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Contemporary Law v. Pre 1700 Law

of settling a dispute. In fact, during King Henry IIs reign (1133-1189), "no other legal means was recognized for the settlement ...

Differences in Gender in the Peasant Residences of Central Europe and Southeast Asia

tended to marry much earlier in Europe than in Asia. Both peasant groups seemed to have grown grain crops: rice in Asia and whea...

Thematic Similarities in Shelley's Frankenstein and Conrad's Heart Of Darkness

of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!" (Conrad PG)....

Comparative Analysis of William Blake 'Songs' of Innocence and Experience

Academy (Richardson). Blakes first published volume of written work was "Poetical Sketches," which appeared in 1783 (Richardson)....

Zeena's Symbolism in Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

opens through the view of the narrator, a young man who ends up spending the night at Ethans house because of a chance blizzard. H...

The Character of Alida Slade in 'Roman Fever' by Edith Wharton

Delphin by the Forum for a clandestine meeting. This Delphin Slade happened to be engaged to Alida at the time. Alida says that sh...

'Roman Fever' by Edith Wharton

both married before their husbands had died and left them widows. In the first section of the story, Wharton gives background prof...

'Roman Fever' by Edith Wharton and the Author's Deception Cover the Uses of Control and Formality

formality and propriety was incorrect and not only have the main characters deceived each other, but Wharton has been successful i...

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

In three pages Frome's character is analyzed as it pertains to his 3 failures. There is no bibliography included....

Winter in Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

they first met, I could just imagine the cold and brutality of the winters in Starkfield. Within the story though, Ethan finds the...

Entrapment in Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

In ten pages three main characters are examined in terms of how they reflect Wharton's theme of entrapment in the novel. Five sou...

Professor's House by Willa Cather and Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

In seven pages this essay compares how each author presents common protagonists as deeply complex human beings. There are no othe...

Roman Fever by Edith Wharton

In four pages this novel is analyzed through the use of literary elements of protagonist, antagonist, plot, setting, conflict, and...

Hesitant Love in Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton and Daisy Miller by Henry James

for reasons that he cannot fathom. "Daisys beauty is to be apprehended and judged, then, according to its degree of artifice. It...

Concept Analysis: Aging

identifying the uses of the concept and its defining attributes (Walker and Avant, 1995). The steps involved also include defining...

Sibling Rivalry: Mary Boleyn and Anne Boleyn

culture, Mary became a prominent member of the royal familys inner circle, even as Mary Tudors maid of honor in her marriage to Lo...

Travel Narrative Developed in the Works of Mary Rowlandson and John Steinbeck

In five pages the development of the travel narrative, its various themes, and attitudes, are considered in a comparative analysis...

Education as a Key to Liberating Women

be educated together" (Wollstonecraft, 2005). She points out that if marriage is "the cement of society," then all mankind should ...

Quotations from Frankenstein

of all, the book begins as a series of letters by one "R. Walton" to "Mrs. Saville"; these letters comprise the first four chapter...

Comparative Analysis of 'Lamia' by John Keats and 'Triumph of Life' by Percy Bysshe Shelley

"the poem asserts that the only resolution in the modern world is irresolution. Hence, The Triumph of Life becomes a latter-day at...

William Wordsworth and Mary Alcock Comparative Analysis

also allows us to feel the emotion more, to look for the meaning more than we would if it rhymed. In Alcocks the rhyming makes the...

Plath & Wharton/Society’s Expectations for Women

Jar was published in 1961 and Plath committed suicide just two years prompted a New York Times critic to question if it was even p...

Ralph Ellison's 'Battle Royal' and James Joyce's 'Araby'

we are all but immediately taken to a place where the boy is completely betrayed by that adult world. In the beginning he is proud...

School Violence in Russia, China, and the US in Children Between the Ages of 13 and 18

for the unleashing of such aggressions, are often a "source of criticism and rejection" (De Wolfe et al, 1995, p. 315) where child...

Philosophers of the Romantic Age

philosophers and artists, and included figures such as Rousseau, Goethe, Hegel and Kant. One of the major elements of Romanticism ...

Coming of Age and Maturity in J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye and Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

as well, "Maya is permanently puzzled by the adult world. Her grandmother is extremely religious and strict, the children should b...

Is Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Creature a Hero or Monster?

In eight pages this paper examines the Frankenstein people in terms of his heroic acts that are contrary to the label of monster s...

Isolation in Jane Eyre and Frankenstein

The theme of isolation as it is featured in these novels by Charlotte Bronte and Mary Shelley are compared and contrasted in nine ...

Misguided Intentent in Literary Characters

of his mother during her long illness, however, he primarily, marries her because he does not want to be alone during the long New...