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This paper examines the ritual use and significance of magic in Goethe's Faust and Shakespeare's Midsummer Nights Dream. This fiv...

studying the Bible. At this point the dog begins to bark and growl, while clearly running around the room, in a frenzy. Such infor...

child and is sentenced to death. As this indicates, Faust is plot driven. This contrasts sharply with Ivan Ilych, which mostly c...

fits of selfish obsession, "Accursed ringing! Wounding me/ With shame: a treacherous blow:/ My realms laid out there, endlessly,/ ...

figures, the darkness, can easily represent the turmoil within Raskolnikov. His thoughts and plans are dark and frightening, espec...

such, he sits back and comments on the state of mankind from his underground hideaway. As the work unwinds, the reader is able to ...

In seven pages a Girardian perspective is applied to an examination of Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. Three sources are cit...

In 5 pages this paper examines what motivated Raskolnikov's 'crime' in Crime and Punishment. There is 1 source cited in the bibli...

In six pages this essay compares these two literary works in terms of family impact and protagonist alienation. There are no othe...

all-knowing, loving God. In the chapter entitled, "The Brothers Make Friends," Alyosha and Ivan are talking and Ivan goes off on a...

In five pages this paper discusses how Dali struggled with his interests in science and spiritualism as reflected in his surrealis...

such as George Eliot and Fyodor Dostoevsky constantly show the "complexity of the individual consciousness" and reduce it often to...

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the evolution of characters the Underground Man in Notes from the Underground, Gre...

wiser than I was before: / Master, Doctors what they call me, / And Ive been ten years, already, / Crosswise, arcing, to and fro, ...

the Civil War. Those that supported the Civil War justified it on a number of grounds. Many even did so in religious terms, hai...

with his wifes hopes. In the case of the Underground Man one can see his hopes in the prostitute in the following: "I hated her ...

In 5 pages this paper examines how the 'Faustian Bargain' is depicted in the literary works Faust by Goethe, Don Quixote by Cervan...

In nine pages the social and political backgrounds of these artistic periods are discussed along with differences and similarities...

In seven pages this report examines the pain and the joy of the human consciousness as expressed in the Underground Man of Dostoev...

by his friend Lieutenant Rinaldi who is determined to arrange for the two of them to meet up with some British nurses. At this poi...

at any time--Faust is ever completely satisfied with life, that is, if he is provided with a moment so perfect that he wishes for ...

This paper discusses von Ranke's views on studying world history and the global importance of nation states in a paper consisting ...

Gretchens hand. The other couple is directed to pass by in the stage notes, and Mephistopheles and Martha take their place. Meph...

In 7 pages this short story is analyzed in terms of its protagonist and whether or not it was modeled after the author who created...

In five pages this parable and its function are considered within the context of The Brothers Karamazov and how it affects percept...

In three pages character weakness as it results in disaster is examined within the context of the novel by Dostoevsky. There are ...

In 4 pages this paper considers how Nietzsche and Dostoevsky similarly believed Western Civilization was declining but viewed diff...

In five pages the author's Russian atheism and socialism conflict is examined within the context of the novel's 6 characters. The...

met them" (Dostoevsky 54). These figures, the darkness, can easily represent the turmoil within Raskolnikov. His thoughts and plan...

of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others" (Mill). Thus, he does advocate freedom to a great extent...