "psychic" revenge is having a far more powerful impact on him than any possibl...

Discussing Some of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

in turn seduce the wife and/or daughter of the miller. In the end a ridiculous fight breaks out wherein the students seem to win, ...

Robert Stone's Dog Soldiers

In a paper consisting of 5 pages this novel is examined in terms of whether or not it should be considered a work of art based upo...

Deliverance by James Dickey

The four men are tackling the wilderness, in the form of a river in North Georgia, and...

Native American Literature

especially true in Love Medicine, where the abandoned son attempts to brew a love medicine for his grandfather. However, he gets s...

'Shooting an Elephant' by George Orwell

of the perseveration and thought, but he does shoot it. The villagers immediately strip it of meat and ivory - of everything they...

Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights and the Supernatural

involuntarily. I started: my bodily eye was cheated into a momentary belief that the child lifted its face and stared straight int...

George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion

she must attend an ambassadors party and again pass as part of Englands elite. These hurdles seem small in comparison to the hurdl...

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

bombardier, Yossarian. It is as the Chaplain believes: "there was really no way of knowing anything ... not even that there was no...

Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Irony

depicting what he discovered about each of the victims. The first of these characters is the Marquesa, who is the daughter of a we...

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

class. It may not even be that the author attempts to make it about that, but it is there in the lifeblood of the play and somethi...

Righteousness versus Sin

days would come when God would make a new covenant that would offer "total" forgiveness (Jere. 31: 31-34). The writer of Hebrews ...

Oakes's Becoming Good American Schools

tradition, particularly the tension between the very powerful concept of and drive for individualism and the ideals of civic virtu...

'Female Monster' in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

the position and the importance of the position, played by the female monster. In the main character, Victor Frankenstein, we a...

Poetic Theme of Carpe Diem

see their beauty, and youth, start to fade. This idea is reiterated and emphasized in the second verse, which speaks of the suns q...

Lorraine Hansberry's 'A Raisin in the Sun' and Eternal Hope

fact deliberately so. Hansberry does not leave it there, however. Though the play seems to be going headlong in that direction fo...

Prostitution and Perceptions of the 18th Century

of friendship and acceptance brings the woman to the point where she feels remorse and wants to repent. She begins to cry and apo...