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Tragic Hero Ethan Frome

a tragedy due to the murder, or possible death during rough sex in the park, but the players were of an elite class. Similarly, to...

Contemporary American Novel

Penn Warren, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and The Age Of Innocence by Edith Wharton. All of these novels ...

Thematic Analysis of Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth and Ethan Frome and “The House of Mirth”: The Themes of Loneliness, Isolation, and Silence

on his feelings because of the societal mores of his day. The closest town, Starkefield, symbolizes these mores. Central to the ...

Female Protagonists in Chopin, Wharton, and Gilman

such endeavors she discovers that this is not the case. She tries to escape through passion, but finds that she is still a woman i...

Examples of Feminist Criticism in Wharton and Chopin

was a woman who was independent, has affairs, leaves her husband, isnt interested in being the sole person responsible for the upb...

Edith Wharton's House of Mirth, Age of Innocence and Naturalism

This struggle is also seen in the character of Archer who is intrigued by her uniqueness. He is stifled by society and by the dema...

Ethan Frome: Tragic Hero

old families and the nouveau riche, who had made their fortunes in more recent years" (Books and Writers). For the most part this ...

Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage Examined

are happy to see him but he cannot bring himself to tell anyone that he ran. He simply says he got mixed up and ended up "over on ...

Life and Writings of Stephen Crane

experience" (Owl Eyes). However, he "is best known for The Red Badge of Courage(1895), a realistic look at the Civil War" though h...

The Red Badge of Courage Aspects

easy. She tells him "Watch out, and be a good boy," and he leaves. But he turns back at the gate to see her kneeling "among the po...

American Literature: Realism

one could present. In Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper her story, which is fictional, is actually based largely on her own experienc...

Marriage in the Work of Crane and James

in any manner. This story primarily offers one foundational marriage and that is the marriage of Maggies parents. It is really t...

Understanding Steinbeck's "Flight" in light of Crane's Naturalism

This essay relates the naturalist perspective of Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat" to understanding the themes in John Steinbeck's "...

"Open Boat," Free Will, Determinism

This essay pertains to the use of free will and determinism in Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat." Five pages in length, two sources ...

'War is Kind' and 'A Mystery of Heroism' by Stephen Crane

in any real noble cause, he quickly succumbs to the realities that surround him, the bullets and the danger. This man has taken i...

Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane and Henry Fleming

yeh cant" (Crane 5). In his innocence, however, he sees things differently: "His busy mind for him large pictures extravagant in c...

'Maggie A Girl From the Street' and 'Native Son'

This 8 page essay compares and contrasts Maggie in Stephen Crane's novel with Richard Wright's protagonist of Bigger. There are a...

Literary Naturalism of Author Stephen Crane

of the Streets and The Red Badge of Courage. In addition, he wrote a myriad of imposing poems, and ninety pieces of short fictio...

Stephen Crane's Open Boat from a Christian Perspective

An essay of 5 pages that considers the worldview of Christian writer James W. Sire. After defining the worldviews of Existentiali...

Author Stephen Crane and the Naturalist Literary Genre

(Naturalism in American Literature, 2002). In Donald Pizers text on Realism and Naturalism in Nineteenth-Century American F...

Character Analysis of Maggie A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane

In six pages this paper presents an analysis of the protagonist featured in Stephen Crane's Maggie A Girl of the Streets. There ...

Henry Fleming's Psychological Transformation in The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

This paper consists of nine pages and examines how protagonist Henry Fleming transforms psychologically throughout Stephen Crane's...

Literature and Social Conflict

In five pages this paper examines how social conflict is reflected in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Charlotte P...

Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage and Existentialism

In 12 pages the ways in which Crane's novel reflects the principles that would later become known as the philosophy existentialism...

Analysis of Stephen Crane's 'The Open Boat'

In five pages this paper presents a short story analysis of Stephen Crane's 'The Open Boat.' There are no other sources listed....

The Open Boat vs. The Snows of Kilimanjaro

injured while enjoying an African hunting adventure with his wife, Helen. The primary theme is death, and how man often puts off ...

William Faulkner, Stephen Crane, and Family Values

In 5 pages the young protagonists in Faulkner's 'Barn Burning' short story and Crane's Maggie A Girl on the Streets novel are con...

Edith Wharton, Charles Dickens, and Charlotte Bronte on Experience and Innocence

In 5 pages the themes of innocence and experience as they are depicted in these Victorian and post Victorian literary works The Ho...

Henry Fleming's Insignificance in Stephen Crane's Red Badge of Courage

In five pages this paper discusses how the setting emphasizes the protagonist's insignificance in this work by Stephen Crane. Ther...

The Red Badge of Courage, 'The Iliad,' Heroism and Heroes

In seven pages these works by Stephen Crane and Homer are examined within the context of the tragic hero and his combat motives. ...