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Would Aristotle Label Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman as a Tragedy?

audience" (66). The reversal refers to a reversal in fortune, which Aristotle believed was classically represented in a fall from...

Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself and Explication

actually ever addressed. The author states, for example, towards the beginning of the article, how "No gesture of style so prono...

Language as a Key to Inner Landscapes

another persons mind and perception. We each live isolated lives with only language as a bridge to understanding the worldview and...

Virginia Woolf and E.B. White: Essays

a background. Woolfs imagery concentrates on light and dark, and various colors. She mentions "dark autumn nights," a "yellow-und...

Roland Bathes and S/Z

the reader is the consumer. A writerly text is at the other end of this spectrum, as in these texts the reader is also a co-produc...

Detailed Analysis of Kate Chopin’s Short Story, ‘Desiree’s Baby’

of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...

Analysis of Literary and Film Versions of The Color Purple

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...

Literature and the Use of Newspapers

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

Criticism of Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Found in Ambivalent Man by Jesse Wolfe

in actual fact, every bit as forged in prejudice as American democracy. Wolfes essay is subdivided into a trio of sections. Firs...

'Unreal' Experiences, Society and the Individual in Wild Swans, The Survivor, and All Quiet on the Western Front

through the Japanese, then the Russians and then the Chinese Communists. Reality and everyday actions became skewed as people live...

Chinese Literary Examples The Fox Fairy and The World Inside a Pillow

At the same time, however, the stories which are presented to not necessarily unfold in a clear chronological pattern. Instead va...

Children of the River by Linda Crew and Roots by Alex Haley

he was sent to another culture and made a slave. With his plans and expectations already in place Kunta finds himself in Americ...

Analyzing 'The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg' by Mark Twain

was many years ago. Hadleyburg was the most honest and upright town in all the region round about. It had kept that reputation uns...

Authors of the Latin American Boom Era Carpentier and Cortazar

indicative of what the new emerging countries might become. Julio Cortazar does...

Comparative Thematic Analysis of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'A New Leaf' and Edith Wharton's 'Roman Fever'

much of a respected figure. One author, in noting this states that his "playboy image impeded the proper assessment of his work" (...

Supernatural and Dreams in The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann and The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

themselves whether or not the writer is referring to the natural or supernatural world as often the storyline it intercepted or ov...

Women's Aspects Concerning Marriage and Equality in Excerpts from Wollstonecraft, Ibsen, Mill, Chopin, and de Pizan

is considered a step in the right direction for women of the era who were trapped in unhealthy and unequal marriages. Regardless o...

Comparative Analysis of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness

reckless without hardihood, greedy without audacity, and cruel without courage" (Conrad 102). In Ellisons novel we see a young B...

Magical Applications of the Legend of King Arthur

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, ...

Hell in Dante's 'Inferno' and Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus

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

Depiction of Women the Story of Kenreimon'in, 'The Wife of Bath's Tale,' and Antigone

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

Critiquing Part 4, Chapter 5 of 'Gulliver's Travels' by Jonathan Swift

is based upon Lemuel Gulliver, who was a ships surgeon and he tells of being shipwrecked on the island of Lilliput (Summary of Gul...

Detective Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe

In five pages the ways in which the detective literary genre was standardized by Poe's 'The Purloined Letter,' 'The Mystery of Mar...

Ernest Hemingway's 'Hills Like White Elephants,' Raymond Carver's 'Are These Actual Miles?' and Marriage

He figures thousands on luxury items alone" (Carver NA). From these lines we note that the couple is likely very superficial an...

Mark Twain's Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses

he knows of an undertow there which will hold her back against the gale and save her. For just pure woodcraft, or sailorcraft, or ...

Thoreau and Bryant's Impacts Upon the Writings of Oliver, Stevens, and Frost

or element that he has observed to the human condition or situation. This is directly evident in Frosts poem, "Mending Wall". ...

Is Plot a Function of Character or Is the Opposite True?

the undercurrent of human conflict is more than apparent as evidence of how plot is a function of character. "The evening, I reme...

Literary Analysis of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

The work was going on. The work! And this was the place where some of the helpers had withdrawn to die. They were dying slowly it ...

Maya Angelou Gives an Eloquent Voice to This Generation

this definition of black heroism and to the outline of a typical success story" (Walker, 1995, p. 91). Angelou is as simple...

Hesiod's The Works and Days, Theogony and Gender Conflict

we note in the following: "Since before this time the races of men had been living on earth free from all evils, free from laborio...