Essays 121 - 150
In five pages this character analysis compares Hamlet to Nick Carraway and Claudius to Tom Buchanan with themes also compared. Th...
In a paper containing seven pages the American Dream is compared and contrasted in these works. There are three bibliographic sou...
the modern world was a study in contrasts between interior and exterior, so too was modernist literature. There was often the con...
In eight pages this paper analyzes this classic American novel and its confrontation of post First World War truths about the Amer...
illustrated in the frequent comparisons between the Long Island sections of East Egg and West Egg. As narrator Nick Carraway, a W...
In eight pages this paper examines how Fitzgerald employs symbolism and imagery in his novel much as a lyric poem would in terms o...
as "the best of times and the worst of times" -- those of hope and optimism, but also of disillusionment and despair. It was extr...
In five pages the new criticism of this classic old character is discussed in terms of its patterns of cause and effect, compariso...
This paper consists of a 10 page essay that compares and contrast these works by arguing that the two individuals are respectively...
takes place between Stanley and Jungle Fever in New York The wealthy elite of Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanans world were the peo...
is a man of honor and integrity. He represents all that is good in the world of man as he stands to be a man who follows the old r...
his personality. He then discusses how he in the present, and why, then shifts to discussing the people who are Daisy and Tom. He ...
An elderly pianist, Mademoiselles music arouses Ednas artistic temperament. Additionally, Edna becomes infatuated with a young man...
own enjoyment so much as for the enjoyment of others, for the pride he could have when looking at what he achieved through the eye...
the major theme is far from romantic in nature. This story is all about the disintegration of the once proud American Dream. And, ...
means just that-and he must be about His Fathers business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented ...
together, ties up all loose plot ends, and eventually takes the story full circle. The participating narrator/protagonist appeale...
as "The Jazz Age." When not numbing themselves with superficial pleasures, young people were pursuing the American Dream, as tran...
with money, as the underlying theme is that which revolves around Gatsby using the pursuit of money, and the acquisition of money,...
many argue saw the true beginning of a consumeristic culture as the American Dream turned to one of material wealth as a sign of s...
who does not exhibit the same or nearly the same amount of wealth and material possessions. The lost generation of America is ext...
can have genuine depth. Both while their relationship is still comparatively superficial, and later when it becomes truly meaningf...
hit-and-run death of Toms mistress, the married Myrtle Wilson. Her widower is deceived into thinking Gatsby caused the accident, ...
affair. If the story were told by Gatsby, we would get the story of a poor but ruthlessly ambitious youth on the make. We would l...
her well-loved eyes" (Fitzgerald 111). As this suggests, Gatsbys many possessions and signs of extreme wealth are not important ...
in the case of John the Baptist, he should feel that Jesus followers were becoming a political threat to his rule. Herod Agrippa...
non Egyptians, known as the Semitic Kings, named Hyksos, meaning princes of the foreign lands (Thornton, 2003). They had come down...
image of solidity (Amazingart.com). Another author indicates the following in terms of its construction and design: "This ziggura...
it changed the way that Canadians looked at money. It also changed life as it was known. During the depression of the thirties, ...
into long bangs across his forehead" (Erickson 21). He was the son of a King and he was a boy who was constantly raised in a tense...