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James Dickey's Deliverance

said that it eventually becomes the story of the city versus the country. On their first night to make camp, Ed Gentry and Bobby g...

Egyptian and Chinese Art Compared

in the reigning powers influence over art. In addition, art was commonly used to glorify those in control at the time, a reality n...

Gillian Clarke's 'Letter from a Far Country'

inner soul of a woman to be appreciated for the ways in which she makes the lives of her family easier and more pleasant. A native...

Visual Arts and Religion

life that one would want to aspire toward. And, typically, as in a religious painting, the consequences of not choosing the faith ...

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

the far corners of the globe, and also describes the whaling operations. Queequeg becomes ill and is so convinced he is dying tha...

Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Irony

depicting what he discovered about each of the victims. The first of these characters is the Marquesa, who is the daughter of a we...

Overview of 'A House for Mr. Biswas' by V.S. Naipaul

his dealings with those who are not Indian, or his dealings with his children, and in his treatment of his wife. His pride is wo...

Line Analysis of 'Every Sin is the Result of Collaboration'

accuse the owners son, Johnnie, of trying to kill him. Threatening to leave the hotel, the owner (Scully), convinces him that to g...

Character Analysis of Mabel in D.H. Lawrence's 'The Horse Dealer's Daughter'

feels about herself. Mable, left to pretty much fend for herself after her fathers death, must struggle to maintain the household...

Animals in the Fairy Tales of The Brothers Grimm

and upper-class Germans, yet even those tales were traced from India and the Middle East (Schulte-Peevers). They were passed down ...

History and Citizen Kane

flashbacks in the movie) (Street 48). Through these interviews, the audience learns that Kane inherited a fortune at a young age, ...

Good v. Evil in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

The conflict between good and evil and how it is represented through characters and symbolism are considered in this analysis of U...

Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway Compared

first novel, The Sun Also Rises (1926) and in Fitzgeralds 1934 novel, Tender is the Night remain stellar examples of the realist g...

Short Story Analysis of Tillie Olsen's 'I Stand Here Ironing'

era has wielded its impact on the mother and her young daughter who moves through the one temporary home after another, for the mo...

'In The Penal Colony' by Franz Kafka

In six pages dramas by Wenders and Brecht are compared with this 1924 story by Franz Kafka in a consideration of meaning and symbo...

Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Communism

his search for his place, his level of involvement in his society, brings into play Ellisons perceptions of communism, in the sear...

3 Short Stories by Poe Analyzed

anxiety. It serves to house the blame for the narrators actions. And, in terms of imagery, the ending of this classic tale speaks ...

A Dream Analysis

both secrets and answers for those doing the dreaming. Dreaming can be thought of as a passive event, a phenomenon that people reg...

Luis Valdez's 'Los Vendidos'

large degree. As such, the feminist qualities are vague and incredibly subtle. The only woman in the play is Miss Jimenez. She is ...

Journeys and Their Philosophical Meaning in 'Inferno' by Dante Alighieri and 'The Odyssey' by Homer

student who is writing about this topic should consider the ways in which the each author develops the philosophical journey of ea...

Analyzing Bleak House by Charles Dickens

society." With his literary weapon, Dickens took direct aim, launching a vitriolic attack on the legal, political and socioeconom...

Artwork of Egypt's Rishi Coffins

vulture and the cobra frequently are found on both royal and private mummiform coffins from this period. This era of transition m...

Musical and Libretto Contributions of Wolfgang Mozart's The Magic Flute

chords (Osborne 327). This opera is quite famous for containing a great deal of Masonic symbolism, although Osborne stresses that ...

Symbolic Meaning of the Cask in Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado'

In six pages this paper discusses the symbolism of the cask that appears throughout Edgar Allan Poe's compelling short story. Eig...

Themes of The Awakening by Kate Chopin

In five pages this paper discusses what is meant by flight symbolism in this thematic analysis of The Awakening by Kate Chopin. T...

Analyzing 'The Minister's Black Veil' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

and isolation intensifies, and suffers what Professor Rita K. Gollin refers to as "the penalties of isolation (Nathaniel Hawthorne...

Various Themes in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

In five pages this paper discusses the various themes and symbolism that are featured in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. ...

Food in Ulysses by James Joyce

crustcrumbs, fried hencods roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys, which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scen...

'Barbie Q' by Sandra Cisneros

In five pages this essay discusses how symbolism within this narrative reveals how the author feels about stereotypes, infidelity,...

A Review of Circles by Ralph Waldo Emerson

A 5 page essay analyzing the sociopolitical context of this work. Tone, imagery, form, and symbolism are detailed. 3 sources....