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An Analysis of the Opening Passage of Anna Karenina

given notice (Tolstoy 1). As this illustrates, this opening passage accomplishes several purposes. It immediately announces the ...

August Wilson's Play Fences

powerfully fertile environment for them all. She also loves to garden and this becomes a very vital part of the theme of fences in...

Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and Imperialism

who assure the king that Gulliver is merely a trained animal and that the farmer, from which Gulliver was obtained, had trained hi...

Comparative Analysis of The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving and Faust by Johann von Goethe

wiser than I was before: / Master, Doctors what they call me, / And Ive been ten years, already, / Crosswise, arcing, to and fro, ...

Psychosocial Theories of Erik Erikson

in Eriksons stages. Each has two names: Trust vs. Mistrust; Autonomy vs. Shame; Initiative vs. Guilt; Industry vs. Inferiority; Id...

Aspects of Celtic Mythology

see a great deal of intent on magic in a Celtic wedding, where there are many ways in which to honor the mystical forces, some of ...

Comparison of Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz's The Divine Narcissus and Luis de Gongora's Polyphemus and Galatea

and transform his blood into a river, which flows down the sides of the volcano, Mt. Aetna, into the sea at Catana. De la Cruzs T...

Self Fulfillment and Identity in the Works of Ernest Hemingway

indicates they are seeking some answers, some way to self fulfillment. In this particular short story we see the doubt related t...

Social Commentary About The Gold Rush of Charlie Chaplin

in utter poverty and so always created characters that seemed to reflect that social class in society. One author notes, "Because ...

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper and Nature

introspection, but rather a view that seems to only see the nature around him as something of a frightening hindrance to his missi...

Meeting Jesus Christ and Being Ready

where there is only anguish, grief and regret. The clear message of this passage is that the true believer, the true Christian, is...

Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Disillusionment

truly found happiness in his small level of success. It is simply his nature to have dreamed big and ignorantly, never having poss...

Pushkin's Most Successful Prose

Pushkin was a Russian poet who eventually began writing prose. This essay examines and analyzes a very successful work of prose en...

Fahrenheit 451 and Social Control

This 3 page paper gives an overview of the novel Fahrenheit 451. This paper includes a discussion of social control as an element ...

American Values Found Within The Scarlet Letter

This 3 page paper gives an overview of the story The Scarlet Letter. This paper includes how the theme and parts of the novel refl...

Human Nature in Gulliver's Travels

This 6 page paper gives an overview of the story Gulliver's Travels. This paper includes human nature and corruption as theme with...

Defying Hitler by Sebastian Haffner

as subject to social trends as his peers, recounts how he remained somewhat detached by not becoming a Nazi. Nevertheless, he also...

No Good Friday by Athol Fugard

few characters, primarily Willie, Guy, and Rebecca. The powerful characters that are representative of the corruption, through cri...

Emile Zola's 'la fortune du Rougons'

humide "(Zola). Il y a un sens th?matique puissant dans ce langage figur?, un sens th?matique que droit du commencement lie ?troi...

Victorian Literature Characters

comes to represent the underdog of lifes unrelenting disappointments, forever struggling with issues of control. "The subsidiary ...

Franz Kafka and the Big Bug

There are four central themes in Kafka's Metamorphosis: the absurdity of life, the disconnect between mind and body, the limits of...

Saints and Soldiers, A Discussion

This essay pertains to "Saints and Soldiers," a 2003 film directed by Ryan Little. The writer provides a brief summary of the plot...

Lolita, Solipsism

This essay focuses of the theme of solipsism in Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. Eight pages in length, three sources are cited. ...

A Comparison, "Peter Pan" and 3 Poems

This paper focuses on how death is treated in "Peter Pan" by J.M. Barrie, and then compares with the same theme in "Jim " and "Mat...

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Colonialism

This essay pertains to Achebe's landmark novel "Things Fall Apart." The writer focuses on the theme of colonialism and its effects...

2 Short Stories, Identity

This essay pertains to The short stories "Bible" by Tobias Wolfe and "Virgins" by Danielle Evans. The writer discusses the theme o...

"Winter Dreams" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

This essay offers a summary and discussion of themes and characters in "Winter Dreams," a short story by Fitzgerald. Three pages i...

Secret of Joy by Alice Walker

This essay pertains to "Possessing the Secret of Joy" by Alice Walker. A summary of the plot is given and the writer also discusse...

Death as a Representation of Failing Marriages

This 9 page paper gives an explanation of how the timeless ideal of marriage is not real and how The Dead and The Story of an Hour...

Antigone and Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

that should be born to him by me" (Sophocles). This tragic portent would surely have put most couples who believed in fate off of...