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John Ford's Films and Christian Allegory

individuals who had come before him. At the crux of the journey is the fact that the main character risks his life for his religio...

Black Filmmakers and the 'Burden of Representation'

Lees "Mo Better Blues", and Julie Dashs "Daughters of the Dust". The trend continued in 1991 with the release of twelve black dire...

Heaven and Hell in Paradise Lost by John Milton

enough to disgust one with Paradise" (Boesky, 1996, p. 9). Miltons Heaven is a military state that is predicated on a disciplinary...

Divine Justice and Fate Reflected in The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio and Inferno by Dante Alighieri

poem makes it clear that the human soul can only enjoy a happy eternity by pledging complete faith and allegiance in God, Boccacci...

Money in 'The Lame Shall Enter First' by Flannery O'Connor and 'The Rocking Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence

Paul one day, "why dont we keep a car of our own? Why do we always use uncles, or else a taxi?" "Because were the poor members of...

Responsibility and Fate According to Greek Perceptions

homes and taking wine, run into the mountains. Two men, the aged prophet Teiresias and King Cadmus, the older monarch who abdicate...

Brave New World Philosophical Analysis

when they heard the ringing of the bells, for they would associate this with being fed. In Brave New World, behaviorism takes the...

Edith Wharton's 'His Father's Son' and Point of View

third person (not a character in the story)" (Peterson elements.html). From this basic understanding of the element of point of...

Guernica Painting by Pablo Picasso

images to such effect that the original image is hard to see. There are many pictures painted in the 1930s and 40s which were pain...

Ninteenth Century Women in Anton Chekhov's 'The Lady With the Dog' and Kate Chopin's 'The Story of an Hour'

by curiosity, I wanted something better" (Chekhov). However, the better life that she imagined did not materialize with her marria...

Apocalyptic Representation Supporting Authoritarianism in Science Fiction Movies

What often happens though is that there is evidence in some films that the authoritarianism is a positive influence. This is ofte...

U.S. Political Representation

of liberty" (Shanker PG). It was imperative to the signers of the Constitution that everyone becomes involved with the political ...

Fatherhood in Master Harold . . . and the Boys by Athol Fugard

In a paper consisting of five pages the representation of fatherhood in the play by the South African playwright focuses upon a co...

'My Son's Story' by Nadine Gordimer

In four pages this paper analyzes the work in its representation of the society and politics of South Africa and also considers th...

Theme of Vengeance The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende and Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

In seven pages the thematic representation of violence in these literary works is contrasted and compared. There is 1 source cite...

Society in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

The representation of society in the text is the focus of this overview consisting of five pages. There is no bibliography includ...

India's Temple and the Union of Opposites in A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

In five pages 'Temple,' the final portion of Forster's novel, is examined in a comparison of the author's representation of Britis...

External Objects, Human Perception and the 'Representationalism' of John Locke

In six pages this research paper considers An Essay Concerning Human Understanding in an analysis of Locke's representation of how...

Government Representation According to John Stuart Mill and Jean Jacques Rousseau

In four pages this research paper compares the views of representation featured in Considerations on Representative Government by ...

Gender and Violence in Trifles by Susan Glaspell and Before Breakfast by Eugene O'Neill

In seven pages these plays are compared and contrasted in terms of representation of gender and violence. There are no other sour...

Socrates and the Unjust's Plight in Gorgias by Plato

In six pages this paper considers Plato's text in its representation of the evil and unhappiness of the 'unjust' according to Socr...

The Differences Between Art for Life's Sake and for Art's Sake

In seven pages this essay considers differences between art simply for the sake of art and as a representation of life and discuss...

Poetry, Recreation, Cinema, and Ethnicity

In five pages social and cultural ethnic representations in a Johnson short story, Divakaruni and Clifton poetic themes are discus...

Modernism Expressed in 'The Great Gatsby'

Passages from F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel are featured in this paper consisting of 5 pages that reveals the destructive as...

The Mask by Fumiko Enchi, Turn of the Screw by Henry James, and Gender

Enchis The Mask. The governesss crisis, as I read it, arises in her struggle to define herself (as we all must) in terms of the ga...

The American Dream in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

on The Great Gatsby, "As Puritan values gave way to an unrestrained craving for money, power, and other forms of gratification, th...

Isolation and Sin in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In three pages this essay analyzes the novel in terms of its representation of such themes as isolation, rebellion, and sin. Ther...

Russia and Democracy

status (Hollander). Nevertheless, when the Soviet Union disintegrated, there were immediate moves to plunge into the new form of ...

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by Shirer

In fifteen pages Shirer's text is critiqued in terms of the way in which the author uses his own personal experiences along with v...

True History of Latin America and the Obstacle of Eurocentricism

In four pages the Americas of the preColombian era are examined in terms of the bias of historical representation as a result of a...