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Essays 1861 - 1890

Irish Vision in Ulysses and Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man by James Joyce

In twelve pages the 'Irishness' of these novels are discussed. Twelve sources are cited in the bibliography....

Home Quest in Ulysses by James Joyce

feminist critics charge that this work frames women in houses that the men in the story avoid. "Throughout Ulysses women often rem...

Art for the Sake of Art in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

of community theaters and high-school drama clubs). On the complete opposite end of the spectrum from his drawing-room comedies, h...

Analysis of Old Mortality by Sir Walter Scott

In five pages this early 19th century historical fiction novel is analyzed in terms of the freedom struggles of the Covenanters ...

Analysis of Waverley by Sir Walter Scott

written as hardly to be distinguished from memoirs... The splendid pages of Froissart, with his heart-stirring and eye-dazzling de...

Citizenship Responsibilities in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

In ten pages the obligations associated with citizenship are considered in this paper focusing on Achebe's novel with 'Man's Searc...

Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Intercultural Communication

of language, but a commonality of viewpoint and a commonality of assumption. This brings up the question of the extent to which ...

Political and Religious Threats in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

In five pages the threats to politics and the greater threat to religion that the Nigerian villagers experienced with the arrival ...

Epic of Sunjata, Efuru, and Things Fall Apart Compared

In a paper consisting of six pages these three African novels written by Fa Digi Sisoko, Flora Nwapa, and Chinua Achebe are compar...

The Tragic Hero Okonkwo in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

This essay consisting of four pages considers how the protagonist satisfies the tragic hero criteria as defined by Aristotle offer...

Idea of Freedom and Things Fall Apart

In four pages Chinua Achebe's novel is considered within the context of freedom and how its quest is represented in protagonist Ok...

The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault

of restrained antagonism -- somewhat similar to the "Cold War" of the 1950s and 60s -- simmered just under the surface, threatenin...

Arthur C. Clarke and Metaphysics

In nine pages this paper examines how metaphysics is represented in Arthur C. Clarke's science fiction novels such as Rendezvous w...

Fascism in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

In five pages this paper defines fascism and humanism and then describes how both are featured in this novel by Muriel Spark. Thr...

Opera Significance in Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

In five pages this paper examines the protagonist's destiny foreshadowing offered by the operatic presence of Lucie de Lammermoor ...

Social Class Status and Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

In five pages this paper examines the protagonist's obsession with changing her social class throughout the course of Flaubert's n...

Illusion versus Reality in Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

In four pages this paper examines the conflict that exists throughout the course of the novel with Romanticism and not romance ult...

La Nouvelle Heloise by Jean Jacques Rousseau

In eight pages this paper discusses Rousseau's novel in terms of society's determination of gender roles. There are no other sour...

Reaction to Germinal by Emile Zola

Rasseneur, a former miner who was fired for participating in a previous strike. He is more of a reformer than Lantier. And Lanti...

Germinal by Emile Zola and Class Consciousness

In six pages this paper examines how class consciousness is developed in this classic novel by Emile Zola. There are no other sou...

Mining Women of 19th Century France and Germinal by Emile Zola

sort of enterprise, and his spouses role is to stay home and tend to the upbringing of the children. Children in bourgeois familie...

Georges Bataille's The Story of the Eye

In five pages this paper analyzes Georges Bataille's novel with references of L'Erostisme also included. Three sources are cited ...

Marguerite Duras' Novella The Lover and 'Requited Love'

In five pages this paper discusses the impossible love between an impoverished French girl and an aristocratic Chinese man in Indo...

James Joyce Portrait as a Young Man

In ten pages this paper examines the author's life as it reveals itself in his novel 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' and e...

Kokoro by Natsume Soseki

In six pages an analysis of Natsume Soseki's novel Kokoro is presented. There are no other sources listed....

Mrs. Wilcox and Margaret in Howard's End by E.M. Forster

family, she does not fit in with the typical representation of such a lifestyle; indeed, it can be argued that she fits in more re...

Violence and Power in The Third Life of Grange Copeland and The Color Purple by Alice Walker

In this paper that consists of twelve pages the predominant thread of violence that keeps the power hierarchy intact in these nove...

Love Exploration in North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

This paper considers love within the context of Elizabeth Gaskell's novel and the influences of psychological, economic, and socia...

Siddhartha and Descartes

and space-- the factual historical figure and the imaginary Eastern mystic. Descartes criticism of Siddhartha One can imagine t...

The Artificial Nigger by Flannery O'Connor

In nine pages this paper examines antiracist redemption as it is symbolically represented in this novel by Flannery O'Connor. Fiv...