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John Milton's Literary Similarities

In 5 pages this paper discusses The Hymn and Paradise Lost in a comparative analysis of the thematic similarities that exist in po...

Cass Mastern, Willie Stark, and Jack Burden in All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren

In 5 pages this paper discusses the thematic connection between the stories of Cass Mastern, Willie Stark, and Jack Burden in this...

In the Jungle by Annie Dillard and Writing Style

In five pages this work is analyzed in terms of the writer's stylistic use of allusions, repetition, similes, metaphors, and langu...

Literature and Free Will v. Fate

In 5 pages this paper examines this thematic conflict as it is represented in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, Macbeth by William S...

Literary Considerations of Greed

typical, but maybe too stereotypical. He is someone who today would appear on The Jerry Springer Show. His life has always been dy...

Arrogance and Oedipus Rex

In eight pages this paper argues that the King is victimized by his own arrogance in a consideration of how the theme of hubris or...

John Lewis Gaddis' We Now Know Rethinking Cold War History

In six pages this paper presents a summary and thematic analysis of this text and the author's assertion that the Soviet actions c...

Room With a View by E.M. Forster

In twenty pages this paper considers the literary devices including symbolism, tone, irony, and metaphor that the author employs i...

Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North, Toni Morrison's Beloved and Ghosts

Set just after the civil war Sethe is a runaway slave who had once killed her infant daughter so that she would not grow up in the...

Quentin Tarantino's Controversial Film Pulp Fiction

In 5 pages this paper examines the cinematic style of director Quentin Tarantino in this thematic analysis of the controversial fi...

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje, Common Humanity and Nationalism

In five pages this paper analyzes the novel by Michael Ondaatje in terms of the thematic conflict of nationalism versus common hum...

Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man' and Social Responsibility, Self Reliance, and Blindness Themes

In five pages this paper discusses social responsibility, self reliance, and blindness in this thematic analysis of 'Invisible Man...

Book I of A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway and the Conflict Between Reality and Illusion

In three pages the thematic conflict between reality and illusion is examined in a consideration of Book I's portrayal of the love...

The Irrational Love of Romeo and Juliet

is something that does not escape the young couple, for they do have the capacity to accept the grandeur that is love; while their...

Comparative Analysis of the Short Stories 'A Christmas Memory' by Truman Capote, 'The Rocking Horse Winner' by D.H. Lawrence and 'The Child by Tiger' by Thomas Wolfe

in him. While this unnamed relative (Capote calls her simply his "friend") is childlike and somewhat simple minded, she is also n...

The Uses of Enchantment by Bruno Bettleheim and Philip Smith's Japanese Fairy Tales

In four pages a thematic link between these two texts are developed. There are no other sources listed....

The 1952 Musical, Singin' In the Rain

This essay offers an analysis of the famous 1952 film musical, Singin' In the Rain, which stars Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynbods. Th...

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens and Primary Major Themes

In five pages this paper presents a thematic analysis of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. One source is cited in the bibliog...

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

In 5 pages this paper discusses how women's power is represented in the author's thematic employment of domesticity. There are 4 ...

Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening' and the Quest for Identity, Love, and Liberation

than matron, she needed to attach a descriptive label to herself which belonged to her alone, and to no one else. It becomes evid...

'A Father' by Bharati Mukherjee and Irony

In five pages this paper examines the importance of irony to Mukherjee's story with other thematic components considered as well. ...

Holy Grail's History

(Mabinogion, p. 79). The Mabinogion chronicles do not seem to have been widely circulated outside of Wales, probably because of t...

Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse

In seven pages this paper presents a thematic analysis of the novel by Hermann Hesse. One source is cited in the bibliography....

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

In six pages The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann is the focus of this thematic analysis. Four sources are cited in the bibliography...

Agamemnon by Aeschylus and Human Sacrifice

In seven pages this paper examines the tragedy by Aeschylus in terms of its shocking thematic featuring of human sacrifice. There...

Ignorance is Bliss Theme in Oedipus the King by Sophocles

In six pages this essay discusses how Oedipus would have been more content without the knowledge of his fated life in this themati...

Sacrifice in The Odyssey by Homer

In five pages this paper presents a thematic analysis of how sacrifice is portrayed in 'The Odyssey.' There are 2 sources cited i...

Theme of Vengeance The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende and Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

In seven pages the thematic representation of violence in these literary works is contrasted and compared. There is 1 source cite...

Cousin Bazilio by Jose Maria Eca de Queiros

In eight pages the late nineteenth century society of Portugal is the focus of this thematic consideration of Cousin Bazilio. Fou...

The Chosen Place, The Timeless People; Cane; and Heremakhonon

In four pages these novels by Marshal, Toomer, and Conde are contrasted and compared in terms of narrative and thematic styles. T...