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Money, Society, and Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Lilio's Play London Merchant

in the play, the audience is shown how "honest merchants...contribute to the safe of their country as they do at all times to its ...

'Female Monster' in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

the position and the importance of the position, played by the female monster. In the main character, Victor Frankenstein, we a...

The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

The turning point for the American Civil War was the Battle of Gettysburg, one conflict of many that stood out as instrumental in ...

James Kirby Martin's Ordinary Courage

had completed their service for the benefit of others....

The 1993 Film Version of Randy Shilts's And The Band Played On

In five pages the ways in which the film depicts the AIDS epidemic, the frustrations, social attitudes, and lack of funding associ...

Identical Twin Loss in the Film Nell

her mother who did not want anyone to know the two girls existed. We gather, gradually, that Nell had a twin sister who died at ap...

The Theme of Poverty in The Man of Feeling and The London Merchant

of feeling" (Anonymous Man of Feeling, 2001; 0192840320.html). The main character of the story is a man of feeling. He is a man...

Democracy's Metaphoric Representation in 'The Iliad' by Homer

In five pages this paper examines how democracy is metaphorically depicted in the actions of Achilles and Agamemnon in 'The Iliad'...

Poetic Depiction of Women

as if women were alien creatures, and not like men at all. In addition to looking at this the Lady of Shallot in particular, a st...

Kate Chopin's Depiction of Marriage

In five pages this paper examines how Kate Chopin depicts marriage in the short stories 'The Storm,' 'Story of an Hour' and 'Ripe ...

Homosexuality and Oscar Wilde

In seven pages this paper examines Wilde's views of homosexuality in Victorian times as depicted in The Importance of Being Earnes...

Literature Portrayal of Extreme Experience

and to bear up under the influence of extended stress. This aspect of extreme experience can be seen in many ways in the three sel...

Margaret Edson's Wit and Ovarian Cancer

die, as well as informing us that humor is a large part of her inherent nature in terms of dealing with the fatal realities. In...

Bernard Malamud's The Natural and Conflict

is there? (Malamud NA). From this we see his determination, but we also see little else. We do not gain the understanding that ...

Duality in 'The Dead' by James Joyce

like Poes "The Casks of Amontillado," Joyces "The Dead" contains many "Gothic themes and motifs" (1). For one thing, the time of t...

Contemporary Women's Lives and Backlash by Susan Faludi

progress because of the biased portrayal of women by the media and society at large. In this regard, this book is...

Aristophanes on Democracy

to see that Aristophanes was a conservative through and through and seemed to prefer an almost aristocratic rule to a democratic o...

Threats, Conflicts, and Problems of Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche

revert back to the beast rather than surpass mankind? What is the ape to a man? A laughing-stock, a thing of shame. And just so...

Seventeenth Century Love in Poetry

celebration of Gods love, as well as a poet that addressed the purity of a love for a woman. In better understanding this we discu...

Social Order Visions in Police Cinematic Dramas

the beginning perhaps, a cop who felt that policeman could truly offer some form of social control that would eventually benefit a...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Writings and the Impact of History

have totally disrespected him and used him, then effectively disposed of him), the town itself has refused to realize that the vio...

Warriors Honor Ethnic War and the Modern by Michael Ignatieff

humiliation and the threat of being a cast out of ones own society. Ignatieff addresses the various concepts of nationalism as th...

Symbolism of Man and Nature in Willa Cather's O Pioneers

has not lost beauty, only become more spiritually connected with the land as she takes on the guise of earth. This is because she ...

Jean Edward Smith's Grant

miles off" (Smith 23). When he was seventeen his father informed him that he would be attending West Point. In essence, accordi...

Baby Boy vs. White Man's Burden

Belafonte, and the two eventually become sympathetic toward each other. The movie portrays a culture which is seemingly opposite t...

Lalita Tademy's Cane River and 4 Generations of African American Women

to fancy or given to unrealistic dreams. She was a down to earth and rational woman. In regards to the name, "Elisabeth merely sai...

Analysis of a Section of 'Tintern Abbey' by William Wordsworth

interrelationship of human beings with the forces of nature. He mentions that his own growth as a mature individual allows him to ...

Red Storm Rising, The Hunt for Red October, and the Cold War

authors practically since the beginning of the written word. These depictions have changed radically over time, however, in respo...

Women and the Stories of Ernest Hemingway

or three line synopsis of the story. Then, there would be at two or three points which illustrate how women in this piece are trea...

'Soldier's Home' by Ernest Hemingway

can readily see how this outlook is what has cast Krebs into the sinking hole from which he only somewhat struggles to get free; r...