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The Stranger and Interpreting Meursault's Actions

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Camus' "The Stranger". The character of Meursault is explored in depth. Paper uses ...

"Coming, Aphrodite!" by Willa Cather

This essay offers analysis of "Coming, Aphrodite!" by Willa Cather, focusing on how each of the major characters define and percei...

"The ABC of Aerobics" by Peter Meinke

This essay presents a character sketch of the narrator in "The ABC of Aerobics," a poem by Peter Meinke. Three pages in length, th...

Enlivening American History

This paper reviews the book A Young People's History of the United States. Written by Howard Zinn, this book provides an interest...

Considerations in Adult Learning

This 3 page paper compares commonalities between today's adult learner and those delineated by the character Jesse Hallman in the ...

"Barn Burning" by William Faulkner

This essay pertains to Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning" and focuses on the character of Abner Snopes. The writer argues that ...

Hero's Cycle and Lord of the Flies

This essay presents the argument that in William Golding's Lord of the Flies, the character of Simon is congruent with Joseph Camp...

Images of Ophelia

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Hamlet's Ophelia. Fine art depictions of the character from history are used to exp...

Self-Centeredness in Dorothea and Reverend Casaubon

(Eliot 30). In addition she is "likely to seek martyrdom," then try to escape it only to have it befall her when she stopped looki...

Truth Blinds Oedipus Rex: A Protagonist Analysis

the plague will end and his grateful subjects will worship him like a god. However, the aging oracle Tiresias (sometimes spelled ...

The Exception

group. She is a long time friend of Iben, a fact that was not revealed when Iben applied for and got the job with the organization...

Sanrio Inc.

a specific group, for example, the stationary items are referred to as school and office items. This reflect the broad appeal that...

The Grand Ladies of Shakespeare, Ophelia and Desdemona

not of noble blood and its no good for her to dream about marrying a prince "out of thy star; / This must not be" (II.ii.141-142)....

Okonkwo and Oedipus

way out of his situation at all because no matter what he does to avoid the killing of his father and marrying his mother he has n...

Marching to War with Mel Gibson

Weapon movie directed by Norman Rockwell" (Mitchell). Thats a very good, if snarky, description. That being the case, its not sur...

Fate and Enslavement in The Darker Face of the Earth by Rita Dove and Oedipus the King by Sophocles

marrying the widowed Jocasta, he inherited not only a throne but also hoped in so doing he would also earn the social acceptabilit...

About Glen and Psychology

the safety needs (Maslows theory of motivation - Hierarchy of needs, 2009). Glen has already fulfilled the first two levels: he ha...

“Pulp Fiction” and Its Literary Constructions

the inherent flexibility of a non-sequential narrative, because things get too confusing. Tarantino apparently decided to let it b...

Early Feminist Writings by Chopin and Ibsen

when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her" (Chopin). Her husband...

Exploring Vienna and Talking of Possibilities

enthralling" (1995). The film is a romance, but it avoids the trap of being formulaic; often films of this kind rely "more upon ac...

Othello and Racism

and Othellos skin color. Othello is a Moor and is dark skinned while Iago is an ordinary Venetian. This is something that comes up...

Galaesus and Odysseus in The Aeneid and The Odyssey

is killed (Virgil, 2009). Paschalis has done a study of some of the semantics in the poem, and suggests that the name "Galaesus"...

Jeremy's Story An Analysis

events because one parent or the other couldnt take them there. Most of all it would mean that there would be a constant tug of w...

Luchresi's Perspectives on "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe

his attire was a bit gaudy for a man of his social position. I have long suspected that Montresor and Fortunato were jealous of ...

The Things They Carried

incredibly exaggerated that his stories were immensely entertaining. But, in the case of OBriens novel one must perhaps insist tha...

What Agamemnon Tells Readers about Odysseus

hinting, not very subtly, that if Odysseus is dead it will be up to Telemachus to revenge him. But even more importantly and in a ...

Elizabeth Costello's Views on Animal Rights

Despite her poor reception by those that disagree with her philosophically, Costello makes many valid points about animal rights. ...

The Narrator of Bartleby the Scrivener

and unknown. Given that he has no past, no present and no future, its obvious that Bartleby is not a character but a symbol. Wha...

Othello the Moor and Zofloya the Moor

describe the way in which society considers those who are different. The psychological construct of the Other is applied to the pe...

The Novel - Everyone’s Favorite Literary Genre

novels are superior to plays, lets take a well-known play and consider how much more it could have done if it were a novel. Since ...