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Frank: John Updike’s “The Rumor”

he likes the fact that his wife is confused and thinking he is a homosexual. Frank takes advantage of her confusion and...

Hospitality in Homer’s The Odyssey

home, as though they own everything. One would perhaps expect Penelope, or Telemachus (the man of the house so to speak), to ins...

Caliban, Political Powers, and The Tempest by William Shakespeare

political systems: Antonio represents what we might call the "real" government in Milan and Prospero represents a "state of nature...

Character Development in Marlinski's Ammalat Bek

described as handsome with eyes that "glittered with a proud courtesy" (Marlinski Chapter I). Everything about him was quite ornat...

Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and the Character Algernon

dandy was a man who may well have lived off of others, being a freeloader, an individual intrigued by the arts and by living out f...

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and the Character Norman Bowker

old man talks about, nothing else. How he cant wait to see my goddamn medals" (OBrien, 1998; 36). In this the reader...

Feminism and the Stargate Television Series

While Carter is rescued by the rest of SG-1, Nya is caught trying to elope and her father sentences her to death by stoning as pun...

Willa Cather's 'Paul's Case'

down, pistol in hand, and he had cried out in time to save himself, and his father had been horrified to think how nearly he had k...

Technology and the Works of H.G. Wells and Stanley Kubrick

In seven pages this paper discusses the impact of technology upon humankind as considered in H.G. Wells' novels The War of the Wor...

Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds' Hero Lieutenant Aldo Raine

lessons in humanity. Nazis aint got no humanity. Theyre the foot soldiers of a Jew hatin, mass murderin maniac, and they need to ...

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...

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 ...

Beneatha Younger in A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansbury

name is ironic in that Beneatha is beneath no one in her family. Her intellect and her passion for knowledge are unsurpassed. Sh...

Lupita Manana and Homer

be the tradition that developed in Greece and has been handed down in the West, as opposed to works that come from the East. The W...

Gilgamesh and Odyssey

Introduction The ancient stories of Gilgamesh and Ulysses in Homers Odyssey are classic tales that allow the reader to glimpse wh...

Independent Taylor Greer's Journey to Maturity in The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

aware that her and her mothers poverty had placed them at the bottom rung of Kentuckys socioeconomic ladder, with the chances of u...

Hospitality in the Telemachy

(Thorburn 370). This is the custom that plays a prominent role throughout the Telemachy and the Odyssey as a whole. The Telemach...

Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain and Minor Characters

and they offer comfort and information, as in Adas case. Minor characters have the dual purpose in this book of offering more info...

Hermann Hesse's Narcissus and Goldmund

It is always simpler to diagnose someone elses life than ones own, and so it is that the reader watches as Goldmund slowly unravel...

'If You Touched My Heart' by Isabel Allende

human being. Her song on the "blond wood psaltery" produced a "crystalline sound like water purling between stones" (82). As this ...

'Fifty Grand,' 'The Natural History of the Dead,' and 'Hills Like White Elephants' by Ernest Hemingway

several symbolic connotations in this name, primarily the contrast to the happy little dance called the Jig and the fact that she ...

'The Odyssey' by Homer and Fate

beginning, feels like he is in a position of complete helplessness. His father has been gone nearly 20 years and he is forced to d...

'Good Country People' by Flannery O'Connor and Theology

which is clearly understandable, yet she has not used her intelligence to rise above it all and find truth. She cannot exhibit kin...

Comparative Analysis of Krogstad in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House and Iago in William Shakespeare's Othello

shall my purpose work on him" (Shakespeare I iii). From there on out we begin to realize that we, as the audience, are the only on...

Andrea in Carmen Laforet's Nada

and overcome her family and poverty. Andrea is in search of self definition at this point, though she is not consciously aware of ...

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and Race Construction

helmsman awfully... Perhaps you will think it passing strange, this regret for a savage who was of no more account than a grain of...

Ancient Greece and Roles for Women as Portrayed by Homer

and also provided insight into the character when she brazenly broke with firmly held tradition. For example, in Homers Iliad and ...

Analyzing Othello

a larger than life figure. He is perfect. He is a leader as well as a handsome and delightful mate for Desdemona. Because Othello ...

Hospitality Theme in 'The Odyssey' by Homer

the theme of hospitality in such situations is emphasized when we recognize that this same theme is repeated many times in the Bib...

Janie in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

provide Janie with financial security. Many women, less independent than Janie, would suffer and endure. Janie leaves with another...