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Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Darwinism

Hardy presents the tragic story of a young dairymaid, descended on her mothers side from rough peasant folk and on her fathers fro...

Effects of Hubris on Tragic Shakespearean Heroes Brutus, Hamlet, and Othello

my cause, and be silent, that you may hear. Believe me for mine honor, and have respect to mine honor, that you may believe. Cen...

"The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant: Short Story Analysis

the late nineteenth century (the same time the story was written). This setting is of vital importance because at that time, weal...

Italo Calvino/"The Adventure of a Reader"

rather read about romance and adventure, read the work of Stendhal, Dostoevsky, Balzac, Tolstoy, Flaubert and Proust, rather than ...

Alienation in Literature

and loved ones. Raoul seeks drugs and partying to find some level of acceptance and happiness in his life, which is often the case...

Self Quests of the Protagonists in On the Road by Jack Kerouac and The Awakening by Kate Chopin

In six pages this paper considers the protagonists Dean Moriarty, Sal Paradise, and Edna Pontillier's self quests in On the Road a...

Victorian Reading Habits: The Thrill of Transgression

"a castle, ruined or intact, haunted or not"; sinister ruins "which arouse a pleasing melancholy"; dungeons, catacombs, crypts and...

John Proctor, a Tragic Hero

complete madness, until at last Elizabeth Proctor, who is completely innocent, is charged with being a witch (Miller, 1952). Not s...

The Thrill of Transgression: “Frankenstein” and “Manfred”

is blasphemous. Also, and certainly unknown to himself, he is skittering along the knife edge between madness and sanity. He is a ...

Johnny Tremain

maturation of the American colonies as they journey toward war and independence. The thematic context demonstrates how it is exper...

Redemption and Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner

and accepts her even after she confides her sexual past to him. However, Amir never confesses his sin to anyone - not to his fath...

Reading Romantic Fantasy and Living Reality in Don Quixote and Madame Bovary

lifetime - to become the knight-errant hero like those of the Round Table he always fantasized being. The life of a 50-year-old w...

How Gustave Flaubert and Miguel de Cervantes Thematize the Effect of Reading on the Imagination in Madame Bovary and Don Quixote

saving lives, and he was - in her view - incapable of providing her with sexual satisfaction or any type of emotional salvation. ...

Sammy Grows Up in the “A&P”

that he too is a man like Stoksie, but the reference to Stoksies children again reveals his immaturity. Referring to the babies in...

Andrew Dubus/Dancing After Hours

viewpoint. His point appears to be that life is, in general, a painful, isolated experience, as the connections that people feel...

Women’s Refusal in Euripides’ Medea and Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

to her on the basis of her sex. To further complicate her situation, she was an exile from her primitive Colchis homeland, forced...

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Moderation. Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve. 10. Cleanliness. Tolerate no uncleanline...

Comparative Analysis of Oedipus and Willy Loman as They Relate to Aristotle’s Definition of a Tragic Hero

plague wreaks death and despair onto the Theban people, Oedipus pride motivates him to make a deal whereby he reveals the identity...

Secondary Characters in “Ferdydurke” and “The Stranger”

He notes that old women often have big stomachs, while the men are "thin as rakes, and they all carried sticks" (Camus, 1946, p. 8...

Psychological and Sociological Analysis of William Shakespeare’s Othello

But outwardly, he projects himself as a man of total self-assurance (Macaulay 259). He states almost majestically, "My parts, my ...

Comparative Analysis of Short Stories "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka and "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

man, lying face down in the mud, who, in spite of his tremendous efforts, couldnt get up, impeded by his enormous wings" (Marquez)...

Main Theme in Flight by Sherman Alexie

He is shot and wakes to find himself in another body, a person in the past. Zits has access to the persons memories and knows the ...

Analyzing John Nash's Mental Illness in A Beautiful Mind Film by Director Ron Howard

original consensus among mental health professionals the schizophrenia developed during late teens or early adulthood. However, a...

Racism and Criminality in Native Son

many of the same factors that Wright presented in the life of Bigger. Baldwin writes, for example, that he himself is a product o...

Hills Like White Elephants and Everyday Use

are giving in to another, and also demonstrating how they are not necessarily self confident or overly concerned about themselves ...

Susanna Rowson Writes the Truth

more than the all-too common story of a girl seduced and abandoned by a worthless man, it is a lecture that runs nearly 150 pages ...

Funcitons of Characters Desdemona, Othello, and Iago in Othello by William Shakespeare

heart. His insecurities are compounded by the dark color of his skin, which makes him a social outsider. Therefore, when he meet...

Graham Greene's The Destructors and D.H. Lawrence's 'The Rocking Horse Winner'

world, in which society is restructuring itself after the devastation of the war - a devastation which T, at least, seems to feel ...

Byronic Hero Neo in The Matrix

his control, or often, the hero will choose this separation for himself. Neo lives in a chosen isolation, but he also chooses to f...

Jackie Kay's 'Trumpet'

The world as a whole, in fact, was not privy to that information. It would only be when Joss died and his body was processed thro...