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Society's Treatment of Women in Literature in an Analysis of Female Characters Daisy, Harriet, and Lucie

This essay consists of eleven pages and examines society's treatment of women in the female characterizations featured in the lite...

Feminist George Eliot

In her novels, Eliot seems to rail against the fact that a woman must be a certain type of person and act a certain way...

Relevance of Secondary Literary Characters

Emmas polar opposite. She has not been born to gentility, but has been raised to be so by the sponsorship of the Campbells. In ord...

The Narrative Styles of Stevenson in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Eliot in Middlemarch

shown in his marriage to Rosamond. She is from a very wealthy family and insists that Lyndgate keep her in a manner to which she h...

Dickens, Bronte, and Social Impact of Their Works

For example, when Oliver is arrested, he is never allowed to state his case or to speak, for that matter. Oliver becomes sick when...

Macbeth and Doctor Faustus

to end he is nothing more than an arrogant man who wants to show others that he is the most intelligent and most powerful individu...

Conflict Between Antigone and Creon in Antigone by Sophocles

the Chorus suggests that it could be the work of the gods (Sophocles). Rather than consider someone elses viewpoint, Creon begins ...

Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy and Injustice

and his wife wish to send their daughter Tess to the family mansion in hopes of winning the heart of a prominent dUrberville heir....

Grete Samsa in 'Metamorphosis' by Franz Kafka

beginning of the narrative, Grete is quite concerned about her brother when he is locked in his room, unwilling to let his family ...

Human Understanding According to David Hume

determines that moral decisions are established as a result of moral sentiment rather than understanding. In the first section o...

Tragic Hero and Sympathy for William Shakespeare's Othello

of sympathy it is first necessary to understand that the classification of "Othello" as a "tragedy" is, of course, not to be confu...

Adam's Fall and the Reasons Presented in Paradise Lost by John Milton

In three pages this paper discusses Milton's reasons for writing this epic poem and the sympathy generated for Adam and Eve that r...

William Shakespeare's Characters Edmund in King Lear and Iago in Othello

In three pages this essay compares these two Shakespearean villains in terms of their similarities and the lack of sympathy each e...

Medea Characterization by Euripides

In three pages this research paper contends that the playwright conceived of Medea as a character that would inspire sympathy in a...

'The Inferno' by Dante and the Character of Francesca da Rimini

In five pages this paper examines the significance of Francesa da Rimini and the sympathy she inspires because of the afterlife in...

God, Understanding Morality, and David Hume

In five pages David Hume's definition of morality as a sympathy concept is applied to his contention that moral views do not stem ...

Overview of the Hollywood Ten

In fifteen pages this paper examines the so called 'Hollywood Ten' or list of ten members of the motion picture industry that were...

Justice Rules and David Hume

In five pages this report assesses David Hume's attitudes regarding jusice and examines why he labels it as an artificial virtue b...

Application and Analysis of Film Theories of Signification, Representation, and Perception

throughout cinematic history, Jean Mitry (1907-1988) was perhaps the most comprehensive and objective. He examined cinema from al...

Oppressed Peoples and the Sympathetic Words of Martin Luther King Jr. and Jonathan Swift

"good" people of the country should think seriously about using infants at the age of 1 as sources of food and material. The entir...

Poems of Brooks and Dunbar

(Brooks 9-15). The narrator is illustrating how the reader, or listener, who is likely Black would not have believed them had they...

Dunbar and Brooks: Poems

reached/ was you" (Brooks 2-8). In this the reader is subtly illustrating how society, white American society perhaps, has control...

Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy

cause of a childs disease or malady or because they use the accusation of MSBP as a ploy to avoid malpractice suits (Johns, 2007)....

Macbeth: Villain or Not?

we see him. At a military camp of King Duncans, a soldier is brought in who tells of the battle in which he was injured, and in wh...

Franz Kafka and the Big Bug

There are four central themes in Kafka's Metamorphosis: the absurdity of life, the disconnect between mind and body, the limits of...

Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Sympathy for the Protagonist

keeping me at a distance; but that until she heard from Bessie, and could discover by her own observation, that I was endeavouring...

William Blake's Images and Words in Illuminated Songs of Innocence and Experience

of the power and impact of Blakes illustrations concerning his inner images and his poetry. As one author notes, "Those who know h...

Analysis of an Illuminating Moment in To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

uses this seemingly trivial incident to delineate the nature of the relationships of the Ramsey family. Mrs. Ramsey is not so much...

Illuminating Social Life Edited by Peter Kivisto

white small farmers and laborers were united on a political stand that called for economic reform. African-Americans were divided ...

Medieval Cultural Influence of The Apocalypse of St. John and Illuminated Glory

survive from this "last and most extraordinary expansion of the medieval Apocalypse cycles" (Lewis, 1995, p. 1). Illustrated Gothi...