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Human Frailty and Compassion in the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer

In five pages this paper examines whether he was tolerant of human frailty or simply delighted in poking fun at it. Four sources ...

Story of the Boston Strangler

In twelve pages this paper examines the alleged Boston Strangler Albert DeSalvo's tale that includes his victims, confession, his ...

A Critique of Various Works By Nathaniel Hawthorne

This paper analyzes several of Hawthorne's books, including The Scarlet Letter, Mosses From an Old Manse, The House of the Seven G...

Gunter Grass and Heinrich Heine Compared

These German authors are considered in five pages in a comparative analysis of The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass and Deutschland, A Win...

'Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County' by Mark Twain and the Craft of Storytelling

In 4 pages this paper examines the storytelling lessons on construction that can be learned from this amusing tale by Mark Twain. ...

'Master and Man' Short Story by Leo Tolstoy

In five pages this paper discusses how the author's beliefs regarding death and Christianity are expressed in this short story by ...

Harry Mulisch's 'The Assault'

A 5 page paper that frames the argument that this is more of an autobiographical exorcism of the author's demons as well as a tale...

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy

In five pages this adventure tale from the 19th century is reviewed in terms of the plot serving as a basis for much contemporary ...

Beowulf and Gilgamesh

In seven pages topics of general intent, good, evil, and heroism are related to the epic tales of 'Beowulf' and 'Epic of Gilgamesh...

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

This 5 page essay explores this tale by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Plot, style, narration, symbolization and setting are each discus...

'The Fall of the House of Usher' and the Life of Edgar Allan Poe

In five pages this 1839 tale is revealed to represent many of the experiences and attitudes of the author. Five sources are cited...

Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart

by the narrator was a man that the narrator actually claims to have loved, but yet the narrator is bothered by their eye, an eye t...

Dower's Embracing Defeat

noted that the emperor had announced defeat, which meant surrender (Dower, 2001). Yet, the woman who Dower notes on the first pag...

Gold and Bettelheim: Fairy Tales

mother," and thinks only of her, marries her and promises to love her for all eternity, then his soul will flow into hers (Gold). ...

Atwood & Bradbury/Best Dystopian Tale

his needs" (Atwood 8). Atwood obviously feared the emerging strength of the religious far-right and saw in its rejection of rights...

Analysis: "The Tell Tale Heart"

the murder has no real basis in reality; the old man had never hurt him, and he has no desire to rob him: "Object there was none. ...

Two Science Fiction Story Characterizations

stars for me, weaponed me to make my way in the world...Did I slay him, what horror would come upon me and mine?" (Anderson 305). ...

Interpreting Fairy Tale Illustration: Cinderella

artists intrinsic complexity. Kneeling at the base of a delicate tree with head tipped upward, eyes closed and hands brought toge...

Barreca/Nighttime Fires

the children, "It was festival, carnival" (line 15). These contradictory images to how house fires are generally perceived are mad...

An Analysis of Virgil's Depiction of the Tragedy of Dido

a cave. They make love and, from this point on, Dido considers them to be married even though a ceremony has not officially consec...

Male and Female Roles in Marriage

is very much an equal reality in a marriage. Men and women are expected to treat each other respectfully, and to care about one an...

Gender Relations in A Tale of Two Cities

world and symbolizes the ideal vision of a woman in a patriarchal world. This is why the embittered and lost man who is Carton lov...

Foreshadowing in Faulkner's A Rose for Emily

Faulkner writes that the druggist questions Emily about the use of the arsenic and explains that he by law must ask her about her ...

“The Arabian Nights”

(Burton, 1985). He tried to talk her out of it, but she insisted, and thus began the thousand nights, for each night she would end...

Science Fiction Shakespeare

possible, but have not been invented yet. This will sound strange, because science itself is just getting started, but really, all...

Edgar Allan Poe, Suicidal Tendencies, and ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’

at 4 a.m., his guilty conscience elicits the narrators confession. Is this an example of another Poe murder mystery or does it re...

Versions of “Cinderella”

she isnt such a ninny; not only that, but there is an explanation for some of her behavior. In the French tale, her father is aliv...

Van Gogh and Gauguin: Portraits

(black) lines vary in thickness throughout the painting. The figures are also well centered in the painting with little moving off...

Mark Twain’s A Dog’s Tale

she should behave. She goes to a home where she is treated very well and ultimately has a puppy of her own and this makes her life...

The Position of Women in "Hamlet" and "To the Lighthouse"

Ramsay is not really a monster, but he is an autocrat who is cold and so detached from his family that he doesnt seem to realize h...