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Images of Light and Dark in "Paradise Lost"

differ. But we are not interested here in the themes of the work but in its imagery. Further, as is well-documented, many readers...

Violent Song Lyrics/Teen Aggression

the detrimental emotional and psychological effects that this type of music has on young people. However, besides examining the su...

Scorsese/Gangs of New York

the foreign hordes defiling it" (Mattie 215). Cutting slays Vallon, consigns his son to an orphanage, and proclaims his rule ove...

Film Analysis/Kiss Me Deadly

(Ralph Meeker) swerves to avoid her and runs off the road. Angry, he snarls, "You almost wrecked my car. Well? Get in!" (Dirks, 20...

Can violence in American society be controlled?

of appropriate parental guidance and role models that makes certain youths choose lives of violence. In the Old West violen...

Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison

However, this influence is seldom acknowledged by critics, who "see no excitement or meaning to the tropes of darkness, sexuality ...

Wordsworth & Hardy/Perspectives on Nature

First and foremost, the Thrush is seen by this Romantic poet in heroic terms, as a male facing the storm of the public world in or...

Two Critical Views of Shakespeare’s Comedies

from disarray to order; and marks a victory of "Us over Them" (Levin 14). He further argues that 20th century critics have tended ...

“Relinquish All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here”

the Dark Ages, 2005). Most of the learning that took place was dedicated to organizing knowledge about the past; there was no atte...

Robert Frost's Darker Poetry

In thirteen pages this paper examines Robert Frost's dark or melancholy poems from 6 critical perspectives. Seven sources are cit...

Gender Roles and African Women in African and French Literature

This paper examines the depiction of African Women in Camara Laye's The Dark Child and Ousmane Sembene's God's Bits of Wood in fiv...

Analysis of the Dark Ages

In six pages the Dark Ages is analyzed in terms of life, language, culture, writing, and religion. Five sources are cited in the ...

Dark and Light Imagery in 'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night' by Dylan Thomas

In five pages Thomas' dark and light imagery is examined within the context of the poem as representing how people should continue...

Cannibalism in Suddenly Last Summer by Tennessee Williams

In three pages this paper discusses Suddenly Last Summer in terms of the fantastic and metaphoric nature of cannibalism in this da...

Overview of Astronomical Cosmology or Cosmogony

In twelve pages cosmogony or astronomical cosmology is explored in terms of examination of the universe's origin with a discussion...

Dark Future in the Science Fiction Novel Neuromancer by William Gibson

In nine pages this paper examines how technology can lead society into a dark dystopia in an analysis of William Gibson's Neuroman...

Dark But Not Always Gothic Writings of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne

a nation of disillusionment, and we often find some sort of sympathetic resonance in tales of the dark and unholy. And the first p...

Disease and Darkness Imagery in William Shakespeare's Macbeth

this counsel. When Lady Macbeth hears of he prophecy, she immediately begins to plot and plan. This scene if chilling in its ima...

Light and Darkness in James Baldwin's 'Sonny's Blues'

us with darkness and alienation. We note that Sonnys brother is a teacher, and he feels himself to be successful. He feels that ...

Monster Threat in the 1987 Horror Movie Near Dark

This report analyzed the Near Dark horror movie within the context of critic Robin Wood's observation that 'normality is threatene...

Horror Film Evolution

mindless conformists, and sought to sound a warning through the medium of film (Caligari, in the figure of the mad doctor compelli...

Mark Twain's Life Transition Represented by Huckleberry Finn

story we can see this as Huck states that "I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the wi...

Infidelity in The Real Thing by Playwright Tom Stoppard

human being. Annies selfish behavior can be defined as individualism at its worst, inasmuch as she does not take into account the...

Analyzing Mark Twain's 'What Is Man'

death (As To Posthumous). There is one chapter, for instance, called "The Death of Jean" which was written just four months prior...

William Shakespeare's 'Dark Lady' Sonnet 127

In this way the sinfulness is likened to the darkness, since evil and dark tend to go hand in hand. And the fact that one is a mi...

Women's Issues in Brazil According to De Jesus and Caulfield

In six pages this paper is structured in terms of interviewing these authors in a hypothetical Q&A format with the texts Child...

Different Views on American Labor and Politics

In ten pages authors Max Green and Taylor E. Dark and their opposing perspectives on American labor are examined. Ten sources are...

Dark Drama Macbeth by William Shakespeare

audience is presented with circumstances and relationships where there is never a truly positive outcome for any of those involved...

The Journey in Apocalypse and Heart of Darkness

bring his Kurtz back to civilization, Willard is instructed from the start to find and kill his Col. Kurtz. This difference is st...

A Review of Holes

A 5 page analysis of irony and dark humor in the book by Louis Sachar. Character and plot development revolve around both. 1 sourc...