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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 ...

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift and the Theme of Pride

1931). The Lilliputians are also petty and small-minded, easily susceptible to corruption and think nothing of going to war over ...

The Theme of Poverty in The Man of Feeling and The London Merchant

of feeling" (Anonymous Man of Feeling, 2001; 0192840320.html). The main character of the story is a man of feeling. He is a man...

Macbeth by William Shakespeare and the 'Dark' Theme of Revenge

the result of the action he has taken and that such "psychic" revenge is having a far more powerful impact on him than any possibl...

Love Poetry and Dependency Themes

places her love at the basest level of daily life. She needs her love as she needs water to drink or air to breath. The love in fa...

Poetic Theme of Carpe Diem

see their beauty, and youth, start to fade. This idea is reiterated and emphasized in the second verse, which speaks of the suns q...

'The Horse Dealer's Daughter' by D.H. Lawrence and the Theme of Control

mind, the following paper examines some of the characters in Lawrences story, focusing on Mabel and Mr. Ferguson, as they relate t...

Raymond Carver's 'Where I'm Calling From,' 'Cathedral, 'A Small Good Thing' and the Theme of Communication

inability to understand the calls in the dead of night are paralleled with the frustration they feel at not getting any informatio...

Poetry, Literature, and Justice and Freedom Themes

the theme that speaks of freedom from the perspective of the freedom of expression. Oscar is a young man who is curious, and intel...

Themes of Positive Social Change in Dickens and Eliot

of one of the children we hear about that is constantly abused as a child, but seems to understand what responsibility is, what lo...

William Wordsworth and William Blake's Childhood Themes

this particular poem the first four lines seem to offer us a great deal of foundation for understanding the symbolic nature of you...

Symbolism and Theme of Plato's Allegory of the Cave

attempt to free themselves. What he has realized is that what they had seen all along on the wall of the cave were mere representa...

Stories by Virginia Woolf, Their Themes and Symbolism

Lighthouse, there is a subtle form of cruelty that thrusts the female protagonist into society as the woman is expected to act lik...

Classical Literature and Common Theme of Perseverance in Overcoming Obstacles

fire, his roar is the roar/of the floodwater; he breathes and there is death (lines 128-129). Gilgamesh perseveres despite the ad...

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and the Pride and Prejudice Themes

ClassicNote on Pride and Prejudice a.php?a=n001001182). In this we are given a subtle, yet very powerful, foundation for the unfol...

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Themes of Power and Gender

All the women are intrigued with Darcy and the potential marriage material he represents, however he is nonplused by what he consi...

Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and the Theme of Lying

goes on to note that he never met anyone who didnt lie and that presents us with an incredibly strong, yet also powerfully subtle,...

Fantasy Theme Theory or SCT

professor from the Department of Speech Communication at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. His numerous books over the pas...

Charles Dickens' Great Expectations and the Themes of Money and Class

how they were hindered and helped by his educational options. Pip, like Dickens, encounters a great deal of frustration with the e...

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 ...

Love Theme Compared as Reflected in Literature of Emily and Charlotte Bronte

specifically, it was an obsession as opposed to true love. What distinguishes these from each other is the element of personal sa...

Past Theme in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

One of the reasons for this is that Dickens expertly wove just about every emotion and every tale of human nature into this one gr...

The Theme Friendship in Steinbeck's, Of Mice and Men

its likely that Lennie will never remember. During the readers introduction to them they come upon a water hole which Lennie immed...

Theme of Denial in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

Willy Loman is a rather pathetic man. He is perhaps average, almost typical but maybe too stereotypical. His life had always been...

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....

Underlying Themes of Various Poems

woods, peopled with the wild creatures of the forest, witches and all sort of magical folk, including Satan, himself. Tam stops to...

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer and Themes of Destiny and Choice

In six pages 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' and 'The Knight's Tale' are discussed in order to examine how the themes of destiny and cho...

Feminist Themes and The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

factor into the equation, though it would seem that love was possible eventually. Given that Petruchio considers Katherine his p...

Crazy/Beautiful Film and its Themes of Social Stratification and Interracial Dating

indicate a real trend or did producers want to make the unlikely romance more intense by denoting the male protagonist as someone ...

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...