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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 ...

'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 ...

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...

Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri and Portrayal of Women

woman who is generous and selfless: "So much more dear and pleasing is to God/ My little widow, whom so much I loved,/ As in good ...

Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie

was that the protagonist is not sorry for her illicit relationship with the married man, and in fact seems to have benefited her l...

Characters Myrrha and Byblis in Ovid's Metamorphoses

that Byblis argued with herself that such desires were acceptable to some degree: "Twas thought no sin to wonder at his charms,/ H...

The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller and the Character of Robert Kincaid

food as a measuring cup of personality, a leavening for plot, and an ingredient in the theme" (Kellman 435). The contradictions i...

Bassiano in Shakespeare's 'The Merchant of Venice' from a Freudian Perspective

Id is associated with the immediate gratification of the unconscious. In other words this level is the most primal and does not co...

Slavery Ideology and Practice in Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

quickly. It is true that in some of the Northern settlements, plantation managers preferred to use white indentured servants rathe...

'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...

The Wife of Bath Examined Critically

which also includes the tales of the Friar, Summoner, Clerk, Merchant, Squire and Franklin and consist of tales or perceptions rel...

Margaret Street in Tar Baby by Toni Morrison

money, and she now has nothing. With this simple background in mind we note that she, at one time, wanted to explore herself an...

Christine in Michael Dorris' A Yellow Raft in Blue Water

tribal office. She is still close with her brother in many ways, but is very distant from the rest of the world, even those men wh...

The Significance of Feasting in Homer's Odyssey

that whatever the customs of good behavior, these people are not observing them. In light of this we would assume that the people ...

Character of David in the A.I. Film by Director Steven Spielberg

is difficult. It appears that he is able to emulate a real boy, he makes decisions regarding his own actions, has emotions and act...

The First Man in Rome by McCullough

this Mariuss evil twin? The characterization of Gaius Marius is above all well done, as were the characterizations of many other...

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...

The Quest: Homer, Adams, and Tolkien

Ulysses is clearly at the mercy of the gods and goddesses to some extent. He cannot seem to simply go home, but...

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 ...

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...

Roderigo's Significance in Othello by William Shakespeare

he would have no one to do this task for him. And, Iago could not have well done all the spying himself for that would have looked...

The Odyssey and The Alchemist: Free Will, Determinism, and the Journeys

not something he will believe as he has already made a choice to be a shepherd and not a priest which is what was determined for h...

Athena and Juno in Homer and Virgil

that Aegisthuss death is certainly deserved, "But my heart breaks for Odysseus, / that seasoned veteran cursed by fate so long -- ...

Wine in The Odyssey

reader how "everything well stowed, the wine in jars, and the barley meal, which is the staff of life" which indicates that wine r...

The Brute by Chekhov

Mrs. Popov is likely a respectable woman who understands the etiquette of the day, which is what the audience will likely see (Che...

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...