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Essays 1831 - 1860

Revenge and Justice in House of Atreus

A conceptual analysis of the House of Atreus story focuses on revenge and justice in 5 pages. Two sources re cited in the bibliog...

'Indian Camp' by Ernest Hemingway and the Theme of Coming of Age

may have relevance to the overall plot. What seem to exude from this short story are the elements of pain and fear....

Fathers and Sons in Ernest Hemingway's Nick Adams Series

This paper examines how the relationships between fathers and sons are depicted in Hemingway's Nick Adams stories in ten pages wit...

Comparative Analysis of 'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson and 'Barn Burning' by William Faulkner

and simplistic style she employs. "The lottery was conducted--as were the square dances, the teen club, the Halloween program--by...

A look at The House on Mango Street by Cisneros

up being a house that was "crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in" (4). It is smal...

Rain Forests and Fictional Newira People

In five pages this fictional overview of a rain forest group includes the people's story of creation, religion, economics, and liv...

Book of Job, Righteousness, and Suffering

In seven pages this paper discusses righteousness and suffering within the context of Job's biblical story. Two sources are liste...

The Decameron and The Canterbury Tales Parallels

In five pages this paper examines the parallels in these collections of stories especially as they relate to the charcoal of Friar...

South Africa Setting for a Fictional Story

some people spend their whole lives asserting that innate desire; it is this quest for improved social, economic, political and cu...

Zora Neale Hurston's 'The Gilded Six Bits' and Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use'

are putting their own histories together, and finding out about who they really are. Mamas relationship with her two daugh...

The River Between by Ngugi wa Thiongo

independence of British rule and the postcolonial and postimperial themes of independence are consistent through "The River Betwee...

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Summarized and Analyzed

insanity, as she becomes progressively obsessed with the rooms wallpaper, its "sprawling, flamboyant patterns committing every art...

An Analysis of Adam and Eve

powerful persuasiveness to lead man astray, the consequences of disobeying God and the subsequent struggle of all humanity. It is ...

The Feminist Literary Works of Mary Wilkins Freeman

are powerfully illustrative of the claim that many female writers of the time used the ghost story as a means of examining, indire...

Tim O'Brien's 'How to Tell a True War Story,' Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown' and the Importance of Setting

a sense of apprehension. As he looks back to see her watching him as he rounds the corner by the meeting house he vows that thing...

Understanding of Spirituality and Popoh Vuh the Bible

When we consider the Popol Vuh we see that this is an ancient Mayan text that has many stories and tales. Further more it...

Tricksters in Joel Chandler Harris' Brer Rabbit Stories and in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

This paper contrasts and compares how the trickster is presented in Joel Chandler Harris' Brer Rabbit stories and in Mark Twain's ...

Ending of Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

In five pages this research paper analyzes the controversial ending of Chaucer's work with the position taken that it is inconclus...

Literary Comparison of Graham Greene's 'The Destructors' and D.H. Lawrence's 'The Rocking Horse Winner'

concerned with the cultural deterioration which was inevitable after the wars catastrophic destruction. Two of these authors most...

Sherwood Anderson's 2 Stories in Winesburg, Ohio

Ini five pages this paper examines the theme of the grotesque that is featured in the Tandy and Hands stories in Winesburg, Ohio. ...

Reading as a Form of Resistance

imagine a more severe disparity of power than the one that exists in present-day Iran since its revolution and the institution of ...

A Cycle of Abuse

all her fault. Early in their marriage she became pregnant, and he was extremely unhappy about the child. He wanted to become esta...

Edgar Allan Poe: His Works and His Life

or they commit murder and allow us to watch, as is the case in "The Tell-Tale Heart." Its always tempting, in a first-person nar...

Storytelling: A Gathering of Old Men" and "The Joy Luck Club"

Communism, many in this new generation of Chinese-Americans wanted nothing more than to distance themselves as far as possible fro...

The Concept of the "Other" in Alcott and Davis

and never will-even though hes making a lot of money. The Other, then, is someone who is not one of us. And having defined them on...

Natural Selection and Stories by Bellow and Gold

improved in a corresponding degree with its competitors, it will soon be exterminated" (Darwin). This then is the basic of Darwins...

The Relationship Between Technology And Human Freedom

minds and bodies has become somewhat of a hobby with the presence of such technology as mood-altering drugs and cosmetic surgery (...

Text and Illustrations in “Alice in Wonderland”

illustrations in the first chapter: the rabbit with the watch, Alice finding the door, Alice looking after the rabbit as he scurri...

Napoleon Bonaparte: The Influences on Him and How He Influenced the World

might say in fact that he was slightly ahead of his time. Yet, in addition to having been an important figure and brilliant strate...

Three Versions of “Madame Bovary”

of her character. Just after she marries Charles, Flaubert tells us that before they had married she thought she was in love, but ...