Essays 541 - 570
In seven pages this paper examines the short story in terms of how it expresses the author's attitudes about religion. Six source...
in him. While this unnamed relative (Capote calls her simply his "friend") is childlike and somewhat simple minded, she is also n...
In 3 pages the author's employment of verbal, situational, and dramatic irony in this short story is analyzed. There are 2 source...
In five pages this paper discusses the author's life and writings in a comparison with the short story regarding Alcee and Calixta...
In 5 pages this paper discusses how Steinbeck employs symbolism in this short story with the earth covenant represented by the wif...
In 5 pages this paper discusses the author's uses of metaphor, style, and syntax in the short story. There are 5 sources cited in...
works of Ray Bradbury, the face of the crowd is death, the death of a more spacious, easier-paced world that has been sacrificed t...
effectively touches upon marriage, its meaning within the social backdrop, as well as the requirements necessary to maintain its e...
In seven pages this paper discusses how Poe's real life experiences can be connected to the short story 'The Cask of Amontillado.'...
Gabriel learns that the song brought to Grettas mind a recollection of a young man from her home county. Pressing her further, he ...
In three pages postmodern fiction is defined and then considered within the context of 'Experiment,' a short story by Julian Barne...
which seemed only willing to accept White Anglo-Saxon Protestants into its exclusive membership. The narrator of "Sonnys Blues" r...
Such an endeavor may provide one with an interpretation of events in the story that would be far different from one that does not ...
In five pages this short story by D.H. Lawrence is subjected to a Freudian psychoanalytical interpretation with the character of M...
In five pages this paper discusses how the philosophies of Descartes and Heidegger manifest themselves in this short story by Samu...
In six pages this research paper considers post colonial women writers in a discussion of Rosario Ferre's 'The Youngest Doll' and ...
In 4 pages this paper examines how life's meaning is conveyed through physical and spiritual changes in a contrasting of these two...
man called each living creature, that was its name" (Genesis 2:19). Adam gave names to all of them "But, for Adam no suitable help...
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...
in the Broadway Journal (Magistrale 81). Steeped in Gothic tradition, the theme involves one mans descent into total madness, whi...
of a mother or a sister; and on his head was a three-cornered hat, which in its better days had perhaps sheltered the graver brow ...
is presumably himself, as an adult, looking back at the things his father did for him. These are things that the child clearly nev...
long as he can maintain he position of self-imposed eminence. Because Samia cannot remember where she left her very valuable ring...
flowing calligraphy in faded ink, to the effect that she no longer went out at all" (Faulkner). This is a clear indication that Em...
History of a Campaign That Failed" with a recounting of his interactions with another young man that was about the same age that h...
opens the story by saying that he has heard that when people go through some sort of strange or supernatural experience, they usua...
the Russian culture has long remained something of a mystery as well. Even despite the seemingly mysterious nature of Russian l...
This paper examines how crime scene investigations and the detective fiction genre (particularly Sherlock Holmes) are attributed t...
she retreated into security of the family homestead, which like the lady of the house, was also dying a slow death. Before the Ci...
In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at literary anti-transcendentalism. Hawthorne's short story, "Dr. Heidegger's Experimen...