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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...

Jing-Mei Woo’s Personality Traits in Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds”

When Jing-Mei fell short of achieving the lofty goal her mother set for her, her insecurity intensified. After seemingly endless ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

The Time Machine Radio Show

various scientific ideas about time travel. The broadcast is a somewhat accurate rendition of the classic, but even so, in 2012, i...

"Dr. Glass-Case" by De Cervantes

Cervantes "rather formulaic" descriptions of Italian cities were "perfectly in tune with the rhetorical canons of the time" (Cerva...

Societal Expectations, Twain, Krakauer

This essay considers Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild and Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and asserts that both protagonists were societ...

Tolstoy's Ivan Ilyich and Redemption

This essay pertains to the psychological journey that Tolstoy's protagonist undergoes and how he ultimately comes to the epiphany ...

Hamlet and his Foils

This essay pertains to the characters in "Hamlet" who act as foils to the protagonist. Ten pages in length, six sources are cited....

Good Night, and Good Luck, Film Review

This film review primarily profiles the film's protagonist, Edward R. Murrow, using an existential perspective. The writer argues ...

"Barn Burning," Sarty's Attitudes Towards his Father

This essay pertains to William Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning," and the changing attitudes of its 10-year-old protagonist Sa...

Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid

This essay pertains to "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" by Jeff Kinney. The writer argues that comedic effect is achieved by keeping the voi...

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

This essay describes how Austen uses characterization and irony in a manner that causes contemporary readers to identify with the ...

John Ford/The Quiet Man

and he refuses to do so. Mary Kate abides by her brothers wishes, which confuses and frustrates Sean. The plot complications tha...

Theme of Death in William Faulkner’s ‘A Rose for Emily’

she retreated into security of the family homestead, which like the lady of the house, was also dying a slow death. Before the Ci...

Characters of Nancy and Jane Eyre Compared

In seven pages these female protagonists from Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre are contrasted and co...

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...

"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...

Downfall of William Shakespeare's Tragic Hero Macbeth

with a trio of witch siblings (described in the text as the weird sisters), who issue this prediction to the Thane: THIRD WITCH. A...

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 ...

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...

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...