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Reason and Passion in Euripides' Medea

typical mythological female was not; her defiance, passion, reason and intestinal fortitude combined together with her ability to ...

Female Characters in Hedda Gabler and A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

she develops the illusion of her identity slowly vanishes. She is slowly seen as an intelligent woman who desires more from life t...

J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye

seems only to be related to her nature as a reference point. Mr. Caulfield is never seen in the novel, and there is little inform...

Strategy of Prince Hamlet of Denmark

of his day to day life that he would never be able to keep his plans from her. So, he has decided that he must pretend to sever th...

The Monster Element in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

seemingly to detain me, but I escaped, and rushed down stairs. I took refuge in the courtyard belonging to the house which I inhab...

Lan Cao's Monkey Bridge and Cause and Effect

based on actual wants or desires. The effect of this societal pressure causes her to refuse help and support which might otherwise...

Conflict Between Antigone and Creon in Antigone by Sophocles

the Chorus suggests that it could be the work of the gods (Sophocles). Rather than consider someone elses viewpoint, Creon begins ...

The Color Purple by Alice Walker and Celie's Self Discovery

by her contemporaries. These women will weave a rich fabric of friendship, which is symbolically referred to in the novel through...

Quest and the Works of Dante and Homer

journey of humanity through life. Dantes epic charts a journey of the soul, from the depths of degradation to the radiance of rede...

The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller and the Character of Robert Kincaid

food as a measuring cup of personality, a leavening for plot, and an ingredient in the theme" (Kellman 435). The contradictions i...

Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening' and the Characters of Mademoiselle Reisz and Edna Pontellier

at the piano" but it may well have been the "first time she was ready, perhaps the first time her being was tempered to take an im...

Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders and Education

be a gentlewoman. What this means is that she wants to support herself and not live in poverty. At one point she goes to live ...

Character Analysis of Okonkwo in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

different from most modern Western cultures. Their way of life worked for them and was ultimately destroyed with the colonists. Wi...

Revenge and Jealousy Featured in Othello by William Shakespeare

as an under-current that influences all other actions. Shakespeare pulls his audiences into the experience of such dichotomy throu...

'The Iliad' and 'Ramayana' Compared

for "The Story of Rama" chronicles the heroic saga of Sri Rama, who along with his three siblings Laksmana (or Lakshmana), Bharata...

Literature and the Element of Science

The individual who has placed the ad in the paper is none other than a telepathic gorilla. Suspend judgment if you will. Call the ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening' and Idealism

An elderly pianist, Mademoiselles music arouses Ednas artistic temperament. Additionally, Edna becomes infatuated with a young man...

Jose Ortega Y Gasset's Revolt of the Masses and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

any true vision or drive. He was, in many ways, nothing but a limited man in the position of a salesman. He could not grow with th...

Evil Theme in William Shakespeare's Macbeth

thoughts terrify him. The fact that Macbeth is thought of as a loyal and noble person at the beginning of the play is made eviden...

Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote

service...sweep so evil a breed from off the face of the earth" (Cervantes). One of his next foes is a flock of sheep. Don Quixot...

The Divine Comedy, Man's Search for Understanding and Truth Represented by Dante

also called La Commedia (The Comedy) by Dante. In the poem, the poet Dante, travels to hell (Inferno) then purgatory (Purgatorio) ...

Hawkeye Analysis in The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

barbaric Native-American society. It was his hybrid nature that made Hawkeye somewhat of a cultural chameleon, but also m...

Charles Johnson's Middle Passage A Journey

freed black man and has just hopped onboard a slaving ship headed for Africa. The ships captain is a dwarf named Ebenezer Falcon, ...

Comparision of Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure

modest eyes" (Hardy, 2002). As this suggests, Sue was highly conflicted over gender roles from the time she was first aware them. ...

'Outsider' Status of Othello

of Venice is highly revealing of his character. This characterization is vital to the internal logic of the play because the trag...

Philip Marlowe as a Knight in The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

revealed. The reader is introduced to Marlowe as he is about to call on a potential client, the elderly, but very rich, General ...

Joe Christmas in Light in August by William Faulkner

black as synonymous with good and evil that immediately plunges Joe into an emotional turmoil, from which he never completely dise...

Myth in Beloved by Toni Morrison

in her own tragedy. While Sethe is still enslaved, she is treated by Schoolteachers despicable nephews as if she were no more th...

Analyzing Milos Forman's Film Amadeus

film, which is told via flashbacks by Salieri, who is in an asylum after attempting suicide, and concentrates on the final ten yea...

The Tempest by William Shakespeare and Prospero

In seven pages this paper analyzes the character of Prospero featured in William Shakespeare's final play and how this protagonist...