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Chopin and O’Connor

gently as possible the news of her husbands death" (Chopin). In these two simple descriptions it is very evident that the women ar...

Modern Women and Lessons Learned from Lady Macbeth

under his own roof. One of the oldest of all human social laws is that a person cannot harm his guest. Its never been written down...

Elizabeth Costello's Views on Animal Rights

Despite her poor reception by those that disagree with her philosophically, Costello makes many valid points about animal rights. ...

Comparative Analysis of the Characters in Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Dante's 'The Inferno'

a commonplace story already familiar to his listeners, he could (and did) omit much of the unnecessary backstory (with respect to ...

Comparing and Contrasting Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd: The Demon of Fleet Street and The Odyssey by Homer

Odysseus and Polyphemus (or Cyclops), the protagonist and antagonist in "The Odyssey." Like Odysseus, Todd is banished from his w...

Innocence and Its Burdens

in love, but "the happiness that should have followed this love not having come" she thought she must have made a mistake (Flauber...

Nora, Antigone and Hippolyte

In a paper consisting of five pages these female characters are compared and contrasted in terms of their focus and personal devel...

Analyzing Three Tales by William Faulkner

In eight pages characters from 'Barn Burning,' 'A Rose for Emily,' and 'Percy Grimm' are contrasted and compared and a discussion ...

Katharina v. Petruchio in William Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew

In five pages these leading characters in Shakespeare's comedy are contrasted and compared. There are no other sources listed....

Comparative Analysis of Guy de Maupassant's 'The Necklace' and Kate Chopin's 'Story of an Hour'

These short stories are contrasted and compared in six pages with characters, themes, and endings analyzed. Six sources are cited...

Historical Portrayals of Women in Literary Works

This paper contrasts and compares the female characters in The Birds by Aristophanes, Hamlet by William Shakespeare, and Buried Ch...

House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus

some never seem to get anywhere finically, Massoud has his problems. It seems that he is victimized by American society, as he nev...

Comparison of Chinua Achebe and Laura Esquivel

a failure, his life becomes dominated by fear that "he should be found to resemble his father" (Achebe 13). Repeatedly, Achebe sho...

Characters in Literary Works Contrasts

success and leading a happy life. Willys attitude toward being liked and being popular do not change at all. This is evident when ...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and the Characters Roger Chillingworth and Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale

religious fervour had already given the earnest of high eminence in his profession. He was a person of very striking aspect, with...

Comparing Antigone and Oedipus by Sophocles

the disease is the god Apollos punishment because the murder of the kings predecessor, Laius, has not been properly punished. He ...

Comparing Characters Lutie Johnson in Ann Petry's The Street and Hester Prynne in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

the Scripture and the statute-book. Then let the magistrates, who have made it of no effect, thank themselves if their own wives ...

Aeneas and Achilles

reign of government. He is simply a warrior and that is what he does. With Aeneas he is fighting for his Rome, his people, his lan...

Cinematic Comparison of Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday and Natalie Portman in Closer

sexuality and innocence that made superstardom a foregone conclusion. The cinematic experience is one in which the spectator (the...

Fools Crow

the favor of the spirit world, of the gods, and yet they both approach it differently. Fast Horse is presumptuous and arrogant whi...

Eighteenth Century Novel Characters Pamela and Fantomina

In six pages the title characters featured in eighteenth novels by S. Richardson and E.F. Hayward are compared in terms of these w...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and the Characterizations of Laertes and Prince Hamlet

In five pages these 2 characters featured in William Shakespeare's most famous tragedy are contrasted and compared. There are no ...

Character Comparative Analysis of Thurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Chekhov's The Darling

In 8 pages this paper contrasts and compares the characters of Janie and Olenka in these works by Hurston and Chekhov. Two source...

Virtue in Henry V and Brave New World

are eventually reintroduced to the "regular" world and everyone finds out that John was born of Linda (his mother) and they become...

Comparing and Contrasting Graham Greene's The Destructors and D.H. Lawrence's The Rocking Horse Winner

and, determined to prove to his mother that he is not unlucky like his father, Paul supernaturally begins the attempt to change th...

A Comparison of The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and The Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris

world with it" (Morrison PG). Morrison shows how overcoming stereotypical racial images is not an easy accomplishment in Pecolas...

Comparative Analysis of Henry James' Portrait of a Lady and Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie

show business, and also very well liked in this particular field. As such she does better than make a living yet does not tell Hur...

William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' and Other Examples of Eccentricity

are similar to Emilys. The characters discussed are Carrie, from the film "Carrie," Norman Bates from the film "Psycho," Eleanor f...

Character Analysis of Simon in Lord of the Flies by William Golding

thus, can also be seen as representing motherhood and domesticity. From this point on the boys become increasingly more primitive....

Kurtz and Marlow in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

and explored his own intellectual and moral identity (p. 122). This suggests that Conrad created Marlow in order to explore his ow...