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Works of Maverick Playwright Sam Shepard

In seven pages this essay considers playwright Sam Shepard's life, his unique style of writing and offers abstracts of his plays F...

William Shakespeare's King Lear and the Fool Character

In five pages this paper examines the dramatic function of the Fool in King Lear by William Shakespeare. There are no other sourc...

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare and the Fool Feste

but around him revolve some of the most significant issues of this extremely complex play. Feste, whom George Steiner calls "Shak...

White Values versus Values of Native Americans

include any consideration of an alternate opinion to their worldview. They fully expected the Native Americans to accept that it w...

Wise Fool in Shakespeare

discussing how the character of Enobarbus fits with these definitions, presenting us with the fool of "Antony and Cleopatra." Fo...

Fools Crow

the favor of the spirit world, of the gods, and yet they both approach it differently. Fast Horse is presumptuous and arrogant whi...

Short Fiction Characterization

humanity. The action is the medium by which the man learns, but it is the learning that makes the story fundamentally interesting....

Othello by William Shakespeare and 3 Different Perspectives

directors. Because of the intimacy between stage performers and the audience, Shakespeares prose is able to serve as a feature pe...

Analysis of the Fool in in William Shakespeare's King Lear

In four pages this character analysis of the fool character in King Lear makes reference to Shakespeare The Invention of the Huma...

Natural World Relationships in La Maravilla by Alfredo Vea Jr. and Fools Crow by James Welch

for those such as Beto and his grandparents who are still willing to see that it is still there. In "La Maravilla," unlike "Fools...

Comparing Fools Crow to My Antonia

and the culture in which she finds herself having to embrace. She is also alienated by her social class. Antonia, in contrast to J...

King Lear Acting a Fool in the Tragedy by William Shakespeare

appropriate, her husband will have "half" her "care and duty" (I.i.104). Her response enrages Lear and he sees her reasoned respon...

Fools Crow by James Welch Questions Answered

(Welch 391). In both of these instances, Welch uses descriptive language to set the tone for what Fools Crow is feeling and thinki...

Hero or Fool 'Young Goodman Brown'

to be happening is that he feels he is risking his soul. If this is the case then a hero would emerge victorious in some way, havi...

Fools Crow by James Welch

In five pages this research paper examines the Blackfeet Native American tribe of the 19th century as depicted in James Welch's no...

William Shakespeare's Use of Fools in Comedies A Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Night

In five pages the characters featured in these plays are contrasted and compared. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

La Nave de los Locos (The Ship of Fools) by Cristina Peri Rossi and Gender Identity

In nine pages the representation of gender identity in this Uruguayan novel is examined. Six sources are cited in the bibliograph...

Orgon is a Fool in Moliere’s Tartuffe

in the characterization of Orgon. He unequivocally believes everything Tartuffe tells him, and would likely purchase Florida swam...

'White Nights' by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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...

Notes from the Underground and Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

In a paper consisting of 8 pages these texts are compared in terms if these protagonists prove the end does always justify the mea...

Motivation of Raskolnikov's in Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment

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

Western Civilization's Decline According to Fyodor Dostoevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Individualization in The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Doestoevsky

In six pages the ways in which the three brothers' personalities combine to become one total person are examined. There are no ot...

The Possessed by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Doestoevsky

In two pages the murder scene's significance and an analysis of Raskolnikov's character are considered. There is no bibliography ...

'Grand Inquisitor' Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Individuality in Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Doestoevsky

In six pages this novel is analyzed in terms of the conflict between conformity and universality and examines how individuality an...

Faust by Johann von Goethe and Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

In eight pages these German and Russian works are contrasted and compared regarding their depiction of life's 'dark side.' Six so...

Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis and Fyodor Doestoevsky's Notes From the Underground

In five pages these two works are compared in terms of how the symbolism of researcher and doctor represents 'state' and tradition...

John Stuart Mill, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Freedom

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