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Understanding and the Supernatural in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Gloria Naylor's Mama Day

lived with her before her death and that Sethe sought her out after escaping from slavery. The presence of the baby girls ghost ...

Multiple Genre Uses in Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

critics stated that her shift from sentimentality to gothic elements was the sign of an immature writer (and a woman), it has to b...

Art and Beauty in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

for their own sake and not for moral edification, as was the stance popular in the Victorian era. There has been considerable de...

Flicker in the Porthole Glass by Desautels

cinematic and visual in their orientation. She describes, first of all, a night when Ruineux allows her into the projection booth ...

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and Character Development

adventurous spirit that is within man, and certainly within Huck, that allows him to pursue adventure with such fervor. Of course,...

Suspense in The Shining by Stephen King

demented that he becomes a vessel for their agenda. Beginning with the setting, King has executed a masterful scene of susp...

Anthony J. Bell's 'Levels and Loops: the Future of Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience'

possibilities that we have lying in store for us in the future as a diagnosis of the present. Bell concludes that:...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Contemporary World

many argue saw the true beginning of a consumeristic culture as the American Dream turned to one of material wealth as a sign of s...

Lucy in the Heat of Despair by Jamaica Kincaid

even "seeing" that in marrying a man, Lucy would not be happy (81). Lucy understands then that her mother is only concerned with L...

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

In eight pages this paper discusses Joseph Conrad's battles with depression and how this affected his novel Heart of Darkness. Ni...

La Nave de los Locos (The Ship of Fools) by Cristina Peri Rossi and Gender Identity

In nine pages the representation of gender identity in this Uruguayan novel is examined. Six sources are cited in the bibliograph...

The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday

such as the coyote tales which are only told in winter. Not only is the story repeated according to the inflections, drama and hu...

Emma by Jane Austen, Maturation and Marriage

In 6 pages this paper examines the last novel by Jane Austen and how themes of marriage and maturation are represented in the expe...

Comparison of the Characters Featured in Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness

In six pages this paper compares the development of characters and 3rd person narrator uses in these novels by Gustave Flaubert an...

Ernesto Galarzo's The Barrio Boys and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club

These two novels are contrasted and compared in five pages with references made to Richard B. Rice, William A. Bullough and Richar...

The Messiah of Stockholm by Cynthia Ozick

In nine pages this research paper applies a Marxist perspective to Ozick's novel. Nine sources are cited in the bibliography....

Sin, Redemption, and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

sewn, per the magistrates instructions, is "fantastically embroidered" (54). While on the scaffolding, Hester sees her husband sta...

George Orwell's Animal Farm, Richard Attenborough's Film Gandhi, and Social Revolution

In five pages this paper examines social revolution as depicted in this novel and film. There is 1 source cited in the bibliograp...

Lazarillo de Tormes in New York City

yours. Stand still, shut your eyes, and wait." I did, and something began to happen. The air began to hum.. I tried to open my ey...

Archetypal Literature and John Grisham's The Firm

In five pages this paper discusses John Grisham's archetypal path forged in his novel The Firm. There is 1 source cited in the bi...

Characters Pyle and Tunner in The Quiet American and The Sheltering Sky

These novel characters are contrasted and compared in five pages with their responsibility for suffering and innocence evaluated. ...

Victorian Spirituality in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

This state of affairs was the order of the day in that era, and it was this sad setting that added to the problems of every day li...

Self Portrait of Henry James in The Portrait of a Lady

In ten pages this report discusses how the characterizations within the novel The Portrait of a Lady actually represents a portrai...

Utopia or Feminism in 'Herland' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In five pages this report discusses Gilman's 1915 novel in terms of tis feminist aspects and the situations that either suppressed...

Cinematic Version of Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange and the Problems Faced by Director Stanley Kubrick

In eight pages this paper discusses the problems filmmaker Stanley Kubrick struggled with while making his big screen adaptation o...

Comparing Salinger's Catcher with Lee's Mockingbird

This essay contrasts and compares J.D. Salinger's coming of age novel Catcher in the Rye with Harper Lee's account of a Southern c...

E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime

of things that did happen and the types of things that could easily have happened. In the storyline, Harry Houdini is presented t...

Social Status Significance in Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

In fourteen pages this report contrasts the significance of social status is reflected in the plots, characterizations, and outcom...

Anthony Marx's Making Race and Nation and Michael Shaara's The Killer Angels

Race and the Civil War are examined in a contrasting and comparison of these novels in six pages. There are no other sources list...

Villette by Charlotte Bronte and the Significance of Anti Catholic Sentiment

In five pages this paper examines why the anti Catholic sentiment that appears throughout this 1853 novel by Charlotte Bronte is i...