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Stage Direction in The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

In six pages this essay analyzes the thematic importance of props, lights, setting, and stage direction in Tennessee Williams' The...

Self Portrait of Thomas Hart Benton

In a paper consisting of five pages Benton's Self Portrait is analyzed utilizing such criteria as imagery, thematic style, contras...

A Review of the Film, My Life

This paper analyzes thematic elements of the film, My Life, which stars Michael Keaton as a young man facing death from cancer. T...

Speech Analysis

role to his advantage, Mr. Brown complimented his words with what he alleged were statistical facts and related raw data. Pro...

Moral Corruption and Family Deterioration in the Works of William Faulkner and Nathaniel Hawthorne

In eleven pages this paper presents a thematic comparison of the novels by Faulkner and Hawthorne and the common threads of family...

An Analysis of the Film, Babette's Feast

This paper examines the thematic elements of lifestyle changes and religious affectation in the Nineteenth Century film, Babette's...

Analysis of 'Revelation' by Flannery O'Connor

In five pages the last short story by Flannery O'Connor is analyzed and emphasizes the thematic importance of condemnation and red...

Falconer by John Cheever

In fifteen pages the style and thematic components of Falconer by John Cheever are contrasted and compared with some of this other...

Illusions by Richard Bach

In five pages this paper examines the thematic elements of this novel. There are no other sources listed....

Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger II

In five pages this paper analyzes the novel within the thematic context of 'the human heart in conflict with itself.' Three sourc...

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...

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 Milton's 'Paradise Lost' Book IX and Eve and Satan's Argument

In 8 pages the ninth book of 'Paradise Lost' examines the thematic importance of this argument between Satan and Eve. Eight sourc...

Social, Language, and Cognitive Developmental Factors Influencing Cognitive development, Language development, and Social development: Observations from the Classroom and the Literature

In eight pages the latest research literature and classroom observations pertaining to the factors that influence social, language...

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...

Comparative Analysis of 'Aeneid' by Virgil and 'The Odyssey' by Homer

In six pages this paper compares these two classical works in terms of plot, characterization, setting, thematic portrayals of war...

James Joyce's Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man and Homoeroticism

In five pages Joyce's novel is examined in terms of its thematic representation of homosexuality and homoeroticism. Two other sou...

Misguided Intentent in Literary Characters

of his mother during her long illness, however, he primarily, marries her because he does not want to be alone during the long New...

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....

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. ...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

American Scene Painting Art Movement

critical reception and the issues and themes addressed in their work. Regionalism A principal thrust in this school was the conc...

Characters from The Bible, The Odyssey and Tale of the Genji

the story deals with his infatuations, lusts, loves and relationships. Surprisingly, Genji retains a hard exterior through it all...

Durang's Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All and Moliere's Tartuffe Compared

is so powerful to witness how Moliere never overtly describes the religious hypocrisy at hand, but instead shows the fervor with w...