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"Lady Lazarus", Performance Art, and Suicide

Suicide and self-negation as performance art are examined in a critical analysis of Sylvia Plath's 1962 poem, "Lady Lazarus" in a ...

Archetypes, Pride and Prejudice

This essay presents a discussion of the characters in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen from the standpoint of viewing them as ar...

Setting & Scenery in 5 Films

a thicket of vines. This is a slow tracking show that is designed to five the audience the impression that they are seeing the poi...

Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Themes of Retribution and Sin

true nature. Goodman Browns problems stem from his decision to reject certain facets of the human condition. In fact, after he ret...

Poetry of the Romantic Age and Men's Role

previous era and so many would experiment with free verse and would place special emphasis on the exploration of human feelings an...

Counter Closing Argument Construction

one were to counter Spences arguments, one would first have to make the company, Kerr-McGee look as if it were not the big bad ind...

A Lady Macbeth Interview

devastation that occurred. I was only playing my part in the prophecy, a prophecy that would not have come to pass had I not pushe...

Cloning Argument of Mary Warnock

the "moral" issues which have been registered in regards to two or more human sharing the same genetic code (DNA). This cannot pro...

Analyzing Sylvia Plath's Poetic Voice

scared woman. While she is now grown and teetering on the brink of emotional despair, she recalls both the idolatry and anger of ...

Contemporary Relevance of Three Plays by Moliere

In five pages this essay examines Moliere's The Learned Ladies, Tartuffe, and Don Juan in an assessment of their contemporary rele...

Murasaki Shikibu's Court Diary

In five pages this lady in waiting for the king of Japan from 1007 until 1010 is examined with the argument presented that contemp...

William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Richard the Third and the King's Treatment of Women

In seven pages this paper considers Queen Elizabeth, Queen Margaret, and Lady Anne in terms of how they are treated by Richard III...

Power in the Works of Oscar Wilde

In five pages this paper examines how power is portrayed by Wilde in his poem 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol' and in the plays A Woma...

Gender Roles and the Petrachan Sonnets of Philip Sidney and Lady Mary Wroth

This paper considers gender role concepts featured in the Petrachan sonnets 'Pamphilia to Amphilanthus' by Lady Mary Wroth and 'As...

International Theme in the Works of Henry James

money had been recently made, but that it had been made through work and not inheritance. Similarly, American culture (art, litera...

'Lady Lazarus' by Sylvia Plath

In five pages this paper presents a critical analysis of Sylvia Plath's poem 'Lady Lazarus.' Four pages are cited in the bibliogr...

Two Poems Featuring Women by William Carlos Williams

American women's social roles are considered in William Carlos Williams' poems 'Portrait of a Lady' and 'The Young Housewife' in a...

Men and Women in The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

In ten pages men and women as depicted in the characterizations of Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley in Ernest Hemingway's novel T...

Medieval Women and the Concepts of Honor and Dishonor

to consider that the concepts of honor and dishonor, as they pertained to Medieval women, were dictated by the attitudes that wome...

Macbeth by William Shakespeare and Responsibility

In five pages this paper presents a plot analysis to determine the fate of Lord and Lady Macbeth and the sisters and what is respo...

1930s and 1940s' British Cinema and its Heterogeneous Mix

In seven pages the heterogeneity of such British films of the period as Alfred Hitchcock's 1938 The Lady Vanishes and Zoltan Korda...

Meaning and Literature

The stories being examined, by Chekhov and Mansfield, are clearly two stories that truly delve into the inner being of an individu...

Talking to the Counselor

he also gave them flaws so that they would be even more interesting. This paper considers three of his troubled women, Lady Macbet...

Character Analysis/Lady Macbeth

Western society, which envisions women as nurturing mothers and helpmates. Rather than being solely concerned with the domestic sp...

The Evil of Ambition

in the Aristotelian sense of the word: it shows us a great man doomed by a tragic flaw, in this case ambition. This paper discusse...

Life in the Heian Court

seems to be excited, worried and self-conscious at the same time. And religion plays a huge part in the scene. The Queen is very u...

Modern Women and Lessons Learned from Lady Macbeth

under his own roof. One of the oldest of all human social laws is that a person cannot harm his guest. Its never been written down...

Duke Ellington

icon and hero for African Americans for he was a very classy and intelligent man, but also clearly a man of his people despite his...

Literature and Culture in Flannery O'Connor, Anton Chekhov, and Amy Tan

her white friends would agree with her that she was about as Chinese as they were, indicating she really possessed little of that ...

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf and Women

that a female writer needs a room of ones own, she means this both figuratively and literally. She says: "All I could do was to of...