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Comfort Woman by Nora Okja Keller and the Significance of Water Imagery

This paper examines how water imagery is used in Nora Okja Keller's debut novel in 4 pages. The bibliography cites 1 source....

Modern Women, Feminism, and the Heroines of Madame Bovary, The Scarlet Letter, and Pride and Prejudice

This paper examines the feminist aspects of these nineteenth century novels in a comparative analysis of Emma Bovary, Hester Prynn...

King and Eliot

this essay utilizes a quote by F.R. Leavis to argue that T.S. Eliot's Waste Land and Stephen King's novel Misery qualify them as t...

"Things Fall Apart" - Feminism and Postcolonialism

is himself a figure that is somewhat alien to the experiences of many Westerners in the sense that he has "earned" three wives thr...

To Kill A Mockingbird, a 1960s Perspective

adaptation of Harper Lees novel To Kill a Mockingbird, directed by Robert Mulligan, is a cinema classic that continues to move eac...

Women's Participation in Traditionally Male Sports

of the females role in society, which confined women exclusively to the home and the roles of wives and mothers, lingered well int...

Portrait of the Artist and Ulysses By James Joyce

as a Young Man and Ulysses by James Joyce are two very different works. Portrait has a much more conventional structure than Ulyss...

The Golden Ass and Roman Society

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at the Golden Ass. The novel is examined for its treatment of Roman society. Paper uses...

"The Natural Order of Things" - An Analysis

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Antunes' "The Natural Order of Things". Time and memory are explored as symbols in ...

The Cave by Jose Saramago

This essay pertains to The Cave by Jose Saramago and presents the interpretation that the author stresses the similarities between...

Family Roles in Wegscheider-Cruse

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Wegscheider-Cruse and her theory of family roles. These roles are mapped to the Bro...

"Things Fall Apart" - The Tragic View

In a paper of eight pages, the writer looks at "Things Fall Apart". Tragic aspects of the novel are emphasized. Paper uses five so...

Maxence Fermine's Snow

This essay pertain to a Japanese novel that charts the evolution of a young poet in achieving perfection within this craft. The wr...

Bright Lights Big City by Jay McInerney,

This essay discusses characteristic features of Bright Lights, Big City, a novel by Jay McInerney. Three pages in length, no othe...

Biblical Imagery in Moby Dick by Herman Melville

journey. Immediately, the reader is shocked by Ahabs assertion and assumption that he is like God, that he holds the ultimate po...

Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote

service...sweep so evil a breed from off the face of the earth" (Cervantes). One of his next foes is a flock of sheep. Don Quixot...

Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Racism

There have actually been schools which have banned Huckleberry Finn from their libraries and their classrooms, based upon the refe...

J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, Cultural Products, and Religion

hairy feet. As this suggests, they are humble beings, not heroes. Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit who is uncle to Frodo Baggins, entrusts ...

Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange and Free Will

the elimination of evil is indeed a good thing, no matter how it is arrived at, the truth according to Burgess is that oppressing ...

John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and Darwinism

As Lennies self-appointed protector, George emerges as the stronger of the two men. Both uneducated and largely unskilled, neithe...

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, Food and Drink

psyche which he has not yet lost. The book did not reach as high a level of commercial success as further books such as Farewell t...

Nelle Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

and illustrating that we are all a curious mix of devil and divine. During the 1930s, Lee illustrates the tensions that existed be...

Nurture and Nature in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

nature holds a great sway over the human condition. She sees the futility of forging an alliance with Linton, while at the same ti...

Existence Issues Surrounding Frankenstein's Monster

the science of anatomy: but this was not sufficient; I must also observe the natural decay and corruption of the human body" (Shel...

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 ...

Battling Racism in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

to Jim. There are other issues as well but this is the predominant one. So then, the question is whether or not Twain was actual...

Ursula K. LeGuin's A Wizard of Earthsea

would be punished and powerfully dismissed from the realm of wizards. This is based on the assumption that they "knew better" and ...

Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five and Yon Yonson's Cyclic Poem

that his novel is not fictitious, but, on the other hand, he also states that everything only happened more or less thus restricti...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain and Depiction of Racial Minorities

beliefs maintained by the slaves when they still resided in Africa. There is also the perspective which argues that the childre...

The Dragon's Village by Yuan tsung Chen

aunt and uncle reluctantly agree. Chen commits that they did not oppose this plan "too vigorously" because they were "apprehensive...