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World Dissatisfaction in J.D. Salinger's 'Catcher in the Rye' and Gustave Flaubert's 'Madame Bovary'

In a 5 page paper, the characters' dissatisfaction with the world that has rendered their lives meaningless is explored. There ar...

William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom! and Behavior of Middle-or Upper-Class Southern Women Miss Rosa, Miss Quentin, and Mrs. Compson

beginning, she lacked that all-important female role model. From the moment of her birth, Miss Rosa has been incapable of fitting...

Character Development In Macbeth

This paper examines various aspects of the character Macbeth in Shakespeare's play. The author discusses lust for power, loss, ga...

Guinevere's Role in Arthurian Legend

This discussion examines the manner in which the legend developments the character and role of Guinevere and how it changed over t...

Personal Fulfillment in 'Rabbit, Run' by John Updike

(in the context of marriage), religion cannot be sexual. "Sexuality may be spiritual, but spirituality may not be sexual, it seems...

The Attitudes of Magda Trocme and Reverend Trocme in 'Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed'

In this 3 page essay that discusses Philip Hallie's text, the characters' attitudes about God and their motives are applied to the...

Faulkner and Bambara on Communities

expensive toy store. The children are amazed, as this gives them a glimpse of another world and lifestyle that is totally alien ...

The Animated Characters of Disney

in the way different characters are presented, as well as beauty in different meanings at different levels. It may be argued tha...

Comparative Analysis of Francis Ford Coppola's Film Apocalypse Now and Joseph Conrad's Novel Heart of Darkness

appears to be an observer in many ways, merely retelling a tale, Willard is a man who is driven by some uncontrollable force. It i...

Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Crane, Nature and Salvation

In five pages this paper discusses how nature adaptability influences a character's salvation in 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridg...

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and Characterization

In a paper consisting of 5 pages rounded characters versus flat characters are considered within the context of Dicken's novel as ...

Comparative Analysis of Achilles and Hector in 'The Iliad' and Penelope and Odysseus in 'The Odyssey'

Two characters from each of Homer's epics are compared in five pages in order to ascertain which is the most heroic of the charact...

Women Compared in Defoe and Diderot

Women were simply sex objects, even when they were the main characters, in the beginning of the novel. This paper compares the mai...

The Character of Count Vronsky in Anna Karenina

enjoys with any other friends and social acquaintances. Yet in virtually every social circumstance, Vronsky is there. He begins ...

'The Odyssey' by Homer and the Character Cyclops

instead decides they should be dinner. According to Odysseus, "He clutched my companions / and caught two in is hands like squirm...

The Color Purple and Catcher in the Rye Compared

allows Holden to be dismissive of material concerns. After running away to spend some time in New York City on his own, which is...

A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Twelfth Night - A Look at the Fools

This research report examines the fool character in each of these Shakespearean works. How these are important characters is highl...

Tragedy in Death Of A Salesman and Antigone

This 5 page paper focuses on the lead characters Antigone and Willy Loman then branches out to ancillary characters to establish h...

Orlando Character in As You Like It by William Shakespeare

is off to university, but Oliver has deprived Orlando of schooling and keeps him living and working on the family, actually Oliver...

A Feminist Reading of Shakespeare's Hamlet

conflict, whereas Gertrude and Ophelia are blatantly constructed to subordinate and to submit to all of the whims and desires of t...

Analyzing Don Fausto Tejada's Journey

wearing halter tops and shorts (40). He nods at them and makes a "clicking sound" with his tongue (40). Clearly, it is a "come on"...

Snow Crash by Neal Stephensonn and Technology's Effects

counterparts "brain-drained" (2). Because America was responsible for the technological fusion, it paid the greatest price with p...

Sophocles vs. Jean Anouilh's Character Interpretations of Antigone

actions is shaped by the other characters around her. Creon is of particular importance in shaping the character Antigone in both...

A Comparison of Huck Finn and the Misfit From A Good Man is Hard to Find

footsteps. This is demonstrated through the parallels between Huck and his father. In the part of the novel where Huck is abducted...

A Discussion of Those that Attempted to Help Holden in The Catcher in the Rye

at the prep school. In the beginning of the novel we see that Holden admires this man to some degree. Just prior to leaving his pr...

Searches in 2 Films by Orson Welles

series of flashback scenes, it becomes apparent that Kane, though quite wealthy, does not know who he is anymore. Having risen fro...

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Green Knight is without fear, and without any weakness it would seem. He has simply come to dare any man to show that they are rea...

The Mysterious Will Ladislaw

much loved by a young baronet, Sir James Chettam, she marries instead the Reverend Edward Casaubon, who is much older than she is,...

Two Female Characters in U.S. Fiction

5 pages and 2 sources used. This paper provides an overview and a comparison of the lives and characteristics of two central fema...

Hemingway's Loneliness in For Whom the Bell Tolls

In five pages this novel is analyzed in terms of the character's loneliness and how they mirror the author's own. Five sources ar...