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Allegory in 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor

In five pages the ways in which allegory is used by the author in this short story are discussed. Two sources are cited in the bi...

The Short Story Voice of Alice Walker

In this paper consisting of five pages the 'voice' Walker uses in constructing her short stories as expressed in sentence structur...

'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Puritan Beliefs

In five pages this essay presents the argument that Nathaniel Hawthorne uses this short story to reflect his New England Puritanis...

Drawbacks of Narration As Seen in Two Works By Conde and Carpentier

and an unquenchable desire to portray her inner pain, Conde favored a more simplistic approach to convey the immense pain and suff...

Old and New Hearts of Darkness

The Francis Ford Coppola motion picture Apocalypse Now served as a remake of Robert Conrad's Heart of Darkness. This paper compare...

Steinbeck's Novels and the Depiction of Alcoholism

A paper containing five pages analyzes how Steinbeck views alcohol and alcoholics rather ambivalently but finds a value in using t...

Comparing Rudyard Kipling's Prose with John Huston's Cinematic Narrative in The Man Who Would Be King

In five pages the voices used in these very different ways of telling the same story are compared and contrasted in terms of artis...

Edgar Allan Poe Major Motifs

In five pages this paper examines the motifs Edgar Allan Poe frequently used in this analysis of the short stories 'The Black Cat'...

Story of Daniel and Medieval Liturgical Drama

In ten pages this paper examines Medieval liturgical drama and its religious uses as reflected in the Story of Daniel. Seven sour...

The Aristotelian Tragic Form

expect of him. Based on these criteria we will examine the tragic characters in Macbeth, Death of a Salesman, The Stranger an...

Angela Carter's 'The Werewolf' and Edgar Allan Poe's 'Hop Frog'

These two stories are contrasted and compared in seven pages in terms of how the protagonists' emotionally appeal to the reader al...

American Literary Symbolism

353). Symbols present another layer to a story, as well as another realm for questioning. Who or what is "Young Goodman Brown" t...

The Treatment of Mentally Ill Women in the 19th Century

This 5 page paper discusses the way mentally ill women were treated in the 19th century. The writer argues that mental illness oft...

Hawthorne & Jackson/Comments on Their Society

opening to Jacksons Lottery, as Jackson carefully underscores the normality of the day and how what is to take place is viewed as ...

Gabriel's Spiritual Revelation in Joyce's The Dead

yet, continued Gabriel, his voice falling into a softer inflection, there are always in gathering such as this sadder thoughts tha...

The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy

one part of the dying process involves anger. However, in this case, Ivan is seemingly too extreme for his behavior to be explaine...

Puritan Character Usage by Nathaniel Hawthorne

as a "sweet moral blossom" for the reader (James). Hawthorne thus identifies the story at the outset as a parable that is designed...

Gatekeepers and the News

(Donohew, 1967). The gatekeeper may operate under a set of instructions and guidelines, or they may have to make these decisions ...

Postrel & O’Brien/Aesthetics & The True War Story

summarizing the work of both Postrel and OBrien. Aesthetics, according to Postrel, aid people in defining themselves by the "loo...

Fisher’s Narrative Paradigm

The story then details the amount of cash assets that Hillary and former president Bill Clinton hold in joint accounts, which incl...

Reading as a Form of Resistance

imagine a more severe disparity of power than the one that exists in present-day Iran since its revolution and the institution of ...

Dower's Embracing Defeat

noted that the emperor had announced defeat, which meant surrender (Dower, 2001). Yet, the woman who Dower notes on the first pag...

Alice Walker/Everyday Use

Johnson muses about the past and, in so doing, tells the reader a great deal about both herself and her daughters. Mrs. Johnson ...

Symbolism in 'The Bear' by William Faulkner

This paper analyzes how symbols and illusions are used in 'The Bear,' a short story by William Faulkner, in five pages. Two sourc...

'Life of a Sensuous Man' by Saikaku

In five pages this paper examines the translation of this story by Saikaku in a consideration of 2 themes and irony as used by the...

The Prodigal Son in Augustine's Confessions

tale was reduced to feeding pigs in order to survive. Augustine writes, "Where then, wast thou and how far from me? Far, indeed, w...

Different Interpretations of Biblical Events Lord Byron's View of the Story of Cain and Abel

that neither knowledge nor life are two evils to be chosen between, but that they are both good. Why would God care to call either...

'Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog' by Mark Twain and the Use of Vernacular

are cordially welcome to it. I have a lurking suspicion that your Leonidas W. Smiley is a myth -- that you never knew such a perso...

Setting in 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' 'The Raven' and 'The Oval Portrait' by Edgar Allan Poe

tales. While "The Oval Portrait" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" are distinctive in setting they share certain simil...

A Comparison of Two Christian Tragedies

representative of the many generations of Church representatives that have pummeled the Ojibwe with its Christian doctrine. Endri...