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A Literary Hero: Henry V

Is Henry V really a literary hero? The paper argues that he is a literary hero and in fact could serve as a role model in today's ...

Literary Work and Social Commentary in Fences by August Wilson

This essay examines Wilsons celebrated play while exploring its social relevance, dramatic action, and merits as both a literary w...

Early American Working People and Soldiers

In eight pages Revolutionary War soldiers such as Joseph Plumb Martin are examined along with working men and women which include ...

Literary Works and Socioeconomics

Sonnys Blues, Sonny is the protagonist who is a recovering drug addict. He tries to begin a new life with the help of his brother,...

Literary Modernism in the Works of Virginia Woolf and T.S. Eliot

(Longman, 2001). Others, however, bravely forged away from tradition and convention. Longman (2001, PG) notes:...

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...

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...

Frances E.W. Harper's Life and Work II

In nine pages this research paper considers this African American novelist, poet, and lecturer in terms of her life and work with ...

Literary Criticism of the Works of Flannery O'Connor and William Butler Yeats

This paper examines how Hal Blythe and Charlie Sweet compare and critique 'The Second Coming' of W.B. Yeats and 'A Good Man is Har...

Aphra Behn's 17th Century Literary Works

Indies, and lived an adventurous life of slave rebellions and observed Indian tribal rituals which would later appear in her works...

Thomas Eakins' The Swimming Hole and Pierre August Renoir's The Great Bathers

In seven pages this paper contrasts and compares Eakins' American Realist painting with Renoir's French Impressionism work. Three...

4 Multicultural Literary Works and the 'Feminine Principle'

and mother. This relegation of women to one sphere and men to another is reflected in his stories and novels as well. In "Arab...

Caribbean Literary Themes

In five pages this paper discusses the literary themes in the Caribbean literary examples The Chosen Place, the Timeless People, T...

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...

Historical Portrayals of Women in Literary Works

This paper contrasts and compares the female characters in The Birds by Aristophanes, Hamlet by William Shakespeare, and Buried Ch...

Comparative Analysis of The Great Gatsby and Six Degrees of Separation

In a paper containing seven pages the American Dream is compared and contrasted in these works. There are three bibliographic sou...

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...

Role of Marriage as Represented in 2 Literary Works

In five pages this paper compares North and South by Gaspell and Vanity Fair by W.M. Thackeray in terms of how marriage and its ro...

Literary Devices in the Works of Stephen King

In five pages this essay examines the symbolism, characterization, and important use of Maine's rural setting featured in 'The Man...

A Psychiatric Analysis of Madness and Selected Literary Works

This paper analyzes two psychiatric approaches to addressing madness and insanity. The author utilizes the works of R.D. Laing, D...

Conflicts Between Mothers and Daughters and the Literary Works of Liliana Heker and Amy Tan

In 5 pages this paper compares 'Two Kinds' by Amy Tan with 'The Stolen Party' by Liliana Heker in a consideration of how each depi...

Literary Works of Friedrich Nietzsche

In eight pages Nietzsche's works are examined with the primary focus being Thus Spake Zarathustra. Five sources are cited in the ...

A Comparison of Two Southern Literary Works by Agee and Hurston

This paper compares and contrasts the views of the rural south as seen in James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, and Zora Neal...

American Identity Development

In three pages the ways in which literature reflects the development of an American identity are examined in the works of such aut...

Establishing Writing Connections and the Native American Writers Sherman Alexie and N. Scott Momaday

spotted horse grazed on the plain, and there was a dark wildness on the mountains beyond. The land was still and strong. It was ...

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 ...