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Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North, Toni Morrison's Beloved and Ghosts

Set just after the civil war Sethe is a runaway slave who had once killed her infant daughter so that she would not grow up in the...

Arrogance and Oedipus Rex

In eight pages this paper argues that the King is victimized by his own arrogance in a consideration of how the theme of hubris or...

Literature and Free Will v. Fate

In 5 pages this paper examines this thematic conflict as it is represented in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, Macbeth by William S...

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...

Social, Language, and Cognitive Developmental Factors Influencing Cognitive development, Language development, and Social development: Observations from the Classroom and the Literature

In eight pages the latest research literature and classroom observations pertaining to the factors that influence social, language...

Alienation and Roots in Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street

In 5 pages this thematic analysis considers how in The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros depicts alienation and roots. Four s...

Comparative Analysis of 'Aeneid' by Virgil and 'The Odyssey' by Homer

In six pages this paper compares these two classical works in terms of plot, characterization, setting, thematic portrayals of war...

James Joyce's Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man and Homoeroticism

In five pages Joyce's novel is examined in terms of its thematic representation of homosexuality and homoeroticism. Two other sou...

American Dream in John Steinbeck's Tortilla Flat

"Tortilla Flat" set in Monterey, California tells of a tale of several wanderers who end up staying at the homes of Danny which we...

Themes in Henry James' Daisy Miller

in the dark foreshadowing of Daisys ruin in the shadowed cavernous scene of the Colosseum" (Anonymous List of Major Themes themes....

Characters by Henrik Ibsen and Fydor Dostoevsky and Self Deception

but she doesnt seem to realize it. One of the very first scenes between them the reader realizes that he is going to be a dominee...

Major Themes of William Shakespeare's Macbeth Analyzed

one day become king of Scotland is music to the warriors ears. He is a respected figure in his homeland, but he (and his ever-per...

Caring in Lillian Smith's Strange Fruit

care, only tolerate: "She stood at the gate, waiting; behind her the swamp, in front of her Colored town, beyond it, all Maxwell. ...

Suzanne Vega's Poem 'Playing'

their ultimate dream. And, the reference to the show indicates an imaginative perspective of life in general. There is an imaginat...

Coming of Age and Maturity in J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye and Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

as well, "Maya is permanently puzzled by the adult world. Her grandmother is extremely religious and strict, the children should b...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs and its Themes

at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price o...

Determinism v. Free Will, Good v. Evil in Zadig L'Ingenu by Voltaire

notion of good and evil within Zadigs character, one finds that the human condition is a regular consideration, insofar as humanit...

Change in Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire

that lizard, however, he was integrally bound to the desert environment and was much more complex that that solitary image might l...

Evil Element in the Works of Thomas Hardy and William Golding

the Flies, the book that centers on how a group of boys behaves when they are marooned on an island after their plane crashes. As ...

'William at the Beach, Age 7' by William Stafford

know that William Stafford is a poet from Americas heartland. In fact, he may be, according to Heldrich (2002), "Kansass most famo...

'Arms and the Boy' by Wilfred Owen

"Since a boy is not armed by nature, society must provide him with man-made weapons" (Hibberd, 1986, p. 143). Furthermore, accordi...

Anchee Min's Red Azalea Analyzed

It takes courage to confront these aspects of ourselves just as we see in the Red Azalea. Essentially, what we see in this novel ...

'Parliament of Fowles' by Geoffrey Chaucer

not procreate indiscriminately but should rather follow Natures example and wait until circumstances are optimal in order to add t...

Supernatural Subtleties in The Shining by Stephen King and Beloved by Toni Morrison

In six pages this report examines the thematic subtleties of the supernatural in these two great works of American fiction. Five ...

Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use'

In five pages Walker's short story is analyzed in a focus on quilt symbolism but with a thematic and story synopsis also included....

Graveyard Scene in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

to sum up what has taken place up until now. In addition, we are given a look at perhaps the ridiculousness of the situation in on...

Individuals Dying for Their Religions

sure, this mission has made for significant intrigue. When one looks into the death of Becket, one will quickly realize that the ...

Concepts of Restraint and Freedom in Utopia by Thomas More

the society of sixteenth-century England. For example, the Utopian cities are all built on similar lines, at least as far as possi...

'Dr. Heidegger's Experiment' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Each character in the story has their own agenda. Medbourne was once successful but had lost his money and Killigrew had given in ...

Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons

precision of mathematics and the natural sciences to answer questions. Indeed, the members of this philosophical movement simply ...