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Act I Soliloquy of William Shakespeare's Hamlet

In five pages this paper considers the ghost of Hamlet's father and his soliloquy in Act I of Shakespeare's play in terms of its p...

The Works of Amy Tan

In a paper that contains eight pages the inspiration writing has provided Amy Tan throughout her life is examined in essay 'Young ...

Banquet Scene and What Macbeth Actually Saw in William Shakespeare's Macbeth

prophetic apparitions make appearances(Shakespeare & Supernatural). One of the most climactic scenes in the play is the banquet ...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet and Semiotics

Taking the skull, for example: it is obvious that the term skull refers to a particular object, or a group of objects, which have ...

Travel Story That is Subject Oriented

an integral part of the travelogue. These obstacles are met and either overcome, or the obstacles serve as catalysts to propel th...

Identity in 'The New York Trilogy' by Paul Auster

to Quinn because they allow him to temporarily lose his identity. By walking, he could leave "himself behind," and simply give him...

Beloved by Toni Morrison, Psyche of American Slaves, Ghosts, and Myths

are somewhat consistent with superstitions followed by the slave culture of the time and a segment of the African heritage of the ...

Passive Women and Active Men in Ibsen and Pope

In a paper consisting of 5 pages Henrik Ibsen's 'Ghosts' and Alexander Pope's 'Rape of the Lock' are comparatively examined in ter...

The Signalman as a Ghost Story

the story may have reflected a time in Dickens life where the writer was significantly more in tuned to the transient aspects of w...

Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North, Toni Morrison's Beloved and Ghosts

Set just after the civil war Sethe is a runaway slave who had once killed her infant daughter so that she would not grow up in the...

Marriage Views of Henrik Ibsen

works, that Ibsen had a unique take on women. In fact, Baker-White notes that Ibsens realist plays had been subverted due to the u...

First World War Trilogy by Pat Barker

In ten pages the First World War trilogy Regeneration, The Eye in the Door, and The Ghost Road by Pat Barker are discussed. Seven...

Sigmund Freud's 'The Uncanny' and Fiction's Messages

In eight pages this paper examines the messages that exist within horror or ghost stories. Eleven sources are cited in the biblio...

Act II Scene ii of Hamlet Within the Play's Overall Context

In six pages the response of Rosencrantz and Guilderstern to Claudius and Gertrude, the response of Claudius to 'The Murder of Gon...

Regeneration Trilogy of Pat Barker

This paper examines historiographical metafiction techniques employed by Pat Barker in the Regeneration Trilogy Regeneration, The ...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Introduction The work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez is referred to as magical realism for there are elements within his stories that ...

Tennessee Folklore: The Ghost Lights of Chapel Hill

his lantern, as he searches for his lost head" (Brown). In addition to the lights, some people have reported UFOs in the sky; oth...

Haunted Connecticut or Maybe Not

the towns is a place called Bara-Hack, in Usa county (Dagostino). What remains at the site today are "Cellar holes, foundations, w...

The Ghost Map

Johnson described the people who lived within the city as a group of somewhat organized scavengers. "The scavengers...lived in a ...

Melville's "Le Samourai" - A Portrait of Existential Values

single, concise action, one cannot help but recall the inherent ambiguity and independence of Camus Mersault, the protagonist of "...

Ethnographic Literature Issues

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at "Getting Ghost" by Luke Bergman. Problems associated with ethnographic literature ar...

Two Ghost Stories, Dickens and Bronte

attitudes that he has embraced have robbed his life of meaning and value. The ghosts remind him of his past and the choices that h...

A Feminist Perspective on Beloved by Toni Morrison

This 5 page paper examines Toni Morrison's novel Beloved from a feminist perspective. The writer analyzes Beloved herself, who app...

Comparing Characters in Ghosts and Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

that she engages in issues that were considered to be taboo for women back in those days; however, it is no longer her concern how...

Governess in Turn of the Screw by Henry James

of discerning between reality and a fantasy world. Thus, it was clear that the governess, by exhibiting rational thought and acti...

Conveyance and Point of View Manipulation in Turn of the Screw by Henry James

appear to be fraternizing with ghosts, are not so much the focus of the story as the governess, who begins questioning if what she...

Ghost of Hamlet's Father and its Authenticity

to manifest in either life. They take issue with something that has gone on before their death, and in fact, the ghost in Hamlet, ...

'Hearing,' Hamlet and His Father's Ghost

In nine pages this paper discusses how Shakespeare emphasized 'hearing' throughout the course of this tragedy and how it affects t...

Hearing is Believing in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

In five pages this paper examines the emphasis upon 'ear' and 'hearing' in the play and how this impacts Hamlet's encounter with t...

Hamlet and William Shakespeare's Use of Imagery

In six pages Hamlet and how Shakespeare artfully employed imagery particularly regarding the ghost are examined. Seven sources ar...