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Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and Genetic Engineering

In three pages genetic engineering as they are represented in these two literary works are contrasted and compared in terms of the...

'Perspectives on the Individual' and Human Nature

among four children in his family. The father was an intelligent, religious man, a hard-working storekeeper and an important leade...

Animal Symbolism in Dante's 'Inferno' and William Shakespeare's King Lear

In 7 pages this paper examines what the animal symbolism represents in a comparative analysis of these two literary works. There ...

Tides of Revolution According to Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon and Georg Buchner's Danton's Death

In five pages these two literary works are used to consider the differences and similarities between the Bolshevik and French Revo...

Children of the River by Linda Crew and Roots by Alex Haley

he was sent to another culture and made a slave. With his plans and expectations already in place Kunta finds himself in Americ...

English Literature and Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

an employee of the Company who has become erratic, and bring him home. In so doing, Marlow has to face his own "heart of darkness"...

Epic of Gilgamesh, Inferno, and Human Values

the Inferno. "In Dantes Inferno, there is an Upper Hell and a Lower Hell. Upper Hell is the place for those guilty of excessive se...

Identities in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

as dark and as evil as could be imagined." This could perhaps be followed with a statement arguing that "this is exactly the case ...

William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, and Epiphanies

all of his lessons come into play and culminate to create a powerful epiphany. We note some of this in the following excerpt: "Spi...

Experiences of Chinese and Filipino Immigrants in the US

were sold for five dollars each to work in the fish canneries in Alaska, by a Visayan from the island of Leyre to an Ilocano from ...

Jean de la Fontaine's Fables

outward recognition. Why do Fontaines epic fable poems work? Primarily, one could state that they work because they embody unive...

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...

Examples of Victorian and English Literary Terms

(Arnold 2062). Expressionism : A movement that affected both painting and literature that attempted to exceed impressionism in "...

Women's Roles in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and Bram Stoker's Dracula

contended to be a reflection of the culture in which he was purported by Bram Stoker as existing, so too are the women presented i...

Macabre Themes in the Works of Robert Frost

of his mind and spirit working in tandem to overcome natures obstacles as well as the more primitive creatures on the Earth. Frost...

Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, Possessions and Property

to the devastating events of WWI and they are constantly searching for something. With their characters we find their attachment t...

Works of Literature and Race

with open galleries and porticoes. Bottles of milk were grouped on the steps, and occasionally light flickered from the kitchens w...

Epic Hero Transformation in Greek Literature

In six pages this paper examines the transformation of the epic hero in ancient Greek literary works such as Euripides' Medea, Sop...

Analyzing John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and The Pearl

In five pages these stories are analyzed in terms of their similarities and differences and literary elements such as themes, char...

Comparative Literary Analysis of William Faulkner's Modernism and Toni Morrison's Postmodernism

(without excluding the importance of the past), where everything is not spelled out neatly for the reader. The reader must interp...

Society's Treatment of Women in Literature in an Analysis of Female Characters Daisy, Harriet, and Lucie

This essay consists of eleven pages and examines society's treatment of women in the female characterizations featured in the lite...

Inland Passage by Jane Rule and Araby by James Joyce

In five pages this essay considers the journey of the soul in a comparative analysis of these literary works. Two sources are lis...

Two Types of Western Irony in the Works of Joseph Conrad and Jonathan Swift

In twenty pages this paper discusses two types of Western literary irony and how each is represented in the works of Jonathan Swif...

Magic In Sir Gawain And The Green Knight and A Midsummer's Night Dream

This paper examines these two classic literary works in relation to the significance of magic in each. This five page paper has no...

Dramatic Tragedy and How It Has Evolved

did not attract the attention of the gods. This was still true in Shakespeares time. The few commoners he included were never cen...

Homer's 'The Odyssey' and William Shakespeare's Hamlet

and the tales of this one mans adventure. The man is Odysseus and his adventures are legendary. He is not a man searching for the ...

Tragic Heroes King Oedipus and King Lear

In five pages Aristotle's definition of a tragic hero is applied to these two literary monarchs. One source is cited in the bibli...

Questing in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and D.H. Lawrence's The Virgin and the Gipsy

In five pages this paper analyzes how these two literary works portray the notion of 'the quest.' There are no other sources list...

Utopias in Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

In six pages this paper examines how utopia ultimately led to dystopia in a comparative consideration of these two literary works....

Romantic and Gothic Themes in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

This paper discusses Shelley's novel as it fits into two separate literary styles of the nineteenth century, Gothic and Romanticis...