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The Film 'Titanic' from a Formalist Perspective

heroes (or heroines) epic journey in self-discovery and personal awareness and understanding of the world in which he or she exist...

Journey in The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty

In eight pages the journey motif in terms of self discovery quest is examined within the context of this novel by Eudora Welty tha...

Morality, Relationships, and Motivations in Works of Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In five pages a comparison between these two authors and the depiction of morality, relationships, and motivations are considered ...

Ibsen's A Doll's House, Kafka's Metamorphosis, and Human Limitation

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the works by Henrik Ibsen and Franz Kafka in a consideration of each author's pres...

A Doll's House, Oedipus, Othello, and Family Conflicts

has heard rumors about the how his new wifes (his mothers) husband was killed and he is investigating it. He slowly finds hints th...

Self-Realization and the Hero’s Quest in ‘Beowulf,’ ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,’ and ‘Everyman’

the heros quest is self-realization, with the glory being more internal than external, the awakening of inner strength and self-kn...

Various Quotations and their Meaning

This essay is made-up of eleven mini-essays, which all offer explanation of a quote taken from great works of literature by Virgin...

The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy

one part of the dying process involves anger. However, in this case, Ivan is seemingly too extreme for his behavior to be explaine...

The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy

of contrast, that it is freedom that makes the difference in a man, freedom and experience, not class or social status. Tolstoy p...

Characters by Henrik Ibsen and Fydor Dostoevsky and Self Deception

but she doesnt seem to realize it. One of the very first scenes between them the reader realizes that he is going to be a dominee...

Tragic Personality of Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

of this play, we find Ibsens comments for what he called his "modern-day tragedy," He says, "There are two kinds of moral law, tw...

Self Esteem and Bird Imagery in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

In six pages this essay considers the connection between Nora's self esteem and the bird imagery Ibsen employs in A Doll's House. ...

Pope Leo XIII/On the Condition of the Working Class

In this paper, the writer examines Pope Leo XII's text "On the Conditionof the Working Class," in which, Leo posits a qu...

Masculinity in Works by T.S. Eliot and Henrik Ibsen

This paper compares how masculinity is portrayed in 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' by T.S. Eliot and in A Doll's House by H...

Heartless Women in the Works of Henrik Ibsen and Charles Dickens

quite clear that Edith has just cause to feel alienated from her husband and her marriage from its inception. In the first half of...

Strong Women in the Works of Henrik Ibsen and Sophocles

for bearing her brother in accordance with the dictates of tradition and Greek religious practice. Citing feminist histori...

Artistic Expressiveness

ability to move on, or to move forward. I am suggesting that his preoccupation with death and decay, clouded or immobilized his ...

"The End of Democracy?"

into the Constitution, thus making it impossible to legislate against virtually anything-"doctor-assisted suicide? Or drug use? Or...

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

dying and then the death itself that show the reader the truths he discovers. He observes his life, what it has been, while he is ...

Healthcare: The Death of Ivan Ilyich

unnecessary, and the look of importance which implied that if only you put yourself in our hands we will arrange everything - we k...

Ivan Ilych

unpleasant an endeavor that they simply dispense with it as hastily as possible; they make small talk as effortless as eye-blinkin...

Contextual, Cultural, and Historical Influences on Henrik Ibsen’s 1879 Social Drama, A Doll’s House

of Norway. Interestingly, Ibsen observed a year before the completion of A Dolls House in his text Notes for a Modern Tragedy, "T...

Women’s Refusal in Euripides’ Medea and Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

to her on the basis of her sex. To further complicate her situation, she was an exile from her primitive Colchis homeland, forced...

Blinded by Class in 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich' by Leo Tolstoy

of their husband and friend. Tolstoy wrote of Ivan and his co-workers, "He had been ill for some weeks with an illness said to be...

Concepts Relating to Socrates and Plato

In five pages this paper examines concepts featured in 'Myth of the Cave' and The Apology and also considers 'The Death of Ivan Il...

Nora Helmer in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House and Edna Pontellier in Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening'

In six pages these two female protagonists are contrasted and compared with their respective self images also considered. There a...

Men in Henrik Ibsen's Social Dramas Hedda Gabler and A Doll's House

partner. He makes frequent animal comparisons to his wife, referring to her as "my little lark" (43) or "my squirrel" (44). Thes...

Civil Disobedience Perspectives of Leo Tolstoy and Mahatma Gandhi

In eight pages this paper compares the approaches to civil disobedience by Mahatma Gandhi and Leo Tolstoy noting various differenc...

Feminist Analytical Comparison of Sophocles' Antigone and Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House

father who controlled every aspect of her life. When she married bank employee Torvald Helmer, she was merely exchanging a father...

Symbolism, Symbols, and Themes in Jean Anouilh's Antigone and Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House

standing up rights and truth. In Henrik Ibsens play "A Dolls House" there are many symbols which represent different aspect...