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Illness and Death in Franz Kafka's 'The Metamorphosis' and Leo Tolstoy's 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich'

into death. Both characters are, for the most part, dismissed gradually by their family. They are ignored, and their loved...

Themes and Criticism of 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor

Iin four pages this combination research paper and essay discusses the critical thematic interpretation of this famous short story...

'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...

Loss of Paradise in Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck and 'Paradise Lost' by John Milton

Lennie talk of their plans for a farm, he immediately feels the pull of this dream. He asks, "Spose I went with you guys...I aint ...

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 ...

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,...

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...

Life in Art: How Stephen Crane’s Life Influenced His Writings

played on him. Stephen Crane was born in Newark, New Jersey on November 1, 1871, the 14th child (only eight survived) of a Method...

Horton Hears a Who

what is "proper." How well have they done it? All aspects of this delightful childrens film are done extremely well. The animatio...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown' and a Reaction to Its Good vs. Evil Theme

we use our life experiences to decide what wee believe otherwise to be. In Young Goodman Brown we are faced with a...

Ovid's Metamorphoses/Concept of Art, Poet

her sisters husband and how he had cut out her tongue to keep silent and a prisoner (Ovid BkVI:571-619). Those characters who as...

Critical Analysis of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner

are not so lucky; they remain in Afghanistan under Soviet rule and then later are subjected to the tyranny of the Taliban regime d...

Blues and James Baldwin’s Short Story “Sonny’s Blues”

their late mother, who was the familys support system. Of her, the narrator would recall, "I always see her wearing pale blue" (B...

What Drives Author Tim O’Brien to Write?

demonstrations and anti-Vietnam War protests. Majoring in political science at St. Paul, Minnesotas Macalester College, writing a...

Themes of Good Versus Evil And Grace In Flannery O'Connor's Work

the world during the time when Revelation was written. In a serious attempt to educate her readership to the evils forever lurkin...

"We Be Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks, "The Lesson" by Toni Cade Bambara, and "Shiloh" by Bobbie Ann Mason and the American Dream

The thematic representation of the American dream in two literary genres (1 poem and 2 short stories) is discussed in 9 pages. Th...

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, and Hope, Love, and Faith

The boy was intrigued by Santiagos resolve and had faith this man he admired would come through. On one of their early fishing ex...

Themes of "Neighbor Rosicky" by Willa Cather

his heart. The very act of carving out a new life in an unfamiliar territory casts its share of fear and anxiety, however, this u...

Comparing Themes from McGregor And Thoreau

from what was ostensibly a civilized society, ultimately finding how solitude became one of his closest friends. "I find it whole...

"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...

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...

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...

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 ...