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Irony and Paradox in 'Battle Royal' by Ralph Ellison and 'On the Rainy River' by Tim O'Brien”

and hides and works for a man who never questions him, and he is torn terribly with his emotions because he wants to run and yet h...

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison and Music

deal, especially the characters unique "voice," which is "ironic, eloquent, jazz-influenced, sometimes furious with outrage, yet a...

Decision Making, Cognition, and Emotions

self-reproach cause the individual to regret the choice made. Reasoning is another element of decision-making that can be influen...

Character of Starbuck in Moby Dick by Herman Melville

wonder of nature, or the natural balance of things as he is determined to kill the whale. As one author notes, "Ahab destroys hims...

Historical Literary Periods and Transporting Readers to Another Time

In eight pages the importance of setting historical setting in order to take readers back to an earlier period is considered in an...

Ralph Ellison, Toni Cade Bambara, and Minority Lessons of Their Works

life service to start Ellison on the path to understanding. Ellison describes how the graduation speech that he gives at his hig...

Important Post Second World War Works of Literature

Don Delillos "White Noise" and Maxine Hong Kingstons "The Woman Warrior." Invisible Man As mentioned, many argue that Ralph El...

Cultures That Are Invisible

In five pages the notion of 'invisible cultures' as portrayed in Blues People by Amiri Baraka, Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko, Sp...

Prologue of Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

In five pages this paper discusses the importance of the Prologue in Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. There is 1 source cited in t...

'Bartleby, the Scrivener' by Herman Melville and the Narrator

In five pages this paper examines the mental stability of the narrator in this famous story by Herman Melville. There are no othe...

Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville, Images of Christ and Themes

In five pages a thematic and symbolic analysis of this novel by Herman Melville are presented. Four sources are cited in the bibl...

Reviewing Charles T. Davis's Black Is the Color of the Cosmos Essays on Afro-American Literature and Culture

In a five page review black literature during the 1960s and '70s is discussed and comparisons are made with slave narratives and t...

Laws of Nature in Billy Budd

In a paper consisting of five pages the ways in which Herman Melville uses the novel to discuss how nature's laws do not always pr...

Literature and Themes of Power and Race

In five pages this paper considers power and race as they are portrayed in the short stories 'Desiree's Baby' by Kate Chopin, 'Bat...

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

In five pages this paper examines various themes including racism as they relate to Moby Dick by Herman Melville. Five sources ar...

Theme of Victimization in Uncle Tom's Cabin, Redburn, and Wieland

origin of the mysterious voices turned out to have a quite natural explanation, but there is nothing particularly comforting in th...

White Symbolism in Moby Dick by Herman Melville

This paper consists of seven pages and presents a literary analysis of the white symbolism that appears throughout Moby Dick by He...

Shattered Dreams in Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

such a time period, a concept that received a considerably varied mix of response from enthusiastic support to downright contempt....

Benito Cereno by Herman Melville and 'Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman

Romantic tradition, of which Melville was a nominal or part-time member, of the innocence and moral superiority of a pastoral moti...

Representation of Captain Ahab as Evil, Good, Death, and Life All At the Same Time

In twenty five pages this paper discusses how Captain Ahab in Moby Dick by Herman Melville embodies all the dualities of the life ...

What Invisibility Means in Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

nineteenth century" (Ellison, 5). Since his white-dominated culture refuses to recognize him, refuses to acknowledge that he is a ...

Narrator and Protagonist's Relationship in 'Bartleby the Scrivener' by Herman Melville

In three pages Bartleby and the narrator's relationship are examined within the context of this Herman Melville short story. Ther...

Scene Analysis of Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

In five pages the Harlem Riots and Battle Royale scenes featured in Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison are analyzed in a discussion of...

Identity in No No Boy, The Invisible Man, and Beloved

In a paper consisting of five pages the shared theme of an identity search as reflected in these texts by John Okada, Ralph Elliso...

Billy Budd by Herman Melville and the Conflict Between Good and Evil

In five pages this paper discusses the evil of Squeak and Claggart and the goodness of Billy Budd in an analysis of the novel by H...

Symboliism in Bartleby, The Scrivener and The Yellow Wallpaper

who flatly refused to accept the mundane. These two characters, both centers of nineteenth century American literature, each made...

Legal Theory and Billy Budd by Herman Melville

In six pages this paper examines this novel by Herman Melville from a perspective of legal theory. Four sources are cited in the ...

American Literature

little concern for the development, the past, of the relationships that play a very important part in the stories. One could well ...

Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville

metaphorically complex narrative that has been interpreted in a variety of ways. The story itself is deceptively simple. The narra...

Moby-Dick, Discussion of Quotes from the Novel

This essay presents four quotes taken from Moby-Dick by Herman Melville. The writer discusses the meaning of each quote in relatio...