Essays 541 - 570
Carter's 1979 short story is the focus of this report consisting of five pages in which marriage as a social institutuion is criti...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares how Poe develops these themes in his short stories 'Fall of the House of Usher' an...
In five pages the flood and creation tales are among the similarities discussed in a consideration of these three great works of l...
speaks of a person who is able to adjust to different cultures, or the culture of humans, and also exist as a multilingual being. ...
o th child: / The silence often of pure innocence / Persuades when speaking fails" (II.ii.48-52). Paulina believes that gazing at...
the most righteous and honorable. Their vanity ran deep: "The neighbouring towns were jealous of this honourable supremacy, and af...
In six pages this paper contrasts and compares the dark and festive comedies of William Shakespeare and includes considerations of...
In five pages the lasting influence of fairy tales upon attitudes are examined within the context of Writing and Reading Across th...
In five pages this paper discusses irony and lack of vision in such works as The Canterbury Tales, The Decameron, Lysistrata, and ...
In seven pages this paper examines how women are depicted as stereotypes in The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood and As I Lay Dy...
The feminist rewriting of fairytales as reflected in this short story by Angela Carter is considered in a paper consisting of five...
In six pages this paper compares Seamus Heaney's and Lucien Dean Pearson's translations of the Medieval epic tale. There are thre...
In five pages this research paper examines the 1704 text The Tale of a Tub, a religious satire by Jonathan Swift. Four sources ar...
In five pages this paper considers the importance of human emotions in Bronte's 'Wuthering Heights' and Shakespeare's 'The Winter'...
A 5 page overview the fictional tale of the Vietnam War by James Webb. The young protaganist is a Marine hero. 1 source....
In four pages this report considers the universal truths that lead to Faustus's tragedy and Marlowe's objectives in this tale. Th...
In a comparative analysis of five pages John Updike retells Joyce's classic tale in a contemporary way with distinctions made betw...
In six pages this research paper analyzes literature's various Faustian tales in a consideration of their timelessness. Four sour...
point out that the subject of death and dying has taken on new meaning in recent times. There is now recognition of similar events...
In 5 pages this paper discusses how literature can be both educational as well as entertaining within the precepts of Horace the p...
In eight pages this research paper examines children's role in Medieval society in a consideration to their portrayal in The Cante...
In 7 pages this paper examines how the 'double' or Doppelganger theme is featured in the Edgar Allan Poe stories William Wilson, '...
In five pages this paper discusses storytelling within the context of this work by Jon Scieszka along with The Classic Fairy Tales...
around Myrrhas sexual obsession with her father, a situation that was no less unacceptable in Ovids day than it is in contemporary...
that anyone had truly doubted his mortality any time prior - and renders him just as vulnerable as any other man. Indeed, this pa...
In six pages this paper examines these character genres and how they occasionally have coincided or overlapped throughout literary...
members of the Angel clan, as well as Mexican-American men and women. Gender restricts personal choices, and influences not only ...
In five pages this paper examines the stories featured throughout 'The Odyssey' in a consideration of the repetition of Agamemnon'...
In ten pages this research paper provides a biographical sketch of Edgar Allan Poe along with critical assessment but the central ...
In five pages these characters as they are featured in Homer's epic are examined in terms of how they contribute to the tale overa...