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Essays 1921 - 1950

Self Deception and Silence in A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

tells Stella that hes done some checking on Blanche and found out about her unsavory past, including her affair with a 17 year old...

Bessie Head's The Collector of Treasures, Life, and Judgments

essence, sex was available to anyone and there had previously been no such thing as the selling of sex. But, this also enticed the...

Feminism and the Stargate Television Series

While Carter is rescued by the rest of SG-1, Nya is caught trying to elope and her father sentences her to death by stoning as pun...

Maleness in Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner

more valuable male to another as Amir is in a far better social and economic position than Hassan. While he clearly adores his fri...

Willa Cather's 'Paul's Case'

down, pistol in hand, and he had cried out in time to save himself, and his father had been horrified to think how nearly he had k...

Caliban, Political Powers, and The Tempest by William Shakespeare

political systems: Antonio represents what we might call the "real" government in Milan and Prospero represents a "state of nature...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson and the American Dream

"well aware of the way African American identity had become irreducible to a simple set of criteria" (Favor 28). In The Autobiogr...

Lord and Lady Macbeth's Relationship in William Shakespeare's Tragedy

man, a brave men, but still a relatively simple man who is not consumed with the desire to be more. He may be curious, even tempte...

Victor Hugo's Hernani

learns from this encounter that Hermani is a bandit and not a nobleman and refuses to duel with him. Hermani allows the king to go...

Bible, Book of James, and Leadership

humility, especially in relationship to the religion of Christianity, they are not successful leaders. And, even aside from Christ...

Pecola Breedlove and The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

is affirmed in Pecolas mind when Maureen comes to her aid to protect against the boys who are teasing her and they immediately sto...

The Necklace

and wanted more than she had. The result was that she ended up with less than she had. If Mathilde had immediately told her frie...

Gender, Film, the Male Gaze and Female Filmmakers

so that when he sees himself in the mirror, "the recognition of himself is joyous in that he imagines his mirror image to be more ...

The Hairy Ape

with he does not see himself in this way. He feels he is intelligent and he is all but in charge of all the men. They seem intimid...

Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds' Hero Lieutenant Aldo Raine

lessons in humanity. Nazis aint got no humanity. Theyre the foot soldiers of a Jew hatin, mass murderin maniac, and they need to ...

The Plays Sure Thing and Trifles and What They Say about Women’s Issues

its difficult to find true love, and that women are sometimes willing to take a chance unless they have a substantial chance of be...

Brave New World

one that is ruled by sedation in many ways. There are no mothers, no fathers, no life long commitments, and a control through the ...

Issues of Addiction and The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

It grows along with the addiction to the power source. Addictions are as unique as are individuals, and therefore the effects can...

The Tell-Tale Heart and the Doppelganger Image

WILL you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them" (Poe). He describes himself as "v...

The Things They Carried

to be examined is Jimmy Cross. The narrator indicates that, "First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha...

Comparing and Contrasting Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd: The Demon of Fleet Street and The Odyssey by Homer

Odysseus and Polyphemus (or Cyclops), the protagonist and antagonist in "The Odyssey." Like Odysseus, Todd is banished from his w...

Stephanie Meyer’s Eclipse

Edward and the "good" vampires at odds with Victorias group. It should also be noted that Victoria is out for revenge because prev...

Innocence and Its Burdens

in love, but "the happiness that should have followed this love not having come" she thought she must have made a mistake (Flauber...

From the Revolution to the Civil War: The Long Sleep of Carleton Wankybucket

at that and he turned and ran, only to fall flat on his face. The jolt startled him and woke him up completely. He heaved a sigh ...

Tan's First Novel

all sorts of unsettling events. This is a fictional account but it brings into play very real issues faced by todays population. ...

Franklin and Crockett

man who could not be respected in some manner. In the case of Franklin one sees him, at a relatively early age, beginning to teach...

Delia Today An Analysis of Sweat by Zora Neale Hurston

The writer argues that this story is character driven, and that this means Delia’s actions would not change much no matter what ti...

Everyday Use and Maggie

reader the distinct impression that she is listening to everything that everyone says. This is borne out when Dee says that shes g...

Raymond Carver and His Stories

in this sort of limbo (Carver). He seems to be dealing with it, but he knows how hard it is on the children, who are crying themse...

Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman and Its Symbolism

young men. One of the great ironies of the play is that Willy has sold the boys a perverted version of the American Dream. He has ...