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Saving Face: An Analysis of George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant”

which he attended from 1917-1921 (Merriman). In 1922, Blair went to Burma, apparently following his fathers inspiration, and join...

Hamlet and Ofelia and the Threats They Face

the not-too-distant past; the guards on the battlements talk about how the previous King Hamlet "smote the sledded [Polacks] on th...

Louise Erdrich: ”Fleur"

amount of money (Erdrich). Fleur won, and refused to play any longer; in retaliation, the men got drunk and raped her; that same n...

Descartes and "The Matrix"

essentially wrong is when words appear on his computer screen-something that should not happen-and hes told to "follow the white r...

Eldest Inheritance, Book Two by Christopher Paolini

that her father will never agree to the match due to Rorans diminished prospects. Roran decides to rebuild the farm, but it thwart...

Fantasy Literature and Science Fiction

has its own set of rules, mostly that there are no rules. So perhaps a better paradigm to explore is whether or not, within a giv...

'The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas' by Ursula LeGuin

know the child is there, because each of them is taken to see it when they are quite young, perhaps 8-12 years of age. They cannot...

Uncertain Vision in "Oedipus the King" and "Othello"

woman who was now a widow, he fell in love and married her-his mother (Sophocles). Apollo curses Thebes and says that the city wil...

The Scale of Adolescent Dissociative Experiences

human being to respond in a way that intensifies the inherent manifestations of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Noted by a...

Vo Phien: "The Key"

ship dropped anchor "at 3 a.m. July 5, 1975" and passengers began to disembark (Phien). The first thing that greeted them was a ho...

Edith Wharton’s Roman Fever

about, but as the tension rises, a perspective that is discussed in the section on tone within the story, the reader senses that t...

Division Essay: Desiree’s Baby by Chopin

white masters raped their black female slaves and as such many of those females gave birth to interracial children who were slaves...

Suzanne Loncher's A Brooklyn Rose

a woman, not a man. In addition, much of the information in the book, while involving the social history of the Italians and the n...

Caroline Knapp's 'Drinking A Love Story'

not aware enough to have often remembered it. Later she illustrates that when she first had sex she was told, by her friend, to si...

Human Isolation in The Country Doctor and Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

by some mysterious external power, capable of turning a man into a giant insect, is virtually ignored by the characters: their foc...

Robert Herrick's 'Julia's Petticoat'

there, pleasd with transgression evrywhere." This is hardly the action a petticoat could manage were Julia demurely seated at a t...

'The Lady with the Pet Dog' by Anton Chekhov

his otherwise dull life. When we meet the woman with the dog we begin to see that she is young and innocent and lonely. She als...

An Analysis of The Big Lie

sets out to illustrate how Grace was "a onetime protege of Huey P. Long and virtually the only woman in Louisiana politics" and ho...

Alice in Wonderland and Harry Potter

his introduction to The Annotated Alice, Martin Gardner relates some of the complex meanings that have been attributed to Alice. F...

'As I Lay Dying' by William Faulkner

youngest, wants a toy train. The two remaining brothers, Jewel and Darl, want nothing for themselves, but the journey brings to it...

Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and Modern Cinema Fantasies

npa), the use of the fantasy genre allows the author or director to stand outside of the reality with which we are familiar, and g...

Bram Stoker's Dracula and Kate Chpin's The Awakening Compared

at an early age and was raised by a cold, unfeeling father. Edna lives in a world that has strictly prescribed social boundaries a...

Symbolism and the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne

Such a setting, she points out, simply added to the fear and accusations of witchcraft against innocent people (Jacobs). I...

Fantasy Space of Michel Foucault, Walt Disney and MGM Studios

at least the observance of it. At MGM Studios and Walt Disney World, human submission to discipline and punishment is complete, th...

Theme of Fantasy versus Reality in The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

crop up in bits and pieces, in a haphazard fashion. He will start stories and then abandon them before reaching a conclusion, on...

Islamic Story of Creation

We are expanding it (51:47)," is often contended by many scholars in light of the fact that it was not until fairly recently that ...

"Politics of Fantasy" by Peter Firchow

This essay summarizes and the describes the principal points of Peter Firchow's "The Politics of Fantasy: 'The Hobbit' and Fascism...

Miller, Williams, Fantasy and Wishful Thinking

This essay pertains to Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" and Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" and how each play hand...

HALF THE SKY AND EDNA’S HOSPITAL

This 3-page paper discusses why "Edna's Hospital" is an important story in the book "Half the Sky."...

Becoming a Greater Sports Fan with Fantasy Sports

Before playing fantasy football, I gave little thought to the function of a commissioner or the importance of the role in team ope...