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Oedipus and Antigone

her. Antigone The second question involves characters in the story of Antigone. The characters under discussion are Antig...

Hannibal Lecter as Hero

a woman-suit out of women (using their skin)-the ultimate in objectification" (Vorndam). Lecter is initially contemptuous of Starl...

The Odyssey by Homer: Penelope

is important for it illustrates one of the reasons why the hero is determined to go back. Because she is honorable and admirable t...

Women Rising Above Oppression in The Color Purple

she is sent to live with another family and then goes off to Africa on missionary work with them. In essence, Celie is not only ut...

As I Lay Dying: Addie Bundren

necessarily as depressing as one could envision in relationship to the process of dying and the construction of a coffin outside h...

W.B. Yeats/An Irish Airman Foresees His Death

people of Kiltaran, there is not likely end to the war that will affect them deeply one way or the other. Furthermore, it was not ...

Bill Lumbergh, the World’s Worst Manager

and emotionlessly micromanages his employees while engaging them with superficial small talk" (Office Space, 2008). Lumberghs la...

Gender Identity Patient Disorder Diagnosis, Treatment, and the Film Boys Don’t Cry

by persistent discomfort with ones sex" (Meyenburg, 1999, p. 305). This gender identification with the opposite sex typically com...

Poetic Analysis of Jimmy Carter’s “I Wanted to Share My Father’s World”

is a pain I mostly hide, but ties of blood, or seed, endure, and even now I feel inside the hunger for his outstretched hand, a ma...

Kurtz in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

central point of the narrative. The company accountant is the first character to refer to Kurtz and he tells Marlow that Kurtz i...

“The Stone Angel”

his store, shed find him behind the counter, "bulky and waistcoated, his voice with its Scots burr prompting me when I forgot, and...

Biff in Death of a Salesman

sons that they need to look good, be friendly, and essentially to be what he is not. He has always possessed many different notion...

Nietzsche and O’Connor

bus she and Julian are taking downtown to the Y, his mother plays with the child (OConnor). She doesnt see that the childs mother ...

Family in A Raisin in the Sun and American Beauty

kind of money people like Lester makes. He has all these schemes and dreams and he ultimately learns they are pointless, just as L...

Desire and the Complexities of Love in Ovid's Metamorphoses

it is the men who achieve the most satisfaction (Ovid 1276). The couple decides to allow the sage Tiresias to settle their argume...

Queen Gertrude in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

wicked wit, and gifts that have the power, So to seduce!--won to his shameful lust, The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen" (A...

A Psychological Examination of Sethe, from “Beloved”

also alienates Sethes daughter Denver, who hates him because Beloved is interested in him; Denver wants to keep Beloved to herself...

Master Harold…and the Boys

has to ultimately choose which reality he prefers, or which reality he belongs to. In his world, the world of a privileged white m...

Science Fiction Shakespeare

possible, but have not been invented yet. This will sound strange, because science itself is just getting started, but really, all...

Romeo and Juliet

it prest With more of thine: this love that thou hast shown Doth add more grief to too much of mine own. Love is a smoke raised wi...

George O’Kelly and Jay Gatsby

he comes back to try and win Jonquil again, and by then he is a success; in addition, he has made his fortune in civil engineering...

Effects of PTSD on Louise Erdrich’s ‘The Red Convertible,’ Ernest Hemingway’s ‘Soldier’s Home,’ and Tim O’Brien’s ‘How to Tell a True War Story’

are particularly harrowing in soldiers that were at some point POWs (Dikel et al 69). Furthermore, the age of the traumatized per...

Common Reality in “A Walk in the Night”

where we read that "his thoughts concentrated upon the pustule of rage and humiliation that was continuing to ripen deep down with...

John Demos, Joseph Plumb Martin and Wartime Experience

one stroke" (Demos 29). Williams and his five children make it to Montreal alive. Once they arrive in Montreal, the Indians begin ...

Psychological Trauma in All Quiet on the Western Front

in Pauls company is an older man, Katczinsky, a man who has a family back home. He perhaps serves as something of a strong foundat...

Elinor in Year of Wonders

of creamy silk. A few fine pearls gleamed in her pale hair. But more than her delicate beauty, Colonel Bradford appreciated her su...

Personality Comparative Analysis of the Grandmother in Flannery O’Connor’s ‘A Good Man is Hard to Find’ and Willy Loman in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman

to go to Florida on a vacation, the grandmother expressed her preference for visiting relatives in Tennessee. When that proved un...

Nora in A Doll’s House

her husband. She has little identity and really does not seem interested in finding much of an identity. However, as the story evo...

Kurtz as Hero in The Heart of Darkness

that would make him a hero. He does not make powerful decisions and he does not truly step outside any realm within himself or soc...

Austen and Trollope/A Comparison

A 5 page comparison between Jane Austen's Emma and in Anthony Trollope's Can You Forgive Her? The writer argues that each novel il...