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Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare

of gaining knowledge in a sole purpose of gaining friends. As the book progresses, Charlie goes through dramatic changes mentally,...

Trafamadore and Billy Pilgrim

In three pages this fictitious autobiographical essay from Billy's perspective explores his zoo experience featuring the circulari...

The Use of Dialect by Swift, Blake and Conrad

Joseph Conrad's use of dialect and other literary techniques was influenced by many writers who came before. This paper links his ...

The Peloponnesian War According to Thucydides

This 5 page paper summarizes the major themes of Thucydides' accounts of the Peloponnesian War. The bibliography lists the primary...

Richard Matheson's and H.G. Wells' Use of Science Fiction to Portray Alienation

In a paper consisting of 5 pages alienation as a theme are explored in Matheon's I Am Legend and in Wells' The Time Machine and Th...

Paul Kennedy's Preparing for the Twenty First Century

general. Kennedy does an admirable job of demonstrating how the population explosion that the world is currently experiencing is i...

Critical Overview of The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

a certain credibility to what the reader ultimately experiences between the books covers. Indeed, it is often difficult to discer...

Hamlet by William Shakespare and Revenge as Tooo Much of 'a Good Thing'

In five pages the revenge theme in Shakespeare's tragedy is analyzed....

Corruption of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In four pages this paper examines how the theme of corruption is represented within the context of Fitzgerald's 1925 novel masterp...

Wartime Advertising

or literally millions of Americans. (White, 1996) "The Council originally began in 1942 as the War Advertising Council when it wa...

Themes of Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

In four pages this essay discusses the themes related to this novel by Kurt Vonnegut including human beings and how they handle wa...

Another Odd Couple Scarlet O'Hara and Billy Pilgrim

The writer wonders what Scarlet O'Hara and Billy Pilgrim would talk about if they could travel in time and meet one another. The w...

The Lesson #2 by Toni Cade Bambara

This 5 page paper discusses the central theme of Toni Cade Bambara's story The Lesson #2....

The Lesson #3 by Toni Cade Bambara

This 6 page paper discusses the theme of growth as explored by Toni Cade Bambara in The Lesson #3....

Oleanna by David Mamet

In five pages this play in three acts is analyzed in its representation of themes emotional warfare, power, and sex....

James Baldwin's 'Sonny's Blues,' Joyce Carol Oates' 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?' and Maturity

In three pages this paper contrasts and compares how the maturity theme is featured in each of these stories....

A Literary Hero: Henry V

Is Henry V really a literary hero? The paper argues that he is a literary hero and in fact could serve as a role model in today's ...

Bleak Human Condition in Metamorphosis and In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka

In six pages this analysis of Kafka's works focuses on the themes of fate's ironies and the human condition....

Time, Place, and Action Unities and the Neoclassicism of Oedipus Rex by Sophocles and King Lear by William Shakespeare

In eighteen pages this report considers how literary unities are to be represented in literary works with Sophocles following the ...

An Examination of 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In five pages, the author's employment of voice, imagery, and gender themes are considered....

Chamber of Blood Stories by Angela Carter

that many writers have used familiar themes and offered a new way of seeing the traditional elements of plot and character; howeve...

Journeys in Dante's 'Inferno' and Homer's 'Odyssey'

and his courage will constantly be tested. Without going into great detail, and there is a large amount of it in this classic, we ...

Literature and How It Has Evolved

politics of the time did. It seemed to be a time of little direction, and the writing of the period reflects this. It can be said...

Grace Nichol's Collection The Fat Black Woman's Poems

seems to address in her works include that of lost culture and a sense of longing to return to a time which is perceived to be mor...

Allegory and Exemplum in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

are knit by Chaucer into a complex tapestry in this allegorical tale, illustrating the instability of lifes joys, but also the sam...

Thucydides' Peloponnesian War

In five pages this paper considers the text's structure and also discusses how the war is presented in terms of the primary themes...

Sigmund Freud And Jose Ortega y Gassett

prone to violence if left on its own. Freud began his essay by acknowledging that the existence of a war leads to confusion within...

Langston Hughes’ Theme for English B

that everything he says is truth and thus at this point his analyzing is only supporting that truth. He assumes, or infers...

Almasy's Painting of Katherine's Face in The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

In five pages this report examines the 1992 novel regarding its themes of memory, love, and war with the incident between Katherin...

'The Day of Doom' by Michael Wigglesworth

In five pages this poem is analyzed in terms of primary themes as well as its social and religious connotations....