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Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders and Education

be a gentlewoman. What this means is that she wants to support herself and not live in poverty. At one point she goes to live ...

'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...

The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller and the Character of Robert Kincaid

food as a measuring cup of personality, a leavening for plot, and an ingredient in the theme" (Kellman 435). The contradictions i...

Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening' and the Characters of Mademoiselle Reisz and Edna Pontellier

at the piano" but it may well have been the "first time she was ready, perhaps the first time her being was tempered to take an im...

Lan Cao's Monkey Bridge and Cause and Effect

based on actual wants or desires. The effect of this societal pressure causes her to refuse help and support which might otherwise...

Conflict Between Antigone and Creon in Antigone by Sophocles

the Chorus suggests that it could be the work of the gods (Sophocles). Rather than consider someone elses viewpoint, Creon begins ...

The Color Purple by Alice Walker and Celie's Self Discovery

by her contemporaries. These women will weave a rich fabric of friendship, which is symbolically referred to in the novel through...

Character Analysis of Okonkwo in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

different from most modern Western cultures. Their way of life worked for them and was ultimately destroyed with the colonists. Wi...

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...

The Street by Ann Petry

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

Princess Medea and King Gilgamesh

until finally, the creation goddesses intervene and create a primitive alter-ego for him that would keep his own in check. Only w...

Huckleberry Finn's Character

into the world and into society. He plays with different roles because he can in light of the fact that everyone thinks he is dead...

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...

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 ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening' and Idealism

An elderly pianist, Mademoiselles music arouses Ednas artistic temperament. Additionally, Edna becomes infatuated with a young man...

Revenge Theme in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

violence unless he is propelled by the heat of passion. From the beginning of the play, Hamlet has doubts concerning the morali...

Secret by Nurrdin Farah

Sholoongo is a woman transformed. She had gone to live in America and had long assumed that her "pact" with Kalaman would be hono...

'A Worn Path' by Eudora Welty and Point of View

other characters in this story perceive Phoenix, essentially judging her based upon her external characteristics. The hunter is n...

Comparing the Characters of Gilgamesh and Charlie Marlow in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

...preserve me!"(Tablet IX, Column I, 3-12). This forces him to begin to consider his own mortality, and for the first tim...

George C. Wolfe's '101 Dalmatians' and Toni Bambara's 'The Lesson'

of segregation forced me to develop an inner strength that has served me well...It was a profoundly significant thing in my life, ...

Father and Son Willy and Biff Loman in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

of how they look at the world. For the two sons this image is different. Biff is the intelligent brother who is often angered a...

Celie in The Color Purple by Alice Walker

the reader to truly understand just how strong she is: "It all I can do not to cry. I can make myself wood. I say to myself, Celie...

Jealousy in William Shakespeare's Othello

In three pages this essay analyzes Othello in a consideration of jealousy's featured role in the characterizations of the protagon...

Socrates and Odysseus

is less important than the conversation which takes place, and since the two individuals are from periods in Greek history several...

Sammy in 'A and P' by John Updike

Especially when he speaks of Stoksie, in this example: "I forgot to say he thinks hes going to be manager some sunny day, maybe in...

The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Nature

In a letter to his friend Wilhelm, dated May 4, 1771, Werther expresses regret over breaking a young woman named Lenores heart. A...

Good versus Evil in Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya

the old and sick. There was always room in the safety and warmth of la familia for one more person, be that person stranger or fri...