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Literature and the Freedom Concept

In four pages this paper examines how personality is affected by freedom in this analysis of Toni Morrison's 'Beloved' and Margare...

The Development of Milkman Dead's Character in Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

This 8 page paper discusses the development of the character of Milkman Dead in Toni Morrison's novel Song of Solomon. The writer ...

Milkman Dead as a Classic Hero in Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

This 6 page paper argues that Milkman Dead, a character in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, can be described as a classic hero. Th...

Myth in Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

This 6 page paper analyzes Toni Morrison's novel Song of Solomon and argues that it can be seen as a modern day myth in which a ma...

Compare and Contrast Two Characters in Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

This 4 page paper compares and contrasts the characters of Milkman Dead and his father Macon in Toni Morrison's novel Song of Solo...

A Comparison between Sula by Toni Morrison and The Fox by D.H. Lawrence

This 5 page paper discusses the relationship among the female characters in Toni Morrison's Sula and The Fox by D.H. Lawrence. The...

American Literary Progress from 1500 until 1940

In six pages this paper charts the course of American literature in a consideration of popular movements with examples and a focus...

Good and Evil in Sula by Toni Morrison

Sula deals with the lives of these two opposed characters, The novel opens at the time when the girls were around the age of twel...

Literature Alternatives to Freedom

In six pages the concept of freedom through death as a release from life's hardships is examined through such works as William Fau...

Confrontation in 2 Twentieth Century Novels

In twelve pages this paper examines confrontation in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and in Toni Morrison's Jazz. One othe...

Point of View in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon

In six pages this paper examines realiites of Pilate, Hagar, and Milkman in a consideration of the point of view featured in Toni ...

An Analysis of the Opening Chapter of Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon

This 5 page paper analyzes the first chapter of Song of Solomon, a novel by Toni Morrison. The writer suggests that in this openin...

Postmodern Techniques in Beloved by Toni Morrison

they were dead, rather than face a fate similar to hers. She is successful in killing only one, her infant Beloved. "Sethes murder...

Beloved by Toni Morrison, Psyche of American Slaves, Ghosts, and Myths

are somewhat consistent with superstitions followed by the slave culture of the time and a segment of the African heritage of the ...

Character Study of Toni Morrison's Beloved

treated like a horse, complete with a bit in his mouth. Sethe managed to escape. In fact, because she was very pregnant and had b...

Tar Baby by Toni Morrison

Jadine and Sons respective interpretations of race and social stature represent. That each conflict intertwines with one another ...

Submissive Gender Roles in Sula and Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

planned any of it, but he had to know that one day, after Macon hit her, hed see his mothers hand cover her lips as she searched w...

Themes of Good and Evil in Two Works by Poe and Morrison

Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...

A Review of The Laramie Project and Indian Killer

the white race is far superior to all others. Reprogramming such ingrained concepts is not something that will ever be carried th...

The Literature of Black America

has been missing in his life and that his values and priorities are backward and unfulfilling. For example, by the time Milkman jo...

Literature By and About Women

a condition wherein the women are not slaves, we also see that the past, which involves at least Sethes enslavement, is very real ...

African Americans and Their Evolution in Fiction and Nonfiction

social consciousness. One of Douglass first discoveries, or one of the most important first discoveries, he made was that of the...

A Psychological Examination of Sethe, from “Beloved”

also alienates Sethes daughter Denver, who hates him because Beloved is interested in him; Denver wants to keep Beloved to herself...

Naming Conventions in "Beloved"

harrowing existence would lead a mother to that sort of desperate act. But still, no matter why she did it, and even if death is b...

Plantation Mistress and Beloved by Morrison

these women to seek relief in laudanum." Laudanum was a drug and apparently many plantation mistresses were living in incredibly o...

Toni Morrison’s Sula

It is also interesting to note that when they grow, and separate, they take on the roles of their mothers: "Nel struggles to a con...

Toni Morrison’s Sula: Moral Ambiguity

to the community, a clear case of moral ambiguity wherein Sula and her family felt they had a right and that their behavior was, o...

Violence and Pride: Ellison and Morrison

a sense of innocence. "I had begun to worry about my speech again. How would it go? Would they recognize my ability? What would th...

Characters Who Are Trapped

tells her that if she does marry this man, Morris, she will never receive any money from him, her father. Up till this point Cath...

Morrison’s Acquisition of Safeway

the acquisition was thought to bring value and that in hindsight the problems that were seen were only those which should have bee...