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Comparative Analysis of Homer's 'The Odyssey' and William Shakespeare's Hamlet

out, therefore, that in the Odyssey there is a great deal of action and movement, such as the sea voyages and the way in which Ody...

Typee by Herman Melville and the Themes of Savagery and Civilization

Melville sees civilisation as exemplified by whites, but this is a civilisation which, right at the start of the novel, he rejects...

William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' and Gender Controls

In five pages this paper examines how gender conditions controlled the protagonist Emily in Faulkner's short story with reference ...

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

that tended to see women in a strictly stereotypical fashion. The following examination of Charlotte Brontes life and her mast...

Four Works of Gary Paulsen Compared

They fought and screamed and never should have been married. I can remember hiding under the kitchen table one day and just wishin...

D.H. Lawrence's 'The Rocking Horse Winner' and the Character of Paul

Oscar often refers to "filthy lucre" (Lawrence 922). His mother explains that luck is "what causes you to have money. If youre l...

Mary Shelley's Victor Frankenstein as an Extension of His Own Creation

The protagonist of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is the subject of this character analysis that includes Sigmund Freud's doubling p...

Character Analysis of Ross E. Dunn's The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveller of the 14th Century

This paper consists of 5 pages and examines how the protagonist attempted to make a living during a 29-year travelling odyssey. T...

Characterization in The Color Purple by Alice Walker

some sense out of her life. There is also the close, intimate relationship that she has with her younger sister, Nettie. T...

An Exploration of 'Sonny's Blues' by James Baldwin

deal of depth. Sonny is put in jail and one can imagine that growth takes place there. While it seems that this would occur, and t...

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and the Character of Pip

those who are less fortunate. When Pip sees a group of starving and shackled convicts, he is appalled by their plight. One convi...

Midnight's Children/Salman Rushdie

man. Saleems much beleaguered body is like an analogy of and trials and tribulations of Indian over the same period. Like India i...

Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote

service...sweep so evil a breed from off the face of the earth" (Cervantes). One of his next foes is a flock of sheep. Don Quixot...

The Divine Comedy, Man's Search for Understanding and Truth Represented by Dante

also called La Commedia (The Comedy) by Dante. In the poem, the poet Dante, travels to hell (Inferno) then purgatory (Purgatorio) ...

Hawkeye Analysis in The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

barbaric Native-American society. It was his hybrid nature that made Hawkeye somewhat of a cultural chameleon, but also m...

Cotter's England by Christina Stead

be at odds with the prevailing stereotypes concerning lesbians at this time. In the same letter, Stead writes, "I detest Lesbians;...

'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey' by Homer Compared

could live. It was on the broad shoulders of this classical hero upon which the security of society rested. While the hero walke...

Comparing 'Bartleby, the Scrivener' by Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'The Minister's Black Veil'

freely expressing their sinful temptations to the minister. The cause of Reverend Hoopers alienation, it would appear, was not an...

Freedom from Oppression and the Power of Love in Bronte's Jane Eyre

women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; th...

'Eugenie Grandet' by Honore de Balzac

In three pages this essay considers the 1833 novel by Balzac in an overview of plot that also includes a discussion of the protago...

Stephen Daedalus's Language Discovery in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

his growth toward a greater measure of understanding of the world around him. For example, his school experiences in Clongowes pre...

Paul Berlin in Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien

as happiness is more than the absence of sadness, so is peace infinitely more than the absence of war" (OBrien PG). Even after Be...

Epic Hero Luke Skywalker in Star Wars

given a task to perform and in doing so derives some sort of personal meaning from it. He may meet with a great series of misfortu...

Revenge and Jealousy Featured in Othello by William Shakespeare

as an under-current that influences all other actions. Shakespeare pulls his audiences into the experience of such dichotomy throu...

Literature and the Element of Science

The individual who has placed the ad in the paper is none other than a telepathic gorilla. Suspend judgment if you will. Call the ...

Tragic Downfall of Othello

a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by ththroat the circumcis?d do And smote him thus" (Act V. ii. 334 - 352)...

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...

'The Iliad' and 'Ramayana' Compared

for "The Story of Rama" chronicles the heroic saga of Sri Rama, who along with his three siblings Laksmana (or Lakshmana), Bharata...

The Street by Ann Petry

financially running a vegetable store. Lutie ponder their situation, "Who would have thought that this old Italian couple...would ...

Comparison of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Emma by Jane Austen

social restrictions she found particularly repugnant. First published in 1816, Emma "criticizes the manners and values of the upp...