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An Analysis of All's Well That Ends Well

the ribald joke or two. Of course, considering that the entire play revolves around Helenas ability to get her promised husband in...

Lucy in the Heat of Despair by Jamaica Kincaid

even "seeing" that in marrying a man, Lucy would not be happy (81). Lucy understands then that her mother is only concerned with L...

General Overview of San Francisco

date back to the 19th century (those buildings that didnt suffer destruction during the 1906 earthquake, that is). Another...

Religious Commentary in 'A Good Man is Hard to Find'

"the trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled"(OConnor). This would seem to symbolize the wildern...

Hamlet's Madness Analyzed

carry out his plan of revenge against Claudius without arousing suspicion. Hamlets madness is responsible for bringing the play t...

Tales of Devious Caribbean Women by Hispanic Authors

became increasingly diffident towards him" (Ramirez 79). Yet, when the manager asked the narrator what Francoise was saying, he wo...

A Comparative Character Analysis of The Manchurian Candidate, Candide, A Good Man is Hard to Find, Good Woman of Stetzuan, and Gulliver's Travels

more than they were its beneficiaries. It is important to note that Swift lived between 1667 and 1745, a turbulent time in Englis...

Research of Erin Brockovich

problems and the pollution of the towns water table by Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E). Brockovich instinctively felt that the case ...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey and its Authenticity

and kills himself in the end. In Chapter 19, Sefelt who is considered to be one of the Acutes, is epileptic and has convulsions...

Herman Melville's Billy Budd

Claggarts psychological make-up, because he himself has never had to struggle between good and evil as personal motivators. Billy ...

The Road to Mecca by Athol Fugard

This concept, in and of itself, is the fundamentally defining element to Miss Helens persistence to uphold her own existence in th...

Portia's Presentation in the Third and Fourth Acts of The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

/ Is an unlessond girl, unschoold, unpractisd; / Happy in this, she is not yet so old / But she may learn; happier than this, / Sh...

Exercise in Dante's 'Inferno'

commit a sin where he would go to held under Dantes model, it seems that he might be found in Limbo. At the same time, the truth i...

Characterization of Mrs. Ramsay in To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

cannot go when he obviously want it so badly. James feels that his fathers sarcastic rejection of the idea of visiting the lightho...

Virginia Woolf's 'The Voyage Out,' 'Mrs. Dalloway,' and Homosexuality

she begins her voyage into public identity, she cannot survive the pressure of being brought out and seems uncannily to die of the...

Comparative Analysis of Henry James' Portrait of a Lady and Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie

show business, and also very well liked in this particular field. As such she does better than make a living yet does not tell Hur...

'The Tell Tale Heart' and 'The Black Cat' by Edgar Allan Poe

My tenderness of heart was even so conspicuous as to make me the jest of my companions. I was especially fond of animals, and was ...

Fragile Glory by Richard Bernstein

In eight pages questions are answered relevant to this text on France and include comparisons between French politics and American...

Plays and Determinism

Carol is seeking help from her professor, but also knows how to manipulate the situation for her advantage. John provides Carol w...

Asians As They Are Depicted in The Legend of Miss Sasagawara by Hisaye Yamamoto and Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn

the mid-80s, and concentrates on the chaotic Seventies, in which martial law was firmly in place. Perhaps the books most memorabl...

Existence of God in Swinburne, Rowe, and Hume

"experienced" internally in some manner, as well as externally via touch or logical use of the item in daily living. In thi...

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

There is no question that death plays a major role in this story, as evidenced not only by all the dying patients but also through...

Hunger by Knut Hamsun, Antigone, and Stubbornness

pushes away all the people that she loves, or have loved her, in her stubbornness related to the burial of her brother. She pushes...

Violating the Law and Social Control Theory

to "study things in their natural setting, attempting to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people br...

Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis and Staging

The scene opens with Menelaus and the Attendant coming on stage. The Attendant sees Agamemnon approaching and says to Menelaus, "M...

Charles Dickens' Tale of Two Cities and the Characterization of Madame Defarge

Madame Defarge. There is an exception however, for a few years back she did play the Wicked Queen in Snow White, which could perha...

Dracula by Bram Stoker and the Themes of Sexuality and Perversity

antagonist, Count Dracula that encompasses both sexuality and perversity. In the oft-analyzed Chapter III, the unconscious Harker...

Middlemarch and How it Illuminates Sympathy

seeks adventure of "martyrdom in the country of the Moors," and the woman interested also in becoming the warrior with beating "hu...

Women of William Shakespeare's Hamlet

and leave her father, or suffer through this madness with Hamlet. While she is still deciding, her father is killed and she is sur...

Marion in On Tidy Endings by Harvey Fierstein and Nora in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

are both controversial in these regards. Where "A Dolls House deals with the themes of a woman fulfilling her dreams and her disho...