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Othello and Oedipus the King and the Determination of Appearances and Reality

logical explanation, Othello seemed bent on confirming that he will never be more than a misfit in Venice. Desdemonas protestatio...

Homer's 'The Odyssey' and William Shakespeare's Hamlet

and the tales of this one mans adventure. The man is Odysseus and his adventures are legendary. He is not a man searching for the ...

Public Life versus Private Life in The Aeneid, The Odyssey, and Oresteia

In four pages this paper compares and contrasts how the authors depict private life and public life in these ancient literary work...

Human Love versus Godly Love in 'Prometheus Bound' and 'Hippolytus'

In an essay consisting of five pages the role of love is compared and contrasted in these two works. There is one other source ci...

Greek Literature and Love

In five pages this paper examines how love and relationships are depicted in such ancient Greek literary works as Lysistrata, Anti...

Quest Themes in Dante Alighieri's 'Inferno' and Homer's 'The Odyssey'

In five pages this paper examines how the quest theme is depicted in these works by Dante and Homer. Three sources are cited in t...

Comparison of 'History of the Peloponnesian War' by Thucydides and 'The Iliad' by Homer

In five pages this paper compares these two works in terms of wartime reality portrayals. Two sources are cited in the bibliograp...

Two Ways of Looking at Time by Jorge Luis Borges

The writer explores two works by Borges, Mutations and A New Refutation of Time and discusses their relationship to the author's v...

First Feminist Perspective in Antigone by Sophocles

In five pages this paper argues that Antigone is the first feminist work. There are no other sources listed....

Values of the Greco Roman Societies

In six pages this paper discusses how the values of the societies of ancient Greece and Rome are reflected in such works of litera...

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...

Satyrica by Petronius

In six pages this paper discusses the reign of Emperor Nero in a historical analysis of this work from ancient Rome. Seven source...

The Golden Ass by Lucius Apuleius

In five pages the only Latin fictional work that is known to survive from antiquity is considered. There are no other sources lis...

Roman Dramatist Terence

In seven pages Terence's life and dramatic works are explored and include The Brothers, The Eunuch, and The Girl from Andros. Fiv...

Chorus Aeschylus's Agamemnon 'Oresteia' vs. Hazel Motes in Flannery O'Connor's 'Wise Blood'

In four pages this essay analyzes the differences between the Chorus and Hazel Motes in the finales of these works. There is no b...

Romantic Tradition and Le Morte d'Arthur and 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'

In six pages this paper discusses how these works represent variations in the romantic genre. There are 2 sources cited in the bi...

Marriage in the Literature of the English Restoration

In six pages this paper discusses how marriage and the juxtaposing of gender roles are featured in the English restoration works i...

Marital Values in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's School for Scandal and William Wycherley's The Country Wife

The marital values featured in these works are contrasted and compared in a paper consisting of eight pages. There are no other s...

Mental Illness in Shelley and James

This paper examines Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Henry James' Washington Square in terms of how Szacz's The Myth of Mental Illn...

Hallucinations in Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown' and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper'

In five pages this paper examines the nightmare states evoked by hallucinogenic symbolism in these two works that blur the line be...

Using Vernacular to Reflect Self Image in Jean Toomer's Cane and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God

In eleven pages this paper compares each author's uses of vernacular to reflect African American identity concept in their respect...

Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms, Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Oppression

In five pages this paper discusses the importance of oppressive setting in each of these dramatic works. There are no other sourc...

Various Essays on World Literature

This 15 page paper comprises a series of essays in various literary genres. Works examined include the speeches of Sojourner Truth...

Meeting the Shadow by Zweig and Abrams and Mary Reilly by Martin

In five pages these works are compared in terms of similar elements. There are no other sources listed....

Society's Treatment of Women in Literature in an Analysis of Female Characters Daisy, Harriet, and Lucie

This essay consists of eleven pages and examines society's treatment of women in the female characterizations featured in the lite...

Timeless Appeal of Garcia Lorca's Blood Wedding and Euripides' Medea

In five pages this paper discusses the timeless appeal of these two works with similar themes. There is no bibliography included....

Irish Saga Exile of the Sons of Uisliu, Medea Women, and Suffering

In six pages this comparative analysis examines the suffering and fate of female protagonists Dredriu and Medea in these works. T...

The Dead Who Refuse to Die in The Hunter Gracchus by Franz Kafka and 'The Fall of the House of Usher' by Edgar Allan Poe

(Silverman, 76). In a surprisingly large number of Poes stories, the revenant theme is coupled with some sense of a double -- two...

Faulkner, Hemingway and Hawthorne's Strategy

Readings are taken from three works, The Sound and the Fury, The House of the Seven Gables and A Farewell to Arms, in this paper w...

Aspects of Detective Fiction From the Nineteen Hundreds

This paper examines six detective novels from the nineteen hundreds, and addresses common themes seen throughout each. The author...