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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Miyazaki: “Spirited Away”

showing that her concerns are animalistic as well. From this beginning, she grows into a person of worth and awareness. Miyazaki ...

Personal Experience Essay: Mother's Obesity, Diabetes And Depression

mother who do not follow a strict diet only ask for further complications, since their bodies have already endured a lot of damage...

Walt Whitman's Influence on D.H. Lawrence

1918, but there are no existent early drafts until the 1919 version, which was published at this time in a Cambridge edition of La...

Roald Dahl Should Be Added to the Literary Canon

read and understood these books also feel somewhat superior to those who have not (Bridges, et al.). In addition, several of the t...

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

legal husband was not even in the country. She will not reveal the childs fathers name, however, out of sincere love for the man w...

Indecisiveness of Hamlet

her father Polonius is an aide to Claudius. We do not actually see Hamlet going into Ophelias room, but hear about it from her tro...

What Drives Author Tim O’Brien to Write?

demonstrations and anti-Vietnam War protests. Majoring in political science at St. Paul, Minnesotas Macalester College, writing a...

Greek Virtue

the foot of power!/Nothing care I for Zeus" (Aeschylus). In other words, Prometheus will not succumb to tyranny and a power that r...

Mark 4:1-20 Parable Of The Sower Exegesis & Sermon

this Gospel. This theory can be supported by the fact that Peter spent his last days in Rome and it was in Rome that Peter was mar...

Symbolism in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter

were signified by it" (1323). He then goes into great narrative detail to describe the letter to emphasize its significance: "The...

F. Scott Fitzgerald as Jay Gatsby’s Alter Ego

Jazz Age"). Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda were a sort of American "royalty," known as much for their "madcap antics as for his wri...

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

This paper consists of five pages and argues that the protagonist was a good educator in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel S...

Daisy Miller's Death Analyzed

The death of Henry Miller's title protagonist is featured in this paper consisting of six pages and is examined on its figurative ...

'On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year' by Lord Byron

In a paper consisting of 5 pages Byron's use of literary devices in this poem are examined in an argument that youth is for love w...

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

In this paper that contains five pages the examination of a murder mystery that features favorite Christie protagonist Detective H...

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien and 'Four Turns'

In five pages this paper examines how the reader's perceptions are changed in the 4 sudden literary turns Tolkien incorporated int...

Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger and Language

In 6 pages this paper examines the author's use of language in this classic novel particularly in terms of the protagonist Holden ...

'White Nights' by Fyodor Dostoevsky

In 7 pages this short story is analyzed in terms of its protagonist and whether or not it was modeled after the author who created...

'Unknown Citizen' by W.H. Auden

In a paper consisting of five pages the ways in which Auden employs the literary techniques of allusion and irony in his poem 'Unk...

Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

In five pages this paper examines the play, its conflict, and its neurotic protagonist. There are no other sources listed....