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'Oryx and Crake' by Margaret Atwood

as the world is filled with poison and chaos and destruction. They meet Oryx at a time when they are perhaps struggling to find so...

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and the Character Mrs. Joe

became blindly furious by regular stages" (Dickens 120). In other words, her behavior reflects o real emotion at all. Similarly, P...

Pessimism of Macbeth by William Shakespeare

King Duncan naming his loyal lieutenant Macbeth Thane of Cawdor in recognition for his faithful service. But a fateful meeting wi...

Waiting for Lefty

have "been kicked around so long were black and blue from head to toes" (Odets 7). But, he offers the point that if anyone strikes...

August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone and the Character of Herald Loomis

wrong with him. Seth states, "I dont like the way he stare at everybody. Dont look at you natural like" (Wilson 232). The fact t...

Janie in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

provide Janie with financial security. Many women, less independent than Janie, would suffer and endure. Janie leaves with another...

Caliban, Political Powers, and The Tempest by William Shakespeare

political systems: Antonio represents what we might call the "real" government in Milan and Prospero represents a "state of nature...

Character Development in Marlinski's Ammalat Bek

described as handsome with eyes that "glittered with a proud courtesy" (Marlinski Chapter I). Everything about him was quite ornat...

Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and the Character Algernon

dandy was a man who may well have lived off of others, being a freeloader, an individual intrigued by the arts and by living out f...

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and the Character Norman Bowker

old man talks about, nothing else. How he cant wait to see my goddamn medals" (OBrien, 1998; 36). In this the reader...

Feminism and the Stargate Television Series

While Carter is rescued by the rest of SG-1, Nya is caught trying to elope and her father sentences her to death by stoning as pun...

Willa Cather's 'Paul's Case'

down, pistol in hand, and he had cried out in time to save himself, and his father had been horrified to think how nearly he had k...

Catharina in 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' by Tracy Chevalier

tempered (Teenink). She also seemingly has an apparent lack of feeling for art (Hurley). But, Catharina is obviously wary of Griet...

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and Pecola

life of the white people in society. Morrison often uses excerpts, that gradually become very distorted and run together in lines,...

Innocence in The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

of whom he believes himself to be, as well as his psychological coping mechanisms in surviving the war. Cross, by choosing to ca...

Analyzing the Walk in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

the Introduction of "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" Seamus Deane presents the idea that the walk is one of the novels m...

Cultural Values in History

the end of the Gita, Arjuna says "The delusion is gone...by your grace I have recovered my wits. Here I stand with no more doubts....

Examining Yet Do I Marvel By Countee Cullen

third lines go together; here the poet wants to know why Tantalus is "baited by the fickle fruit." For those who dont know Greek m...

Homer's World, Similarities and Difference with Present Day

This essay pertains to "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" by Homer, the ancient Greek poet and the worldview and cultural values that a...

Tom Franklin's "Grit"

story "Grit" portrays the intense conflict that arises between Glen, the manager of the Black Beauty Minerals Plant located in Mob...

"Coming, Aphrodite!" by Willa Cather

This essay offers analysis of "Coming, Aphrodite!" by Willa Cather, focusing on how each of the major characters define and percei...

Shakespeare and Homer - Examining Patriarchal Content

and marginalized in both classical and modern literature, one must first understand how the prevailing viewpoint of women as funda...

"To Build a Fire" by Jack London and the Use of Setting as an Antagonist

chill in the air (London 143). But his canine companion knew better. He was all-too-familiar with this icy terrain, and his inst...

Homer's Odyssey and Hospitality

This essay focuses on the role that hospitality plays in Homer's The Odyssey. Three pages in length, no other sources are cited. ...

Analysis of Harry in Hemingway’s The Snows of Kilimanjaro

really did what he wanted to do. As one critic notes, he is "a disillusioned writer" (Arthur). But, in reality he is far more than...

"O Brother Where Art Thou?"

The film follows the three hapless goofballs as they come across the sirens (three gorgeous women washing clothes in a river); alm...

Brooklyn's Lower Class as Depicted in Selby's Last Exit to Brooklyn

This 6 page paper provides quotes and an analysis of three characters in this thesis paper that focuses on social stratification. ...

Frederick Henry in Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms

pictured offering ironic commentaries on sculpture and art, with his conversation peppered with "allusions to Samuel Johnson, Sain...

Frank: John Updike’s “The Rumor”

he likes the fact that his wife is confused and thinking he is a homosexual. Frank takes advantage of her confusion and...

Hospitality in Homer’s The Odyssey

home, as though they own everything. One would perhaps expect Penelope, or Telemachus (the man of the house so to speak), to ins...