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Communication Failure in 'Metamorphosis' by Franz Kafka

real motivation or interest. Therefore, to have his body match the way that he has felt about himself for a long time does not gre...

Community in Maxine Hong Kingston's 'No Name Woman' and 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker

actions related to their sense of community. A small agricultural community generally lives on the edge of survival. What holds t...

Comparing the Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne

he urges Faith to deny the Devil and look to Heaven, he suddenly finds himself alone in the forest. Although Brown has escaped the...

'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson and Symbolism

small town life where everything is simple and seemingly perfect and content. But, in reality they are nothing more than a symboli...

Insanity in Literature

In nine pages this paper examines how insanity is thematically and symbolically portrayed the short stories 'The Lottery' by Shirl...

'Mr. and Mrs. Elliot' by Ernest Hemingway

to have a baby. They tried as often as Mrs. Elliot could stand it. They tried in Boston after they were married and they tried c...

Edith Wharton's 'His Father's Son' and Point of View

third person (not a character in the story)" (Peterson elements.html). From this basic understanding of the element of point of...

'The Snows of Kilimanjaro' by Ernest Hemingway and the Depiction of the Husband

he tells her that he never loved her when she asks: Dont you love me?" to which he replies "No...I dont think so. I never have" (H...

A Comparison of The Snows of Kilimanjaro” and The Yellow Wallpaper

his insistence that he does not love her, is accounted for by the delirium which is affecting his mental faculties. However, the g...

Emma Bovary and Dmitri Gurov

less intelligent, intuitive and passionate than Emma, and yet he "receives an education as a health officer which equips him for a...

Olsen & Tyler On Being a Parent

mother into "trembling" and her breasts, as she nursed Emily, were swollen with milk, she steadfastly stuck to the feeding schedul...

Importance of the Fool Character in William Shakespeare’s King Lear: A Critical Assessment

might be King Lear, but if there were no Fool, there would be - in his opinion - no play. In Shakespearean Tragedy, Bradley procl...

Character Analysis of Mabel in D.H. Lawrence's 'The Horse Dealer's Daughter'

feels about herself. Mable, left to pretty much fend for herself after her fathers death, must struggle to maintain the household...

Othello by William Shakespeare, Direct Prose, and Dramatic Poetry

In a paper consisting of 7 pages Shakespeare's uses of iambic pentameter in his 'good' characters and spoken prose by the 'evil' c...

Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O'Neill

an affair. The whole family was corrupt and unforgiving, but most importantly their downfall came at their very own hands because...

Creative Writing Exercise on Personal Character Trait

Jason never listened. He raced after a floating leaf and lost his balance. Ron chased Jasons seemingly lifeless body as it float...

The Importance of Memory in Beloved by Toni Morrison

While they were feeling the freedom of loving themselves, they were growing in their own appreciation of each other and placing a ...

Marriage in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales -Merchant and Wife of Bath

A paper comparing and contrasting the views of marriage by two of Chaucer's characters in The Canterbury Tales, the Merchant and t...

The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen

In five pages this paper is analyzed in terms of characters and the female characters' role, symbolic elements, and themes such as...

Shakespeare's Use of Emotion in Othello and Macbeth

emotion, to act. But what is Iagos motivation? It could in fact be that he is envious of Othello. At the same time, in reviewing...

Nigerian Characters in Two Novels

commanding warrior, whose exploits had become legendary among the Igbo villagers. Unfortunately, Okonkwo was more successful on...

Film Portrayal of Schizophrenia

show the director she can be seductive. When he kisses her, she bites him. His anticipation for further sexual intimacy is never r...

Downfall of Othello

well as a "Barbary horse" (I.i.111). As this indicates, the two men are particularly repulsed at the thought of Othello and Desd...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman/The Yellow Wallpaper

A 6 page essay that discusses Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper," which continues to capture and fasci...

Character Analysis of Esteban Trueba in Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits

Author Karen Castellucci Cox notes in her literary analysis of The House of the Spirits, "Esteban speaks for an entire class and g...

Albee: "The Sandbox"

their waste, an interpretation borne out by Grandmas lines: "they ... fixed a nice place for me under the stove ... gave me an arm...

Satan & Frankenstein’s Monster

repulsive in appearance and Satan was transformed by his own evil, becoming increasing ugly as the poem proceeds. As this suggests...

Settings and Their Importance in Frankenstein

Walton, who explains the story in letters to his sister; he in turn has heard it from Frankenstein himself. This is a "framing" de...

City of God

something that happens to all the boys in this region of the city. They are clearly victims of the impoverished city as they are d...

Three of the Canterbury Tales

87). They dont see Alisoun for who and what she is, but instead act out some sort of romantic fantasies that have little to do wit...