YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Comparison of Two Literary Protagonists
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In eight pages Nitta Sayuri and Dorian Gray are compared in terms of obvious differences but interesting similarities in maturatio...
Acting out her intimate desires may have given her a moments retreat from what she so seeks to leave behind, yet the overall effec...
whom she falls in love, but she begins to branch out and experience life on her own terms, focusing on her own desires. She learns...
In 5 pages this paper presents a character analysis of Okonkwo featured in Chinua Achebe's novel in terms of how the Ibo culture i...
In 6 pages this paper analyzes the male and female heroines in the texts The Ice Palace, Winter Dreams, The Last Tycoon, This Side...
Both of the primary mail characters are fundamentally powerless, as are the narrators of the stories. Ironically, a great deal of...
In 5 pages the saintly protagonists Christian and Oliver and their missions are discussed in a comparative analysis of these novel...
This paper analyzes various works by Mark Twain and emphasizes his ability to create characters who seem to view the world in an i...
As he hauls water through the village he is greeted by many who know him. Some of course treat him like a servant but by and by...
he has not really learned a great deal, except to perhaps further solidify his lack of desire to be civilized. In reading this sto...
of independence and material possessions as a way to shed the discomfort of her less-than-copious upbringing. While Dreiser sough...
When the psychologists lofty expectations come crashing down around him, he tries to wash his anxieties away in a symbolic gesture...
antagonist to both Heathcliff and Linton that propels the narrative. Bronte creates the foundation for her exploration of psycho...
the plague will end and his grateful subjects will worship him like a god. However, the aging oracle Tiresias (sometimes spelled ...
deliberation" (Livesley, 2001, p. 22). Lt. Raine is a most conscientious soldier to the point of replacing any semblance of human...
mother, Lady de Courcy, reveals, this woman is no shrinking violet (Knuth 215). Lady Susan uses her feminine wiles whenever the m...
to do so throughout the play as he plots his revenge. "The spirit that I have seen May be the devil; and the devil hath power To...
of the narrators gender importance. It is suggested -- by a woman, no less -- that something be said to Emily in an effort to rid...
keeping me at a distance; but that until she heard from Bessie, and could discover by her own observation, that I was endeavouring...
changes in her life have both positive and negative implications. At the onset of the story, Janie is a character who is unable t...
madly in love with Osen - the cooper" (Saikaku 600). A relevant phrase in literary circles that relates to the overall con...
young girl to embark on this very adult and complex journey? One can see as the story unfolds that Sophies energy, open-mindedness...
thinks himself a hero. When we see the following, that illustrates the position of the narrator in this poem, we begin to see h...
fated to her status in life" (Lombardi). It is a moralistic fable written in the tradition of the ancient Greeks in which the her...
In five pages this essay examines the relationship the protagonist has with religion in an analysis of this novel by James Joyce. ...
instance, is that she will feel safe if she is hidden, and may feel prone to attack if she is seen. It would seem to balance the ...
In five pages each female character's questions about happiness are contrasted and compared. There are no other sources listed....
In five pages Edward Rochester and Fitzwilliam Darcy are contrasted and compared with the gentleman concept of the Victorian era a...
the arrangement of words he so enjoyed shaping. "Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests: snug as a gun. Under my win...
In two pages this paper examines the conflicts of minorities in society in a consideration of these two works of literature....