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Hamlet

place and who that person is. Throughout the play Hamlet is seemingly confused in many instances, which again embodies the theme...

Two Versions of Frankenstein

and had been released some months earlier (Biodrowski). The novel, which has the subtitle of "The Modern Prometheus," is "a sort o...

Mallarme, Baudelaire and Goethe

faun, so that he participates in the creation of the work (Betz, 1996). The faun cannot decide if he has been dreaming or not, but...

Poison in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

plants. The use of poison as a means of dispatching ones enemy, or ones rival, exemplifies the underhanded and dishonest dealings ...

A Review of of Beloved by Toni Morrison

seeking forgiveness. That Sethe suffers from guilt and hopes to assuage it, however, is evident in her submission first to the ant...

Journey in Sembene Ousmane's 'God's Bits of Wood' and Cheikh Hamidou Kane's 'Ambiguous Adventure'

obstacles, the people maintain their stalwart conviction to ultimately seek out a better existence. Kanes Ambiguous Adventu...

English Law from the Sixth through Tenth Centuries

In six pages this time period is examined in terms of the development of English law in a consideration of theory and whether the ...

Element Symbolism in Lord of the Flies by William Golding

dissects both the outer meaning of the object and what that object is meant to determine in a deeper sense; and how those objects ...

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...

Wine Significance in the Histories of Herodotus

wine, make up their drunken minds and know that their decision was sound when they still see things the same way when sober" (Hero...

Hunter 'Patch' Adams

as an opposing force rather than one that works for all living beings. Based upon his functionalist theory, Durkheim would not be...

Rushdie/Thematic similarities/Ayesha and Gibreel

portray this relationship as one built upon and surviving from an incongruous association perpetuated by greed and power. The stu...

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...

Herbert Blumer and George Herbert Mead's Theories of Sociology

on the most essential points of his sociological theory, only differing in subtle distinctions regarding the importance of interac...

Black Odyssey The African American Ordeal iIn Slavery by Nathan Irvin Huggins

a primary component of the transformation to African-American status, Huggins delves deep into the historical and cultural foundat...

Fantasy Theme Theory or SCT

professor from the Department of Speech Communication at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. His numerous books over the pas...

White Males and Reverse Discrimination

both the Constitution and Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the Supreme Court set a precedence with regard to quotas in acade...

Suitability of the Title A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

coincidence and picturesque contrast" (A Dolls House) punctuated by his use of language plays a significant role in identifying No...

Amy's View

important function of any character in a piece of fiction is to move the story forward. In a play that particular function may be...

Prepositional Calculus Development

In ten pages prepositional calculus is considered in terms of development and includes logical calculus, symbolic logic, and the c...

McMurphy as Jesus Christ in Ken Kesey's 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'

In 5 pages this paper discusses how McMurphy is symbolic of Christ in this work. There are no additional sources listed in the bi...

Good versus Evil in The Milagro Beanfield War and Salt of the Earth

In seven pages this paper contrasts and compares these two films in terms of the symbolic depiction of good and evil in each. The...

Meaning of Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

sons, one in particular, following in his footsteps, not necessarily as a salesman, but as a working class man such as himself. Wi...

Othello by William Shakespeare and the Significance of the Color White

In five pages this paper examines the symbolic meaning of white in this tragedy by William Shakespeare. Four sources are cited in...

Language and Myth by Ernst Cassirer

Language (1946) According to Cassirer, "myth, art, language and science appear as symbols. . . in the sense of forces, each of wh...

Fantasy Literature for Children and Spiritual and Christian Symbolism

In seven pages George MacDonald's The Princess and the Goblin and C.S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe are compared ...

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and Lightning Symbolism

more thoroughly. By considering what lightning means in the novel of Frankenstein, and observing how it is used and in what prete...

Westminster Abbey's Architecture and Religious Symbolism

of English government, seat of law-courts, council chamber and exchequer. (Gun 26) Completed in 1519, Henrys chapel is marvelous. ...

Looking at Society from 3 Sociological Perspectives

In five pages society is glimpsed from the perspectives of symbolic interactionism, conflict theory, and functionalism. Six sou...

Infamous Fight Between Frederick Douglass and Mr. Covey in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

In five pages this paper examines the fight as presented in Douglass's Narrative to conclude that it was merely a retelling of an ...