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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, ...

The Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson and The Surrounded by D'Arcy McNickle

frame. Archilde says: "One had only to go into daylight to realize how preposterous such things were" (McNickle, 1935, p. 106). ...

Literary Period Known as the Anti Heroic Age

and most of her poetry concerns her love and admiration and gratefulness to her husband. However, later in life she began writi...

Ralph Ellison's Life and Literary Career

However, any hope for a middle-class life died in 1917 with the death of Lewis Ellison (Rogers 12). Nevertheless, the...

3 Works on Women's Social Role

out with flowers and shod with dainty little slippers? (Aristophanes). As this indicates, women, at least the upper class women,...

Bram Stoker and Dracula

of the novel is concerned with conflict in one form or another: the overt differences between the fictionalised East Europe of Sto...

Literature and Psychoanalysis

or morality/values. In addition, Freud also theorized that inherent in every newborn child is the urge to engage in sexual ...

Life, Literature, and Criticisms of James Joyce

to death, illustrating, as mentioned, how his life was not necessarily strange or completely outrageous. The second half of the pa...

Literature, Understanding, and the Lack Thereof

Verloc has used her brother, her foundation for understanding her husband dissolves and the two no longer are able to communicate....

French Romantic Literary Works and Their Similarities

separately and then are followed by a discussion about their similarities. The novels discussed are "Madame Bovary," "Pere Goriot,...

James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man, Nella Larsen's Passing, and Lynching

married to a very successful doctor who wishes to leave the country and find a place where they are not oppressed. Irene, however,...

The Feminist Literary Works of Mary Wilkins Freeman

are powerfully illustrative of the claim that many female writers of the time used the ghost story as a means of examining, indire...

Reconstruction, Progressive, and New Deal Eras and Government's Role

also addresses some of the history of social work. Role of Government in Reconstruction, Progressive, New Deal The years followi...

Eight Works of Literary Fiction and the Influence of Social Position

- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...

Reviews of Literary Works by Kaschnitz, Robinson, and Cisneros

the conscience of humanity. The young people in the story relate to their bilingual/cultural context, cultural heritage and domin...

Human Depravity and Evil as Recurrent Literary Themes in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Ministers Black Veil Hawthornes The Ministers Black Veil is a short story that describes evil and depravity as developmental ...

Women in the Literary Works of Edward A. Abbott and Thomas More

to take up arms; they are not compelled as are the men. They are also encouraged to strive professionally and intellectually and c...

A Society of 'Post Work'

Lopez outlines the political situations that have led to the economic and cultural conditions of the present day in Puerto Rico. S...

Survival, Religious Faith, and Family in 'Go Tell It on the Mountain' by James Baldwin and 'Black Boy' by Richard Wright

to be a human being. These representations illustrate how and why a person acts the way he or she does, how moods, feelings and e...

Influential Literary Work The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

experience of slavery (Anonymous The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789) By Olaudah Equiano bvbooks.asp?Bo...

Greco Roman Literary Works and Heroism

slave, and ironically enough, he is enslaved by the prophesy. "People of Thebes, my countrymen, look on Oedipus. He solved the fam...

Literary Modernism in the Works of Virginia Woolf and James Joyce

the most important elements of modernist literature is that which involves perspective. With modernist literature this involves "t...

Four Classic Literary Works and Human Nature

linked to societal ideas of the early eighteenth century as to what constituted a "proper" middle class English life. This is evid...

The Antebellum Economy of the United States

until the outbreak of the War Between the States during the middle of the century), the country almost seemed to be two polar oppo...

Poor Working Conditions and American Consumers

well (Hutchings, 1996). Protective legislation is not usually a practical recourse because it is not usually enforced (Hutchings...

Evaluating Latino and Hispanic Children's Literature

and language barriers. Cohn, D. (2002). Dream Carver. Chronicle Books. This book features Mateo who is a wood carver. However, w...

Benjamin West's Artistic Career

Francis Hayman for the Rotunda at Vauxhall Gardens during the Seven Years War. Jonathan Tyers, the proprietor of Vauxhall Gardens ...

Eighteenth Century Literary Satire in the Works of Daniel Defoe and Jonathan Swift

her Imperial Majestys Apartment.(1) The Rabelaisian joke has often been deciphered in the light of early eighteenth-century topica...

Literary Works of Stephen Crane and Kate Chopin and the Masculinity Concept

an awareness of who she is and wants to be. The unfortunate thing about this discovery is that society and her husband stand as ma...

Characters in Literary Works Contrasts

success and leading a happy life. Willys attitude toward being liked and being popular do not change at all. This is evident when ...