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Comparing Medea and Lysistrata

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares these plays by Euripides and Aristophanes in a consideration of the similarities a...

Germinal by Emile Zola and Class Consciousness

In six pages this paper examines how class consciousness is developed in this classic novel by Emile Zola. There are no other sou...

Political Significance of Machiavelli's The Prince

This paper addresses the political impact of Niccolo Machiavelli's classic work, The Prince. This five page paper has eight sourc...

An Analysis of Machiavelli's The Prince

This paper analyzes Machiavelli's classic work, with an emphasis on chapter twenty-one and the topic of gaining esteem. This seve...

Leadership in Machiavelli's The Prince

This paper addresses modern leadership issues relevant to Machiavelli's classic work. This nine page paper has seven sources list...

'The Iliad' and 'Epic of Gilgamesh' on Death and the Afterlife

These two classic epics are contrasted and compared regarding the perspectives on death and immortality in the afterlife contained...

Women's Role in Candide by Voltaire and Tartuffe by Moliere

anyone else get a word in edgewise; so much as a "But, Mother" elicits an accusation of impudence. This is a very funny opening sc...

The Persian Letters by Montesquieu

In five pages this classic 17th century novel by Montesquieu is analyzed as it relates to the Scientific Revolution and the Enligh...

'Beowulf' and Family Ties

In five pages the bonds of kinship and family as represented in this classic Medieval poem are discussed. One source is cited in ...

Concepts of Honor and Virtue in Literary Works 'Henry IV Part I,' 'The Canterbury Tales,' and 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'

In five pages virtue and honor are examined in a comparative analysis of these three classics of Medieval and English literature. ...

Magic In Sir Gawain And The Green Knight and A Midsummer's Night Dream

This paper examines these two classic literary works in relation to the significance of magic in each. This five page paper has no...

A Summary of The Song of Roland (Chanson de Roland)

it is possible that the poet telling "The Song of Roland" was using the character of Charlemagne to represent Christianity as it m...

Homer's 'The Odyssey' and William Shakespeare's Hamlet

and the tales of this one mans adventure. The man is Odysseus and his adventures are legendary. He is not a man searching for the ...

Popular Fiction and Classical Literature

This paper analyzes what defines popular fiction and a classic literary work in an assessment of Charlotte Temple by Susanna Rosen...

Moral Issues as Presented in Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

In eight pages this paper examines 19th century moral values as they are represented by Huck's ethical evolution throughout this c...

Southern Women's Treatment in 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner

This paper examines how women in America, particularly in the South, were treated as represented in 'A Rose for Emily,' a classic ...

Her Land by Gilman

A paper which takes a personal perspective on Gilman's classic text. Gilman presents a Utopia populated entirely by women, in a na...

Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In five pages the protagonist and narrator of Fitzgerald's 1925 classic novel is presented in this character sketch. One source i...

Corruption of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In five pages this report examines how Gatsby depicts a corrupted variation of the American Dream in Fitzgerald's classic 1925 nov...

Modernism Expressed in 'The Great Gatsby'

Passages from F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel are featured in this paper consisting of 5 pages that reveals the destructive as...

American Family and a Character Study of Ma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

In five pages this paper examines the Joad family matriarch featured in this classic American novel in a consideration of her role...

Good and Evil in East of Eden by John Steinbeck

In five pages this paper examines the classic conflict between good and evil as considered in one of the final novels written by J...

Abandonment in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

This paper discusses the theme of abandonment in Shelley's classic novel and her life. This five page paper has nine sources lis...

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

In six pages the ways in which this novel reflects the classic detective genre as established by Arthur Conan Doyle are considered...

Social Issues in Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein

In five pages social issues as they are represented in this science fiction classic novel are examined in a discussion that also i...

An Analysis of The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

This 5 page paper discusses the way in which Toni Morrison handles the issue of racism as the definition of belonging, beauty and ...

The Characterization of Pip in Great Expectations

Pip is a character in this Charles Dickens classic. His role in the work is the focus of attention in this six page paper that inc...

Geoffrey Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales

This essay delves into the man behind The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer. The author utilizes both an in depth reading of the...

Women's Roles in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and William Shakespeare's Hamlet

In eight pages this paper contrasts and compares how women's roles are depicted in these two classic works of literature. Five so...

Friendship in Great Expectations

Friendship is often the focus of attention by novelists as characters interact with one another. This is the case in this classic ...