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A Review of the Poem Burbank with a Baedeker Bleistein with a Cigar by T.S. Eliot

"The rats are underneath the piles," (Eliot 22) in combination with things such as "Money in furs. The boatman smiles" (Eliot 24) ...

Misogyny in Portrait of an Artist as a Man by James Joyce

fails to align sex and love. Does that mean he is a misogynist, treating women solely as wither virgins or whores, or does it mere...

Italian Literature and the Themes of Escape, Alienation, and Entrapment

first the expulsion from the tennis club, then from the fascist party, then academic anti-Semitism, then more and more direct insu...

Sylvia Plath's Literary Contributions

bees), and her mother, a former student of Otto Plaths, a high school teacher (Bloom 1). Although Dr. Otto Plath suffered from ca...

Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop

the people that they are there to convert, that they find peace for themselves, and are able to build a presence for the Church wi...

John Guare's Landscape of the Body

killed, Betty gets involved in a con game run by a transvestite named Raulito and takes the Rosalies place as a porno queen. Bert,...

William Shakespeare's Macbeth and the Stages of Decline

a man who is perhaps willing to sit back and let prophecy go its own course, without intervention from him. This is evidenced when...

Women's Roles in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and Bram Stoker's Dracula

contended to be a reflection of the culture in which he was purported by Bram Stoker as existing, so too are the women presented i...

Cleopatra and Antony's Love Affair

seems so much more believable. Their initial dialogue of "If it be love, indeed, tell me how much." and, "Then must thou needs fin...

Comparison of 3 Stories and Passion v. Reason

It is interesting to note, however, that Molieres inspiration did not come from Corneilles comedic tendencies, but rather upon the...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

were incapable of having the same feelings, the same needs, the same emotional attachments to loved ones that white people maintai...

Flawed Hero Victor Frankenstein

that he could not control it (Marcus 188). On the one hand, there are the critics who claim that Frankenstein had no...

The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy

of contrast, that it is freedom that makes the difference in a man, freedom and experience, not class or social status. Tolstoy p...

Expatriates and Their Writings

each other often about literary topics as well as the war (Tender is the Night). It was during this time in France that Fitzger...

Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, Possessions and Property

to the devastating events of WWI and they are constantly searching for something. With their characters we find their attachment t...

Works of Literature and Race

with open galleries and porticoes. Bottles of milk were grouped on the steps, and occasionally light flickered from the kitchens w...

Reflections on Several Famous Literary Works

as being mostly unforgiving of mans shortcomings, inasmuch as he implies that humanity has turned into a selfish, egotistical and ...

Literary Critique of Guy de Maupassant's 'The Necklace'

the money she had borrowed to buy her friend a necklace that she lost.....All of her work was really for nothing" (Cortez ss1.html...

Life and Art of Franz Kafka

feels that it was his fathers rough treatment of his employees that first propelled young Kafka toward the cause of workers rights...

Child and Adult Voices in Literature for Children

not necessarily reliable, and that the imposition of an adult viewpoint on childhood events and emotions is bound to present a dis...

Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Faithfulness

we learn that she began to take an interest in Catholicism, but this opportunity to adopt a genuine faith soon gave way to a passi...

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 ...

'The Return of Simple' by Langston Hughes

essentially touched upon all that was important and relevant to the African American. He was born James Langston Hughes on Feb....

Zora Neale Hurston and the Fiction She Inspired

card ready, as this seemed to impress people and verify that, yes, an African American could be a public accountant. Mentally, Ann...

Thematic Similarities in Shelley's Frankenstein and Conrad's Heart Of Darkness

of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!" (Conrad PG)....

Toni Cade Bambara's Sylvia and John Updike's Sammy

first of the story, show a young man, still engrossed with pigeon holing everyone he meets. They either are good or they are bad. ...

Realism and Charles Dickens

Harmons son enter the picture, hiding his identity, in order to watch the woman his father said he was to marry. And, to make it e...

William Donohue Ellis' The Bounty Lands

physically and psychologically. However, there generally enters into the storyline a guide of some sort which is the archetype of ...

Macabre Themes in the Works of Robert Frost

of his mind and spirit working in tandem to overcome natures obstacles as well as the more primitive creatures on the Earth. Frost...

Antigone Character Analysis

receive a proper burial, and she enlists the services of Ismene, her lone remaining sibling. She states her intentions plainly to...