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Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Fall of the House of Usher' and Themes of Terror and Evil

nothing of pleasantry or peace. The windows seem as though they are "vacant," and "eye-like" and the narrator continues in this ...

Literary Analysis of Amy Tan's 'Two Kinds'

reader watches as a mother tries desperately to give her daughter all the advantages that she never had, reliving, to some extent,...

The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway and the 'Failed Artist'

to salvage their relationship. When a scratch on his leg goes untreated with iodine, it becomes gangrenous, and as he lay dying, ...

Archetypal Analysis of 'Leaves' by John Updike

it is nurtured and kept in the right place, it is golden. When it is kept in the shadows, it turns brown and falls to the ground. ...

Religious Concepts in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In four pages this paper examines how Hester Prynne's and Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale's daughter Pearl reflects the religious notion of...

'The Bridegroom' by Ha Jin

concerned for the welfare of his rather homely adopted daughter, Beina. First of all, Jin makes it clear that women within Chinese...

Narrator's Voice in 'In Broad Daylight' by Ha Jin and 'Good Climate, Friendly Inhabitants' by Nadine Gordimer

readily admits that: "On the whole theyre not a bad lot of natives; though you get a cheeky bastard now and then" (21). She is als...

Flannery O'Connor's 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' and Its Literary Deconstruction

son and shoots her repeatedly. Mama is the important character in the story, though the Misfit certainly plays a strong secondary...

Aging in 'Minuet' by Guy de Maupassant

his poor little puppet-like body" to be rather pathetic and ridiculous. Nevertheless, he is intrigued and he becomes "wildly anxio...

Hester's Thoughts About Her Sin in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

doesnt blame nor does she come to resent either her husband or the reverend, but instead she reveals an extraordinary amount of co...

Two by Poe: “The Black Cat” and “The Tell-Tale Heart”

fact. In "The Black Cat," the narrator tells readers that he was "docile" and "tender of heart" as a youth, and that he retained t...

Alifa Rifaat's "Another Evening At The Club"

long as he can maintain he position of self-imposed eminence. Because Samia cannot remember where she left her very valuable ring...

Conflict in Willa Cather’s Short Story ‘The Sculptor’s Funeral’

(Cather 68). It became readily apparent that these local men were there more out of a sense of civic duty than out of any love fo...

Romanticism's Dark Side and French Poet Charles Baudelaire

In five pages this research paper explores how Baudelaire unlike his Romantic contemporaries Shelley, Wordsworth, and Keats probed...

Realism and Romanticism in Facunto and Amalia

This paper contrasts and compares D.F. Sarmiento's Facunto and Jose Marmol's Amalia in eight pages from the critical perspectives ...

Conflict and Emotion in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

This five page paper addresses the themes of conflict and emotion experienced by Hawthorne's characters in The Scarlet Letter. The...

The Scarlet Letter versus Mao II by Don DeLillo vs. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In five pages this paper compares DeLillo's and Hawthorne's works in terms of social acceptance and isolation. There are 3 source...

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...

William Blake and Isaac Newton

In eleven pages the transition from Romanticism into contemporary Realism is analyzed in a comparison of the similarities and diff...

Neoclassicism vs. Romanticism, Rasselas vs. Frankenstein

Rasselas by Samuel Johnson and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley offer a study in Neoclassicism and Romanticism, respectively. This pap...

Puritan Values Rejected by Nathaniel Hawthorne in The House of the Seven Gables and The Scarlet Letter

In seven pages this paper examines how Hawthorne's first 2 novels represents his rejection of New England Puritan values. Twelve ...

'The Tables Turned' by William Wordsworth and Romanticism

fact that the universe makes perfect sense if only one views it from the proper angle (McLynn PG). Basically, it is the language ...

Romanticism in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins

argued that poetry is the expression of ones very soul, encompassing many emotions, feelings and desires that can range from one e...

Intellect and Emotion in Hawthorne's 'The Scarlet Letter'

This paper addresses religious rationalism versus romantic passion in Nathanial Hawthorne's nineteenth century novel. This five p...

Chinua Achebe/Dead Men's Path

"Dead Mens Path." It seems at first glance to be a very straightforward tale. However, as one critic points out, "In the post-Fouc...

A Compendium of Four Essays on Religion

and some of the verses were sung. It was explained to me later that the members of the congregation that perform this part of the ...

Faulkner's Rose for Emily/Time Imagery

the narrator another instance where the town was concerned about Miss Emily and her home, which was over a smell, an awful smell o...

Poe and The Masque of the Red Death

decline, from onset to death, takes but "half an hour" (Poe). In the face of this overwhelming specter of death, Prince Prospero i...

Poe’s Tell-Tale Heart

he so closely identifies with him, which is precisely Poes point-the narrators is not normal, but is quite insane. The point of ...

Sad Stories of Love: Tristan and His Parents

one last time. As this indicates, the love of Tristans parents is similar in intensity to that of Tristan and Isolde. As with the ...