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The 1995 Short Story Winner

This paper discusses and analyses a short story. An alternative ending is written for the story. The writer discusses the main the...

Allegory and Symbolism in the American Gothic Short Stories "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner and "Ligeia" and "The Oval Portrait" by Edgar Allan Poe

wife Virginias slow death, the narrator focuses on every detail of his wife Ligeia as she lies dying: "The pale fingers became of ...

Gothic and Symbolic Elements in the Short Stories "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulker and "Ligeia" by Edgar Allan Poe

Are the descriptions of the narrator reliable or do they represent hallucinations brought on by a deteriorating mental state? In ...

Death Perspectives of Leo Tolstoy and Dylan Thomas

This paper contrasts the death perspectives articulated by Dylan Thomas in the poem 'Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night' with t...

Short Story Characters in Gilman, Poe, and Bierce

room do not hear, the "hypocritical smiles" that are not there. He screams and tells them the heart is under the planks. He believ...

Themes of Death and Disease in John Donne, Thom Jones, and Margaret Edson

Edson shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes c...

Death in Chopin’s The Story of an Hour

her emotions to get the better of her. But, then again, if one looks back in history, at the time this story was written, that hea...

Awakenings in 'The Horse Dealer's Daughter' by D.H. Lawrence

The theme of awakenings in Lawrence's story is considered in terms of Jack's emotions and Mabel's sexuality in a discussion consis...

London's Globe Theater

In five pages this paper examines London's Globe Theater story from one particular point of view. Four sources are cited in the b...

Short Story 'The Death of Ivan Ilych'

on his knee, leans over him, putting his ear first higher then lower, and performs various gymnastic movements over him with a sig...

Comparing Chekhov, Nabokov & Viramontes

that reveals to the reader a great deal about the characters involved. Pelagea is deeply in love with her husband, Yegor Anton Che...

Sinclair Ross/2 Short Stories

Ross describes Isabel is similar to the way in which Martha, the narrative voice in "A Field of Wheat" endows this cash crop on wh...

Edgar Allan Poe’s Creative Uses of Atmosphere and/or Tension in “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” “The Pit and the Pendulum,” and “The Black Cat”

in the Broadway Journal (Magistrale 81). Steeped in Gothic tradition, the theme involves one mans descent into total madness, whi...

Lord of the Flies: Jack & Hitler

but he was placed in charge of hunting. Jack then pushes this role to the limit, getting more and more boys to join him in an incr...

Chopin/Story of an Hour

is, the Victorian era, it becomes clear that Louise Mallard is a normal woman who loves her husband and will grieve for him, but w...

Special Needs' Child Journal Observation Overview

down, squishing them to form a fish face. All the children were participating except for Jack, who was staring at the ceiling, mo...

Setting in 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' 'The Raven' and 'The Oval Portrait' by Edgar Allan Poe

tales. While "The Oval Portrait" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" are distinctive in setting they share certain simil...

Extraordinary GE Chief Executive Officer Jack Welch

it to become the CEO. Once there, he had the nerve to thin out the deadwood which as a result made GE a much more efficient organ...

Poe and The Tell-Tale Heart, a Reaction

when it overwhelms everything, even the narrator who is trying to avoid being caught. Perhaps the most hideous thing about the sto...

Man's Struggles in the Domination of Nature in 'To Build a Fire' by Jack London

that might have gone differently is early in the story, and actually deals with the mans character. The man is "without imaginati...

“Martin Eden” by Jack London

the table that are unfamiliar to him, and he begins reading the poetry of Swinburne, "forgetful of where he was, his face glowing"...

Literary Naturalism

be very believable as even if not true it will resemble the way things may happen and as such can be seen as a direct reflection o...

20th Century Literature and Self Determination

In 6 pages this paper examines how self determination is thematically portrayed in 'The Red Wheelbarrow' by William Carlos William...

The Sea Wolf by Jack London

In five pages this paper discusses how humankind is presented from a variety of perspectives within the course of this novel by Ja...

Animal Rights in Call of the Wild by Jack London

In seven pages this paper considers animal rights issues within the context of this novel by Jack London. Four sources are cited ...

Literary Treatment of Darwinism

In ten pages this paper examines how the theories of Charles Darwin have been represented in literature in a consideration of crit...

Life and Writings of Jack London

In five pages this paper discusses Jack London in a consideration of his life and writings including 'To Build a Fire' and Call of...

Relationships, Obstacles, and the Race in White Fang by Jack London

a dog/master relationship with Weedon, he also represents the very wildest and most treacherous of natural creatures (Sinclair 122...

'The Horse Dealer's Daughter' by D.H. Lawrence II

In five pages the story's juxtapositioning of the subconscious and conscious of main characters Jack Fergusson and Mabel Pervin is...

'Emilie Plead Choose One Egg' by Paule Barton

In six pages this short story considers the author's diagnosis for what is ailing the Caribbean culture and how it can be cured as...