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'Beowulf' and the Grendel Character

In 5 pages this paper presents a character analysis of Grendel as featured in the epic 'Beowulf' and how he is intended to be repr...

Social Commentary's Dark Side

In six pages this paper discusses the dark side of social commentary and how the writers reflect their respective societies in Tom...

Metaphors and Symbolism in Children's Stories

help, grownups refuse to give it what it needs, and offer it instead what it detests. As a substitute for stories that bring suns...

Robert Frost's Darker Poetry

In thirteen pages this paper examines Robert Frost's dark or melancholy poems from 6 critical perspectives. Seven sources are cit...

Goodman Brown 'Dark Side'

In five pages this paper discusses how human nature's dark side is portrayed by Nathaniel Hawthorne in his short story 'Young Good...

Gender Roles and African Women in African and French Literature

This paper examines the depiction of African Women in Camara Laye's The Dark Child and Ousmane Sembene's God's Bits of Wood in fiv...

Scorsese/Gangs of New York

the foreign hordes defiling it" (Mattie 215). Cutting slays Vallon, consigns his son to an orphanage, and proclaims his rule ove...

Violent Song Lyrics/Teen Aggression

the detrimental emotional and psychological effects that this type of music has on young people. However, besides examining the su...

Images of Light and Dark in "Paradise Lost"

differ. But we are not interested here in the themes of the work but in its imagery. Further, as is well-documented, many readers...

Film Analysis/Kiss Me Deadly

(Ralph Meeker) swerves to avoid her and runs off the road. Angry, he snarls, "You almost wrecked my car. Well? Get in!" (Dirks, 20...

Police Profession and Subculture's Dark Side

entrenched police culture, call for fresh approaches to managing for ethics in police work. Gaines and Kappeler (2002) argue that...

Comparative Analysis of Sonnet 23 and Sonnet 147 by William Shakespeare

tongue slow to respond is more than fear, it is also rage (line 3). This rage is so intense that it weakens his heart, that is, hi...

Symbolism in 'A Wizard of Earthsea'

idea of Equilibrium and warned not to do anything until he knows what the effect of his action will be: "... you must not change ...

Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison

However, this influence is seldom acknowledged by critics, who "see no excitement or meaning to the tropes of darkness, sexuality ...

Poetry of Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes During the Harlem Renaissance

are sticky and crusted, open sores, and other elements that suggest a physical representation of a dream. This makes the dream som...

Romantic Era British Poets

a specific time or age. While romanticism will be prominent in certain epochs, because in its essential characteristics it is a sp...

Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Pardoner's Tale' and the Theme of Avarice

In a paper consisting of four pages the corruption that had penetrated all aspectes of life during the Dark Ages are reflected in ...

England, Education and Alfred the Great

skills were more highly valued. In addition, literacy was regarded as being equated with political and economic power: it was ther...

Strange Life and Literary Journey of Hunter S. Thompson

be permanently altered when Thompson ran afoul of the law (Medenhall, 2004). A series of arrest would eventually land him...

The God of Small Things and Sexual Transgression's Dark Reality Symbolism

so clearly it is evident why the Indian people placed such importance on caste and took the entire system so seriously....

Analyzing 'Your Dog Dies' by Raymond Carver'

is perhaps the first experience they will have when they lose someone very close. The poem goes on: "you feel bad about it/ you fe...

Bram Stoker's 'Dracula's Guest' Analyzed

he decides to proceed anyway. Clearly, the dark, cold, unforgiving surroundings that encapsulate the guest as his driver leaves h...

Dark Stories of Gaitskill and Braverman_

track marks still showed. The fact that Lenny articulates the protagonists hidden thoughts and desires provides substantiation th...

Analyzing U.S. Labor Unions

the government was concerned, there was much less power upon industry, and the combination of these factors entirely changed the e...

Cinema and Time's Role

human being he is. This comes as a shock to Oliverio who is as bad as the rest in assuming that prostitutes have no brains. Actu...

Dark Suspense Elements in Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown' and Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado'

Dark suspense elements are the focus of this comparative analysis of two 19th century great American short stories in five pages. ...

Women and the African Diaspora

practices of their homelands. African Diaspora in the 21st Century Chukwu-Emeka Chikezie (2002) addresses the issues associated w...

Overview of the 4 Dark Ages from 1200 to 700 BCE Greece to Europe of the Fourteenth Century

2002). One of the main cultural and educational devices not used was writing which was very important during the previous Mycenaea...

Tartt's The Secret History and the 'Fatal Flaw' Concept

morbid desire for the picturesque, which evidently is not mean to imply that picturesque is used in its more positive sense of att...

Big Trouble by Dave Barry

that group of people "who, merely by existing, tended to violate laws that solid citizens never even thought about, like how long...