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Essays 1981 - 2010

Prejudice and Slavery in Benito Cereno by Herman Melville

trouble from the start. Upon seeing another ship which he believes is in trouble, he decides he must go and offer his help. Inst...

A Letter Home from a Soldier in Henry V's Army

country is aware of how, as prince, King Harry caroused. However, it is clear that he has foresworn his former ways. Prior to the ...

Analysis of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

(51)" (Paulsell 81). It is in these regards that Paulsell argues for Huxleys use of light: "In this synthetic world Huxley esch...

Marquez's No One Writes the Colonel

His wife does not seem to be well and is anxious all the time about what is to become of them. Obstinately refusing to believe tha...

Growing Up in Frances H. Burnett's The Secret Garden and L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

with the color of Oz, which is lush and green. In Oz, Dorothy has many adventures, but keeps working to find a way to get back ho...

Edgar Allan Poe's 'Fall of the House of Usher'

of food, loud noises upset him, strong scents, such as from flowers disturbed him. In every sense of the word, he was neurotic. Us...

Christina Rossetti's 'Goblin Market'

a child will enjoy it to some extent, but it is safe to say that this poem was not intended for the young, though it may very well...

Self-Improvement In The Writings of Benjamin Franklin and Frederick Douglass

to promote his ideas being a printer and prospering in his business, his actions also promoted his ideal for constant improvement ...

Visions of Death in Emily Dickinson's Works

traumatic experience that the narrator has been through could very well be death. It is interesting to not the way that Dickinson ...

Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop

the people that they are there to convert, that they find peace for themselves, and are able to build a presence for the Church wi...

John Guare's Landscape of the Body

killed, Betty gets involved in a con game run by a transvestite named Raulito and takes the Rosalies place as a porno queen. Bert,...

Gogol's Dead Souls

to be changed. Unfortunately, though technology seems to advance, human relationships and nature does not seem to advance. ...

Mythology and Short Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

journey, he prefers to run from the prophecy. He thinks he is doing the right thing, much like Ruebens belief that he is doing the...

Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Invisibility

went through the novel in blindness, and illustrate how that also incorporates the reality of self-denial and lack of, as well as ...

Jeanne Watkatsuki Houston's Farewell to Manzanar

fit into the structure of a country that essentially considers her Caucasian, to a point, and her familys adherence to their Japan...

Analyzing The Bacchae by Euripides'

before establishing their own enclave in the Cithaeron wilderness. Young King Pentheus vows to keep his empire intact and dedicat...

Literary Analysis of The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

length on the hard bricks"(Baum). This line from Baums book indicates that Baum has some particular point to make when he chooses...

Mercy, Goodness, and Simplicity and the Films of Frank Capra

himself because of his innocence, in many ways they begin to feel protective of the character, in the same type of way that a pare...

Kesey Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

However, if the book only presented this anti-establishment theme, then it would never have had the complexity and depth which hav...

Brian Friel's Play Translations

his students have dropped out. There are also two officers who come to do their duty. One is captivated by the culture and the pe...

Ernest Hemingway's 'Hills Like White Elephants' and the Topic of Abortion

it was: "Well be fine afterward. Just like we were before" (Hemingway NA). She wants to know how he is so sure and he replies that...

Auguste Rodin's Bulghers of Calais and The Kiss

anatomy and movement with special attention to the bodys surfaces, saying, "The sculptor must learn to reproduce the surface, whic...

Comparing Flannery O'Connor and Anton Chekov

His narratives, rather than having a climax and resolution, are a thematic arrangement of impressions and ideas" (Anonymous Anton ...

Character Analysis of the Prince in Giuseppe Lampedusa's The Leopard

be the case for Lampedusas novel which is set in Sicily, Italy during the 1860s, in the times when Garibaldi campaigned to unite t...

Comparative Analysis of Juan Rulfo's Pedro Paramo and Jose Donoso's El Lugar Sin Limites

determined to find identity. La Manuela lives there with her daughter la Japonesita. We see a powerful sense of hope, as well as...

Immigrant Experiences and Angel Island

Before actually describing the art and poetry that came out of detainees from Angel Island, a look at the locations history would ...

Mikhail Bulgakov's Heart of a Dog

entertain with his biting sarcasm. The author has a long history of reaching out and inviting his audience to experience with him...

'Trial by Combat' by Shirley Jackson

In five pages this short story examines the theme of identity within the context of this short story. Four sources are cited in t...

Man v. Nature in The Milagro Beanfield War by John Nichols

with immediate commercial success, however, it was later transferred to screen with a film adaptation, indicating the real value t...

'The Trial' by Franz Kafka

to deserve such cruel treatment from the authorities" (Ebert 914072.html). In a very short synopsis of the story we find "Josef...