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Romantic Hero Sir Lancelot

without peer (Spivack and Lynne 95). Lancelot was originally introduced to readers in French poet Chretien de Troyes Lancelot or...

Sophocles vs. Jean Anouilh's Character Interpretations of Antigone

actions is shaped by the other characters around her. Creon is of particular importance in shaping the character Antigone in both...

Love and Cinderella in Four Fairytale Interpretations

castle where he runs into a surly servant girl: Danielle(who beans him with an apple). Later, when he sees her in some of her si...

Asians As They Are Depicted in The Legend of Miss Sasagawara by Hisaye Yamamoto and Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn

the mid-80s, and concentrates on the chaotic Seventies, in which martial law was firmly in place. Perhaps the books most memorabl...

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

and kills himself in the end. In Chapter 19, Sefelt who is considered to be one of the Acutes, is epileptic and has convulsions...

Montaigne, More, and Diaz on Non European Societies

His faithful soldier, Bernal Diaz, recorded much of these conquests in "The History of the Conquest of the New Spain." In Diaz w...

Defense of Socrates in Plato's Apology

wiser (21a). This news confused Socrates greatly as he realized that he was not particularly wise. He, therefore, set out to find ...

Utopian Literature's Similarities and Differences

be attacked as while many analysts will agree that Plato clearly states this in The Republic, his other works suggest other ideas....

Sexuality and Gender Dichotomy Deconstruction

the homosexual and heterosexual dichotomy gained acceptance as both sexuality and personal identity became central to our culture"...

Paranoid Schizophrenia in A Beautiful Mind

Clinical facts are contrasted to the film depiction of mental illness. There are four sources in this five page paper....

Medievalism Presented as Fantasy, Game of Thrones

This research paper/essay analyzes "Games of Thrones," the HBO series, in regards to its depiction of medievalism. The writer argu...

Images of Ophelia

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Hamlet's Ophelia. Fine art depictions of the character from history are used to exp...

Tartuffe by Moliere and Religious Hypocrisy

Catholics and Protestants (then called Huguenots by the French), church and state were "imperfectly and precariously united" despi...

Jealousy, the 'Green-Eyed Monster' and William Shakespeare's Othello

The depiction of jealousy in William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello is the focus of this thematic analysis consisting of 5 pages. ...

School Culture vs Family Culture

sense of empowerment and a sense that they can control what is around them. The long term goal is to bring about holistic change i...

Chinese Film: A Scene from Crows and Sparrows

of the purchasing of gold. The director uses Mr. Xiaos cigarette and its billowing smoke to emphasize the dark conditions of his ...

Duino Elegies by Rainer Rilke and The Book of Nightmares by Galway Kinnell

In five pages this paper examines these two poems in terms of Rilke's presentation of the hero and child relationship and Kinnell'...

Themes of Violence and Female Sexuality in the Films The Exorcist and Carrie

A thematic analysis of these films focuses upon their depictions of violence and female sexuality in 5 pages. Two sources are cit...

Satan's 'Makeover' in Paradise Lost by John Milton and in the Film The Devil's Advocate

In six pages the depiction of Satan in these works are compared to determine the changes in Satan's portrayal throughout the years...

Slavery According to Octavia E. Butler's Kindred and Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

In one of the most significant slave narratives ever written, Jacobs -- born a slave to mulatto parents in 1813 North Carolina -- ...

Clint Eastwood's Film Play Misty for Me and Obsession

In five pages this report considers the depiction of obsession in 1971's Play Misty for Me, a film which is directed by and stars ...

Fiction and the Depiction of Women

of winning her own way in the larger society and from the beginning, the character generally takes herself very lightly (19). She ...

Men in Henrik Ibsen's Social Dramas Hedda Gabler and A Doll's House

partner. He makes frequent animal comparisons to his wife, referring to her as "my little lark" (43) or "my squirrel" (44). Thes...

Systems in White Noise by Don DeLillo

the book choose to use the information with which they are being bombarded. Each system takes on, in effect, its own miniature mu...

Media Discrimination

In eighteen pages an argument is presented that social discrimination of African Americans has been perpetuated by the media's dep...

Depiction of Women in 'The Odyssey' by Homer and Hippolytus by Euripides

This paper contrasts and compares the depiction of Phaedra by Euripides in Hippolytus and Penelope by Homer in 'The Odyssey' in fi...

Lenin's Tomb by Remnick

In five pages this text review criticizes the author's credibility and biased depiction of Communism and the Soviet Union's collap...

Mesoamerica's Zapotec Culture and Persia's Sasanid Culture

In 7 pages the Mesoamerican Zapotecs are compared with the Persian Sasanids in terms of military policies, cultural and religious ...

Violence in the Narrative of Frederick Douglass

he had no real knowledge of his actual age ? "Having never seen any authentic record containing it" (Douglass, 2001). According to...

Muslim Culture's Gender Roles and Religion's Influence

bridges in Spain." After the fall of Rome, Spain was dominated by the Teutonic tribes, the Vandals, and the Visigoths in successi...