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Essays 181 - 210
This essay discusses short stories Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat," contrasting...
isolated as a result. In many ways, it is the men...
some do not stop to consider the consequences of their actions. Brown is especially aware of this fact as he becomes "a stern, a ...
many different ways. For example, one author illustrates how, "You can read a Billy Collins poem to someone who hates poetry and t...
4 pages in length. Evil - a self-perpetuating entity of myriad literary tales - presents itself as a force that challenges the ve...
opening to Jacksons Lottery, as Jackson carefully underscores the normality of the day and how what is to take place is viewed as ...
religious fervour had already given the earnest of high eminence in his profession. He was a person of very striking aspect, with...
the Scripture and the statute-book. Then let the magistrates, who have made it of no effect, thank themselves if their own wives ...
front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...
corruption of politics; Colonel Killigrew (whose name in itself is symbolic) personifies the evils of pleasures of the flesh; and ...
In 5 pages a comparative analysis of these American literary works examines their similarities and differences. There are 2 sourc...
The writer wonders what Scarlet O'Hara and Billy Pilgrim would talk about if they could travel in time and meet one another. The w...
In four pages this paper examines these authors' perceptions of women as they are represented in characterizations of sin and good...
This paper consists of seven pages and presents a literary analysis of the white symbolism that appears throughout Moby Dick by He...
origin of the mysterious voices turned out to have a quite natural explanation, but there is nothing particularly comforting in th...
In five pages this paper examines the nightmare states evoked by hallucinogenic symbolism in these two works that blur the line be...
In seven pages this essay considers transformation within a comparative context of these short stories....
An analysis of this short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne consists of six pages. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....
In five pages this paper examines the mental stability of the narrator in this famous story by Herman Melville. There are no othe...
In six pages this paper examines how temptation is featured in the Hawthorne short stories 'Young Goodman Brown,' 'The Minister's ...
In three pages Bartleby and the narrator's relationship are examined within the context of this Herman Melville short story. Ther...
In three pages this paper discusses the wide ranging symbolism associated with 'The Birthmark' in the short story by Nathaniel Haw...
Romantic tradition, of which Melville was a nominal or part-time member, of the innocence and moral superiority of a pastoral moti...
who flatly refused to accept the mundane. These two characters, both centers of nineteenth century American literature, each made...
of men. Men, primarily those men on the ship, are men who are likely "dangerous to encounter" on an ordinary day. They are perhaps...
to catch up with and crush idealistic young people afraid of occurrences over which they seem to have no control" (Hynes 265). "L...
Stone Face, Ernest, a small boy growing up in the village learns of a prophecy concerning one who will live among them and will be...
presumably just universe. An arrow going from the first circle to the second indicates the cause-and-effect direction. Multiple ...
in humanity until he hears the voice of his wife. When he stumbles out of the woods the next morning, he is a changed man. He ha...
the world of all evil by silencing any voice of dissention. This short story clearly illustrates the idea that evil is in the doin...