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Judith Ortiz Cofer’s Silent Dancing

words ONLY is a little over 9 pgs!!! 11 14 3037 (5-10-10) 3150 12 15 3375 13 16 3600 14 18 15 19 16 20 4500...

The Cask of Amontillado

he is anything but a gentleman or stoic. Through this first person narrative the reader is really made to feel as though the nar...

Updike’s A&P

day to trip me up" (Updike). This is a line that also suggests he may be judgmental as well. But, in essence, he is very much symb...

Comparing 'Two Kinds' with 'Bartleby'

ending is quite compelling, letting on that the narrator is much more insightful than first appears. Certainly, the narrator is no...

'The Bear' by William Faulkner

terms, the trancendentalist is occupied with the natural over the synthetic. He uses vivid images in his explanation of what natu...

Analysis of 'Everything That Rises Must Converge' by Flannery O'Connor

Race is something everyone must deal with in a multiracial society. No matter what ones color or religion or ethnicity, they at so...

Romanticism in Two Short Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

gothic tone, which is a feature of romanticism. Goodman Brown soon arrives at his destination as he meet a man who has been wait...

Ernest Hemingway's Men Without Women

Like White Elephants" we have a man and a woman, although the characters are an American Man and a Girl, wherein the man is seemi...

Analyzing 'The Tell Tale Heart' by Edgar Allan Poe

deed, he nevertheless is overcome by his guilt which seems to lead him to insanity. He begins the story however by not denying his...

Dark Suspense Elements in Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown' and Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado'

Dark suspense elements are the focus of this comparative analysis of two 19th century great American short stories in five pages. ...

3 Short Stories by Ernest Hemingway

great pain, screaming, the arrogance of the doctor comes out in the following: "But her screams are not important. I dont hear the...

Literary Tools in Thurber's, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

This paper addresses literary elements such as character development as seen in James Thurber's story, The Secret Life of Walter M...

Analyzing A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

point that in order to become complete, we must learn more about ourselves and who we are. In order to do this, we need to experi...

Levin's View of the Future in Anna Karenina

are made. Levin believed that the sacred nature of all living things demanded that mankind re-vision the current belief to see ...

'Desiree's Baby' Short Story Analysis

Realist writers "were more or less in open revolt against [society]," and naturalism combined the theories of Charles Darwin to co...

William Shakespeare's Macbeth and Hamlet Similarities and Differences

In five pages this paper presents a comparative analysis of these two Shakespearean tragedies in terms of their similarities and d...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and the Sympathetic Character of Claudius

In five pages five scenes from the play are presented in an argument that Claudius is in fact a sympathetic character in William S...

The Heart in The Story of an Hour

the end, of her heart and a possible "condition" and so the reader may well dismiss this fact in a first reading. But, at the same...

Clyde Character in An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

In five pages this report presents a character analysis of Clyde as featured in Theodore Dreiser's novel An American Tragedy. The...

Analyzing John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and The Pearl

In five pages these stories are analyzed in terms of their similarities and differences and literary elements such as themes, char...

Claudius's Character in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

wife. Claudius states, "Though yet of Hamlet (the late king was also named Hamlet) our late brothers death/The memory be green" (I...

The Element of Tragedy in Miller's Death of a Salesman

we know Frank would have fired him long ago, or at the very least, not promoted him. In this we see Willy blaming his new boss for...

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare and the Characters of Portia and Calpurnia

A lioness hath whelped in the streets; / And graves have yawnd, and yielded up their dead; / Fierce fiery warriors fight upon the ...

Gender Perceptions on Rape and Responsibility

Although she does not discuss this case specifically, Jacobys "Common Decency" allows insight to the Schmid cases and Oates fictio...

American Education, Three Representations

This essay presents an overview of Donald Barthelme's "The School," Zitkala-Sa's "The School Days of an Indian Girl," and Toni Mor...

Marlowe's Dr. Faustus and Shakespeare's Macbeth

This essay is on "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare and "Doctor Faustus" by Christopher Marlowe. The writer asserts that the centra...

Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?

look at her, playing the woman although she is not a woman. "She was fifteen and she had a quick, nervous giggling habit of cranin...

Joyce Carol Oates' Dark Writings

and families. Turners Rebellion was squelched before he ever reached Jerusalem, and after six weeks of hiding from the authorities...

Leontes in A Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare

In five pages Sicilia's King Leontes is analyzed in terms of his character's functions in Shakespeare's tragedy. Five sources are...

Ophelia's Character in Hamlet by William Shakespeare

In five pages this paper analyzes the character of Ophelia and the role she plays in this tragedy in terms of how other characters...