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Essays 1771 - 1800

Dreams, Magic, and the Difficulty of Love in A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

indicates that "The theme of loves difficulty is often explored through the motif of love out of balance-that is, romantic situati...

Machiavelli's Beliefs Regarding Fear and Love

seems to possess a great deal of truth. According to Machiavelli, the conventional wisdom is that a prince "should try not to ins...

'Up the Coulee' by Hamlin Garland

is a story about change - the change in a man, people he recognizes and knew his entire life did not recognize this man who Garl...

Aileen Wuornos and 'Freedom of the Individual versus the Power of Society'

into distinct groupings based upon certain criteria. These innate classifications can represent significant social power, as in t...

Community in Sula by Toni Morrison

However, each contact with the white community in the town below reminds the reader of the constraints established by racial bigot...

1960s' Life and Mike Nichols' Film The Graduate

to comment on his future and to give him advice. The viewer comes to understand that Ben is expected to follow in his fathers foot...

Theme of Revenge in Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, 'The Inferno' by Dante, Oedipus the King and Antigone by Sophocles, 'The Odyssey' by Homer

short temper gets him into trouble. In Book IX, Polyphemus, the son of the sea god Poseidon, decides to dine on a few Greeks who ...

John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and Immorality

won the Nobel Prize for Literature (The National Steinbeck Center, 2002). John Steinbeck was very talented at creating s...

Immigrant Experiences and Angel Island

Before actually describing the art and poetry that came out of detainees from Angel Island, a look at the locations history would ...

Mikhail Bulgakov's Heart of a Dog

entertain with his biting sarcasm. The author has a long history of reaching out and inviting his audience to experience with him...

'Trial by Combat' by Shirley Jackson

In five pages this short story examines the theme of identity within the context of this short story. Four sources are cited in t...

Man v. Nature in The Milagro Beanfield War by John Nichols

with immediate commercial success, however, it was later transferred to screen with a film adaptation, indicating the real value t...

'The Trial' by Franz Kafka

to deserve such cruel treatment from the authorities" (Ebert 914072.html). In a very short synopsis of the story we find "Josef...

Comparing Margaret Atwood Novels Alias Grace and The Handmaid's Tale

that there is always a tidy or satisfactory resolution to the womens dilemmas. In fact, in the case of the intentionally ambiguou...

Poetry and Style of Emily Dickinson

and it was this heart-felt emotion that elevated her works from ordinary to the ranks of extraordinary. Music had long play...

The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

at a bar before moving on and a Native American woman deposits a three-year-old girl in her car and begs her to keep the child. ...

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...

A Comparison of The Snows of Kilimanjaro” and The Yellow Wallpaper

his insistence that he does not love her, is accounted for by the delirium which is affecting his mental faculties. However, the g...

Poetry and Carpe Diem

the end, ones heart may win over ones intellect. In Diane Ackermans poem, which may very well be a modern retelling of...

Poetic Spiders

seems to be making a statement about independence of spirit, but an involvement with mankind. "I markd where on a little promontor...

Mordecai Richler and Margaret Atwood on Self Victimization

"moves slowly, but surely into a plotline filled with many serious topics: abuse, rape, the inability to love, the immediate reper...

The Culture, History and Artistry of Black America

vision, no true identity, and certainly does not connect with his African American culture. His mother, however, changes some o...

'The Merchant's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

and hoor; /Thanne is a wife the fruit of his tresor" (Chaucer 55-58). At this point, it is not certain that Januarie sees, as ce...

Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist

of this, more than likely, was due to the influence of modern industrialized society and the move from rural to urban settings, bu...

Mercy, Goodness, and Simplicity and the Films of Frank Capra

himself because of his innocence, in many ways they begin to feel protective of the character, in the same type of way that a pare...

Ernest Hemingway's 'Hills Like White Elephants' and the Topic of Abortion

it was: "Well be fine afterward. Just like we were before" (Hemingway NA). She wants to know how he is so sure and he replies that...

Auguste Rodin's Bulghers of Calais and The Kiss

anatomy and movement with special attention to the bodys surfaces, saying, "The sculptor must learn to reproduce the surface, whic...

Comparing Flannery O'Connor and Anton Chekov

His narratives, rather than having a climax and resolution, are a thematic arrangement of impressions and ideas" (Anonymous Anton ...

Character Analysis of the Prince in Giuseppe Lampedusa's The Leopard

be the case for Lampedusas novel which is set in Sicily, Italy during the 1860s, in the times when Garibaldi campaigned to unite t...

Comparative Analysis of Juan Rulfo's Pedro Paramo and Jose Donoso's El Lugar Sin Limites

determined to find identity. La Manuela lives there with her daughter la Japonesita. We see a powerful sense of hope, as well as...