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Injustice and Vengeance in William Shakespeare's The Tempest and Euripides' Electra

story of Agamemnon we are presented with a man who sacrifices his daughter, at the request or command, of the gods, in order that ...

'The Awakening' by Kate Chopin and its Themes

one dies alone is something that is realized here. In the end, Edna commits the ultimate act. No one can die with another human be...

Rebirth, Renewal, and Redemption in The Tempest by William Shakespeare

Caliban, son of the witch Sycorax. Miranda retains a childlike innocence as a result of her idyllic existence, but at the same ti...

A Case of Need by Crichton

novel. He would go on to not only write other, more compelling best selling novels, but he would also become involved in televisio...

Steven Pressfield's Gates of Fire

the importance of such things in their society. The reader is presented with infantry battle that denotes honor and valiant beha...

Theme of Success in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

he wants more from life, he begins to have great expectations. Later in the story he is given the opportunity to become educated...

Literary Religious Themes, Symbolism, and Imagery

rejected this kind of philosophical process. In Chapter 27, Forster wrote: The chief point was that God lives inside the sun,...

Emile Zola's The Fortune of the Rougons and the Themes of Love and Death

it, is perhaps a bit disturbing if we envision people making love in a cemetery as a common occurrence. As such this provides a po...

Imagining Argentina by Thornton

focusing on the protagonist Carlos Rueda who happens to be a playwright. This character is endowed with a gift and uses his psychi...

Utopia of Socialism

theory could exist, if only individuals would work for the good of society instead of placing selfish aims above all else. Wells ...

'The Open Boat' by Stephen Crane

the tiny little life boat. At one point they believe they see land in the distance, and then they realize it is land. However the ...

Abraham Cahan/Yekl

of antecedents, tastes, habits, inclinations, and speaking all sorts of sub-dialects of the same jargon, thrown pell-mell into one...

Mike Lupica's Travel Team

will appeal to a younger audience, and it tells us that Danny believes in himself. We know immediately that things are going to g...

Nabokov & Use of Language

that fit with their role within the novels "deck." Martha Dreyer, Nabokovs "Queen," is a calculating woman with sharp intelligence...

Anderson's "Feed" - Sinister Possibilities And Prodding

of consumerism - the perpetual wanting of more and more materialistic tangibles until there is nothing left to appreciate - reside...

Morality in The Scarlet Letter

sin and transgression. For example, this discussion could bring out the ways in which both Hester and her daughter Pearl are socia...

Butler & Eliot

the rights of plants: "And when we call plant stupid for not understanding out business, how capable do we show ourselves of under...

1956 Film Adaptation/Moby Dick

the injustice that fate as inflicted upon him, as he has pursued the whale for years, coming close numerous times, but never actu...

Comparing Chekhov, Nabokov & Viramontes

that reveals to the reader a great deal about the characters involved. Pelagea is deeply in love with her husband, Yegor Anton Che...

Ella Enchanted/Cinderella

opens just after her birth. Like all babies, she is crying. Lucinda, a rather stupid fairy, is intent on giving Ella a "gift" and ...

Poe’s Tell-Tale Heart

he so closely identifies with him, which is precisely Poes point-the narrators is not normal, but is quite insane. The point of ...

3 Expert Tales of Death

later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...

Character Analysis of Creon from Antigone

decreed a heros burial for Eteocles, but that no one, on pain of death, can offer funeral rites for Polynices and that his body sh...

Beat Poetry and the Expression of Counterculture Values

Lawrence Ferlinghetti are quite different from one another. Ginsbergs long and sprawling lines certainly look nothing like Snyders...

Heaney and Hayden: Views of Isolation and Sacrifice

poetry is to use an economy of language to express ideas that are more complex than the concrete images and words that convey them...

Woolf's "To the Lighthouse" and James' "The Turn of the Screw" - A Narrative Analysis

point became critical to interpreting the story, and some authors such as Faulkner even began to tell stories from a multitude of ...

An Inductive Analysis of Macbeth: The Use of Paradoxical Language

opens by referred to her distant husband not by his titular name, but by his holdings and titles of lordship: "Glamis thou art", s...

"Madame Bovary" and the Act of Reading

the morality of anyone who read the work, particularly women (Leonard 2010, p. 10). Such a fear stemmed from the then-popular conc...

Agamemnon and His Many Faces

a major figure in each of these works. Based upon the legendary king of Mycenae, Agamemnon in the Iliad is depicted as the command...

“To Kill a Mockingbird”: Discrimination and Innocence

yet this innocence is rejected by the culture in which he finds himself; therefore, he is marked as "guilty", and it is revealed h...