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Manuel Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman and Other Works of Literature

the government offices depicted in Elena Poniatowska?s The Night Visitor. In Poniatowska?s story as well, the author is striving f...

Common Themes Within the Works of Asante and Johnson

This paper discusses five common themes of epistemological, axiological, and cosmological issues within Molefi Kete Asante's Kemet...

'Bartleby, the Scrivener' by Herman Melville and the Narrator

In five pages this paper examines the mental stability of the narrator in this famous story by Herman Melville. There are no othe...

Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville, Images of Christ and Themes

In five pages a thematic and symbolic analysis of this novel by Herman Melville are presented. Four sources are cited in the bibl...

Narrator and Protagonist's Relationship in 'Bartleby the Scrivener' by Herman Melville

In three pages Bartleby and the narrator's relationship are examined within the context of this Herman Melville short story. Ther...

Representation of Captain Ahab as Evil, Good, Death, and Life All At the Same Time

In twenty five pages this paper discusses how Captain Ahab in Moby Dick by Herman Melville embodies all the dualities of the life ...

Symboliism in Bartleby, The Scrivener and The Yellow Wallpaper

who flatly refused to accept the mundane. These two characters, both centers of nineteenth century American literature, each made...

Billy Budd by Herman Melville and the Conflict Between Good and Evil

In five pages this paper discusses the evil of Squeak and Claggart and the goodness of Billy Budd in an analysis of the novel by H...

White Symbolism in Moby Dick by Herman Melville

This paper consists of seven pages and presents a literary analysis of the white symbolism that appears throughout Moby Dick by He...

Moby Dick by Herman Melville and Ahab's Character

the whales as evil, or the one particular whale as evil, has infiltrated the beliefs of the men on board as well: "The whalemen be...

Sacrifice According to Herman Melville, Henrik Ibsen, and Shirley Jackson

one of the most essential elements of sacrifice, especially in a religious context, is that the action is performed willingly, and...

Fiction Writing and Philosophy of the Romantic Era

truly fulfilled, and in fact he likens this fulfillment to a nearly spiritual ideal. On the other hand, there was...

American Literature's Romantic Movement

in the goodness of man and the mans natural state is in nature and is burdened by civilization (Campbell). The doctrine of sensibi...

Comparing 'Two Kinds' with 'Bartleby'

ending is quite compelling, letting on that the narrator is much more insightful than first appears. Certainly, the narrator is no...

Domesticity in Chapters 87 and 88 of Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Chapter 87 One of the most powerful things we note in this particular chapter is the focus on issues of warfare and battle, issu...

Transcendentalists and Nathaniel Hawthorne

even on good speaking terms with him. This leads the rest of the townsfolk to determine that Brown is crazy making Hawthornes poin...

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

In five pages this paper examines various themes including racism as they relate to Moby Dick by Herman Melville. Five sources ar...

Historical Literary Periods and Transporting Readers to Another Time

In eight pages the importance of setting historical setting in order to take readers back to an earlier period is considered in an...

Moby Dick by Herman Melville and Post Reading Exercises

presumably just universe. An arrow going from the first circle to the second indicates the cause-and-effect direction. Multiple ...

Character of Starbuck in Moby Dick by Herman Melville

wonder of nature, or the natural balance of things as he is determined to kill the whale. As one author notes, "Ahab destroys hims...

Williams, Melville, and Jackson

offers a very powerful image of the lives these people live trapped in a tiny apartment and in their individual lives. Melville...

Legal Theory and Billy Budd by Herman Melville

In six pages this paper examines this novel by Herman Melville from a perspective of legal theory. Four sources are cited in the ...

Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville

metaphorically complex narrative that has been interpreted in a variety of ways. The story itself is deceptively simple. The narra...

Moby-Dick, Discussion of Quotes from the Novel

This essay presents four quotes taken from Moby-Dick by Herman Melville. The writer discusses the meaning of each quote in relatio...

American Literature

little concern for the development, the past, of the relationships that play a very important part in the stories. One could well ...

The Literature of Black America

has been missing in his life and that his values and priorities are backward and unfulfilling. For example, by the time Milkman jo...

Comparative Analysis of 'Representations of General Nature' in 'A Haunted House' by Virginia Woolf and 'Barn Burning' by William Faulkner

This paper applies Samuel Johnson's contention that 'representations of general nature' should be featured in good stories in a co...

Charles Johnson's Portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. in Dreamer

In five pages Johnson's fictional sketch is examined in terms of how it represents the actual man. There are no other sources lis...

Samuel Johnson's Literature Observation and the Works of James Joyce and Ernest Hemingway

In five pages this paper discusses Johnson's notion that literature cannot withstand the test of time in a comparative analysis of...

Jean Jacques Rousseau's Confessions, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the Elements of Autobiography

In a paper consisting of five pages Barbara Johnson's theory that autobiography involves a child's narrative as symbolically killi...