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Disempowerment and Disassociation in John Updike's 'A Short Easter'

A thematic analysis of 'A Short Easter' by John Updike focuses upon the protagonist's lack of empowerment and disassociation in a ...

'The Pearl' by the Gawain Poet

In 5 pages this 14th century allegory is analyzed in terms of its protagonist's faith and pearl imagery. There is 1 source cited ...

Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Themes of the Individual and Community

In a paper consisting of 5 pages Achebe's classic novel is considered in terms of the individual and community interrelationship a...

Identity in 'Moll Flanders' by Daniel Defoe

In 5 pages this paper examines how the protagonist's personality defines identity in 'Moll Flanders' by Daniel Defoe. One source ...

Vice and Virtue Internal Debate in Tom Jones by Henry Fielding

agree that the most significant debate Jones had with himself concerning virtue and vice was when he decided to marry Sophia, one ...

Dying and Death in The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann von Goethe and The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare

These works are considered in five pages in terms of the protagonist's perceptions of dying and death in a contrast and comparison...

The theme of insanity in The Yellow Wallpaper

"I must put this away,--he hates to have me write a word." This shows how controlling John is over her as both husband and docto...

Qualities of Herman Melville's Billy Budd

In five pages Billy Budd's transcendental nature is examined in terms of the protagonist's exemplification of peacemaking, honesty...

Analysis of 'Solder's Home' by Ernest Hemingway

Kansas City Star, Hemingway himself "left Kansas City in the spring of 1918 and did not return for 10 years, [becoming] the first ...

'The Purloined Letter' by Edgar Allan Poe

In five pages Poe's detective tale is examined in terms of the protagonist's superior class attitudes that are revealed when he in...

Myth and Its Importance in Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

In four pages this paper examines the importance of Native American heritage and the protagonist's desire to reconnect in the nove...

Self Discovery Journey in The Unlikely Ones by Mary Brown

In four pages this essay examines the female protagonist's journey towards self discovery in The Unlikely Ones by Mary Brown. The...

Epistolary Novel and Fair and Tender Ladies by Lee Smith

who never writes back -- she says that the name of her would-be friend ?tastes sweet in my mouth like honey or cane or how I pictu...

The Summer After the Dark by Doris Lessing and Culture

In twelve pages Western society and cultural roles of women are discussed within the context of Lessing's novel with other critica...

Structure and Struggle in Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

In four pages this 'nightmare' tale examines the protagonist's struggles and also analyzes the novel's structure. Three sources a...

A Moral Dilemma Exercise in Creative Playwrighting

In six pages a short play involving a protagonist's moral dilemma and whether or not he deliver illegal drugs for someone he respe...

The Book of Daniel by E.L. Doctorow

In ten pages this paper analyzes the novel's presentations of the government, the social culture during the time period, the prota...

Fitzgerald's Short Story, The Rich Boy

This paper analyzes Fitzgerald's short story, The Rich Boy in terms of the protagonist's behavior and refusal to grow up. This si...

Jean Toomer's Fern and Octavia Butler's Kindred

In five pages these works are considered in terms of their dual protagonists' commonality in the characters of Dana and Rufus in K...

Walker Percy's The Moviegoer and the Horizontal and Vertical Search of Binx Bolling

experiences in pursuing what his aunt had referred to as his "flair for research" (42). He and his partner have enthusiastically ...

Analysis of Kate Atkinson's Behind the Scenes at the Museum

One of the chapters of this text is analyzed in terms of its discussion of the lives prior to the First World War of the protagoni...

A Historical Critique of 'The Yellow Wallpaper'

This paper of 7 pages chronicle's the female protagonist's descent into madness due to the oppression of the patriarchy and its in...

Self Definition Quest of Janie Crawford in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

In a paper consisting of two pages this paper discusses how the action of this novel by Zora Neale Hurston is propelled by the pro...

Strange Heaven by Lynn Coady

In 5 pages the protagonist's learning experiences both in the mental hospital and beyond as presented in this novel by Canadian wr...

Analysis of The Awakening by Kate Chopin

children, worshiped their husbands, and esteemed it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals and grow wings as ministe...

Identity Quest in Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin and 'The Heart of a Woman' by Maya Angelou

In 5 pages this paper contrasts and compares how these works depict their respective protagonists' identity quests. There are no ...

Sensuality and the Senses in Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

In four pages this paper discusses the protagonist's life struggles and the social limitations that oppressed women during this ti...

Interpreting 'Jilting of Granny Weatherall' by Katherine Anne Porter

In six pages death and dying are explored within the context of Porter's text the protagonist's love and unresolved plot conflict ...

Narrators' Growth in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

In 6 pages this paper discusses how the narrators of these respective texts managed to develop their own individuality through the...

Concept of Community in Richard Wright's Native Son and John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath

In a paper consisting of 15 pages the concept of community is examined within the context of these novels from the perspective of ...