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Literary Satire

In 5 pages literary satire through history is examined in a discussion of Lysistrata by Aristophanes, As You Like It by William Sh...

Social Satire in 'he Reeve's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

In six pages this paper analyzes the ironic satire of Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Reeve's Tale.' There are no other sources cited....

'The Miller's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer and Satire

In eight pages this paper examines how Chaucer employs satire to address serious issues in 'The Miller's Tale.' There are 6 sourc...

'The Flea' by John Donne

In five pages religious satire, the notion of metaphysical conceit, argument, and metaphor are all considered within the context o...

August Wilson and Leo Tolstoy

This 4 page paper compares and contrasts the protagonists of The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy and Fences by August Wilson. ...

Relationships in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

relationships. In its advocacy of deriving the goals of life from social cooperation and the elements of natural selection, the c...

Four Essays On Literature

This paper bundles four essays into one. In five pages the writer separately discusses specific questions regarding Eliot's The L...

Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient

In 5 pages this novel is analyzed in terms of how love can transcend any boundaries in a consideration of Almasy and Katharine's r...

Baudelaire's Dog, Familar vs. Foreign, and E.E. Cummings

being graphic, and sometimes that takes getting used to as well. That same quality of foreign-ness can be applied to the work of ...

Mosca and Volpone's Relationship in Volpone by Ben Jonson

In 5 pages this analysis of Volpone by Ben Jonson focuses upon the interaction between Mosca and Volpone as well as the author's u...

The Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift

In five pages this research paper examines the 1704 text The Tale of a Tub, a religious satire by Jonathan Swift. Four sources ar...

The Golden Age Comedy of Voltaire And Moliere

For many historians, the comedy styles and content of the works of Moliere and Voltaire represent the pinnacle of 18th century Fre...

A Review of Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

A 6 page analysis of the societal message being presented in this work. Plot and characters are outlined and the emphasis that th...

The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

In five pages this essay examines Lewis's use of humor and satire in his depiction of how people can be led away from a godly path...

C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters

In five pages this paper critically reviews The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis in terms of the author's values and how they manif...

Parody in Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Miller's Tale'

This paper discusses the parodying of courtly love in Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Miller's Tale' in five pages. One source is cited i...

Cocksure by Mordecai Richler and Satire

In five pages the 2 levels of satire featured in Cocksure by Mordecai Richler are examined. Three sources are listed in the bibli...

Contemporary Literature and the Maintenance of Identity

In five pages this essay examines maintaining identity in the first 50 years of the 20th century in a consideration of such litera...

Jonathan Swift's Satire in A Tale of the Tub, The Battle of the Books, A Modest Proposal, and Gulliver's Travel

In a discussion of these texts consisting of eight pages this paper analyzes the satire of Jonathan Swift. Four sources are cited...

Characters of Corin and Adam in William Shakespeare's As You Like It

In five pages the social satire portrayal of these characters and how Shakespeare used them to poke fun at the elite's pretentions...

Uses of Satire in 'Body Rituals of the Nicerema' by Horace Miner and Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

In five pages these works are contrasted and compared in terms of how each author employed satire. Three sources are cited in the...

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...

Examination of Courtly Love

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

Ivan Klima's My First Loves and J.G. Ballard's Empire of the Sun and the Incarceration Experiences of Miriam and Jim

the recurring theme throughout Empire of the Sun, a theme so forceful and perceptive that the reader goes away with a distinctly d...

Voltaire, Moliere and Social Satire

money, not religion. Organ, a simplistic, but good man, has allowed Tartuffe to come into his home and take dominance over his fam...

Definition of Satire

science using comic motifs borrowed from writer such as Rabelais, Shakespeare, and Swift (Cook, 1995). The student researching thi...

Alexander Pope's 'Epistle to Burlington'

the expense of building the latest craze in architecture -- "...to punish awkward pride,/ Bids Bubo build, and send him such a gu...

Comparative Analysis of Lear's The Jumblies and Carroll's Jabberwocky

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe(Carroll, 4)....

Miguel de Cervantes Life, Writings, and Social Values

meaningful and yet is portrayed as ridiculous. Cervantes was known as a maverick and for his satirical representations of the soc...

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...