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Literary Portrayals of Lost Innocence

to a degree and ultimately comes to recognize that there is indeed a certain undercurrent of evil in the world. In doing so he de...

Ancient Rome's Legal System

both the military and his citizens. This power was called jus vitae aut necis meaning the power of life or death. This is not a re...

Styles of Making Legal Decisions

who also figure prominently in the decision-making process by virtue of the arguments they offer for courts consideration and the ...

Innocence and Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye

Antolini, a man who is not innocent. In presenting this examination we will illustrate how Holden is innocent in the face of exper...

Crime Fiction and William Shakespeare's Hamlet

or a devil that has assumed the shape of his father in order to lure him into sinful acts. Furthermore, there is a third option, w...

Lolita's Innocence

innocence. The ideal, at least the American ideal, is centered on youth. Lolita is young but may not be the innocent that Humber...

William Shakespeare's Conflicted Hamlet

father speaking to him, or a devil that has assumed the shape of his father in order to lure him into sinful acts. Furthermore, th...

2 Books on Pennsylvania's Main Line Slayings

the murder was another teacher, Bradfield, who had been in a relationship with Susan. She had recently taken out a life insurance ...

Comparing Chloe and Daphnis to Callirhoe and Chaereas

Daphnis." Their attraction for each other occurs only when each of them is confronted by new circumstances -- Chloe by the sight o...

Nelle Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

and illustrating that we are all a curious mix of devil and divine. During the 1930s, Lee illustrates the tensions that existed be...

5 Novels and Questions Answered

through different characters" (p. 268). While this theme is worked out principally through Newland Archers yearning for the "free"...

Guilt or Innocence of Santiago Nasar in The Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

virginity before she marries Bayardo San Rom?n. To ascertain the guilt of innocence of Nasar the events need to be considered and ...

Nora Helmer's Innocence in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House

husband Torvald, belittle their women and define their mates based on their potential as a companion, housekeeper, and the ability...

Ursula K. LeGuin's A Wizard of Earthsea

would be punished and powerfully dismissed from the realm of wizards. This is based on the assumption that they "knew better" and ...

Apology by Plato and Innocence

fact that they were poets made them think that they had a perfect understanding of all other subjects, of which they were totally ...

Contemporary American Novel

Penn Warren, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and The Age Of Innocence by Edith Wharton. All of these novels ...

Childhood in The Passion by Jeanette Winterson

In five pages this paper examines childhood and its representation of innocence and hope as depicted in The Passion by Jeanette Wi...

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton and Renunciation

In five pages this paper examines how renunciation is emphasized in the social structure and in 3 major characters of The Age of I...

Language in The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

In six pages this paper discusses language as it depicts vulnerability and innocence in Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. Six ...

Guilt and Innocence in Sophocles' Oedipus

As Sheppard explores the ramifications of Oedipus innocence, his argument draws in aspects of how the Greeks regarded the nature o...

Innocence Lost In Bowen's Novel, Death of the Heart

This paper examines Elizabeth Bowen's novel in terms of how the characters respond to loosing innocence and disillusionment. This...

Characters Pyle and Tunner in The Quiet American and The Sheltering Sky

These novel characters are contrasted and compared in five pages with their responsibility for suffering and innocence evaluated. ...

Persuasion in 'Bernice Bobs Her Hair' by F. Scott Fitzgerald

it hung in dark-brown glory down her back" (Fitzgerald bernice.html). Bernice realizes that she needs to stand out even mor...

Innocence in Washington Square and Daisy Miller by Henry James

pursue her -- if not from a distance. It could be argued that he was at battle with himself in that he wanted to be with Daisy, b...

Was Lizzie Borden Innocent or Guilty?

In seven pages this paper assesses the guilt or innocence of Lizzie Borden in the murders of her father and stepmother based upon ...

The Nature of Radical Innocence in Literary Depiction

This research paper examines Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and how the characterization of this novel's main character denies thi...

Conflict and Innocence in Montana 1948 by Larry Watson

a summer, again this is reminiscent of most childhood memories that the reader may have, apart from specific seasonal memories in ...

Analysis of the 'Closet Scene' from William Shakespeare's Hamlet

In eight pages this research paper analyzes the closet scene in terms of what it reveals about Queen Gertrude's innocence or guilt...

Continued Application and Social Trends Regarding the Death Penalty

In eight pages death row inmates and issues of their innocence are incorporated in a discussion of the death penalty in terms of i...

Eliot Asinov's '1919'

shed new light on the literary masterpiece....