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Essays 151 - 180

Episode Analysis of Buffy, the Vampire Slayer

up they are bent on stealing all of the voices of the townsfolk, then their hearts, in that order. Without voices the main charact...

Cinema and Rebellion

child who is the product of a failed system, this film seems to be saying. This film was a social commentary of sorts, which use...

Roger and Me by Michael Moore

Moores documentary follows this dictum and offers scathing social commentary, demonstrating the flaws in the capitalist system, wh...

The Use of an Affair as a Metaphor in Literature

the end get her into trouble with a loan shark. Eventually much of her and Charles property is confiscated. Her illicit affa...

Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Knight's Tale' and Its Pagan Setting

John Whyclif and John Hus, drew attention to the moral and spiritual failures of the Christian Church (Schildgen 121). While The...

English Literature of the 17th Century

In A Modest Proposal, also, he looks at the way in which dehumanisation results in a situation where the logical next step is one ...

Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Its Appeal

for the institution so melodramatically described"(Anonymous 1094). The storys popularity was such that, when introduced to Stowe...

Works of Dewey, Mill, Nozick, Rawls, Locke and Burke and the Influences of Education, Society, and Politics

(1757) were published when he was only in his mid to late twenties. In the same time period, he married an Irish Catholic woman na...

Political Theories' Synopsis

the time, which was that an absolute monarchy was not an adequate form of governance because it contained no means by which indivi...

Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist

of this, more than likely, was due to the influence of modern industrialized society and the move from rural to urban settings, bu...

Comparing Cervantes and Dante in Terms of Social Criticisms

time Dante wrote his Inferno. He implies that all have sinned in one way or another by his use of the generic we, so that the read...

Social Critic Charles Dickens in Oliver Twist

criticism of Victorian institutions as they dramatize the results of Britains Poor Law, which was passed in the early nineteenth c...

Analyzing Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

him. His long-suffering wife Linda bolsters Willy with her quiet strength. She allows him to groom sons Biff and Happy to excel ...

Comparative Analysis of Children's Novels Sachar's Holes and Baum's The Wizard of Oz

is also something of a loner, not being part of the popular set at his school. These themes with regard to the definition of a mai...

Henry VI, Part III by William Shakespeare and Jack Cade's Utopian Rebellion

In six pages this report considers Cade's desire for Utopia as it is reflected in William Shakespeare's political and social comme...

Aphra Behn's Love Poetry of the Renaissance

In five pages this paper analyzes the social commentary featured in allusions to the physical love between women symbolized in Aph...

Riding the Rap by Elmore Leonard

In five pages Leonard's examination of the criminal mind is considered within the context of the social commentary it reflects. T...

Children and Parents in British Society and Songs of Innocence by William Blake

In five pages this paper considers how children with parents and without are compared in the social commentary featured in this co...

Stagecoach (Film Review)

This short, one page review contains many insights. The fact that this film contains some social commentary should be noted. There...

Neurosis in 'The Awakening' by Kate Chopin, Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen and Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

In ten pages this research paper contrasts and compares the neuroses that characterizes the protagonists Edna, Hedda, and Emma in ...

U.S. Political Cartoons and Propaganda

In ten pages this report examines the use of propaganda in political cartoons in the United States in the name of commentary with ...

Social Condemnation in Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie

In five pages this paper discusses the savage social commentary featured in Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie. Five sources are...

Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier

In a paper consisting of 5 pages the ways in which the author employs mood and foreshadowing in the generation of suspense but als...

Victorian Literature and Women

In five pages this paper discusses how social commentary during the Victorian Age was expressed through female characterizations i...

Social Structure Discourse of The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

In six pages this paper examines The Time Machine as a form of social discourse in its futuristic commentary and functioning as an...

Luis Bunuel's Movies and the Uses of Violence

In ten pages this paper discusses how violence appears as social commentary and surrealism in director Luis Bunuel's movies L'Age ...

American Society and Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin

which seemed only willing to accept White Anglo-Saxon Protestants into its exclusive membership. The narrator of "Sonnys Blues" r...

Stanford Prison Experiment

In five pages this paper examines this 1970s' psychological experiment with group behavior commentary, 'The Lottery' by Shirley Ja...

A Review of Chrysanthemums by John Steinbeck

A 5 page essay detailing the interaction between husband and wife that preoccupies this novel. The wifes struggle to carve out he...

'The Chrysanthemums' by John Steinbeck and Symbolism

In 5 pages this paper discusses how Steinbeck employs symbolism in this short story with the earth covenant represented by the wif...