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Religion and John Updike

This essay focuses on three works of John Updike, which are his novel A Month of Sundays and his short stories "Wildlife" and "Far...

Weston and Eliot

how it results in the wasting of the land, which results from the hero failing to ask the right questions (Weston 18). The theme...

Romance in the Sense of Medieval Debt and Obligation

of the debt and obligations that put opposing pressures on it, sending it reeling toward its inevitable conclusion--calamity. ...

Cinema and the Depiction of Drug Use

This essay consists of nine pages and discusses how the U.S. romance with the use of drugs has been transferred onto celluloid thr...

A Psychological Perspective on Wuthering Heights

This essay draws on scholarship to support the contention that it is Cathy and Hareton's romance rather than Catherine and Heathcl...

Romance and Epic Characteristics

individual stories into the tapestry that became his famous epics. He did not create the stories; they had come from hundreds of y...

Medieval Women's Role in The Romance of Tristan and Beowulf

In five pages this paper examines the role of women in Medieval society in a literary analysis of The Romance of Tristan and Beowu...

The Classic Film Casablanca

The writer explores the plot, characters, setting and other elements of the 1942 classic film Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart...

King John's Character in King John by William Shakespeare

In ten pages a character analysis of King John as featured in Shakespeare's play of the same name is presented. Six sources are c...

Zoya by Danielle Steel

In five pages Steel's romance novel is critically assessed in terms of its theme and literary elements, which leave much to be des...

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

In ten pages this paper presents the argument that this first romance novel of the American frontier reflects in its characterizat...

Sophia Peabody and Nathaniel Hawthorne's Marriage

"transcendentalist." This was an idealistic philosophy influenced by the German writers Immanuel Kant and F. W. Schelling. It pr...

Arthurian Romances of Cretien De Troyes

and determines to set himself right in his wifes eyes. He leaves the court, taking only Enide for company, and warns her not to sp...

Myth, Tragedy, and Romance

blind lord Dhritarashtra so much that she voluntarily bandaged her eyes, as she vowed that she would not enjoy anything that she c...

Examination of Courtly Love

where a distinct division of power was responsible for the tapering affect that cascaded throughout each districts diversity of au...

Doomed Romance Between Tony Manero and Stephanie Mangano in the Film Saturday Night Fever

2001 Disco, a place where he and his friends are converted from lower-class boys into "The Faces," i.e., masculine dancers who can...

Later Plays of William Shakespeare and How the Bard's View of Romance Changed

especially in terms of the passions that exist between men and women. Fantasy Romance When Shakespeare uses his characters in "...

Karen Van Der Zee's 'A Secret Sorrow'

else who contrives to tell the tale. This is part of the use of language by an author. The other influence on voice, it can be sai...

Romanticism in the Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne

powerful issue. While Puritan thought had gotten the country this far, "Religion...was also ready for romanticism and its kind of ...

An Ethical Exploration

come forth (Honderich, 1995). The Epicureans and Stoics had played an important role in the philosophical tradition (1995). Epicur...

Chivalry Changes in Literature

women... Defend the weak and innocent... / Fight with honor... / Avenge the wronged. / Never abandon a friend, ally, or noble caus...

Arthurian Romance

In five pages this paper assesses the strengths and weaknesses of 3 selections from the James Wilhelm edited edition of The Romanc...

Chaucer and His Characters

In five pages The Canterbury Tales are considered in terms of what they reveal about the author, his compassion, humor, thoughts a...

3 Selections from The Romance of Arthur

and simultaneously down plays the role of the warrior in medieval narrative (Wilhelm 283). This is evident from the beginning of...

Don Quixote by Kathy Acker

have the abortion, I was reading Don Quixote. Because I couldnt think, I just started copying Don Quixote. Then I had all these pi...

Medieval Narratives, the Picaresque, Realism, and Romance

the underlying meaning of the narrative is contained within the incidents which occur in the development of the story (Frye, 1963)...

Film Analysi of 'White Palace'

This essay consisting of six pages that claims the seriousness of the subject matter conforms to the Romance/Drama genre but is no...

Establishing a Genre Movie in 'Singin' In The Rain'

This 9 page essay considers how the theatrical presence in the film is developed stylistically through textural characteristics of...

Cynicism, Romance, and Annie Hall by Director Woody Allen

In six pages this paper examines the themes of cynicism and romance within the context of this 1977 Academy Award winning film Ann...

Matthew Arnold's Portrayal of Tristan and Iseult's Romance

with thee; I will watch thee, tend thee, soothe thy pain; Sing thee tales of true, long-parted lovers, Joind at evening of t...