SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Themes in the Gothic

Essays 841 - 870

A Literary Criticism and Analysis of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Reed childrens nurse, Bessie. After an argument with her cousin John, Jane was cruelly punished by being locked into what was ref...

'What Makes Sammy Run?' and Characterization

a great deal until he does step on toes. He does not care who he hurts and this is present every step of the way on the road to th...

An Analysis of the Film, American Beauty

troubled home life. To escape, Ricky retreated into his own world of drugs and voyeurism. Simply stated, American Beauty was an ...

Capitalism in The Housemaid

This 10 page essay analyzes the novel by Ammo Darko for the themes of capitalism, urbanization, gender, and the idea that even peo...

Cinema and Novel Expansion of Blade Runner

but an android is not designed to react emotionally and must formulate a false emphatic response. The difference in the time invol...

An Analysis of Lois Lowry's Novel, The Giver

unit. The governments interpretation of freedom was that its responsibility was to "free" people from the responsibility of memor...

Pablo Nerusa's 'Walking Around'

This 5 page poetic analysis considers the theme, tone, and use of imagery. There are no additional bibliographic sources used....

Analyzing 'The Minister's Black Veil' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

and isolation intensifies, and suffers what Professor Rita K. Gollin refers to as "the penalties of isolation (Nathaniel Hawthorne...

Literature and Male Cruelty

on love, but rather an arrangement. This book sheds light on the cruelty of arranged marriages, but things get worse. It is not me...

A Jungle of Stars by Jack L. Chalker

In seven pages this novel is examined in terms of the theme of good and evil and social reflection it presents in terms of plot an...

Cynicism, Romance, and Annie Hall by Director Woody Allen

In six pages this paper examines the themes of cynicism and romance within the context of this 1977 Academy Award winning film Ann...

Good v. Evil in The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

In seven pages this classic theme of good v. evil is examined as it involves Tolkien's classic novel. Eight sources are cited in ...

Empowerment in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen and Medea by Euripides

they professed to love, with Medea most certainly taking the deed to great extremes. It is important for the student to understan...

'Desiree's Baby' Short Story Analysis

Realist writers "were more or less in open revolt against [society]," and naturalism combined the theories of Charles Darwin to co...

Each of the Jurors in 12 Angry Men

only Davis would vote "not guilty." Why? He is not sure that the boy is guilty and opens up a variety of doors. Might the lawyer h...

Camera Politica and its Controversial Message

In five pages this text and its controversial message are examined with primary themes including films' role and their use as tool...

Screenplays with Historical and Focuses

In five pages this paper examines screenplays with historical and social themes and include discussions of The Wedding Banquet, Sh...

The Issue of Adultery

wants to hear about it. In addition, cliches such as "The grass is always greener on the other side" abound, and did not become ...

Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote

In five pages this work is subdivided into beginning, middle, and conclusion and analyzed with consideration of its themes of sexu...

The Purpose of Film Montage

This 5 page paper discusses the viewpoints of French film critic and auteur Andre Bazin, and Russian director Sergei Eisenstein, o...

Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman on the Stage and on TV

and character. Miller seems to have conceived of Death of a Salesman as a twentieth century tragedy in the tradition of the ancie...

Everything Julius Caesar

In nine pages which also includes an outline of one page this essay describes the Forums of ancient Rome and then offers a critica...

Holy Fool in The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

the first Russian holy fool to be canonized, in the eleventh century, and his tactics were described as, "Not wanting human glory ...

Destiny and Futility in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard

In five pages this paper analyzes how in Rosencrantz and Guilderstern Tom Stoppard develops destiny and futility themes. There ar...

Everyman vs. Piers Plowman

Piers Plowman and Everyman by William Langland are contrasted and compared in this paper. Themes and genre are discussed. Only the...

The Treatment of Women in Mythology

This 10 page paper examines the way writers have treated women in mythology. The writer examines The Epic of Gilgamesh, the Metamo...

Cloud Nine by Caryl Churchill

In five pages Burke's pentid model is used to analyze the play's themes of class, gender, and race. Four sources are cited in the...

Comparative Analysis of Guy de Maupassant's 'The Necklace' and Kate Chopin's 'Story of an Hour'

These short stories are contrasted and compared in six pages with characters, themes, and endings analyzed. Six sources are cited...

How to Make an American Quilt by Otto

In five pages this book overview examines the stories of the women and also analyzes some of the themes presented within. There a...

Comparing Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and Hamlet

in The Merchant of Venice proves to be quite willful, openly defiant of her Orthodox Jewish father Shylock in her elopement with t...