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The Century of the Detective by Jurgen Thorwald

This book review is on "The Century of the Detective," a classic text by Jurgen Thorwald. The writer presents an overall view of t...

Imagery and Themes in Marquez's, Chronicles Of A Death Foretold

manner by which Garcia Marquez achieves this objective is through magic realism. In a world that combines fantasy and reali...

Movie Verses Novel in Depictions of Fellowship of the Ring

any film based on a novel, there is much that is left out. And, interestingly enough, if it were up to anyone but Peter Jackson, t...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper and an Infantile Narrator

and brother, "If a physician of high standing, and ones own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing th...

Death in E.B. White's Charlotte's Web

raises this pig in a somewhat happy atmosphere until he is too big and he must go live on a nearby farm. On that farm Wilbur lea...

Ancient Irish Tale 'How Ronan Slew His Son'

not take a sedate woman? That would be more fitting than a little skittish thing of a girl." However, Ronan could not be stopped, ...

Dracula by Bram Stoker

emphasized. Harker is clearly in foreign territory. This point is even emphasized by the Count who tells Harker, "We are in Trans...

Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Marital Abuse

her story, she shares that her grandmother, a very strict woman and set in her ways, decides that Janie should be married off to s...

Literature and the Nature of Good vs. Evil

goading and nagging, contributed to Macbeths downfall; however, when one examines the play that the main impetus to Macbeths actio...

Euripides' Hippolytus, Iphigenia in Tauris” and Alcestis and Aeschylus The Oresteia, Agamemnon, The Libation-Bearers and The Eumenides and Tragic Drama

specifically tailored their works to suit the tastes of their Athenian audiences, mirroring the "fears, tensions, and potential vi...

Punishment in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Dante's 'Inferno'

manner in which both people and society are viewed. The very basis of the story is perhaps the biggest symbol, where Hester Prynn...

The Enduring Popularity of Antigone

honor and integrity into the courtroom as well as to the attention of the public (Conte 26). These are the issues that should con...

Eva Smith's Death in An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley

although he makes it clear that it is not "Ghoul") calls on the Birling family of Yorkshire and although everything appears to be ...

History and Citizen Kane

flashbacks in the movie) (Street 48). Through these interviews, the audience learns that Kane inherited a fortune at a young age, ...

Comparative Analysis of 'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson and 'Barn Burning' by William Faulkner

and simplistic style she employs. "The lottery was conducted--as were the square dances, the teen club, the Halloween program--by...

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway and Stylistic Elements

In five pages the stylistic elements Hemingway utilized in his classic novel are discussed. Three other sources are cited in the ...

John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and Dreaming

feel lonely." All characters seem to have a variant of this dream as well, whether the place is, that which will allow them to b...

Umuofian Women in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

In six pages this essay discusses how women's positioning in Umuofian society reveals much about its culture as represented in Ach...

An Overview of Harriet Beecher's Uncle Tom's Cabin

In five pages this American literary classic is presented in an overview. There are no other sources listed....

Persuasion in Print and Film

Modern movie adaptations of classic novels are often hard to compare to the originals. This report discusses the film version of P...

Kanthapura by Raja Rao

In five pages this report examines the 1938 novel that is widely regarded as the first English modern Indian literary classic. Tw...

Feminine Nature and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

and whose future lot it was in their hands to direct to happiness or misery, according as they fulfilled their duties towards me" ...

Society in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

This paper discusses ethical and social themes presented in Shelley's classic novel. This five page paper has no additional sourc...

Metaphor in the Work of E. E. Cummings

This essay provides a reading of the classic Cummings' poem, "somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond." The aut...

'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night' by Dylan Thomas

In seven pages this tutorial considers Dylan Thomas's classic poem. Nine sources are cited in the bibliography....

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In eight pages this paper analyzes this classic American novel and its confrontation of post First World War truths about the Amer...

Charles Dickens on Childhood

In seven pages the ways in which Dickens' portrays childhood during the 19th century in his classic novels Great Expectations, Oli...

Main Concepts of Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

The major points covered in Darwin's classic text are discussed in five pages and include existing species and the rise of new one...

Tragic Heroes in Death of a Salesman and Oedipus

A 10 page analysis of the tragic hero as he manifests in these two classic plays. Twists of events affect these heroes differentl...

Cinematography in Battleship Potemkin and Citizen Kane

The cinematography in these movie classics are discussed in five pages. There are no other sources listed....