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Dark But Not Always Gothic Writings of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne

a nation of disillusionment, and we often find some sort of sympathetic resonance in tales of the dark and unholy. And the first p...

Joyce Carol Oates' Dark Writings

and families. Turners Rebellion was squelched before he ever reached Jerusalem, and after six weeks of hiding from the authorities...

Dark Future in the Science Fiction Novel Neuromancer by William Gibson

In nine pages this paper examines how technology can lead society into a dark dystopia in an analysis of William Gibson's Neuroman...

Cannibalism in Suddenly Last Summer by Tennessee Williams

In three pages this paper discusses Suddenly Last Summer in terms of the fantastic and metaphoric nature of cannibalism in this da...

Faust by Johann von Goethe and Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

In eight pages these German and Russian works are contrasted and compared regarding their depiction of life's 'dark side.' Six so...

England, Education and Alfred the Great

skills were more highly valued. In addition, literacy was regarded as being equated with political and economic power: it was ther...

Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Pardoner's Tale' and the Theme of Avarice

In a paper consisting of four pages the corruption that had penetrated all aspectes of life during the Dark Ages are reflected in ...

Strange Life and Literary Journey of Hunter S. Thompson

be permanently altered when Thompson ran afoul of the law (Medenhall, 2004). A series of arrest would eventually land him...

Romantic Era British Poets

a specific time or age. While romanticism will be prominent in certain epochs, because in its essential characteristics it is a sp...

Comparative Analysis of Sonnet 23 and Sonnet 147 by William Shakespeare

tongue slow to respond is more than fear, it is also rage (line 3). This rage is so intense that it weakens his heart, that is, hi...

Symbolism in 'A Wizard of Earthsea'

idea of Equilibrium and warned not to do anything until he knows what the effect of his action will be: "... you must not change ...

Police Profession and Subculture's Dark Side

entrenched police culture, call for fresh approaches to managing for ethics in police work. Gaines and Kappeler (2002) argue that...

Poetry of Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes During the Harlem Renaissance

are sticky and crusted, open sores, and other elements that suggest a physical representation of a dream. This makes the dream som...

Vitamin D Study, Article Analysis

This research paper offers an overview and summary of a study, conducted by Brand and colleagues in 2008, which explored the issue...

How Osteoporosis Affects the Elderly

This essay discusses osteoporosis - what it is, risks, and incidence. It does so in the context of a film entitled Fire in the Dar...

Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Light vs. Dark

1902 novel Heart of Darkness is widely acknowledge as a literary classic that provides considerable psychological insight into the...

Symbolism, Theme and Perspective in Two Poems

has grown deep like rivers" (line 4). Setting the line off by itself emphasizes its significance, as it ties the narrator directly...

"Time and J.R.R. Tolkien" by Marie Nelson

This essay is on Marie Nelson's article "Time and J.R.R. Tolkien's 'Riddles in the Dark.'" The writer relates Nelson's principal a...

Travel Poems by Frost and Stafford

Taken" and William Staffords "Traveling Through the Dark" are both poems about lifes journey and the choices that confront each in...

James Joyce's Araby, Counterparts, and The Dead

powerless to stop his thoughts about her. His growing physical tensions haunt him as he relives how the light plays on her hands. ...

Romeo and Juliet, a Play of Extremes

film. It tells us where we are and when; in the case of Shakespeares tragedy of young love, were in Verona, Italy, in the 1500s. T...

Gabriel's Embracing of Homosexuality in The Fur Queen

Background The Fur Queen is the basis on which Gabriel adapts to life and the gay world while dealing with the horrific exp...

A Comparative: John Ciardi and Alfred Noyes

a shared, antagonistic experience, and in the process radicalized poetry. This is attributed to Ciardi and di Prima, who brought w...

Two Critical Views of Shakespeare’s Comedies

from disarray to order; and marks a victory of "Us over Them" (Levin 14). He further argues that 20th century critics have tended ...

“Relinquish All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here”

the Dark Ages, 2005). Most of the learning that took place was dedicated to organizing knowledge about the past; there was no atte...

American Psycho/In Bruges

A 3 page essay that contrasts and compares American Psycho (2000, directed by Mary Harron) and In Bruges (2008, directed by Martin...

America's Ailing Healthcare as Depicted in Michael Moore's Documentary 'Sicko'

have reattached since he could not afford the cost of both. According to Rick, the hospital priced the reattachment of his middle...

DEATH POEMS AND "SONG OF A DARK GIRL"

who has lost her lover in the south. We can assume this came from a lynching (as evidenced by the reference to "Dixie," which lync...

Film Analysis/Kiss Me Deadly

(Ralph Meeker) swerves to avoid her and runs off the road. Angry, he snarls, "You almost wrecked my car. Well? Get in!" (Dirks, 20...

Wordsworth & Hardy/Perspectives on Nature

First and foremost, the Thrush is seen by this Romantic poet in heroic terms, as a male facing the storm of the public world in or...