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Wordsworth & Hardy/Perspectives on Nature

First and foremost, the Thrush is seen by this Romantic poet in heroic terms, as a male facing the storm of the public world in or...

Pessimism and Optimism in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises

generation." This sets the stage for a pessimistic story, despite any optimistic elements. One aspect of this story that seems t...

Analysis of Autobiography of Frederick Douglass

In five pages this autobiography is analyzed in terms of the author's uniqueness and ability to maintain optimism despite many har...

Optimism in Literature for Children During the Second World War

it serves as an "adjuvant or facilitator to treatment" (American Childrens Literature: A Bibliotheraputic Approach) for a child wh...

Satire—How to Study

test, googling Spark Notes and reading the books synopsis. First of all, it is helpful to find out what other students are think...

Iraq: The Wrong War

to any connection between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida. If terrorism was Bushs war objective, al-Qaida and not Saddam should have ...

Royall Tyler/The Contrast

fianc? was away, Maria restricted her social contacts, read a great many books and focused on letters from Dimple. Letitia explain...

Satirical Meaning in Gulliver's Travels

cronyism of the royal court and how the British government functioned, making people "jump through hoops," to use the clich?, in o...

Shakespeare/My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun

infinitum. Therefore, having asserted that this mistress eyes are not remotely like the sun, the speaker then refers to numerous o...

'The Business Man' by Edgar Allan Poe

that he despises genius, "the greater the genius the greater the ass" (Poe). At this point, Proffit sounds like a particularly pom...

A Modest Proposal To Abolish Schools And Introduce Workhouses In Their Place

not grow up unsupervised, where they do not have good role models and a firm structure they may grow up with temptation to behave ...

Why Pessimism is Better Than Optimism in International Relations Practice

2002). The theory does make sense. After all, competition seems to be aligned with human nature. Also, the idea that the world is ...

Erasmus/Praise of Folly

has purpose and meaning. The second profession that Folly castigates as they weave "six hundred laws together" in order to contr...

John Okada's "No-No Boy" - Optimism and Hope

afford him the ability to move forward. "In any other country they would have shot you for what you did. But this country is di...

J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan and Satirical Commentary

eros, or cupid, in that the dust from her makes a person fly. Pixie dust coupled with happy thoughts send one skyward...just as fi...

Equality and Power of Women in 'The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

constant throughout history. The Prologue features the much-married Dame Alice, who is a shrewd manipulator of men who unabashed...

Youth Stress, Test Scores, and a Satire Essay

same score. This group learning program has helped lessen the stress of an introverted student who is able to fade into the backg...

The Satirical Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

uses to create the satiric effect is emphasizing the similarities between Lilliputians and his own compatriots. (Borovaia149). ...

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

bombardier, Yossarian. It is as the Chaplain believes: "there was really no way of knowing anything ... not even that there was no...

Women in the Literary Works of Edward A. Abbott and Thomas More

to take up arms; they are not compelled as are the men. They are also encouraged to strive professionally and intellectually and c...

Character Analysis of Touchstone in William Shakespeare's As You Like It

the mustard was naught: now Ill stand to it, the pancakes were naught and the mustard was good, and yet was not the knight forswor...

Los Vendidos by Luis Valdez and Satirical Elements

the political intimidation regarding the grape growers and farmers toward their Chicano field workers in Delano, California. Not o...

Juvenalian v. Horatian Satire

way, this scrutiny becomes a very valuable tool for literature. After reading these two stories and comparing and contrasting the...

Cynicism and Satire in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

In five pages this paper examines the language usage in Hamlet in terms of its cynical and satirical aspects. Three sources are c...

Satire in Hard Times

in which the employers basically had the ability to "starve" their employees back to work, on the employers terms. The 1850s in En...

At Fault by Kate Chopin

fiction demonstrates that she was an accomplished practitioner of humor, which she sometimes employed to avoid the sentimentality ...

Tartuffe by Moliere

In six pages this paper examines Moliere's satirical morality tale and its open theater impact. Four sources are cited in the bib...

'Murder in the Rue Morgue' by Edgar Allan Poe and Satirical Humor

In five pages this paper examines how Poe employed satirical humor regarding art and science in this famous short story. Five sou...

Comparative Analysis of 'Dreamhouse' by Alison Habens and 'Alice in Wonderland' by Lewis Carroll

The satirical 'Dreamhouse' is compared and contrasted with the whimsical nature of 'Alice' in terms of character plot twists in th...

Clergy in Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding

he was provided with a handsome Income of twenty-three Pounds a Year; which however, he could not make any great Figure with: beca...