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3 Works on Women's Social Role

out with flowers and shod with dainty little slippers? (Aristophanes). As this indicates, women, at least the upper class women,...

Bram Stoker and Dracula

of the novel is concerned with conflict in one form or another: the overt differences between the fictionalised East Europe of Sto...

Life, Literature, and Criticisms of James Joyce

to death, illustrating, as mentioned, how his life was not necessarily strange or completely outrageous. The second half of the pa...

Book Report on Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

down his memoirs to convey his personal experiences as a slave. One wonders how much of Douglasss memoirs were tainted by the cont...

William Gibson's Cyberfiction Novel Johnny Mnemonic

The new literary genre dubbed 'cyberfiction' is considered in a five page research paper that discusses how technology's complicat...

Joseph Conrad's 'The Lagoon'

thinks the woman will die. Arsat is very sad and while he waits out the long night he begins to tell his friend about how he came ...

Author Virginia Woolf

The Voyage Out would be published, followed by Night and Day, and Jacobs Room, which was based in part on the life of her beloved ...

Children of the River by Linda Crew and Roots by Alex Haley

he was sent to another culture and made a slave. With his plans and expectations already in place Kunta finds himself in Americ...

Analyzing 'The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg' by Mark Twain

was many years ago. Hadleyburg was the most honest and upright town in all the region round about. It had kept that reputation uns...

Hell in Dante's 'Inferno' and Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus

down into the depths, and the church of Dantes medieval Italy labeled any direct and persistent questioning soul as heretical. ...

Critiquing Part 4, Chapter 5 of 'Gulliver's Travels' by Jonathan Swift

is based upon Lemuel Gulliver, who was a ships surgeon and he tells of being shipwrecked on the island of Lilliput (Summary of Gul...

English Literature and Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

an employee of the Company who has become erratic, and bring him home. In so doing, Marlow has to face his own "heart of darkness"...

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf and its Literary Contribution

and the whole is held together; for whereas in active life she would be netting and separating one thing from the other; she would...

Literary Theory and Criticism of the Future

to agree with the first position taken, however. Many who pursue a M.A. are not explicitly seeking a teaching degree, nor a teachi...

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Jonathan Edwards

the audience immediately. Edwards then frames four implications from the verse that begin with the lead-in sentence just quoted an...

William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, and Epiphanies

all of his lessons come into play and culminate to create a powerful epiphany. We note some of this in the following excerpt: "Spi...

'Unreal' Experiences, Society and the Individual in Wild Swans, The Survivor, and All Quiet on the Western Front

through the Japanese, then the Russians and then the Chinese Communists. Reality and everyday actions became skewed as people live...

Literature and the Use of Newspapers

Frank Norris, who was working for Doubleday, helped Dreisers first novel, Sister Carrie (1900), to be published....Dreiser continu...

Violence - the Monster that Torments Society

But in fiction it sometimes finds fuller expression than it does as a headline. This paper explores the concept of violence as it ...

Violence - the Monster that Torments Society Examined in Literature

of fiction. But in fiction it sometimes finds fuller expression than it does as a headline. This paper explores the concept of vio...

The Novel - Everyone’s Favorite Literary Genre

novels are superior to plays, lets take a well-known play and consider how much more it could have done if it were a novel. Since ...

Discussing Realism, Naturalism and Modernism

literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The following paper offer a description of the characteristics of...

Villainy, Chaos and Death as Literary Devices

to illustrate important themes. This paper considers how an authors use of death, chaos and villainy bring other aspects of the wo...

A Moveable Feast

errors, and so kind to people that I always thought of him as a sort of saint" (Hemingway 88). This is clearly a very high claim t...

The Outsider’s Viewpoint in Literature

the experiences their protagonists have growing up as young, ethnic women in America. However, the relationship between the fictio...

Literary Period Known as the Anti Heroic Age

and most of her poetry concerns her love and admiration and gratefulness to her husband. However, later in life she began writi...

Discussing Justice and War A Hypothetical Dialogue Between Hector from 'The Iliad' and Socrates from Plato's 'Republic'

you not, such as you are, get your following together and sail beyond the seas? Did you not from your a far country carry off a lo...

American Horror Writing and the Influence of British Authors

fantasy), horror has generated the most serious study. Fright master Stephen King credits this to the acclaimed literary trilogy...

The Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson and The Surrounded by D'Arcy McNickle

frame. Archilde says: "One had only to go into daylight to realize how preposterous such things were" (McNickle, 1935, p. 106). ...

Literature's Deeper Meaning

the town of Bisbee. "It is July 20, 1989, early afternoon, monsoon season in the Sonoran Desert, and I am going back to Bisbee. A...