YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Thematic Significance of Fire in British Literature
Essays 421 - 450
In ten pages this paper discusses the themes of suffering and evil as uncompromisingly depicted by Doctorow in his Western frontie...
very difficult emotion to describe or explain. This is why Burns used the elements of nature in order to detail what love was, wha...
then, accompanied by proof, it can therefore be called knowledge. He seems to move in circles a bit with this assertion, in that ...
his titles. He is part of the society, and like any good leader or member, he finds that he must make personal sacrifices in order...
with immediate commercial success, however, it was later transferred to screen with a film adaptation, indicating the real value t...
Chinese poetry is replete with metaphor, simile, comparison, and personification as well with other linguistic contrivances which ...
portray this relationship as one built upon and surviving from an incongruous association perpetuated by greed and power. The stu...
he was supposed to have picked up at this station has broken down, so he is delayed. He tries to make himself busy and during this...
of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!" (Conrad PG)....
describes the motivation of the landed-gentry, that is, the wealthiest 10 percent of the population, he also addresses why small f...
others homely? The title of the episode "Eye of the Beholder," suggests that beauty is, as the clich? goes, in the eye of the beho...
of antecedents, tastes, habits, inclinations, and speaking all sorts of sub-dialects of the same jargon, thrown pell-mell into one...
the injustice that fate as inflicted upon him, as he has pursued the whale for years, coming close numerous times, but never actu...
that reveals to the reader a great deal about the characters involved. Pelagea is deeply in love with her husband, Yegor Anton Che...
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...
that fit with their role within the novels "deck." Martha Dreyer, Nabokovs "Queen," is a calculating woman with sharp intelligence...
fundamental importance in the Republic of the metaphor of descent and its connection to the two great themes of birth and death, a...
is great interest. Plato looks at all of these things in his book The Republic. In Book I, justice is discussed and it is deemed ...
sin and transgression. For example, this discussion could bring out the ways in which both Hester and her daughter Pearl are socia...
we use our life experiences to decide what wee believe otherwise to be. In Young Goodman Brown we are faced with a...
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...
the very nerve of human existence, both good and bad. Writers like Izzo attempt to reach out to their audiences by way of specifi...
what is "proper." How well have they done it? All aspects of this delightful childrens film are done extremely well. The animatio...
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...
played on him. Stephen Crane was born in Newark, New Jersey on November 1, 1871, the 14th child (only eight survived) of a Method...
demonstrations and anti-Vietnam War protests. Majoring in political science at St. Paul, Minnesotas Macalester College, writing a...
are not so lucky; they remain in Afghanistan under Soviet rule and then later are subjected to the tyranny of the Taliban regime d...
beauty of nature and the insights it provides can unite the two. The primary focus of Tintern Abbey is the temporal or physical w...
later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...
In 5 pages this paper discusses the thematic connection between the stories of Cass Mastern, Willie Stark, and Jack Burden in this...