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Villainy, Chaos and Death as Literary Devices

to illustrate important themes. This paper considers how an authors use of death, chaos and villainy bring other aspects of the wo...

Pain of Exile: King Lear, Inferno

This essay pertains to Shakespeare's King Lear and Dante's Inferno and the impact of exile on the protagonists. Four pages in leng...

Literary Conflicts in Plays

This 3 page paper gives an explanation of literary devices and conflicts within the plays Macbeth and Mistaken Identity. This pape...

Troy and Cory: Wilson's Fences

This essay pertains to "Fences" by August Wilson. The writer focuses on the relationship between protagonist Troy Maxson and his s...

Inclusion in the Contemporary Literary Canon, Anton Chekhov

This research paper/essay provides an argument that Chekhov deserves his place in the literary canon, providing a brief overview o...

Violence - the Monster that Torments Society Examined in Literature

of fiction. But in fiction it sometimes finds fuller expression than it does as a headline. This paper explores the concept of vio...

Violence - the Monster that Torments Society

But in fiction it sometimes finds fuller expression than it does as a headline. This paper explores the concept of violence as it ...

Hawthorne and Anti-Transcendentalism

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at literary anti-transcendentalism. Hawthorne's short story, "Dr. Heidegger's Experimen...

Analysis of Great Expectations

In a paper of one page, the writer looks at Great Expectations. Literary devices are identified in a single excerpt. Paper uses no...

Analyzing John Nash's Mental Illness in A Beautiful Mind Film by Director Ron Howard

original consensus among mental health professionals the schizophrenia developed during late teens or early adulthood. However, a...

The Novel - Everyone’s Favorite Literary Genre

novels are superior to plays, lets take a well-known play and consider how much more it could have done if it were a novel. Since ...

Comparative Analysis of Short Stories "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka and "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

man, lying face down in the mud, who, in spite of his tremendous efforts, couldnt get up, impeded by his enormous wings" (Marquez)...

Effects of Hubris on Tragic Shakespearean Heroes Brutus, Hamlet, and Othello

my cause, and be silent, that you may hear. Believe me for mine honor, and have respect to mine honor, that you may believe. Cen...

Burmese Law Enforcement Experiences of George Orwell and How They Shaped His Views of the British Empire

Acquiescing to pressure from his father to also become a member of the Imperial Service, Orwell joined Burmas Imperial Police in 1...

The Outsider’s Viewpoint in Literature

the experiences their protagonists have growing up as young, ethnic women in America. However, the relationship between the fictio...

Literary Techniques Used by Girls in Junior High School

year of close observation. The young women allowed Finders to read their notes and listen to their conversations, an amazing displ...

Self Quests of the Protagonists in On the Road by Jack Kerouac and The Awakening by Kate Chopin

In six pages this paper considers the protagonists Dean Moriarty, Sal Paradise, and Edna Pontillier's self quests in On the Road a...

Characters of Nancy and Jane Eyre Compared

In seven pages these female protagonists from Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre are contrasted and co...

Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Darwinism

Hardy presents the tragic story of a young dairymaid, descended on her mothers side from rough peasant folk and on her fathers fro...

"I'm Nobody! Who Are You?": An Analysis of a Poem by Emily Dickinson

To an admiring Bog! (846). The subject matter features a person who feels inwardly lonely who does not wish to advertise h...

Alienation in Literature

and loved ones. Raoul seeks drugs and partying to find some level of acceptance and happiness in his life, which is often the case...

Pressures and Identity

She states, "Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good" (Gilman). By the end of he...

Emily Dickinson's Poems 341 and 465 Compared and Contrastd

power. I willed my keepsakes, signed away What portion of me I Could make assignable,-and then There interposed a fly, With blue...

Downfall of William Shakespeare's Tragic Hero Macbeth

with a trio of witch siblings (described in the text as the weird sisters), who issue this prediction to the Thane: THIRD WITCH. A...

American Literature

little concern for the development, the past, of the relationships that play a very important part in the stories. One could well ...

"We Be Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks, "The Lesson" by Toni Cade Bambara, and "Shiloh" by Bobbie Ann Mason and the American Dream

The thematic representation of the American dream in two literary genres (1 poem and 2 short stories) is discussed in 9 pages. Th...

E.M. Forster's A Passage to India, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Setting

will discover and find, much of which is seen in things that are black and things that are white. This critic notes that, "Signs ...

Compare and Contrast: Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor

grandson. It is clear that she has done this many times before. At some point in the past, several years ago at least, the boy acc...

Joseph Conrad's The Heart of Darkness and the Character Shifts of Marlow

back to tell the tale. He is older than his years, and his words are full of sadness and bittersweet regret(Adelman). His experien...

Madness And Depression As Common Literary Themes

for the best. Soon, however, a sudden sense of calm overcomes her as she whispers "free, free, free" (Chopin PG). Mrs. Mal...