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of reference. The priest represents the possibility of attaining the ideal in life and in love, especially as it applies to the r...
In five pages this paper examines how supernatural and ghosts were perceived by society during the 19th century in an analysis of ...
pride, and vainer ties dissever, / And give herself to me forever" (Browning 1235). According to Professor Gerald McDaniel, the r...
telling, the generality of it is that in the midst of brutality, magic still exists and in the never-ending search for power -- pe...
This 8 page essay compares and contrasts Maggie in Stephen Crane's novel with Richard Wright's protagonist of Bigger. There are a...
Southern slave law and of the law itself" (Accomando 229, 1998). By writing her narrative, Jacobs was vocalizing for all others w...
social and political patriarchy of the time dictated that estates automatically reverted to the control of the male heir, which in...
was, historically speaking, the calm before the storm, and Voltaire seemed to sense what was coming. He was often entertaining ro...
heroine in that, even as a child, she rejected the concept of defect within herself. Victorians saw feminine defect, i.e. traditio...
and how they interpret life and art. In focusing on this subject we incorporate two essays which discuss aspects of art and life f...
of this last. The shadings have not been done in a haphazard fashion, or by guesswork; but painstakingly, and with the trustworthy...
the reader imagines and sees through the eyes of the character is a world with shocking parallels to modern humanitys own question...
form of Yolanda. There is an understanding of the problems as well as a wondering at why these events have hit the family, with so...
that tended to see women in a strictly stereotypical fashion. The following examination of Charlotte Brontes life and her mast...
In five pages the original nineteenth century novel by Mary Shelley is compared with the 1931 cinematic production by director Jam...
precision of mathematics and the natural sciences to answer questions. Indeed, the members of this philosophical movement simply ...
for the tumultuous relationship between the inhabitants of Uncle Sams residence, later described by President Abraham Lincoln as a...
impotent as the result of a war injury; Lady Brett Ashley, Jakes former Army nurse and ex-lover, who had, after the breakup, taken...
Melville sees civilisation as exemplified by whites, but this is a civilisation which, right at the start of the novel, he rejects...
Sonnys Blues, Sonny is the protagonist who is a recovering drug addict. He tries to begin a new life with the help of his brother,...
this unusual technique sets up interesting prospects for the reader. The experience of Nurse Ratched, for example, gives one a sen...
are intellectuals. There is an eclectic group and this sets the stage for many ideas to be broached. There are several external al...
the book choose to use the information with which they are being bombarded. Each system takes on, in effect, its own miniature mu...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares these novels by Toni Morrison in terms of how each feature murders. There are no ...
poetry, essays, stories and novels from men who had never envisioned themselves as literary artists. From their painful wartime e...
bring his Kurtz back to civilization, Willard is instructed from the start to find and kill his Col. Kurtz. This difference is st...
In five pages this paper examines the novel by Elizabeth Gaskell and also includes the labor theories of Karl Marx. Two sources a...
In ten pages this paper discusses the themes of suffering and evil as uncompromisingly depicted by Doctorow in his Western frontie...
of nearly every day of his childhood" (38). The fact that the crucifix depicts a dead Jesus is significant because it represents ...
In six pages a character analysis of Esther Summerson is presented within the context of Dickens' novel. Eight sources are cited ...