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Hawthorne's "Birthmark"/Lee's Mockingbird

possible defect" causes him dismay, as it is a "visible mark of earthly imperfection" (Hawthorne 1021). Alymers disdain for the bi...

Hawthorne's "Birthmark"/Lee's Mockingbird

possible defect" causes him dismay, as it is a "visible mark of earthly imperfection" (Hawthorne 1021). Alymers disdain for the bi...

Three Versions of “Madame Bovary”

of her character. Just after she marries Charles, Flaubert tells us that before they had married she thought she was in love, but ...

Around the World in Eighty Days by Verne

detail as his protagonist, Phileas Fogg. Phileas Fogg is the central character, without whom there would be no novel, and yet o...

Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Its Appeal

for the institution so melodramatically described"(Anonymous 1094). The storys popularity was such that, when introduced to Stowe...

Money, Society, and Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Lilio's Play London Merchant

in the play, the audience is shown how "honest merchants...contribute to the safe of their country as they do at all times to its ...

Lost in the Barrens by Farley Mowat

This face is made clear when the author writes about the remoteness of Uncle Angus cabin from other signs of human civilization. L...

Act Two, Scene Two of William Shakespeare's Hamlet

to address the illusions that nobody else was originally able to see. HAMLETS PSYCHE Indeed, Hamlet was at the end of...

Chinua Achebe and Victor Frankenstein

that he has chosen for himself. Yet when he, after months of disgusting, horrifying work, finally brings his creation to life, he ...

Bleak House by Charles Dickens and the Supernatural

In five pages this paper examines how supernatural and ghosts were perceived by society during the 19th century in an analysis of ...

The American Revolution in Fiction and in Film

to the settlement of the American frontier, Drums Along the Mohawk. It is the story of farmer Gil Martin and his privileged bride...

Medieval Norms, Politics, Religion Aspects

This paper refers to Penny Schine Gold's The Lady & the Virgin, Image, Attitude and Experience in Twelfth-Century France and Ken F...

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd and the Power Concept

states, "The queen, for her part, is the unifying force of the community; if she is removed from the hive, the workers very quickl...

Artemis Fowl The Opal Deception Book Four by Eoin Colfer Overview

assumed that both Haven City and the fairy universe are safe from Opal because she has been locked away in a psychiatric ward at J...

Role in Civil Rights Movement, To Kill a Mockingbird

This essay utilizes literature to put forth the argument that Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, both the novel and the film adap...

Great Expectations - Key Passages

In a paper of two pages, the writer looks at Great Expectations. Five critical quotes from the novel are analyzed. Paper uses one ...

King and Eliot

this essay utilizes a quote by F.R. Leavis to argue that T.S. Eliot's Waste Land and Stephen King's novel Misery qualify them as t...

Family Roles in Wegscheider-Cruse

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Wegscheider-Cruse and her theory of family roles. These roles are mapped to the Bro...

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain and the Character of Hank Morgan

he is bound to a stake at the center of a seated multitude, walled in by four thousand people who have come to watch him be burned...

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe from a Sociological Perspective

In five pages this research paper examines several sociological concepts relevant to this 1959 novel including British coloniali...

The River Why by Duncan

idea of a perfect year includes "4,000 actual fishing" hours. Gus explains that his fathers full name is Henning Hale Orviston a...

Nature Imagery in the Works of Zora Neale Hurston and William Wordsworth

are not representative of nature and he finds refreshment and nourishment in his memories, and now in his seeing nature again. ...

Comparison of Minfong Ho's Rice Without Rain and The Clay Marble

no more than family consists solely on bloodlines. After Dara hopefully remarks, "I heard a cowbell" (Ho 3) that to her means som...

Development of Simon in William Golding's Lord of the Flies

out of the sea" (5,81). Simon is the only one who realizes that the Beast is not real, but is instead the savagery that lives ins...

Edith Wharton's House of Mirth, Age of Innocence and Naturalism

This struggle is also seen in the character of Archer who is intrigued by her uniqueness. He is stifled by society and by the dema...

A 'Howard's End' Marxist Interpretation

or weddings. They live on the compound or they may just visit. Howards End becomes a centerpiece for the story and is symbolic of ...

Enlightenment Representation in Candide by Voltaire

and war, which he portrays as contrary to all reason. In the eighteenth century, war was presented to the ordinary citizens as an ...

Okonkwo and Oedipus

way out of his situation at all because no matter what he does to avoid the killing of his father and marrying his mother he has n...

Steinbeck’s Concepts of Mercy and Justice

his goods will be forfeit as well. Having already said in court that he wants only his "bond," Portia has him on the ropes when he...

Don Quixote

In looking at who Don is the reader can see quite a bit of his chivalrous and romantic ideals in the following: "So then, his armo...