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Character Influences in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper' and John Updike's 'A & P'

excitement in the place. It is not necessarily a nurturing environment for one who wants something more out of life than to be a b...

Analyzing A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

This is his attempt at asserting himself and struggling to find his own way. Clearly he is trying to gain his independence but th...

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;...

Psychological Analysis of the Film Leaving Las Vegas

1996, p. 3), which she accepts as a way of demonstrating her unconditional support of him and his intention to literally drink him...

Enkidu and Gilgamesh

king, but not necessarily a good king. Such a man demands fear from his subjects, oppressing them and insisting on his selfish exp...

Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness and Bernard Malamud's The Assistant

which Alpine realizes by the novels end, through Bobers example, can be the foundation of a meaningful life. Bober is unsuccessf...

Lena, the American Dream, and Willa Cather's My Antonia

seeing her dressed up for she was obviously a young woman who was bare foot and bore unkempt hair. When the conversation progre...

Analysis of Frank Conroy's Stop Time

that night, or of what they would be doing at school the next day. They are only thinking about the moment at hand. Frank speaks...

Heartless Women in the Works of Henrik Ibsen and Charles Dickens

quite clear that Edith has just cause to feel alienated from her husband and her marriage from its inception. In the first half of...

Identity in 'Omeros' by Derek Walcott

visionary odyssey that actually takes him beyond time and space. In this odyssey he finds himself connecting with the history of h...

The Theme of Identity in Derek Walcott's Omeros

the chariot that Hector bought. . . . Each row was a divan of furred leopardskin. . . . te...

Comparative Analysis of Prospero and Vincentio in William Shakespeare's The Tempest and Measure for Measure

city, broadening his knowledge, which, in turn, improves his skill as a ruler. While there is a logical explanation for his knowle...

Lover and Warrior Odysseus

traits he possesses that is less than admirable, one thing is clear. He exhibits loyalty and trustworthiness. He respects the gods...

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

man and religion, which changes the society. Through all of these events and conditions we are witness to incredible change, most ...

Sandra Cisneros' House on Mango Street and the Identity of Esperanza

also knows that she cannot abandon all that she is or all that she has experienced. We watch as she confronts her strengths and ...

Kindred by Octavia Butler and the Influences of the Past and Present

less skilled because she is temporary. Another parallel is that most of the workers there do not want to get close to her or make ...

Analyzing 'Lulu's Passion' from The Last Report on the Miracles at Little Horse

somehow suddenly possessed the spirit of the child - abruptly the child climbed into the auto and was swallowed into the dark as i...

Common Themes in the Works of Welles and Shakespeare

is portrayed in the original Shakespeare. The exception is that Shakespeare spent more time and attention to historical details, w...

Lessons from “The Sopranos”

can be explained by the growing acceptance in our culture of anything that is off color, illegal, or even immoral. The type of gl...

Flawed Arguments and Opponents of Same-Sex Marriage

purpose" (Cross, 2002). Opponents to same-sex marriages also oppose gay activists appeal to pity in regards to their arguments. Th...

Jim in Treasure Island

a boy. It seems important to understand that children, at the time this story takes place, were treated as adults in many...

Plato's Laws

of law as it has manifest in the place of which he writes about. There is some action in this work. Yet, what the action is compr...

Prospero in Shakespeare’s The Tempest

relates to issues of magic and creation, and the identity of Prospero/Shakespeare. In examining this perspective the opinions and...

Lucy Gayheart

to come. It is, as noted, a relatively simple story. But, at the same time, without the deep psychological reading she is...

Settings and Their Importance in Frankenstein

Walton, who explains the story in letters to his sister; he in turn has heard it from Frankenstein himself. This is a "framing" de...

The Brute by Chekhov

Mrs. Popov is likely a respectable woman who understands the etiquette of the day, which is what the audience will likely see (Che...

'If You Touched My Heart' by Isabel Allende

human being. Her song on the "blond wood psaltery" produced a "crystalline sound like water purling between stones" (82). As this ...

Homer's 'The Iliad' and Speeches Delivered by Ajax, Phoenix, and Ulysses in Book IX

states, "Up, then, and late though it be, save the sons of the Achaeans who faint before the fury of the Trojans. You will repent...

Hermann Hesse's Narcissus and Goldmund

It is always simpler to diagnose someone elses life than ones own, and so it is that the reader watches as Goldmund slowly unravel...

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice According to Dorothy Van Ghent

surface is quietly polite and cheerful as convention calls for, yet below the surface she is seething. She hates the fact that the...