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British Literature and Issue of Class

pride, and vainer ties dissever, / And give herself to me forever" (Browning 1235). According to Professor Gerald McDaniel, the r...

Fiction and Fate

were viewed as chance (Fate). Other religions view fate in pretty much the same way; in the Koran, for example, fate is based on G...

Media Representation of the Vietnam War

readily comprehend the seemingly insignificant difference between the two thoughts, inasmuch as some believe that mass media has l...

Gogol's 'The Nose' and 'The Portrait' and the Surreal and Fantastic

forth from the surrounding canvas; two terrible eyes were fixed straight upon him; on the mouth was written a menacing command of ...

Baroque Artistic Period and Meaning

describe the art from the baroque period they would include: spacious, dynamic, natural, colorful, passionate, sensual and versat...

Culture and Women in Slavenka Drakulic's Makeup and Other Crucial Questions and Maxine Hong Kingston's No Name Woman

In six pages this essay compares and contrasts these literary works in terms of their representation of women and culture. There ...

The Symbolism of the Sea in Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening'

person aside from being mothers and wives. In the following paper we examine the symbolic nature of the sea in Chopins book, illus...

Black Filmmakers and the 'Burden of Representation'

Lees "Mo Better Blues", and Julie Dashs "Daughters of the Dust". The trend continued in 1991 with the release of twelve black dire...

William Shakespeare's Conflicted Hamlet

father speaking to him, or a devil that has assumed the shape of his father in order to lure him into sinful acts. Furthermore, th...

Film Gung Ho

relied formerly on oil, for instance, Japan was able to diversify during the oil crises of the 1970s into the manufacture of elect...

Zeena's Symbolism in Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

opens through the view of the narrator, a young man who ends up spending the night at Ethans house because of a chance blizzard. H...

Edward Saidian Perspective of The Chan's Great Continent by Jonathan D. Spence

authentic reports of Chinese culture. As it turns out, however, Polos accounts are marred with self-aggrandizing elements that cl...

Religion and Emily Dickinson

who see; But microscopes are prudent in an emergency!" The poem whose first lines begin, "Safe in their Alabaster Chambers" is a ...

Mozart's Don Giovanni and the Themes of Enlightenment and Class Conflict

the text should fit the music, not the other way around. His opera, La Nozza de Figaro, while following the parameters of the comi...

Geography in the Poetry of W.H. Auden

this new and different land. The paper predominantly examines the following poems: "Consider This and in Our Time (1930)," "Deaths...

'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner, 'Desiree's Baby' by Kate Chopin and Social Class

she formally received the Valmonde name, although according to the locals, "The prevailing belief was that she had been purposely ...

Family Significance in Homer's 'The Odyssey'

son Telemakhos, his father Laertes, and even his dog Argos. Throughout his journey in the Odyssey, Odysseus often remarks about t...

Mike Nichols' The Birdcage Cinematic Content Analysis

a good impression on his prospective in-laws, Armand and Albert pretend to be straight (Bawer). Instead of going for the easy lau...

J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, Cultural Products, and Religion

hairy feet. As this suggests, they are humble beings, not heroes. Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit who is uncle to Frodo Baggins, entrusts ...

Cinematic and Literary Representations of Vanity

necromantic books are heavenly!" (Marlowe, Act 1, Li 40-50). Having made his decision to...

The Spitfire Grill Film and Personal Change

is quite apparent in her remark that is intended to shut the whispering people in the Spitfire Grill up: "Hannah, did I forget to ...

Two Narratives on Autonomy and Fate

men see as hostility is in fact only the normal progression of the natural world. At first, they assume that that it is some consc...

Computers and Floating Point Arithmetic

yet "This computer also had nonzero numbers so tiny that dividing them by themselves would overflow" (Severance, 1998, PG). On ye...

Gender Representations in 'The White Heron' by Sarah Orne Jewett

positively in most of her readers. Whittington-Egan describes Sylvia Plath as a young woman as being the: "shining, super-wholesom...

Love Poetically Approached by John Donne

for a spiritual thinker, body and soul. In "The Good Morrow," Donne immediately established what critic Susannah B. Mintz refers ...

Machiavelli's The Prince, Fate and Fortune

that men with their wisdom cannot direct them and that no one can even help them; and because of this they would have us believe t...

Order of Chaos in Joseph Conrad's Secret Agent and Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse

silent trout are all lit up hanging, trembling. So she saw them; she heard them; but whatever they said had also this quality, as ...

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer and Freedom

pushed too far. Eric Erikson, one of the first pioneers of human growth and development, agreed that each person must go through a...

'The Odyssey' by Homer and Fate

beginning, feels like he is in a position of complete helplessness. His father has been gone nearly 20 years and he is forced to d...

Character Study of Toni Morrison's Beloved

treated like a horse, complete with a bit in his mouth. Sethe managed to escape. In fact, because she was very pregnant and had b...