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Character Study of Hamlet

This essay presents a discussion of Hamlet's character. The writer argues that Shakespeare's characterization of Hamlet focuses on...

Howard Hawks' His Girl Friday (1940)

This essay provides analysis of several aspects of this 1940 screwball comedy directed by Howard Hawks. The analysis focuses on as...

Chaucer's View of Religion, The Canterbury Tales

This essay pertains to the clergy members who are part of Chaucer's band of travelers in "The Canterbury Tales." The writer argues...

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

This essay describes how Austen uses characterization and irony in a manner that causes contemporary readers to identify with the ...

Running in Place by Pamela C. Joern

This essay offers analysis of Pamela C. Joern's short story "Running in Place." The writer focuses on Joern's skill in regards to ...

Character Studies: Dr. Faustus, Macbeth

This essay discusses the characterization of Christopher Marlowe's "Dr. Faustus" and William Shakespeare's "Macbeth," identifying ...

Alexie's "How to Write the Great American Indian Novel" - A Post-Colonial Criticism

In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at Alexie's "How to Write the Great American Indian Novel". The harmful American charact...

A Film Adaptation/Soldier's Home

adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway short story, directed by Robert Young and produced in 1997. The protagonist of this short film ...

Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

and achieve the goal of freedom. After Legree learns that Tom encouraged two of his slaves, Cassy and Emmeline to escape, he vows ...

Descriptive Language in Fiction

always been in Raleighs room, presumably, but he had never noticed it, hidden as it was behind a chest of drawers, until he was te...

Images of Ophelia

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Hamlet's Ophelia. Fine art depictions of the character from history are used to exp...

Much Ado About Nothing: The 'Comedy' of Scapegoats

This paper examines how scapegoats propel the comedy of William Shakespeare's play in the characterizations of Don John, Claudio, ...

Chekhov's The Duel, Nature and Atmosphere

This essay pertains the way in which Chekhov uses nature and atmosphere to underscore characterization in The Duel. Seven pages in...

King Arthur and Henry II, Comparing Two Films

such as Eleanor of Aquitaine ("History," 2012). Arthurs pride interferes with his sense of compassion when he sees Lancelot and ...

White Man's Burden, A Film Analysis

of racism. However, viewing John Travoltas portrayal of Louis Pinnock through the stereotype of the "brute Negro," that is the s...

Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life, Doc Hata

endeavor to keep the comfort women debate controversial by providing arguments that call into question whether or not the comfort ...

1964 Film Fail Safe and the Character of the President

man who feels he must do everything himself. He is seeking the advice of others, and balancing that advice with perhaps gut feelin...

Catalan Identity in 'Teta I La Luna'

very essence of what it means to be a human being. These representations illustrate how and why a person acts the way he or she d...

William Shakespeare's King Lear and the Representation of Edmund as a Power Opportunist

maximum benefit, and his practical reaction is immediate action (Cahn 146). As Victor L. Cahn noted in his consideration of Edmun...

Analyzing E.M. Forster from a Feminist and Marxist Perspective

someone who loves him or someone who can raise him well? Etiquette, social constructions, values, class and other elements intrude...

Comparing Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest

reigns supreme, The Tempest is more contemplative and probes the more sinister side of humankind. The mood, setting, and themes a...

The Hours by Michael Cunningham and Virginia Woolf's Character

why a person acts the way he or she does, how one attributes moods, feelings and emotions, the way in which one interacts with ano...

The Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe

a "filmy" eye, and in the narrators mind, it became an "evil" eye (Poe). The narrator, who is obviously mentally ill, decided he ...

Character of Jim and the Views of Mark Twain on Slavery in Huckleberry Finn

time and thus see the attitudes of Twain. First we see that Huck is very disturbed by the fact that Jim has runaway. Jim is truly ...

Comedies of Neil Simon

but Simons characterization that is the source of the humor. Similarly, in Barefoot in the Park, young newlyweds adjust to marri...

Good and Evil in Sula by Toni Morrison

Nel and Sula. Nel is light-skinned and lives in a tidy, respectable middle class home. Sula is deep brown and lives in a disrep...

'A and P' by John Updike and 'The Man Who Was Almost a Man' by Richard Wright Compared

aftah he done worked hard all day" (Wright 860). As the author wastes no time in revealing, Dave "is frustrated by social control...

Empire Records Cinematic Analysis

Music Town. With $9,000 of store receipts in his pocket, Lucas goes to Atlantic City in hopes of parlaying that into enough money...

Women in 'Wide Sargasso Sea' and 'Medea'

she has given up. She is dejected and withdrawn, lying on her bed despondent and weeping. This depiction highlights Medeas femin...

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen and Social Secession

of society with fewer rights than a woman was a child. Torvald would welcome his wife home from a shopping trip with condescendin...