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Symbolism in "The Great Gatsby"

so pervades The Great Gatsby that Fitzgeralds true achievement was to appropriate American legend."1 The book gives us both romanc...

The Role of the Gods in "Medea"

they were interested in seeing this story play out once again, and that they found meaning in it. It seems logical to assume that ...

"Mankind" and "Everyman"

play is Everyman, who obviously stands for everyone in the audience. This is play designed to teach a lesson, and the lesson is si...

Levy on "The Glass Menagerie"

Levy believes that Laura is solely focused on her vulnerability, which is symbolized by the fragility of the glass (Levy). He writ...

Raisin in the Sun

the family has placed high hopes on having a better future with the insurance money. The beginning of the play establishes the cha...

Analysis: "The Tell Tale Heart"

the murder has no real basis in reality; the old man had never hurt him, and he has no desire to rob him: "Object there was none. ...

De Tocqueville: "Democracy in America"

customs, and morals which was necessary to render such a revolution beneficial" (de Tocqueville, Introduction). The result of this...

Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" And O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" - Evil

4 pages in length. Evil - a self-perpetuating entity of myriad literary tales - presents itself as a force that challenges the ve...

Orwell/1984 Overview

and the public. Party slogans exemplify doublethink, as they proclaim that war is really peace, freedom is really slavery, etc. Wh...

Lives of Quiet Desperation

other people, and from the conventions that bind us together. We might also consider the way in which Thoreau considers his hous...

Mummification

as a critical component in the embalming process from the Twenty-sixth Dynasty onward. Natural forces, animals, and other...

"The Hunchback of Notre Dame" 1923

murder and he saves her-for another man (Ashlin). There are many other subplots in the film but the real story is of the love Quas...

Analyzing "Dracula"

like a figment of someones diseased imagination; he is real, he exists, and hes there, in the sanitarium, at that moment. The reve...

"Faust" and "Madame Bovary"

who is, for a good many people, the most entertaining character in the play. Mephistopheles manipulates Faust so that he "loves an...

Savagery and Christian Symbolism in "Lord of the Flies"

from the Garden of Eden. The novel is "structured in two parts, each beginning with an air battle followed by an exploration of th...

Speaking in Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

and essentially doing what no other human could, or would, do. Charlotte was also a child and as a child could perceive and acce...

Flowing Time in Tlon, Ugbar, Orbis, Tertius and The Circular Ruins by Jorge Luis Borges

part of the 1944 compilation entitled Ficciones, probed time flow and temporality in ways that deviated from literary tradition an...

Khaled Hosseini, Mark Twain, and Harper Lee on Childhood

I tried for a second or two to brace up and out with it, but I warnt man enough--hadnt the spunk of a rabbit. I see I was weakeni...

To Kill a Mockingbird and the Theme of Courage

Kill A Mockingbird"). The Radleys would ultimately play a very important part in the novel, and in this humble beginning which ill...

The 'Brave New World' of Aldous Huxley

is too tired and busy to have sexual relations with her husband can take a pill. In the first example, some people...

Dante's Hell and Characters

to house arrogant souls who are guilt of other things as well. While Aeneas may not be guilty of betrayal or other crimes, he may ...

Review of Homer's 'The Iliad'

which the argument that arises between the Greek heroes, Achilles and Agamemnon. The poem begins roughly ten years into the war an...

Sociological Structure in the Cat's Cradle

a life of fear and torment, yet this is nothing more than a fa?ade of assurance. The people have no idea that each and every enti...

"Death of a Salesman" and Its Relevance to Today

them dream jobs. They are vivid, vibrant characters, though they are not especially likeable, and its easy to see that the life ha...

History of the Guitar

guitar were when a hunting bow was paired with a tortoise shell to create a tar or sting instrument that was plucked (Hartmetz et ...

Twain/Cruelty in Huckleberry Finn

A 12 page research paper on Mark Twain's classic novel Huck Finn. This paper includes a 9 page essay, an annotated bibliography an...

The Gods of the Iliad and the Bhagavad-Gita

without specifically worrying about success or failure, "they cannot be stained by action" (Harrison, 1996). Hearing this, Arjuna ...

Aspects of "Tartuffe"

right opposite my place, / And drew the eyes of all the congregation, / To watch the fervour of his prayers to heaven; / With deep...

Singin' in the Rain Film Genre Analysis

it is about a silent film star, Don Lockwood (played by Kelly) making the transition to sound pictures, a leap that not all popula...

Change Theory and Change Management

are transformational change and the classic Lewins change model. Kanter et al.s Ten Commandments for Executing Change The m...