YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Comparison of Two Literary Protagonists
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way to change. She has come up with a way of looking at things that transcends traditional feminist thought. The thesis of this pa...
This research paper provides a comparison of two films, Sidney Lumet's, Twelve Angry Men, and Spike Lee's, Do the Right Thing. Th...
he has always valued charisma over actual skill or knowledge. This point is shown in a flashback in which Willy asks his oldest ...
Jar was published in 1961 and Plath committed suicide just two years prompted a New York Times critic to question if it was even p...
and "one day could not explain some term of horsemanship to her that she had come across in a novel" (Flaubert 29). Emmas disappoi...
past, which is now gone, and his son is the future (the founding of Rome), and he is the transitionary figure destined to bring th...
to address the illusions that nobody else was originally able to see. HAMLETS PSYCHE Indeed, Hamlet was at the end of...
own death and running away. Along the way, he meets Jim, a runaway slave who is traveling north in hopes of freeing his family. ...
he has not really learned a great deal, except to perhaps further solidify his lack of desire to be civilized. In reading this sto...
of independence and material possessions as a way to shed the discomfort of her less-than-copious upbringing. While Dreiser sough...
As he hauls water through the village he is greeted by many who know him. Some of course treat him like a servant but by and by...
When the psychologists lofty expectations come crashing down around him, he tries to wash his anxieties away in a symbolic gesture...
antagonist to both Heathcliff and Linton that propels the narrative. Bronte creates the foundation for her exploration of psycho...
the plague will end and his grateful subjects will worship him like a god. However, the aging oracle Tiresias (sometimes spelled ...
deliberation" (Livesley, 2001, p. 22). Lt. Raine is a most conscientious soldier to the point of replacing any semblance of human...
his own resulting suicide because he believes his life is not worth living (which, in many ways, parallels Clarissas own ambivalen...
young girl to embark on this very adult and complex journey? One can see as the story unfolds that Sophies energy, open-mindedness...
thinks himself a hero. When we see the following, that illustrates the position of the narrator in this poem, we begin to see h...
fated to her status in life" (Lombardi). It is a moralistic fable written in the tradition of the ancient Greeks in which the her...
mother, Lady de Courcy, reveals, this woman is no shrinking violet (Knuth 215). Lady Susan uses her feminine wiles whenever the m...
there are certain things a person must do, certain things a man must feel and never turn away from. So many men were lost in their...
is a fact. Troys son Cory wants to know why Rose wants them to build a fence. Cory says, tells Troy "Some people build fences to k...
journey with a runaway slave and ultimately finds his way back to civilization and a home. Offering a very simple and adventurous ...
changes in her life have both positive and negative implications. At the onset of the story, Janie is a character who is unable t...
of the narrators gender importance. It is suggested -- by a woman, no less -- that something be said to Emily in an effort to rid...
keeping me at a distance; but that until she heard from Bessie, and could discover by her own observation, that I was endeavouring...
Oberon and make him smile/ When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile,/ Neighing in likeness of a filly foal:/ And sometime lurk I in...
In eight pages Nitta Sayuri and Dorian Gray are compared in terms of obvious differences but interesting similarities in maturatio...
the consuls, raised and met, / Are at the Dukes already. You have been hotly calld for, / When, being not at your lodging to be fo...
from Londons story which illustrates how the man is ignorant and in need of the weather to make him strong and enlightened: "But a...