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Yellow Wallpaper & Female Marginalization

century and also well into the twentieth, what historian Barbara Welter refers to as the "Cult of True Womanhood" characterized ho...

Wellness & Nutrition for Healthy Aging

nurses facilitate the "recognition and communication" of these concepts, permitting "thoughts to be shared through language" (Davi...

Hawthorne/Scarlet Letter/Critical Perspectives

but while she wears a scarlet A, she changes the nature of this symbol with her needlework. She makes this A from- ...fine red clo...

A.E. Housman/An Athlete Dying Young

and comments that the young man was "smart" to "slip betimes away/From fields where glory does not stay" (lines 9-10). Housman the...

Overview of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

In six pages this novel's style and themes as well as literary criticism are examined in this overview. Three sources are cited i...

Rules of the Game by Amy Tan

In three pages this essay discusses the symbolism of the novel's title and considers how it relates to the human experience. The ...

J.M. Coetzee/Disgrace

This essay focuses on the character of Lucy Lurie in J. M. Coetzee's novel Disgrace. Three pages in length, only the novel is cite...

Structure and Struggle in Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

In four pages this 'nightmare' tale examines the protagonist's struggles and also analyzes the novel's structure. Three sources a...

The Motif of the Journey In Contemporary Literature

This 5 page paper analyzes the way in which the motif of the journey was used in three classic American novels: The Grapes of Wrat...

Jay McInerney's Bright Lights Big City

In five pages the novel's three female characters are contrasted and compared in terms of their similarities and significance. On...

A Character Study of Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby

This paper analyzes characterization and the theme of abandoned ethics seen in Fitzgerald's classic novel, The Great Gatsby. The a...

Characters of Marlow and Lord Jim in Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim

In five pages this paper examines the effectiveness of the novel's third person narrative and examines the relationship between Ma...

Roughing It with Swan, Twain and the Indians

Northwest Coast by James G. Swain and Mark Twain's Roughing It are two novels which deal with the outdoors and the American west. ...

American Son by Brian Roley

ways. At the beginning of the novel, they follow a Cain and Abel dichotomy. Gabe is the good and obedient child, "the son who is q...

Biographical Profile of Zossimov in Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Doestoyevsky

serve as a catalyst. It is because of Zossimovs prying and prodding that the reader is able to understand what is going on inside ...

Pierre et Jean by Guy de Maupassant

Jean, which is evident from the picture of the family friend that his mother keeps on the mantelpiece. Unaware of the torturous th...

Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn/Is It Racist?

in which the term nigger is used. Today this is a derogatory term, but it has to recognised that when Mark Twain grew up it was in...

Twentieth Century Latin America Modernization and the Novel Gabriella, Clove and Cinnamon

In four pages this paper examines how this novel's characterizations reflect the impact of modernization in the Latin America of t...

Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

him--and pay for the privilege. Tom realizes that "Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and that Play consists of wha...

The Banning of The Color Purple by Alice Walker

anyone who has read the book, there are some disturbing scenes in the book that are so powerfully written and detailed that the re...

Subtitle Significance of 'The Modern Prometheus' in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

understand the consequences of what he has done, and this is reflective of Prometheus who also had no idea what he was really doin...

Fools Crow by James Welch Questions Answered

(Welch 391). In both of these instances, Welch uses descriptive language to set the tone for what Fools Crow is feeling and thinki...

Gender Satire of Gerd Brantenberg's Egalia's Daughters

theme that is carried throughout the book--namely, that a rationalization for patriarchy sounds absurd when reversed. Little girl...

Social Problems in Hard Times

Plant nothing else, and root out everything else... Stick to Facts" (Dickens 1). For Dickens, this was an atrocity of monumental ...

Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities and Resurrection

to than I have ever known" (Dickens 351). V. Conclusion 1. Sums up prevalence of the theme of resurrection and its importance to ...

Okonkwo and the Minor Characters in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

it was meant to preserve" (Achebe 33). Ezeudus point is that customs do change and that the practice was consciously altered by th...

Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote as Literature's 'First Novel'

as Garcia Marquez. These are often too artistic to really be a novel. While these are only a few of the types of written stories...

Robert Brock's Criticism of Albert Camus' Stranger

in order to emphasize his points concerning capital punishment. Brock is particularly persuasive when he argues that Camus places ...

Tom Jones by Henry Fielding and its Continuity

with the plot of the Golden Ass. The story of The Golden Ass finds Lucius and Corinth interested in both magic and sex and eventua...

Closing Passage of Le Pere Goriot by Honore Balzac

formula for success. Eugenes aristocratic name soon opens some doors for him. Madame Beausant is a member of high society and a ...