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Analysis of Beowulf

monstrous creature Grendel, Grendels mother, and the dragon - it considers the impact of social obligations (loyalty to God and co...

Possessive Love in Browning's Poetry

This research paper addresses the theme of posessive love in two poems by Robert Browning, My Last Duchess and Porphyria's Lover....

A Review of Fences

An 8 page review of the book by August Wilson. This paper focuses on the theme of oppression, a theme that affects not just Afric...

A Review of Breaking the Surface by Greg Louganis and Eric Marcus

A 5 page essay illustrating the theme of human diversity. This theme is contrasted to All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes by ...

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass The Themes of Change and Freedom

5 pages and 1 source used. This paper provides an overview of the central theme of Frederick Douglass' Narrative in the Life of F...

Perspective and the Theme of Beowulf

similar to the character of Virgil, who, despite occupying a seemingly major role in the Divine Comedy, primarily exists to better...

Good Country People

it is interesting that this name is actually a variant of the name Helga, which means "holy." Joy represents the kind of dichotom...

Joy and Fatalism in "Paradise Lost"

In a paper of two pages, the writer looks at themes in "Paradise Lost". The primary themes in question are those of destiny and jo...

Brown vs. the Board of Education and To Kill a Mockingbird

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at racial themes in To Kill a Mockingbird. The reality of these themes is made apparen...

Revelation in Jesus Christ

This essay cites a specific book, Fundamental Theology by Heinrich Fries. The writer summarizes Chapters 33 and 34. Major themes, ...

Woolf and Wilde - Self-Denial

In a paper of two pages, the writer looks at themes central to both "Mrs. Dalloway" and "The Picture of Dorian Grey". Self-denial ...

Dante's Inferno and the Placement of 'Prisoners' Saddam Hussein, Adolf Hitler, and Kurt Cobain

other "undesirables" including gypsies, homosexuals and others who were considered unfit. His crime then is genocide. Saddam Hu...

Gregory of Nyssa and St. Augustine

Augustine Chapter X). He then notes that he learned many things through such examination concerning his behavior, behavior...

A Comparison of Two Christian Tragedies

representative of the many generations of Church representatives that have pummeled the Ojibwe with its Christian doctrine. Endri...

Cartoonist Tex Avery and His Styles of Influence

to be time to defrock this innocent waif, and as conceived by Tex Avery, she was now all grown up (was she ever) and more than sui...

Hinchey on Critical Theory

discusses student teachers who assign homework simply to be assigning homework, not for any specific goal or purpose. The student ...

Analyzing William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

and imprison-ment in the stocks. But there is something that excites in us a stronger feeling than all this-it is Violas confessio...

Time Themes in The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad

radicals that Verloc has been spying upon. Now, time is not his friend. The element of time is narrowed considerably after this ...

Analyzing Herman Melville's Moby Dick Chapter 87

moment of hurting Ahab that any vendetta or revenge was directed at him. So clearly, we can conclude the Ahabs vigilant hatred is...

A Look at Great Expectations in the Context of the Author's Life

1824-1827 he was a "day pupil at a school in London" (Cody). But the year in the blacking factory "haunted him all of his life" t...

Death and Love from William Faulkner's Perspective

In five pages this essay examines Faulkner's 'Barn Burning' and 'A Rose for Emily' as they represent the themes of death and love....

Literary Religious Themes, Symbolism, and Imagery

rejected this kind of philosophical process. In Chapter 27, Forster wrote: The chief point was that God lives inside the sun,...

Comparison of Thomas Aquinas's Writings and The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

greedy for gain" (Machiavelli 56). Men, Machiavelli argued, were by nature more interested in their own good than in achieving th...

Franz Kafka and the Big Bug

There are four central themes in Kafka's Metamorphosis: the absurdity of life, the disconnect between mind and body, the limits of...

Three African American Novels, Recurrent Themes

This essay pertains to common themes found within "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston and "The Color Purple" and ...

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...

Dark and Death Themed Comedy Plays

David Ives "All in the Timing" is a series of one act plays which tell the story of different situations all with a comical and...

Masculinity in Modern Cinema

the natural disaster" (Action Films, 2002). Marchetti also states that action-adventure films have long been the domain of male...

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...