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Postcolonial Literature and Symbols

each. Before going on, it pays to define post colonialism. DeHay (2004) explains that the definition she likes to use for postc...

Comparison Between Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Chronicle of Death Foretold and Toni Morrison's Sula

Sula because she has divorced herself so completely from her own emotions. By the end of the novel, both characters come to the re...

Jonathan Swift and Modernity

by pairing books against each other, thus pitting classical works against modern counterparts. For instance, Swift includes such ...

Twentieth Century Literature and Theological Themes

young man who is certain that he offers more and that he is more everything than Orson. At the core of such behavior is an arrogan...

Feminine Reading of Woolf's, A Room of One's Own

an intimate conversation among feminine equals. Men are excluded" (Marcus 79). She has, in essence, constructed an alternate fem...

Blackness in Young Goodman Brown and Betrothal in Santo Domingo

"black heart," but each kept some number of people at bay, not letting those individuals enter the inner recesses of either their ...

Garcia Lorca's Yerma and Motherhood

produce a child, she eventually seeks out the village sorceress where she is involved in witnessing a pagan ritual. When her husba...

Comparing Emily Dickinson and Anne Bradstreet

of this in the following lines which use that imagery in the comparisons: "Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain,/ Who afte...

Guillien de Catro y Bellvis' La Mocedades del Cid

DIEGO: ...excesivamente honrado,...

Kate Chopin and Raymond Carver on Love

quietly, knowing something is coming her way, some feeling, some understanding, some epiphany. Then, it comes. It tells her she is...

A Character Analysis of Chaereas

part of Chaereas, but because the decline of this young man serves to rally the entire community and the assembly appeals to Hermo...

Comparing George Orwell's Politics and the English Language and Shooting an Elephant

in Burma. It is a poignant and ironic allegory of British imperialism, for in Orwells view, the authority which enabled the gover...

Fear in Paton's, Cry the Beloved Country

is sick, Kumalo goes to the city to bring his sister home and to find his son, Absalom. When he arrives, he discovers that his son...

Madness as a Common Literary Theme

This paper examines Shakespeare's play, King Lear, as well as Ibsen's work, Ghosts to discuss madness and delusion as common theme...

Golden Boy by Clifford Odets

has some boxing success, the protagonist Joe Bonaparte hurts his hands enough that he can no longer play the violin. In this work...

Anton Chekhov's 'Three Sisters'

The theme, plot, and style of this work is considered in 10 pages as well as presenting an examination into Aristotle's theories a...

Medieval Literature and Common Themes

is a serious offence. But Ganelon, the man who is held, has a friend who challenges his accuser to a match and the friend loses. T...

Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote

In five pages this work is subdivided into beginning, middle, and conclusion and analyzed with consideration of its themes of sexu...

'What Makes Sammy Run?' and Characterization

a great deal until he does step on toes. He does not care who he hurts and this is present every step of the way on the road to th...

Comparative Analysis of the Works of Ueda Akinari and Haruki Murakami

The works of Akinari and Murakami are contrasted and compared in 7 pages with the primary emphasis being on the alienation themes ...

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...

Comparative Analysis of Ozment's The Burgermeister's Daughter and Marx and Engels' The Communist Manifesto

Engels still present the view of a society that could be idyllic if they only could bring it into concert with human emotion and m...

Slavery Theme in Dawn by Octavia Butler

power structures and organization are often present in her writing. In fact, it would be more accurate to describe her writing as ...

Themes of Good and Evil in Edgar Allan Poe

- Chapter 4 - The Romantic Period, 1820-1860: Fiction). Poe seemed to regard society and the Industrial Revolution in particular ...

Italian Literature and the Themes of Escape, Alienation, and Entrapment

first the expulsion from the tennis club, then from the fascist party, then academic anti-Semitism, then more and more direct insu...

Modern Expressionist Painter Georges Rouault

revolution and the advent of World War I. These factors must have had a tremendous impact on the art community. This could, one mi...

Oedipus Rex and Othello Compared “Oedipus Rex”

to speak out. Of course, Oedipus is infuriated by such statements and knows that they must have been instigated by one of his enem...

Robert Stone's Dog Soldiers

In a paper consisting of 5 pages this novel is examined in terms of whether or not it should be considered a work of art based upo...

Tragic Themes in Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, Sophocles' Antigone and William Shakespeare's Macbeth

Shakespeares characters that the audience (or the reader) immediately understands will not have an easy time of it. The story of "...

Childhood Loss in Obasan and The Stone Angel

Isolation, privation and loss in childhood are major themes in literature. This report discusses the work of two Canadians, Joy Ko...