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Plath & Wharton/Society’s Expectations for Women

Jar was published in 1961 and Plath committed suicide just two years prompted a New York Times critic to question if it was even p...

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...

William Faulkner, Stephen Crane, and Family Values

In 5 pages the young protagonists in Faulkner's 'Barn Burning' short story and Crane's Maggie A Girl on the Streets novel are con...

Edna Pontellier and the Character Crafting of Kate Chopin in The Awakening

In five pages this research paper examines how Chopin carefully crafted protagonist Edna Pontellier to be the central focus of her...

'The Lightning Rod Man' by Herman Melville

In five pages this short story is analyzed in terms of contrasting points of view between the salesman of lightning rods and a pro...

Confessions of Felix Krull by Thomas Mann

In four pages this paper presents a character analysis of the protagonist in this work by Thomas Mann. There are no other sources...

Classification of a Tragic Hero and Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

In five pages this research paper discusses the tragic hero classification as applied to Arthur Miller's Willy Loman common man pr...

Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, Albert Camus' The Stranger, and Heroism

In five pages these heroic protagonists are compared in terms of their differences and how they reflect the authors' quite differe...

Face of an Angel by Chavez

In five pages this novel's protagonist is the central focus with comparisons to the depiction of Latin American culture to America...

Comparative Romantic Analysis of Young Werther and Emma Bovary

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the protagonists of Werther and Emma Bovary in the Romantic novels Johann Wolfgang...

Jake Barnes in The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

In five pages Hemingway's impotent protagonist particularly in terms of his complicated and sexually torturous relationship with L...

Critiquing Literature's Treatment of Age and Youth

In a paper of five pages the youth and age of protagonists in Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea and A Clean, Well Lighted...

Four Dickens' Characters Compared

In a paper consisting of 5 pages the transformations of protagonists in four works of Charles Dickens are compared in an examinati...

Strong Women in Ellen Glasgow's Barrow Ground and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God

In six pages this essay compares and contrasts these two female authors' depiction of strong women protagonists in their respectiv...

Tragically Flawed Heroes in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe and Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

This paper contrasts and compares the tragic flaws of Achebe and Sophocles' protagonists in 5 pages. There are no other sources l...

Crying of Lot 49 by Pynchon and Paranoia

In three pages this paper examines protagonist Oedipa Maas' paranoia and argues that it is an understandable reaction given the po...

Tragic Hero Okonkwo in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

life determined or was it the result of free will? In establishing the answer to this question, it is essential that one understa...

Action or Inaction in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

In five pages this paper evaluates whether the protagonist of William Shakespeare's play represents a man of action or if inaction...

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett and the Two Halves of One Identity Represented by Didi and Gogo

In five pages this paper discusses the complementary aspects of protagonists Vladimir and Estragon in a consideration of how they ...

Literature and Social Outcasts

In seven pages this paper social outcasts Daisy Miller, the protagonist featured in the title of Henry James' novella and Holden C...

Marx Brothers' Duck Soup and King Lear by William Shakespeare

In five pages this report compares Groucho Marx' character Rufus T. Firefly in the 1933 film Duck Soup with William Shakespeare's ...

Granny's Last Days in 'The Jilting of Granny Weatherall' by Katherine Anne Porter

In 5 pages this paper examines how the protagonist planned to die with dignity in Katherine Anne Porter's 1939 short story. There...

Identity of Pip's Benefactor Revealed in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

In five pages Chapter XXXIX of Dickens' novel is examined in the text passage that reveals the convict Magwitch to be the financia...

An Analysis of Conde's, I,Tituba, Black Witch of Salem.

the concept of meaning, the journey of understanding has come to represent myriad things to myriad people, ultimately rendering an...

'Word for Word by Ingeborg Bachmann

In five pages this short story is analyzed in terms of title, plot, theme, and mood with emphasis upon the protagonist. There are...

Women's Roles in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House and George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion

In seven pages this paper compares protagonists in each play in a consideration of what they reveal about women's roles. Two sour...

Character Analysis of Hamlet

In five pages this paper analyzes Shakespeare's tragic protagonist in terms of the Prince's godlike view of himself. One source i...

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...

Comparative Analysis of Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad and The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

In three pages the protagonists and their stories featured in these two novels are contrasted and compared. There are no other so...

Comparing and Defining Tragic Heroes

This 5 page paper compares three tragedies and their protagonists: Oedipus from Oedipus Rex, Macbeth from Macbeth and Odysseus fro...