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Literature's Theme Concept

the work is the subject, while the insights that occur as a result of the interactions of characters represents the theme. For ex...

J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and Materialism

with money, as the underlying theme is that which revolves around Gatsby using the pursuit of money, and the acquisition of money,...

J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer, and Journeys

is on his own journey for he too is aware of the murderer Injun Joe. As such their journeys, while different, essentially stem fro...

British Literature of the Seventeenth Century Examined

and women to enjoy each other. The Philosophical Viewpoints We want to relate the conflict and the writings to various philosop...

Literature and Epiphany

drug addict living a life very similar to Sonnys. : "Thats right, he said quickly, aint nothing you can do. Cant much help old Son...

Octavio Paz and Gabriel Garcia Marquez A Comparative Analysis

college (although neither received a degree) and developed an early interest in writing. Although Marquez initially intended to b...

American Stories and the Use of Location

true Huck; de ony white genlman dat ever kep his promise to ole Jim" (Twain 119). Twain shows us an America with two faces; a cou...

Comparison of Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz's The Divine Narcissus and Luis de Gongora's Polyphemus and Galatea

and transform his blood into a river, which flows down the sides of the volcano, Mt. Aetna, into the sea at Catana. De la Cruzs T...

Greek Literature and Blindness Symbolism

other senses. Might the lack of sight signify a heightened sense of smell or taste? The list goes on and on about special attachme...

Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and Imperialism

who assure the king that Gulliver is merely a trained animal and that the farmer, from which Gulliver was obtained, had trained hi...

Issue of Mortality in Literature and in Life

is common knowledge. Who does not worry about death? Even children, from a very young age, often ask the ultimate question which i...

Analysis and Study Notes for 'The Excursion' by Wordsworth, The Black Man's Burden by Morel, and The White Man's Burden by Kipling

* Clearly, this poem read today would be interpreted from a different perspective than when it first appeared in 1899. 2. Edward...

African Americans and Racism

became indentured servants, but this was rare (Faragher, et al 57). Because of the institution of indentured service, "New world s...

Social Reform According to Ralph Waldo Emerson and Other Writers

reform, but a constant, measured effort. Despite Emersons optimism, there is a lot of truth to the idea that Americans now accept...

Comparative Analysis of Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

In 5 pages a comparative analysis of these American literary works examines their similarities and differences. There are 2 sourc...

Harlem's Poet Laureate Langston Hughes

of poetry, ten collections of short fiction, two novels, two volumes of autobiography, nine books for children and more than two d...

'Enlightened' Satire of Voltaire and Jonathan Swift

In 5 pages this paper discusses how Swift and Voltaire satirized 18th century Enlightenment philosophies in their literary works. ...

King Arthur and Classic Heroism

In five pages the classical hero is examined in a comparative analysis of the similarities and differences that exist between King...

Do Humans Control Their Own Lives?

This 7 page paper asks to what degree humans control their own lives. It uses three literary works, Metamorphosis by Kafka; The Lo...

Knowledge Theme in 'Paradise Lost' by John Milton and Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

the point that there is false knowledge and true knowledge, and that false knowledge can be very persuasive. From the "War in Hea...

History and Literature

In six pages this paper considers such literary works as Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown,' Sarah Orne Jewett's 'The Whi...

Deviance from a Victorian View Perspective

see them in the context of the society in which they originated. The Victorian view of criminality The commonly expressed public ...

'Perspectives on the Individual' and Human Nature

among four children in his family. The father was an intelligent, religious man, a hard-working storekeeper and an important leade...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet, William Golding's Lord of the Flies, and Their Parallels

In 6 pages the parallels that exist in these works in terms of literary similarities of allegory, metaphor, simile, irony, personi...

A Speech Inspired by Anna Sewell's Black Beauty

In this paper consisting of three pages an animal fable speech that mirrors the literary style of the novel features similar word ...

Comparative Analysis of the Narratives in Henry Fielding's History of Tom Jones and Samuel Richardson's Clarissa

In eight pages this paper contrasts and compares how narrative techniques are utilized in these literary works. There are no othe...

Spy Genre and the Novels of John Le Carre

In six pages the spy novels Our Game and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carre are examined in a consideration of the...

European Enlightenment and Literature

concept was that the scientific method was capable of discovering the laws of human society as well as those of nature, consequent...

Postmodernism's Rise and Literature's Fall

but vanished from the world, a look at the rise and fall of the New Criticism is rather appropriate. A set of practices called th...

Derek Walcott's Poetry

In six pages this paper examines 2 poems by Derek Walcott, 'Nearing Forty' and 'The Virgins' in a contrast and comparison the the ...