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War and its Compelling Literary Themes

In nine pages this paper examines how war's compelling themes are depicted in the literary works the Bhagavad Gita and the writing...

Literary Analysis of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

The work was going on. The work! And this was the place where some of the helpers had withdrawn to die. They were dying slowly it ...

Identity Search and Death of Fathers

not been there for his two sons. In this respect both of the sons have had to grow up without their father, or with essentially an...

Literary Themes and the Life of Ambrose Bierce

literature and his father had an impressive library (Ambrose Bierce, 2002). Bierces family was considered to be "sternly religiou...

Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop

the people that they are there to convert, that they find peace for themselves, and are able to build a presence for the Church wi...

Macabre Themes in the Works of Robert Frost

of his mind and spirit working in tandem to overcome natures obstacles as well as the more primitive creatures on the Earth. Frost...

Jean de la Fontaine's Fables

outward recognition. Why do Fontaines epic fable poems work? Primarily, one could state that they work because they embody unive...

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Jonathan Edwards

the audience immediately. Edwards then frames four implications from the verse that begin with the lead-in sentence just quoted an...

Lost Children As a Literary Theme

This paper discusses John Edgar Wideman's, Philadelphia Fire, and Shakespeare's, The Tempest as they relate to the common literary...

Human Depravity and Evil as Recurrent Literary Themes in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Ministers Black Veil Hawthornes The Ministers Black Veil is a short story that describes evil and depravity as developmental ...

Madness as a Common Literary Theme

This paper examines Shakespeare's play, King Lear, as well as Ibsen's work, Ghosts to discuss madness and delusion as common theme...

An Overview of A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, 2001 and A Raisin in the Sun, 2001). This essay offers an in-depth overview of this Hansberry play...

Golden Boy by Clifford Odets

has some boxing success, the protagonist Joe Bonaparte hurts his hands enough that he can no longer play the violin. In this work...

Contemporary Influence of the Myth of Pandora's Box

has "opened Pandoras Box." In addition to the nomenclature of Pandoras Box that has entered into todays society as a descr...

Native American Literature

especially true in Love Medicine, where the abandoned son attempts to brew a love medicine for his grandfather. However, he gets s...

A Review of the Poem Burbank with a Baedeker Bleistein with a Cigar by T.S. Eliot

"The rats are underneath the piles," (Eliot 22) in combination with things such as "Money in furs. The boatman smiles" (Eliot 24) ...

Italian Literature and the Themes of Escape, Alienation, and Entrapment

first the expulsion from the tennis club, then from the fascist party, then academic anti-Semitism, then more and more direct insu...

'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' Analyzed

the intent of the writer. Might he have an agenda hidden under the ghost story? At the same time, this is a classic supernatural t...

Bram Stoker's 'Dracula's Guest' Analyzed

he decides to proceed anyway. Clearly, the dark, cold, unforgiving surroundings that encapsulate the guest as his driver leaves h...

Literature, Self, and Identity

understand that there are many wolves out there, and when she finds one she is completely controlled by him and thus loses her inn...

Literature of Early Africa and Identity

how Africa had been at some point before its development. While the old works cited above do provide a sense of identity for the p...

Critique of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility

as a first attempt one can see the underlying brilliance that will shine through in later novel attempts. As has been said, "Auste...

Phenomenal Women in Literature

Such is the case, in my experiences in reading the authors noted above. No one can contest the fact that these women have indeed ...

Ernest Hemingway's Primary Literary Themes

he presents. There is pain and violence and death in Hemingways world, and he struggles to show his readers this aspect of life....

Literary Analysis of Ernest Hemingway's 'Hills Like White Elephants'

to convince her that having the abortion is no big deal. PATTERN OF SYMBOLS ASSOCIATED WITH MODERN WORLD It is an interesti...

Analyzing 'The Train' and 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor

that if they go to Florida, where it has been rumored that there is an escaped murderer loose, they will all be killed. The family...

Joseph Conrad's 'The Lagoon'

thinks the woman will die. Arsat is very sad and while he waits out the long night he begins to tell his friend about how he came ...

Readings on Family Reunion Theme

generation, perceiving life and important family relationships very differently. They do not come from the same position, in terms...

Guillien de Catro y Bellvis' La Mocedades del Cid

DIEGO: ...excesivamente honrado,...

Kate Chopin and Raymond Carver on Love

quietly, knowing something is coming her way, some feeling, some understanding, some epiphany. Then, it comes. It tells her she is...