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Essays 1891 - 1920

Place and Self Themes in E.J. Gaines' A Lesson Before Dying

not part of the solution. He begins to understand that change does not happen in one fell swoop, but that it is a slow process, mu...

Spirituality, Cultural Identities, and Alienation Themes in Castillo, Morrison, and Silko

forced to give up many of their stories which reminded them of who they were as a people and as individuals. As a...

An Analysis of Mansfield's 'Miss Brill'

This paper provides an analysis of this short story in terms of theme, symbolism, and character development. This four page paper ...

Comparison Between Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Chronicle of Death Foretold and Toni Morrison's Sula

Sula because she has divorced herself so completely from her own emotions. By the end of the novel, both characters come to the re...

Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Fall of the House of Usher' and Themes of Terror and Evil

nothing of pleasantry or peace. The windows seem as though they are "vacant," and "eye-like" and the narrator continues in this ...

Jane Kenyon's 'Depression in Winter'

seems to add to the depression, the unhappiness that the narrator is speaking of because there is a sense of futility in trying to...

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Education Thesis, and Outline Example

has. The education that Dr. Frankenstein sought was for the express goal of going against nature, to beat God at his own game. The...

Defiance in 'Sweat' by Zora Neale Hurston

and the house that she purchased with sweat and labor. However, Delia makes it clear that she will not be driven out. She tells hi...

Common Themes in Jane Eyre, Silas Marner, and Wuthering Heights

sway over the human condition. She sees the futility of forging an alliance with Linton, while at the same time knowing that she a...

Resistance and Violence in Richard Wright's Native Son and Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

belly pulsed with fear...and the rat emitted a long thin song of defiance, its black beady eyes glittering" (Wright, 10). ...

The Dead and the Living by Sharon Olds

suggests, there is often a political context to Olds observations. For example, in "The Death of Marilyn Monroe," Olds suggests ...

3 Short Stories About Growing Up

She has been given the opportunity, or so she thinks, to finally live a life that is solely hers. There is a powerful sense of fre...

Poets Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, and Nature

the spider and it is true for man as well. Obviously, he doesnt actually say this specifically but he instead illustrates it thro...

Imagining if Medea Had Been Written by Euripides and Not Sophocles

he would take a dim view of Jason abandoning his duty to his wife and children in favor of selfish gain. The chorus would be the...

'The Wife of Bath' Prologue and Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer

of Solomon and his many wives to basically justify her own marriages. Thus, we can see her as the devil who uses Scripture to suit...

Review of the TV Series Touched By An Angel

In six pages and three parts this essay reviews the TV show Touched By An Angel in an overview of settings, plot, theme, and chara...

The Revolt of Mother by Freeman and The Awakening by Chopin

In five pages these two works are compared in terms of the author's psychological and sociological objectives and how they are exp...

'Passing,' Escape, and Hiding in Holocaust Literature

In eight pages these themes are examined in a comparative analysis of Holocaust literary works When Memory Comes, Dry Tears, and T...

Comparative Analysis of Three Short Stories by Ernest Hemingway

having their baby. His act was accomplished so quietly, no one knew it had happened despite the fact he was lying on the bunk abov...

'Indian Camp' by Ernest Hemingway

A short story analysis consisting of three pages is presented in terms of the relationship between father and son and the elements...

Miss Julie by August Strindberg and Themes of Class and Gender

station in life is far higher than that of Jean and yet she wants to escape. She begs Jean to help her get away, and promises to t...

Examples of Post-Colonial Strife In Literature

the British rule has officially ceased. And so, through his personal experiences, the character of Camagu mirrors the turbulence ...

Tropic of Capricorn and Tropic of Cancer by Miller

to be good, kind, generous, loyal, and so forth, since I was free of envy.... On the contrary, I have only felt pity for everybod...

Suffering in 'Sonny's Blues' by James Baldwin

In a paper consisting of three pages the theme of suffering is considered within the context of the short story written by James B...

Symbolism and Theme in the Short Stories of Flannery O'Connor

In five pages a contrast and comparison of O'Connor's short stories 'Everything That Rises Must Converge' and 'Good Country People...

Communication Lacking in the Fiction of Eudora Welty

son, but upon closer examination he realizes the woman is not as old as he first thought, and Sonny is her husband. In fact, the w...

Analyzing Ezekiel 28:13

In five pages the writer equates the creation mystery and man's downfall described in Genesis with this passage along with an anal...

Analysis of Dubliners by James Joyce

In thirteen pages this paper examines the short stories' complication of Dubliners by James Joyce in an overview of plot, characte...

Material Worth in 'The Necklace' by Guy de Maupassant

that the fact that Maupassant was completely able to represent his characters in such a fashion as to give the reader a sense of c...

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare and the Themes of Choice and Fate

In ten and a half pages the themes of fate and choice as they impacted upon the deaths of the young lovers are analyzed. Three so...