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Joan Aiken's Children's Story The Wolves of Willoughby Chase

so unmanageably cruel to go so far as to sell the girls toys, which marks only the beginning of the unconscionable way in which th...

Heroes and Heroines in the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway

gained on the Italian front. Although Hemingway delicately avoids telling us precisely where the wound is, we know it is around hi...

Multicultural Writing and Exile

In seven pages th is paper discusses how exile is thematically developed in such multicultural writings as Goodbyes by Pablo Nerud...

Symbolism and Henrik Ibsen

Rosmer, haunts them. Both characters, as noted, feel they are the cause of the suicide of Mrs. Rosmer and by the end of the story...

Two Science Fiction Story Characterizations

stars for me, weaponed me to make my way in the world...Did I slay him, what horror would come upon me and mine?" (Anderson 305). ...

Virgin Mary's Visions and Significance

image they could understand and comprehend. They would envision her in clothing they comprehended and related to, images of heaven...

Influences on Henry James' Portrait of a Lady

grown up in Europe and America he was a man with a wealth of information which he could write about in relationship to people and ...

Duke Ellington

icon and hero for African Americans for he was a very classy and intelligent man, but also clearly a man of his people despite his...

Literature and Culture in Flannery O'Connor, Anton Chekhov, and Amy Tan

her white friends would agree with her that she was about as Chinese as they were, indicating she really possessed little of that ...

Berceo's Poem about Mary, Miracles of Our Lady

The writer examines the 13th century poem Milagros de Nuestra Senora (Miracles of Our Lady). The writer describes it as a series o...

Setting & Scenery in 5 Films

a thicket of vines. This is a slow tracking show that is designed to five the audience the impression that they are seeing the poi...

Last Samurai & Breakfast at Tiffany's

pain and trying to find herself as she divorces herself mentally from her poor beginnings when she was married at fifteen to a hor...

Archetypes, Pride and Prejudice

This essay presents a discussion of the characters in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen from the standpoint of viewing them as ar...

Themes in The Picture of Dorian Gray

This 4 page paper gives an overview of the story The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. This paper includes a discussion of ho...

Short Story by John Cheever

This 3 page paper gives an overview of the short story called The Country Husband. This paper includes issues of trying to escape ...

American Education, Three Representations

This essay presents an overview of Donald Barthelme's "The School," Zitkala-Sa's "The School Days of an Indian Girl," and Toni Mor...

Talking to the Counselor

he also gave them flaws so that they would be even more interesting. This paper considers three of his troubled women, Lady Macbet...

Rampo's fiction and Ero-Guro-Nansensu

movement in Japan, which became prominent in the 1920s focused on the "prewar, bourgeois cultural phenomenon that devoted itself t...

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

cry and Nina apologizes, but Olive "shook her head," indicating that she need not apologize and, after getting control of herself,...

Borowski and Wiesel/Surviving Auschwitz

it has been emptied of people. In the corners "amid human excrement...lie squashed trampled infants, naked little monsters with en...

Duncan and the Macbeths

are two of Shakespeares most memorable characters, but they change over the course of the play. This paper considers their charact...

Macbeth by William Shakespeare: Masking Characters Intentions in Act III

from them - / As upon thee, Macbeth, their speeches shine -- / Why, by the verities on thee made good, / May they not be my oracle...

Disorder and the Chain of Being in Shakespeare's "Macbeth"

and "too full of... kindness" (I.ii.77, I.v.18). Once Macbeth steps outside the bonds of the social order by killing Duncan, howev...

Meaning and Literature

The stories being examined, by Chekhov and Mansfield, are clearly two stories that truly delve into the inner being of an individu...

The First Lady by Carl Weber

section of the work is intriguing in that it is narrated by a different individual, by the women involved for the most part. In th...

The Ambition of Lady Macbeth

ignore Lady Macbeths continual rants and her role in all of it. Just as the man who is "henpecked" claims that his wife drives him...

Life in the Heian Court

seems to be excited, worried and self-conscious at the same time. And religion plays a huge part in the scene. The Queen is very u...

The Evil of Ambition

in the Aristotelian sense of the word: it shows us a great man doomed by a tragic flaw, in this case ambition. This paper discusse...

Mahler and the Burning Bronx

hes a scrappy second baseman just traded to the Yankees from the Oakland Oaks. He asks the managers incessant questions and yells ...

Modern Women and Lessons Learned from Lady Macbeth

under his own roof. One of the oldest of all human social laws is that a person cannot harm his guest. Its never been written down...