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education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...

not know when to stop. Faustus is not happy with the knowledge he has obtained. He feels there is more. He is much like an addic...

In five pages the ways in which Melville's short story protagonist can only conform to social demands through nonconformity and no...

In three pages this paper examines the symbolic meaning of birds in Walt Whitman's poem 'Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking' and ...

himself with a sense of timelessness. Each of the poets gives the reader a sense of a good friend explaining something with an at...

disjointed discourse on a series of ideas and impressions that flow freely through a characters or narrators mind. The very person...

ones own inner feelings. Whitman had been raised by Quaker parents (Hood). His orientation to religion was centered around the i...

Whitmans lyric style -- "A Noiseless Patient Spider." Although the subject of the poem is a lonely spider, the tone is formal, wh...

this reveals his positive outlook toward the world and his own existence, and allows the reader some comprehension as to his value...

Two of Walt Whitman's most famous works, O Captain, My Captain and When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd, capture the essence o...

mankind needs to hear. One of those messages is that of the role of poetry, for himself, and for mankind. He sees himself as a t...

the Civil War and when he heard that his brother was wounded he left for Fredericksburg and cared for his brother, along with othe...

stanza carries the fathers musings further as he tells his child that there is "Something...more immortal than the stars" (Whitman...

concomitant threat of corporal destruction to the slave workers in the South" (Newbury 159). Through one particular example, Stowe...

of this, decides to hire him on the spot (Herman Melvilles Bartleby the Scrivener). Essentially, he figures that if he looks well...

or sex. Thanks to technology, Whitman waxed poetic about an inspirational East-West cultural and intellectual exchange, with both...

In seven pages the consequences of free will are examined within the context of Melville's story. There are no other sources cite...

each line to have a variety of meanings. Perhaps there is symbolism, simile or metaphor lurking in his descriptions. If not, would...

In eight pages this paper examines the evil that manifests itself in the predatory characters of Roger Chillingworth in The Scarle...

In five pages Hemingway's Harold Krebs is compared with Melville's story narrator in an argument that asserts that confrontation f...

In five pages Billy Budd's transcendental nature is examined in terms of the protagonist's exemplification of peacemaking, honesty...

that part covered). Even in her disconcerted and distracted mental state after the birth of her child, Charlotte is able to pray f...

whale (55). Naturally, this represents the books climax, but how would Melville fill the huge writing gap between the introductio...

Claggarts psychological make-up, because he himself has never had to struggle between good and evil as personal motivators. Billy ...

something like "I found one of the most impressive images that Melville used was to say that Ahab looked like he had been cast in ...

moment of hurting Ahab that any vendetta or revenge was directed at him. So clearly, we can conclude the Ahabs vigilant hatred is...

vengeance". This passage highlights an extreme sense of violence, and reveals the chaos and out-of-control nature of the...

the end are shown to have empty, meaningless lives. "It was the very perfection of quiet absorption of good living, good drinking,...

stanza, which pictures the listener, the person offering lifes big questions, emotionally stranded. The narrative voice states, "I...

This 3 page paper gives answers to questions about the works Song of Myself, slave narratives, Bartleby the Scrivener the subtitle...