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Charles Dickens' Great Expectations and the Character of Pip

is Miss Havisham. He believes that she is funding his education so that he can become educated and then wealthy and then be worthy...

Othello's Noble Change

with the civilized manner of a Venetian court, he is clearly out of his element. "If stirred to indignation, as "in Aleppo once"...

A Comparative View of Female Protagonists

changes in her life have both positive and negative implications. At the onset of the story, Janie is a character who is unable t...

Stephen Crane's 'The Monster' and Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown'

In seven pages this essay considers transformation within a comparative context of these short stories....

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

In five ways the protagonist Frederic Henry's transformation from boy to man through his wartime experience and romance with Cathe...

Comparing Achilles and Odysseus

Odysseus was renowned for both his brain and his brawn. He was also had bravery, and competence at his skills. Odysseus was an a...

King Oedipus, Prince Hamlet, and Their Tragic Flaws

In five pages the tragic flaws of these play protagonists are contrasted and compared....

Comparing 'Oroonoko' and 'Persian Letters'

uncle was without children, he had been designated his uncle?s heir and began using his name at that time.) The Persian Letters ...

Aphra Behn's 17th Century Literary Works

Indies, and lived an adventurous life of slave rebellions and observed Indian tribal rituals which would later appear in her works...

What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage

they frown and give me one last chance to redeem myself. If I dont know who, do I at least know how many? By that time I cant deci...

Tragic Personality of Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

of this play, we find Ibsens comments for what he called his "modern-day tragedy," He says, "There are two kinds of moral law, tw...

Propaganda and Literature Relating to British Imperialism

... The English in the Americas in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were as driven by ideological convictions, by a belief ...

'The Company of Wolves' by Angela Carter, 'The Swimmer' by John Cheever, and Short Story Journeys

In six pages the deceptiveness of appearances is examined in a consideration of the journeys each of these short story protagonist...

Conforming By Way of Nonconformity in 'Bartleby, the Scrivener' by Herman Melville

In five pages the ways in which Melville's short story protagonist can only conform to social demands through nonconformity and no...

Emily Grierson in William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' and Phoenix Jackson in Eudora Welty's 'A Worn Path'

did not try to respect her or help her, indicating they merely thought she was odd. No one bothered to try to understand her neces...

Nonconformist, Society, and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

reactions and evolution are rooted in the desire for individuality, which represents to Huck Finn and to Mark Twain, saying and do...

Krakauer's Into the Wild and London's To Build a Fire

to civilisation? Probably not. We can, therefore, only speculate as to whether or not McChandless might have seen his death as mer...

Gregor Samsa Must Transform Into a Beetle in Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis

the past into the present in support of a future. Sigmund Freud believed that only by freeing repressed happiness, can an individu...

Aphra Behn's Oroonoko

could also speculate that it was her involvement in the policy of intrigue that gave her a view of the underbelly of society that ...

Gregor Samsa's Changes in Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis

concerned that he cant get up and go to work to support his family. Even from the start, he does not want to be a burden on his fa...

Female Protagonist Effectivenss in Oranges Are Not Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson and Beloved by Toni Morrison

from secondary characters to protagonists who were considered universal or genderless to those who were females yet were strong an...

Oroonoko by Aphra Behn and Christianity

the Christian and the truth regarding Christians as they hide behind the name of religion itself. Another excerpt occurs wherei...

Mary Wollstonecraft

She further notes, for example, how "The sensualist, indeed, has been the most dangerous of tyrants, and women have been duped by ...

Outside Looking In

he realizes are poor quality. The boys awakening to reality is a shock. He suddenly understands that he has built up an entire f...

Oroonoko

and the English were having troubles and how this bothered the narrator because she really wanted to see some of the native villag...

Aphra Behn, Restoration Author

or her audiences perceptions of those locales. This discussion will demonstrate that the father Apha Behns work moves from her Lon...

Protagonist's Ruin in Macbeth by William Shakespeare

whetted it for a more impressive title. It was a seemingly innocuous meeting with a trio of witches that would sow the seeds of M...

Protagonist's Insanity in 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner

It is clear early-on that it was common knowledge in the town that Emilys father was abusive -- if not physically, then certain m...

Female Protagonists' Bondage of James Bond

is Elektra King, unlike many of Bonds female enemies she is a rich young woman who has not become part of communist assassination ...

Protagonists' Waiting in Waiting for Godot

up life. Most people will not do this, although there are some who are willing. Some of the kamikaze pilots who crashed into build...