YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Reflections on Several Famous Literary Works
Essays 181 - 210
a young girl who has only her inherent strength and her faith in God to help her survive. She is not especially intelligent, nor i...
Frank Norris, who was working for Doubleday, helped Dreisers first novel, Sister Carrie (1900), to be published....Dreiser continu...
all of his lessons come into play and culminate to create a powerful epiphany. We note some of this in the following excerpt: "Spi...
not necessarily reliable, and that the imposition of an adult viewpoint on childhood events and emotions is bound to present a dis...
each other often about literary topics as well as the war (Tender is the Night). It was during this time in France that Fitzger...
essentially touched upon all that was important and relevant to the African American. He was born James Langston Hughes on Feb....
not been there for his two sons. In this respect both of the sons have had to grow up without their father, or with essentially an...
or element that he has observed to the human condition or situation. This is directly evident in Frosts poem, "Mending Wall". ...
the undercurrent of human conflict is more than apparent as evidence of how plot is a function of character. "The evening, I reme...
He figures thousands on luxury items alone" (Carver NA). From these lines we note that the couple is likely very superficial an...
we note in the following: "Since before this time the races of men had been living on earth free from all evils, free from laborio...
suffered a severe leg wound and was twice decorated by the Italian government. His affair with an American nurse, Agnes von Kurows...
were incapable of having the same feelings, the same needs, the same emotional attachments to loved ones that white people maintai...
visit time and again, or which makes the reader have a strange sense of foreboding for the characters as the story unravels. Autho...
OConnor (1925 - 1964) Novelist oconnormain.html). This illustrates her intense position as it involves the secular world that surr...
ways, black women had to endure two types of prejudice. They had the stigmatism of being slaves, and then, as if the issue of race...
we have a man who is essentially being tossed with the tides. He is not nearly as determined or as confident as Odysseus. This is ...
of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!" (Conrad PG)....
with open galleries and porticoes. Bottles of milk were grouped on the steps, and occasionally light flickered from the kitchens w...
of women in medieval society, De Pizan wrote two of her most significant works, The Book of the City of Ladies and The Book of the...
played on him. Stephen Crane was born in Newark, New Jersey on November 1, 1871, the 14th child (only eight survived) of a Method...
demonstrations and anti-Vietnam War protests. Majoring in political science at St. Paul, Minnesotas Macalester College, writing a...
the foot of power!/Nothing care I for Zeus" (Aeschylus). In other words, Prometheus will not succumb to tyranny and a power that r...
This 6 page paper discusses the literary works and reputation of Kate Chopin, with emphasis on “The Awakening.” Bibliography lists...
This 3 page paper gives an explanation of literary devices and conflicts within the plays Macbeth and Mistaken Identity. This pape...
one might look at the very opening lines of the epic, which address the reader, even the contemporary reader, directly and states ...
But in fiction it sometimes finds fuller expression than it does as a headline. This paper explores the concept of violence as it ...
of fiction. But in fiction it sometimes finds fuller expression than it does as a headline. This paper explores the concept of vio...
to illustrate important themes. This paper considers how an authors use of death, chaos and villainy bring other aspects of the wo...
Garcia Marquez seriously or are they an absurdists slanted look at the world? This paper argues that even though they are often co...