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Essays 541 - 570

Interpreting Fairy Tale Illustration: Cinderella

artists intrinsic complexity. Kneeling at the base of a delicate tree with head tipped upward, eyes closed and hands brought toge...

Barreca/Nighttime Fires

the children, "It was festival, carnival" (line 15). These contradictory images to how house fires are generally perceived are mad...

The Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe

a "filmy" eye, and in the narrators mind, it became an "evil" eye (Poe). The narrator, who is obviously mentally ill, decided he ...

Gender in Beowulf

readers know that despite her monstrousness, Grendels mother is considered to be human (Porter). When Grendel enters the mead-ha...

English Postcolonial Animal Tales and Gender Stereotypes

keep a minority in control (Wolfson, 1998). With this background, lets see what we can find about gender stereotypes in such tale...

Gender Relations in A Tale of Two Cities

world and symbolizes the ideal vision of a woman in a patriarchal world. This is why the embittered and lost man who is Carton lov...

Gold and Bettelheim: Fairy Tales

mother," and thinks only of her, marries her and promises to love her for all eternity, then his soul will flow into hers (Gold). ...

Atwood & Bradbury/Best Dystopian Tale

his needs" (Atwood 8). Atwood obviously feared the emerging strength of the religious far-right and saw in its rejection of rights...

Dower's Embracing Defeat

noted that the emperor had announced defeat, which meant surrender (Dower, 2001). Yet, the woman who Dower notes on the first pag...

Mark Twain’s A Dog’s Tale

she should behave. She goes to a home where she is treated very well and ultimately has a puppy of her own and this makes her life...

The Dog Ate My Disk and The Ways We Lie

to indicate that the students are not gaining a positive education in life through learning how to be moralistic or ethical in the...

A Boy, a Girl and the Loch Ness Monster

was coming, and that was the main thing. For Robbie MacDonald, it was the only thing. Robbie and Sheila had grown up together, an...

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

world, in which society is restructuring itself after the devastation of the war - a devastation which T, at least, seems to feel ...

Esther Burr's Journal and Eliza Southgate Browne's Letters

that most of her time was spent in some form of entertaining or conversation with one person or another. From this perspective t...

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and Narrative Point of View

told with the simple vocabulary and simple sentences of a young child, often fusing ungrammatical language and childrens slang tha...

Good Detective Fiction and a Consideration of The Adventures of the Speckled Band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

grounds of how it reflects the necessary criteria of a good detective story, which characteristically includes the elements of cri...

Nathaniel Hawthorne and Post Sin Lack of Mortal Salvation in 'The Minister's Black Veil' and 'Young Goodman Brown'

(Coale 43). In the story, the newlywed Brown leaves Faith, his bride of three months, to take a walk into a forest that no decent...

Tale of Kieu by Nguyen, Du

her article, Obdurate History: Dinh Q. Le, the Vietnam War, Photography, and Memory, Moira Roth has traveled back to Vietnam to le...

Nguyen Du's The Tale of Kieu

from the former Le Dynasty, which explains why Nguyen Du was unwilling to join the new government" (The Tale of Kieu: Vietnams Epi...

C.S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and the Elements of Fairy Tale

of some moral message in the end. Through danger the characters are made stronger, and they are developed more powerfully, truly p...

Critically Analyzing John Updike's Short Story 'A and P' A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF UPDIKE'S A&P

what anyone tells him at face value, though as the story wears on a touch of skepticism begins to creep in. Especially when he spe...

The Real Costs of Consumer Credit

how so many consumers have come to think of shopping and accumulating things as something of a hobby, even a passion. People ident...

Feminist Literature and Issues

in order to be educated at a missionary school since her British uncle runs the school. What happens as a result is that Tambu co...

Themes of Good and Evil in Two Works by Poe and Morrison

Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...

Morality Tale Vathek by William Beckford

indicative of a disdain for authoritarian institutions. Vathek is a powerful man who indulges in vast excesses. Beckford makes it ...

William Shakespeare's 'Romantic Revisions'

tragic reality. It comes as no surprise to note that one of the most powerfully, if not the most powerfully, tragic individual ...

Literature, Understanding, and the Lack Thereof

Verloc has used her brother, her foundation for understanding her husband dissolves and the two no longer are able to communicate....

Overview of 'The Tell Tale Heart' by Edgar Allan Poe

healthily, how calmly, I can tell you the whole story" (Poe NA). The narrator immediately informs us that something horrible and...

Symbolism in Ernest Hemingway's 'Hills Like White Elephants'

"girl" in reference to this female, a choice which would appear to indicate that she is somewhat younger than her companion yet He...

War Stories and Fear

purpose, changes due to his experience in war. In OBriens work, similar elements are shown, but not in terms of how war affects on...