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Modernist Theme in 'The Waste Land' by 'T.S. Eliot

is mocking our hopes, and at the same time the teasing promise of Spring is false. With the coming of this Spring we can also envi...

Eliot & Thackeray

to the Siren and also in descriptions of her performance of Clytemnestra. Nevertheless, Thackeray leaves her in a life where she "...

Characterization in "The Mill on the Floss"

(George Eliot: Biography). But Lewes remained with her until his death, and the union was apparently a happy one. Looking at thi...

Poems: Hughes and Eliot

powerful and intense poem, in relationship to the struggles of the African American people, that it has been adapted into song (Af...

Time: The Sound and the Fury and The Waste Land

fourth section is told by their black servants who give an outsiders look to these individuals who are undergoing change and obvio...

The Biological, Psychological, and Social Obstacles to Understanding Transsexuality

the treatise Feminization of males and masculinization of females (Meyerowitz, 2002). Meyerowitz (2002) claims Steinachs research...

Eliot: “Conversation Galante”

is an odd remark. She picks up on it and asks if hes referring to her as being vacuous and he says no, "it is I who am inane" (Eli...

Andrew Dubus/Dancing After Hours

viewpoint. His point appears to be that life is, in general, a painful, isolated experience, as the connections that people feel...

Communnication, Technology, and Social Changes

and the society. The Planned Parenthood Federation could produce a short documentary that reports the services they provide that a...

Is Conflict Necessary for Endogenous Social Change

The writer looks at the concepts of exogenous and endogenous social change. Focusing in the latter the writer considers whether so...

Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock/Eliot

Song is an aging man who longs for love, particularly courtly love that fits with his expectations of both women and love....

Middlemarch’s Unlikely Heroine

her society is willing to accept from her. This paper discusses why she is an unusual woman and whats interesting about her. Discu...

Discussing Realism, Naturalism and Modernism

literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The following paper offer a description of the characteristics of...

The Mill on the Floss

And I kept my word to you--when--when----My life has not been a happy one, any more than yours" (Eliot Chapter IV). In this one ...

A Comparison of "Middlemarch" and "Jude the Obscure"

Free will, on the other hand, speaks to the concept of having full authority over ones aspirations and ultimate direction, reflect...

Poetry, Literature: Influence of Victorian Society, World War I

This essay pertains to T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land and Sigmund Freud's Civilization and Its Discontent, as well as the influence t...

Characterization of the Lonely Hero in T.S. Eliot's 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' and Thomas Mann's Death in Venice

the stern discipline of an active career" and these characteristics "had taken over the office of modeling these features. Behind ...

The Origins of Racist Attitudes in Modern Times

of security" (Fuentes, 2004). Journalist Dale Maharidge, in his latest book Homeland, "answers that question and raises many mo...

t.s. eliot's 'The Waste Land' and Maud Ellmann's 'A Sphinx Without a Secret'

itself and thus establish its own limits" (261). This, necessarily, involves the collapse of boundaries, which can be "sexual, nat...

Symbols Used in Poetry and in the Bible

kingdom of heaven is similar to a field in which a man has sown good seed. The "good seed" are righteous people who will come to b...

Identity Searches in Literature

A.E. Housman. They are both young men who die before they age, before they have perhaps achieved a powerful greatness it would see...

'Middlemarch' and 'Villette' Acting and Performance Comparison

how the authors use the notion of acting and performance to highlight truths about the demands of society and how such a loss of i...

Discussion Questions for J. Alfred Prufrock

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Eliot's "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock". Similarities to "Dubliners" are recounte...

King and Eliot

this essay utilizes a quote by F.R. Leavis to argue that T.S. Eliot's Waste Land and Stephen King's novel Misery qualify them as t...

Dickinson's "Much madness" and Eliot's "Prufrock"

This essay offers analysis and a comparison of T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" with Emily Dickinson's "Much ma...

A Hero in Print and Throughout Time

the path to order by bringing structure to the process of understanding. The classical hero was one who was brave, honest, pious ...

Life and Writings of George Eliot

George Eliot's life and writings are the focus of this paper consisting of 5 pages. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

Old Age as Viewed by Eliot and Frost

his mind tends to wander, that he has forgotten that the boy who helped him a few years earlier is off at school. Mary explains ho...

'The Waste Land' by T.S. Eliot

became sterile and meaningless. (Because of the variety and relative obscurity of Eliots allusions, readers must work through the ...

Contemporary Literature Essay Tutorial

In five pages this tutorial essay considers Virginia Woolf's use of stream of consciousness in Mrs. Dalloway, T.S. Eliot's free ve...