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reason in this day and age that people should be condemned to a life of poverty when they display even a modicum of desire to surv...

In five pages this paper examines how the author intertwines aristocratic and impoverished people in 'Pere Goriot.' There are no ...

reminiscent of real people experiencing real social pain and suffering, in spite of the fact that Mathilde chose to wallow in what...

no father to pay a dowry, few choices were available to her. Juana could be the wife of a poor man, the mistress of a rich man, or...

In six pages this paper presents a feminist critical analysis of this famous 19th century short story. Two sources are cited in t...

In five pages this Portuguese poem of the 16th century is examined in terms of the expression of dogmatism and nationalism by the ...

in certain ways it is a lot more difficult. Equality, he saw, was the key to the democratic enterprise. To de Tocqueville, the ide...

discover hidden truth in the world, he can aim to create his own different world in whatever terms he wishes through the medium of...

semblance of order and productivity. He did not resign himself to mingling among his fellow Europeans in this vast new world, ins...

In three pages this essay considers the 1833 novel by Balzac in an overview of plot that also includes a discussion of the protago...

go to composition or content. Just as some artists today are embraced while others struggle, this has always been the case. Not al...

heroes had a faithful sidekick. Through the inspired use of satire, Cervantes creates a character that reveals the ridiculousness...

meant to be - mixing with society people and being decorated with fine jewelry. However, she ends up losing the necklace...

to surface and Johann Bernoulli convinced Euler to pursue mathematics full time. As a mathematician, Euler published over 866 book...

superior to the beasts, in fact, quite the contrary" (Michel Eyguem de Montaigne (1533-1592)). In this we see that Montaigne wa...

second of course has the flame smoking and Mary just beginning to show the signs of pregnancy. The third has Mary obviously pregna...

realistically with the rise of Fascism in Italy, as well as with the war itself and with the social problems that it left behind"....

This is actually a very interesting perspective and one which definitely lends an air of authenticity to the arguments of the auth...

is considered a step in the right direction for women of the era who were trapped in unhealthy and unequal marriages. Regardless o...

Harvard. In this text, Royce combines romance and storytelling with an historical subtext that denounces, rather than romanticize...

of women in medieval society, De Pizan wrote two of her most significant works, The Book of the City of Ladies and The Book of the...

this political cruelty that is shown nearly crushing his characters in every novel has the danger of becoming common place, and th...

the time when the Christian movement was beginning to gain headway in England. Most of the rural areas were still pagan believing ...

service...sweep so evil a breed from off the face of the earth" (Cervantes). One of his next foes is a flock of sheep. Don Quixot...

faced with the problem of having to decide who has control over this surplus and this provides the seeds of class struggle. Mark ...

we have a man who is essentially being tossed with the tides. He is not nearly as determined or as confident as Odysseus. This is ...

In five pages the relationships between Panurge and Pantagruel and Sancho Panza and Don Quixote are compared. There are no other ...

the end of her days, the Princess abided by societal expectations. For example, when the young heroine first comes to the court,...

Lights.html). Bearing these realities in mind we find that the final scene presents us with something of the uselessness of Max...

they must do the unthinkable, or they find themselves blindly doing something which would seem impossible to them prior to the war...