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Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Substance Abuse

In five pages this paper examines jimson weed indulgence and lotus eating in this consideration of how substance abuse is represen...

Social Perspectives on The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

they have somehow missed the spiritual dimension which they purport to seek, and have been sidetracked instead into seeing materia...

Leggatt and Captain in Joseph Conrad's The Secret Sharer

Although "The Secret Sharer" was not written until 1909, some thirteen years after his last sea voyage, it is considered one of Co...

Greco Roman Literary Works and Heroism

slave, and ironically enough, he is enslaved by the prophesy. "People of Thebes, my countrymen, look on Oedipus. He solved the fam...

Mary Shelley's Dr. Victor Frankenstein, Joseph Conrad's Kurtz and Human Personality

In five pages this paper applies the human personality theories of Sigmund Freud to an analysis of these two classic literary char...

Analyzing Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison

In fact, Bastard Out of Carolina is very much the story of her own life (Dorothy Allison Talks About Working Class Guilt). Allis...

Double Lives in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations

illustrating how misery is a product of human actions. This book can be said to have more dark overtones than those of some of h...

Classical Literature and Common Theme of Perseverance in Overcoming Obstacles

fire, his roar is the roar/of the floodwater; he breathes and there is death (lines 128-129). Gilgamesh perseveres despite the ad...

Comparing Margaret Atwood Novels Alias Grace and The Handmaid's Tale

that there is always a tidy or satisfactory resolution to the womens dilemmas. In fact, in the case of the intentionally ambiguou...

Moby Dick by Herman Melville and Ahab's Character

the whales as evil, or the one particular whale as evil, has infiltrated the beliefs of the men on board as well: "The whalemen be...

Yossarian in Joseph Heller's Catch 22

in a most hideous way, Yossarian pleads with Doc Daneeka to ground him on the basis of insanity. Doc Daneeka replies that Yossaria...

The Diviners and Women's Role

born on July 18, 1926 and died on January 5, 1987 (Margaret Laurence). Laurence was married in 1947 and then moved to London with...

Overview of 'The Cask of Amontillado' by Edgar Allan Poe

when they enter it. Fortunato has a bad cough and so, on their way to the wine cellar, Montressor keeps giving Fortunato more wine...

An Analysis of The Monster in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

young woman chafe, to say the least, and would cause a great deal of social alienation should she ever seek to breach the social c...

Love of Othello Used by Iago

from the beginning of the play, leaving no doubt that Iago is a conniving and deceitful individual (Anonymous Iago the Liar Othell...

Moment of Truth in 'The Temple of the Holy Ghost' by Flannery O'Connor

It took place in the south, as did most of OConnors stories, and showed the ignorance of southern whites by using a certain predil...

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia by Samuel Johnson and Obsession

the individuals lot in life. On their journey there are numerous arguments for the adoption for rejection of the different...

Confessions of Felix Krull by Thomas Mann

In four pages this paper presents a character analysis of the protagonist in this work by Thomas Mann. There are no other sources...

Beloved by Toni Morrison and Sixo

In five pages this character analysis of Sixo assesses how valid the Dysaesthesia Aethiopica was for wayward slaves in 1851. Two...

Mrs. Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

In six pages a character analysis of Linda Loman is presented as it relates to her own self control and the way in which she contr...

Classical Literature and Women

In eight pages the idealization of women and the restrictions placed upon them as reflected in Aristophanes' Lysistrata, Antigone ...

Lao She's Rickshaw

Rickshaw by Lao She is the focus of this analysis of primary characters in five pages. Three sources are cited in the bibliograph...

Society, Man and Destiny

In ten pages this paper evaluates the extent of man's power over his fate within the literary contexts of 'Epic of Gilgamesh,' 'Th...

Ophelia in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

In five pages this paper offers a character analysis of Ophelia in terms of the identity crisis she suffered due to the various me...

Huckleberry Finn Critically Analyzed

began disappearing from school library bookshelves, denying students the right to draw their own conclusions. The Adventures of H...

A Review of Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

A 6 page analysis of the societal message being presented in this work. Plot and characters are outlined and the emphasis that th...

Dante's 'Inferno' and Allocating Characters to the Relevant Circles

Iin this paper that consists of 5 pages the appropriate punishments for characters from four major literary works contained within...

Lydia McQueen in Wilma Dykeman's The Tall Woman

to build a school for her own children., as well as the other children in the community. (He has) "The power of a rock. But, th...

Comparative Analysis of William Shakespeare's Hamlet and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

In five pages this character analysis compares Hamlet to Nick Carraway and Claudius to Tom Buchanan with themes also compared. Th...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and the Character of Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale

In eight pages this paper presents a character analysis of Rev. Dimmesdale in a focus of the adultery theme in Hawthorne's novel. ...