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Steinbeck's Use of Foreshadowing in, Of Mice and Men

of the most blatant uses of foreshadowing is when Candy has to shoot his dog because it bit the Boss. Candy says that a man should...

Analyzing 'The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg' by Mark Twain

was many years ago. Hadleyburg was the most honest and upright town in all the region round about. It had kept that reputation uns...

Literature and the Use of Newspapers

Frank Norris, who was working for Doubleday, helped Dreisers first novel, Sister Carrie (1900), to be published....Dreiser continu...

Virginia Woolf and E.B. White: Essays

a background. Woolfs imagery concentrates on light and dark, and various colors. She mentions "dark autumn nights," a "yellow-und...

Researching the Poem ‘Ars Poetica’ by Archibald MacLeish on the Internet

scanned text files, featured a scanned version Frank St. Vincents important exposition of the poem that was first published in Exp...

Herman Melville’s Message in Moby-Dick

whale (55). Naturally, this represents the books climax, but how would Melville fill the huge writing gap between the introductio...

Racism in Othello

seem that Desdemona is having an affair with Cassio, the man that Othello favored for promotion over Iago. Convinced that Desdemon...

Literary Devices in Three Novels

makes an impression is the plot and specifically the incident when Huck could turn Jim in to the men who are hunting runaway slave...

Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

One could argue that perhaps Ibsen told the press he was not a feminist in order to get the media off his back, but the...

Arthurian Romances and Medieval Courtly Love

In eleven pages the courtly love theme as represented in the literary works of such authors as Chretien de Troyes and Andreas Cape...

Opium and the Life of Thomas DeQuincey's as Revealed in Confessions Of An English Opium Eater

English Romantic Thomas DeQuincey no only used opium but was addicted to it. It possessed his life and played a critical role in ...

Example of Literary Technique

In five pages this papre discusses a commemorative speaking exercise in a consideration of how various literary techniques are use...

Chapters Twenty Two and Twenty Three of Waterworks by E.L. Doctorow

In five pages this paper discusses the author's uses of literary techniques and the development of characters in these 2 Waterwork...

The Meaning of Life According to Leo Tolstoy

This 10 page paper examines Leo Tolstoy's literary works and personal philosophy, and argues that he sought simplicity and spiritu...

Comparing 'Home' by Grace Nicholas to 'Wherever I Hang' by Anne Bronte

In three pages the literary devices of simile, metaphor, rhythm, rhyme, and alliteration are used in a comparative analysis of the...

Pontiac Indian Conspiracy

The history of the Indian wars is laid out by Francis Parkman in Conspiracy of Pontiac. This essay examines his use of theme, lite...

Literary Interpretation and Analysis of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

the modern world was a study in contrasts between interior and exterior, so too was modernist literature. There was often the con...

Romance in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In five pages this paper examines how romance is used by the author in this famous novel within the context of Nathaniel Hawthorne...

Interpretation of Edgar Allan Poe's Writings

In eleven pages Poe's writings are interpreted in terms of its representation of conflict as well as pastoral with such works as '...

Do Humans Control Their Own Lives?

This 7 page paper asks to what degree humans control their own lives. It uses three literary works, Metamorphosis by Kafka; The Lo...

Tides of Revolution According to Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon and Georg Buchner's Danton's Death

In five pages these two literary works are used to consider the differences and similarities between the Bolshevik and French Revo...

Sixteenth Century Literature and Parody

quest as being somehow representative of the times in which he lived. Through the use of exaggeration, Cervantes is basically say...

A Case Study in Hospital Critical Thinking

however, without first obtaining better control of interorganizational practices. Indeed, the situation at present is not only ch...