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Essays 121 - 150
She is disgusted by the fact that she must respond to the blackmailer, but also proud that she has defended her husband and her li...
In 5 pages this paper examines how the characteristics of heroism are defined in such literary works as A Simple Heart by Gustave ...
This 4 page paper compares and contrasts the protagonists of The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy and Fences by August Wilson. ...
to them" (Rowe, 3). Intensely shy, he was nonetheless intensely sexual, and this was to present problems for him for the rest of h...
is no more deep than what lies beneath the layers of his skin -- an aspect of his personality that is readily recognized by all; i...
In five pages this paper discusses how the author's beliefs regarding death and Christianity are expressed in this short story by ...
In five pages this paper examines concepts featured in 'Myth of the Cave' and The Apology and also considers 'The Death of Ivan Il...
one looks at a variety of lifetimes via reincarnation, its purpose explained by knowledge. In other words, people are born and liv...
In eight pages this paper compares the approaches to civil disobedience by Mahatma Gandhi and Leo Tolstoy noting various differenc...
playing at work is also a reasonable contention: there is, as he says, enough productive physical work available within a communit...
and that is that it enables both freedom and necessity to coexist; it favors an ethical reliance on moral deterrence without brini...
Octavio Pazs story, My Life with The Wave, is that a man falls in love with a wave from the ocean and brings it home to live with ...
the wealthy. Many were secretly considering an end to Tsarist rule. A small attempt at revolution by the Decemberists sought to de...
that he considers its effect on the public to be morally bad (Jahn, 2000). Of course, in the typical connotation "bad art" is far ...
successful than Gregor and supported his family. But as his story develops he begins to envision how his life has been pointless, ...
unnecessary, and the look of importance which implied that if only you put yourself in our hands we will arrange everything - we k...
in the cave by night, it was she, not he, that would have it so" (Homer V). In this we get the impression that while Ulysses may h...
dying and then the death itself that show the reader the truths he discovers. He observes his life, what it has been, while he is ...
unpleasant an endeavor that they simply dispense with it as hastily as possible; they make small talk as effortless as eye-blinkin...
of their husband and friend. Tolstoy wrote of Ivan and his co-workers, "He had been ill for some weeks with an illness said to be...
of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others" (Mill). Thus, he does advocate freedom to a great extent...
tries to conceal his guilt before hes forced to acknowledge it or go insane (fortunately for him, the love of a good woman "saves"...
nothing more than this to be content. In Part 2, when the narrator describes...
In a paper consisting of 8 pages these texts are compared in terms if these protagonists prove the end does always justify the mea...
This 4 page paper discusses the concepts of morality and truth in the works of three celebrated authors: The Anti-Christ by Nietzs...
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 eight pages these German and Russian works are contrasted and compared regarding their depiction of life's 'dark side.' Six so...
In five pages the author's Russian atheism and socialism conflict is examined within the context of the novel's 6 characters. The...
In six pages this paper examines why the supporting characters in these novels are important. There is 1 source cited in the bibl...