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Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Writers Compared and Contrasted

work, Candide, is a direct commentary on the search for lost spirituality and humanity, which typifies the eighteenth century writ...

Deception and Mistaken Identity in Wilde and Aeschylus

motion the rest of the grounds for the deceit in the play. As Clytemnestra watches her daughter butchered at the hands of her hus...

Androgyny and Isolation in A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

An androgynous individual relies upon social acceptance just the same as other more gender-specific people; when he or she receive...

Analysis of Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs Screenplay

After the robbery goes bad, the gang regroups in an abandoned warehouse. Here they learn that the reason their job went bad was du...

Evil in Alfred Hitchcock's Films Rope and North by Northwest

the most louche, laidback villains in screen history" (Brooke, 2005, PG) emphasises Thornhills naivety as far as espionage and mur...

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...

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson and Films Inspired by This Novel

Hyde. Mr. Hyde is a hideous man who engages in murder and essentially allows his most animalistic, most primitive, nature to come ...

Orson Welles' Citizen Kane and Frank Capra's Meet John Doe Cinematic and Comparative Analysis

tight close-up (Dirks, 1996). There is a menacing "No Trespassing" sign outside an old gate, and after panning up over a chain-li...

'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 ...

Feminism and Ursula K. Le Guin's, Sur

This paper examines the issue of gender in Le Guin's short story, Sur. The author discusses gender roles, symbolism, and thematic...

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 ...

Sappho's 'To Evening' Analyzed

evening. Then there is nighttime. In this poem, the last thing that occurs is that the baby is put into bed with his mother. There...

Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Dick and Jane

of this is seen when she passes dandelions on the way to the store. "Why, she wonders, do people call them weeds? She thought they...

Tales from Firozsha Baag, Forgetting and Remembering

seeing what has been remembered and what he, or others around him have forgotten, either by choice or as a result of personality d...

Who's Running America? The Bush Restoration by Thomas R. Dye

an elite that is comprised of a select number of corporations and private foundations; how campaign finance reform has done little...

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...

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...

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 ...

Great Expectations and Charles Dickens

conditions within the factories were terrible. Unfortunately, it can be said that they same disgraces that Dickens saw during his ...

Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Franklin's Tale' and Dorigen's Complaint

tells him of what she has promised. He tells her that she must keep her promises and that he will respect her for doing so. But, a...

Primary Themes in Daniel J. Levinson's The Seasons of a Man's Life

its merit as a work book for understanding the adult world of men. The Seasons of a Mans Life As mentioned, there exists very ...

Nature as a Theme in Mary Shelly's Frankenstein

character is testified to by the fact that so many movies have been made which were inspired by it. Within each, regardless of ho...

Change in Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire

that lizard, however, he was integrally bound to the desert environment and was much more complex that that solitary image might l...

An Analysis of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's El Colonel No Tiene Quien Le Escriba

the story it is without the elements of death and resurrection. It is through this simple connection to their son, to life, that t...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs and its Themes

at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price o...

American Dream in John Steinbeck's Tortilla Flat

"Tortilla Flat" set in Monterey, California tells of a tale of several wanderers who end up staying at the homes of Danny which we...

Themes in Henry James' Daisy Miller

in the dark foreshadowing of Daisys ruin in the shadowed cavernous scene of the Colosseum" (Anonymous List of Major Themes themes....

Characters by Henrik Ibsen and Fydor Dostoevsky and Self Deception

but she doesnt seem to realize it. One of the very first scenes between them the reader realizes that he is going to be a dominee...

Determinism v. Free Will, Good v. Evil in Zadig L'Ingenu by Voltaire

notion of good and evil within Zadigs character, one finds that the human condition is a regular consideration, insofar as humanit...

Elements and Themes of Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle

homestead and did not have a job, but he was a good and kindly man, and in that there are admirable qualities of a husband. But, t...