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A Psychological Perspective on Wuthering Heights

This essay draws on scholarship to support the contention that it is Cathy and Hareton's romance rather than Catherine and Heathcl...

Cinema and the Depiction of Drug Use

This essay consists of nine pages and discusses how the U.S. romance with the use of drugs has been transferred onto celluloid thr...

Illusion versus Reality in Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

In four pages this paper examines the conflict that exists throughout the course of the novel with Romanticism and not romance ult...

The Classic Film Casablanca

The writer explores the plot, characters, setting and other elements of the 1942 classic film Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart...

Sophia Peabody and Nathaniel Hawthorne's Marriage

"transcendentalist." This was an idealistic philosophy influenced by the German writers Immanuel Kant and F. W. Schelling. It pr...

The Right Stuff & Technology

conquer it. The focus of the film changes when it shifts to dramatizing the successful launch of the Soviet Unions Sputnik and i...

Melville’s Typee

foreshadows many of the themes that would appear in subsequent works such as Moby Dick" (Proyect). It is a novel that clearly make...

Flaubert/Emma Bovary

romanticism prevents her from seeing Charles realistically prior to marriage and her failed expectations cloud her perception of h...

The Romance Genre

Part of the trouble with this genre is that the novels are very formulaic and the plot points never vary. While this is off-puttin...

Pygmalion-Romance or Not?

is served by an earthy, half-demon by the name of Caliban and a sprite named Ariel. In the course of the play, we learn that Prosp...

Fiction and Non-Fiction Narrative

literature, for he is only telling his story. For example, he states such things as "I began thinking about my friend the other da...

All That Heaven Allows

This 4 page essay explores the long-lived concept of May-December romance as it is presented in the movies. Social class and age ...

"Pearl Harbor": A Critique of the Historical Accuracy of this Popular Movie

would become a primary target of that vengeance. For the United States to incur a direct attack on its shores was perceived as sa...

An analytical view of Jane Eyre

is a lonely young woman who spent much of her life on a solitary journey toward love and acceptance. It was not something she wou...

Romance and Epic in Thomas Malory's 'Tale of Lancelot and Guenevere' and 'Beowulf'

1). With the passage of time, epics evolved into what is commonly referred to as chansons de geste or romances. French in origin...

Karen Van Der Zee's 'A Secret Sorrow'

else who contrives to tell the tale. This is part of the use of language by an author. The other influence on voice, it can be sai...

An Ethical Exploration

come forth (Honderich, 1995). The Epicureans and Stoics had played an important role in the philosophical tradition (1995). Epicur...

Doomed Romance Between Tony Manero and Stephanie Mangano in the Film Saturday Night Fever

2001 Disco, a place where he and his friends are converted from lower-class boys into "The Faces," i.e., masculine dancers who can...

Later Plays of William Shakespeare and How the Bard's View of Romance Changed

especially in terms of the passions that exist between men and women. Fantasy Romance When Shakespeare uses his characters in "...

Myth, Tragedy, and Romance

blind lord Dhritarashtra so much that she voluntarily bandaged her eyes, as she vowed that she would not enjoy anything that she c...

Romanticism in the Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne

powerful issue. While Puritan thought had gotten the country this far, "Religion...was also ready for romanticism and its kind of ...

Chaucer and His Characters

In five pages The Canterbury Tales are considered in terms of what they reveal about the author, his compassion, humor, thoughts a...

Establishing a Genre Movie in 'Singin' In The Rain'

This 9 page essay considers how the theatrical presence in the film is developed stylistically through textural characteristics of...

Matthew Arnold's Portrayal of Tristan and Iseult's Romance

with thee; I will watch thee, tend thee, soothe thy pain; Sing thee tales of true, long-parted lovers, Joind at evening of t...

Socially Relevant Plays of William Shakespeare

In five pages this paper discusses the social relevance of William Shakespeare's plays in a consideration of such issues as daily ...

Film Analysi of 'White Palace'

This essay consisting of six pages that claims the seriousness of the subject matter conforms to the Romance/Drama genre but is no...

Cynicism, Romance, and Annie Hall by Director Woody Allen

In six pages this paper examines the themes of cynicism and romance within the context of this 1977 Academy Award winning film Ann...

Chivalry Changes in Literature

women... Defend the weak and innocent... / Fight with honor... / Avenge the wronged. / Never abandon a friend, ally, or noble caus...

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

In ten pages this paper presents the argument that this first romance novel of the American frontier reflects in its characterizat...

Romance and Epic Characteristics

individual stories into the tapestry that became his famous epics. He did not create the stories; they had come from hundreds of y...