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a young girl who has only her inherent strength and her faith in God to help her survive. She is not especially intelligent, nor i...

Frank Norris, who was working for Doubleday, helped Dreisers first novel, Sister Carrie (1900), to be published....Dreiser continu...

still powerfully under the control of a patriarchal society. "For Antigone, there could never be any laws that could stand in t...

King Arthur was the only one who could have united all of England because he was the embodiment of the old and new ways. As such, ...

down into the depths, and the church of Dantes medieval Italy labeled any direct and persistent questioning soul as heretical. ...

visit time and again, or which makes the reader have a strange sense of foreboding for the characters as the story unravels. Autho...

OConnor (1925 - 1964) Novelist oconnormain.html). This illustrates her intense position as it involves the secular world that surr...

ways, black women had to endure two types of prejudice. They had the stigmatism of being slaves, and then, as if the issue of race...

we have a man who is essentially being tossed with the tides. He is not nearly as determined or as confident as Odysseus. This is ...

It is interesting to note, however, that Molieres inspiration did not come from Corneilles comedic tendencies, but rather upon the...

were incapable of having the same feelings, the same needs, the same emotional attachments to loved ones that white people maintai...

bees), and her mother, a former student of Otto Plaths, a high school teacher (Bloom 1). Although Dr. Otto Plath suffered from ca...

contended to be a reflection of the culture in which he was purported by Bram Stoker as existing, so too are the women presented i...

work which stands as the most famous of his novels. Not surprisingly, "Hawthorne came from a Puritan family of declining fortun...

arms off and place them somewhere, nor did she wage a real battle on the high window. Even the terms high window and shadow can be...

first the expulsion from the tennis club, then from the fascist party, then academic anti-Semitism, then more and more direct insu...

walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode, were but matters to w...

in a celebration that includes dances that are a tribute to the "Old People," an annual tribute to ancestors. Avey is deeply moved...

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

Parenting styles differ significantly, therefore, leaving much open to interpretation and inference. Certain aspects, such as nur...

and a truly brazen attitude - were in vogue, as was drinking. Although Prohibition was in force to try to prevent people from imbi...

is filled with allegorical references to the time of chivalry and has been described as an allegorical epic. As outlined in the i...

a very unexpected place: her fears. She is so terrified that life is simply going to pass her by that the thought nearly paralyze...

quest as being somehow representative of the times in which he lived. Through the use of exaggeration, Cervantes is basically say...

he must assassinate Hoederer. Hoederer is a admirable Communist leader whom Hugo likes and respects for his political ideas. Hugo ...

in Austens book. And, such realities are subtly reflected in Fieldings book as well, despite the fact that it was written only a f...

In five pages this paper examines three viewpoints of London as revealed in such literary works as Howard's End by E.M. Forster, S...

In seven pages the power of the water symbolism employed by John Cheever in these two literary works is analyzed. There are no ot...

has some boxing success, the protagonist Joe Bonaparte hurts his hands enough that he can no longer play the violin. In this work...

This paper examines how Ernest Hemingway's complexities are thematically reflected in his literary works in 10 pages. There are 9...