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Maryse Conde's I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem and Self

In five pages this text is analyzed in terms of self identity in characters and in the Salem culture. Two sources are cited in th...

Protagonist's Gradual Development in The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

In six pages this paper examines how the primary character is gradually developed and how the text portrays the court of Kyoto. T...

La Religieuse by Denis Diderot

She pressed me in one place and then another. In a soft and low voice, she asked me to increase my efforts, and I did so." Again ...

Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club and Erich Fromm

In five pages Erich Fromm's theory on marketing orientation is applied to the character of Harold, husband of Lena, in Amy Tan's t...

Sigmund Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents and Johann von Goethe's Faust

of human beings is of far greater impact than the behavior of human beings as separate individuals. How humans act based on their...

Catholic Church Corruption and The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

In six pages the corruption that existed in the Medieval Catholic Church as reflected in the text in the irony of the characters i...

Proverbs and Palm Oil in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

In ten pages six passages of the text are critically analyzed in order to reveal the significance of proverbs in character communi...

Scientific Knowledge and Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne

In six pages this report analyzes Verne's text in terms of how scientific knowledge influences plot, character, and subplots. Fou...

Film and Book Version Analysis of 'The Godfather'

outsiders who entered their orbit (such as Michaels WASP wife, Kay) represented the audience and their fascination and revulsion o...

Asylums and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

In five pages this paper considers the practice of institutionalizing people who are mentally ill but still capable of functioning...

Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time'

offered by A Wrinkle in Time is that the power of love can overcome just about any of lifes obstacles. When one confronts the dar...

Epics of 'Ulysses' by James Joyce and 'The Odyssey' by Homer

In 8 pages these different literary texts are compared in terms of how they satisfy the epic definition in nation and character po...

The Unicorn by Iris Murdoch and the Character of Hannah

In eight pages this paper examines the righteous suffering of Hannah and other characters presented in this text by Iris Murdoch. ...

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and the Character Norman Bowker

old man talks about, nothing else. How he cant wait to see my goddamn medals" (OBrien, 1998; 36). In this the reader...

Analyzing the Walk in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

the Introduction of "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" Seamus Deane presents the idea that the walk is one of the novels m...

The American Revolution from a Female's Perspective

In an essay consisting of two pages the fictional account of life for a white colonial Patriot living in New York State during the...

Female's Changing Role in the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

In fifteen pages women's roles are contrasted as they relate to the Hemingway short stories 'A Canary for One,' 'Che Ti Dice La Pa...

Chin P'ing Mei's The Golden Lotus

In five pages this paper reviews the text and considers what cultural aspects are revealed about society as well as what is symbol...

Mikhail Bulgakov's Heart of a Dog

entertain with his biting sarcasm. The author has a long history of reaching out and inviting his audience to experience with him...

Nina and Alik in The Funeral Party by Ulitskya

to speak to a Rabbi, but she wont hear of it. She continues to stand in the way of his speaking with the Rabbi. He also becomes he...

Arabian Nights and Days by Naguib Mahfouz

plagued with corruption. Gamasa Al-Bulti is the chief of police, at least at first, and he delves into the underworld. Yet, while...

Dominick in Wally Lamb's I Know This Much is True

In ten pages a behavioral character analysis of Dominick's personality as presented in Lamb's text is examines and also compared w...

Hermann Hesse's Narcissus and Goldmund

It is always simpler to diagnose someone elses life than ones own, and so it is that the reader watches as Goldmund slowly unravel...

The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain Overview

must play. Edward Tudor, a real character, is the Prince of Wales and the son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour. His exchange with To...

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Religion

it will, it is indebted to him" (xi-xii). Charlotte Bronte believed that religious attitudes fell into two distinct categories -...

Dostoevsky and Gorky and Uses of Animal Imagery

nothing more than this to be content. In Part 2, when the narrator describes...

Yuan Tusng Chen's The Dragon's Village

be restored to its former glory and she wants the internal civil wars to end. It is because of this constant strife that Ling-ling...

The Street by Ann Petry

financially running a vegetable store. Lutie ponder their situation, "Who would have thought that this old Italian couple...would ...

Character Profile Creation With the Help of John McPhee's The Headmaster

made all who met him feel immediately dwarfed by his mountainous frame. Did the words actually say he was a mountain? Nope. But,...

Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness and Bernard Malamud's The Assistant

which Alpine realizes by the novels end, through Bobers example, can be the foundation of a meaningful life. Bober is unsuccessf...