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Drama of Euripides

This paper consists of five pages and examines Euripides' psychological dramas Hippolytus, Medea, and Alcestis in terms of their d...

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines and Heroism

In 5 pages this paper examines the novel's depiction of heroism within the context of characters Wiggins and Jefferson. Two sourc...

The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

In five pages this essay examines Lewis's use of humor and satire in his depiction of how people can be led away from a godly path...

Article Critique on Prejudice

In six pages this paper critiques various articles regarding their depiction of societal prejudice. Six sources are cited in the ...

C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters

In five pages this paper critically reviews The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis in terms of the author's values and how they manif...

Good versus Evil in The Milagro Beanfield War and Salt of the Earth

In seven pages this paper contrasts and compares these two films in terms of the symbolic depiction of good and evil in each. The...

Face of an Angel by Chavez

In five pages this novel's protagonist is the central focus with comparisons to the depiction of Latin American culture to America...

Systems in White Noise by Don DeLillo

the book choose to use the information with which they are being bombarded. Each system takes on, in effect, its own miniature mu...

Men in Henrik Ibsen's Social Dramas Hedda Gabler and A Doll's House

partner. He makes frequent animal comparisons to his wife, referring to her as "my little lark" (43) or "my squirrel" (44). Thes...

Satan's 'Makeover' in Paradise Lost by John Milton and in the Film The Devil's Advocate

In six pages the depiction of Satan in these works are compared to determine the changes in Satan's portrayal throughout the years...

Duino Elegies by Rainer Rilke and The Book of Nightmares by Galway Kinnell

In five pages this paper examines these two poems in terms of Rilke's presentation of the hero and child relationship and Kinnell'...

Clint Eastwood's Film Play Misty for Me and Obsession

In five pages this report considers the depiction of obsession in 1971's Play Misty for Me, a film which is directed by and stars ...

Depiction of Humans and Gods in the Book of Genesis and the Epic of Gilgamesh

is that the creationist deity has no gender, and it is a characteristic peculiar to humans and animals. As William Hallo (...

Fact, Legend, and Fiction of King Arthur

In five pages this paper discusses the various depictions of King Arthur in the 1960 musical Camelot by Alan Jay Lerner and Freder...

Asian Films, Displacement and Relationships

In five pages this paper discusses Akira Kurosawa's Dersu Uzala and Wong Kar Wai's Happy Together in a consideration of understand...

Comparing Mark Twain Novels Life on the Mississippi and Roughing It

In seven pages the ways in which Mississippi River people and towns are presented in Twain's Life on the Mississippi are compared ...

Black Robe by Brian Moore and Its Depiction of Native Americans

In six pages this paper discusses the tone of the depiction of Native Americans and what traits the author chose to stress in his ...

Violence in the Narrative of Frederick Douglass

he had no real knowledge of his actual age ? "Having never seen any authentic record containing it" (Douglass, 2001). According to...

Comparative Analysis of Seneca's and Euripides' Medea

In five pages Euripides' and Seneca's depictions of Medea are contrasted and compared in this literary analysis. There are no oth...

Lenin's Tomb by Remnick

In five pages this text review criticizes the author's credibility and biased depiction of Communism and the Soviet Union's collap...

Themes of Violence and Female Sexuality in the Films The Exorcist and Carrie

A thematic analysis of these films focuses upon their depictions of violence and female sexuality in 5 pages. Two sources are cit...

The Old West As Portrayed in Frederic Remington's Art

In twelve pages the ways in which Remington's depiction of the American West in his art in terms of its identity and conjuring of ...

American Family Depiction in Television Situation Comedies of the 1950s and 1960s

In fourteen pages this paper discusses TV sitcoms during this time period and how they portrayed the American family with past and...

The Clinton and Lewinsky Liaison as Portrayed by the Media

The role of media politics in its depiction of this affair are examined as are the roles of propaganda and other items in this sto...

Asian American Experience in Mona in the Promised Land by Gish Jen Number 2

This paper discusses how emotion is used by the author in the depiction of the Asian American experience in the novel. There are ...

Topsy Stereotyping in Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

little girl, partially to contrast her as completely as possible with Little Eva, but also to make her as incorrigible as possible...

Heroes in 3 Stories by Ernest Hemingway

In six pages this paper examines the depiction of heroes in the short stories 'Hills Like White Elephants,' 'Soldier's Home,' and ...

Night by Elie Wiesel

literal hell on Earth and suffering a subsequent crisis of faith, redemption is possible. The narrator eventually arrives at a wor...

Comparing Elie Wiesel and Kurt Vonnegut's and Their Works about the Holocaust

outrage and sorrow. However, Vonneguts protagonist, Howard Campbell, is not precisely a victim in the Holocaust at all. He stress...

Libra by Don De Lillo and the Portrayal of Lee Harvey Oswald as a Victim

In five pages this paper examines De Lillo's text in terms of the author's depiction of the accused assassin of President John F. ...