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Comparative Analysis of Edgar Allan Poe's Short Stories 'The Cask of Amontillado' and 'The Black Cat'

rage (Cutts). Poe, like his stories, was quite unusual. Even his physical appearance hinted that his mental processes were...

The Prophetess by Njabulo Ndebele, Light and Darkness Images

encompassed in darkness. Ndebele uses phrases and words such as the following: He was anxious about where the woman was...

From the Light into the Darkness of Japanese History

from one epoch to another. The title symbolized customs of the past, but it could also be adapted to whatever future social or ec...

Celtic Mythology and the Morrigan Legends

or most, of the myths surrounding Morrigan she is seen, as noted, as a woman of battle. She was there with every war of the Celts ...

Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler and the Themes of Deformity and Injury

The reason Koestler has given these injuries to the man who once led the revolution is that he is now aged, useless, and must serv...

Children's Stories Analysis

this argument we see that the giant is the handicapped child. The entire town is frightened of him because he is a giant. He does ...

Soviet Union and Stalinist Despotism

individual supports their own interests. Olson writes: "...groups, if they are made up of rational individuals, are also rational...

Karen Cronkite on Depression

sought. A third point that Cronkite makes is that human behavior is complex. There is a tendency in American society to want to ...

Cronkite on Mood Disorders

difficulty in viewing the behavior of people who suffer from mental disorder, such as bipolar, in terms of illness. Susan Crosby, ...

Becoming New Yorkers

the facts revealed by Lopez concerns the way in which speaking Spanish is punitively regarded in the high school that was the focu...

Pain and Healing in Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin

brother. This is where Baldwin sets up another beautiful metaphor: the ice. "A great block of ice got settled in my belly and kept...

Taking Chances in The Stand, Desperation, and Insomnia by Stephen King

this is the same evil that invades the minds and souls of killer postal workers, schoolyard murderers, and child abusers? King al...

Setting the Stage for Imagery and Violence in William Shakespeare's Macbeth

In six pages this paper examines how the stage for violence is set through imagery in this tragic play by William Shakespeare in a...

Metaphors of Darkness and Light in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

In five pages this paper discusses how the characters in this Shakespearean tragedy are better understood through the metaphors of...

Macbeth by William Shakespeare and the Motifs of Blindness, Sight, Darkness, and Light

In ten pages this paper examines Shakespeare's characterizations of Lord and Lady Macbeth regarding how they enable him to masterf...

Comparative Analysis of Revolution in Literature

In five pages Georg Buechner's Danton's Death is compared with Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon. Two other sources are cited in...

Mental Metaphors and Imagery in Henry IV by William Shakespeare

In 5 pages this paper examines the importance of imagery and mental metaphors in Shakespeare's historical play in a consideration ...

Disorder and Moral Darkness in Macbeth by William Shakespeare

In five pages this paper analyzes the tragedy of disorder and moral darkness that characterizes the play and considers the roles L...

Robert Frost's Poetry and Darkness

see the secrecy, the sense of spying that is darkness, though not a darkness associated with nature, other than perhaps the nature...

Darkness Visible by William Golding

takes an offhand remark of Pedigree concerning another student, Henderson, too literally and, interpreting the boy to be evil, wil...

Depression According to Kay Redfield Jamison and William Styron

before the author has a chance to build a life with him. However, what comes across in Jamisons account is how this relationship p...

Film Metropolis by Director Fritz Lang and Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler

In five pages this paper discusses totalitarianism as it pertains Metropolis by director Fritz Lang and Darkness at Noon by Arthur...

Differences Between Holocaust Personalities Stangl and Eichmann

In five pages a determination as to whether Stangl and Eichmann are two different authors or two different people are examined wit...

Social Order and the Science Fiction of Ray Bradbury and Ursula K. LeGuin

In eleven pages this paper discusses how contemporary society is portrayed in this comparison of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury an...

Symbolism of Darkness and Light in East of Eden by John Steinbeck

presenting us with a violent and angry man who cannot be all good because he cannot see truth nor can he forgive. The father pr...

Yanomami According to Tierney and Chagnon

about marriage within the community. He also talks about the weather and nature and how the tribe deals with its surroundings. The...

Gabriel's Embracing of Homosexuality in The Fur Queen

Background The Fur Queen is the basis on which Gabriel adapts to life and the gay world while dealing with the horrific exp...

Coleridge and Byron, Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Darkness

personification of Death and Nightmare Life-in-Death; the sailors all dying and then their corpses reanimating, all of these image...

Poe’s Tell-Tale Heart

he so closely identifies with him, which is precisely Poes point-the narrators is not normal, but is quite insane. The point of ...

Portland, Oregon's Old Town Chinatown Neighborhood: Complex Physical And Social Environment

three interviews explicitly describes the prevalence of and potential for violence, crime, homelessness and overall cultural decay...