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Kate Chopin and Marriage Aspects

In ten pages Chopin's stories 'Desiree's Baby,' 'The Story of an Hour,' and 'A Respectable Woman' are examined in terms of their t...

Analysis of 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner

fundamental structure of the story. These inferences help the reader to understand the symbolic messages hidden within the framew...

3 Short Stories About Growing Up

She has been given the opportunity, or so she thinks, to finally live a life that is solely hers. There is a powerful sense of fre...

'Loverboys' by Ana Castillo

our traditional notions regarding love and romance. She doesnt want any one "box" to define love or sex. The lesbian with a man ...

Compare and Contrast: Welty's Why I Live at the P.O. and Walker's Everyday Use

been. She is flighty. She moved out of the family home early, as soon as she began college, but Maggie is still living at home. Wh...

Things Fall Apart by Achebe and Heart of Darkness by Conrad

with this great solitude" (73). Kurtz allows all of his most primitive desires to run rampant. The experience of being away from a...

Alienation Theme in 'The Very Old Man with Enormous Wings' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The misconception, here, is that because the old man does not look normal that he must not be human and therefore, they can treat...

Analysis of Dubliners by James Joyce

In thirteen pages this paper examines the short stories' complication of Dubliners by James Joyce in an overview of plot, characte...

'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin

In six pages this paper compares this short story's major themes with the life of Kate Chopin. Nine sources are cited in the bibl...

Women in The Sound and the Fury Faulkner's Femme Fatale Caddy Compson

5 pages and 1 source used. This paper provides an overview of the basic characteristics and central themes related to the charact...

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...

Maximus In Catland: Philosophical Messages For Parents And Children Alike

the very nerve of human existence, both good and bad. Writers like Izzo attempt to reach out to their audiences by way of specifi...

A Short Story by Ford

home. That ended their affair and the couple saw each other only one more time, for "one sorrowful and bitter drink" (Ford, 2009)....

Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" - A Symbolic Analysis

this, Samsas preeminent concern is how he will explain this difficult matter to his boss, if he is in fact even able to get to wor...

Death as a Representation of Failing Marriages

This 9 page paper gives an explanation of how the timeless ideal of marriage is not real and how The Dead and The Story of an Hour...

Human Nature in Gulliver's Travels

This 6 page paper gives an overview of the story Gulliver's Travels. This paper includes human nature and corruption as theme with...

The Death of Ivan Ilyich as Tolstoy's Commentary on Materialism

exorbitant fees for consulting them. Thus, Tolstoy is indicating that materialism diverts the true calling of the professional, su...

Reflections on Homer’s Odyssey

he rolls a huge boulder across the opening to the cave. Polyphemus eats two of Odysseuss men and it is clear that he plans to make...

Setting in Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily

whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument" (Faulkner I). In this one im...

Alienation in "The Scarlet Letter"

symbol, the black veil that the minister wears. The intriguing thing about the story is that unlike, say, the Phantom of the Opera...

Switching Partners

yo like. Ill be home tonight." The screen door made a little snick as it swung closed, and she was alone. She pulled the gown back...

Men in 'The Cask of Amontillado' by Edgar Allan Poe

In six pages this short story is analyzed in terms of male bonding and how the relationship between the men changes throughout the...

Gilgamesh, Enuma Elish, and Genesis

of creation are vastly different" (Anonymous Selected Portions of the "Enuma Elish" enumaeli.htm). "The six days of creation i...

Employee Motivation Research Known as the Hawthorne Studies

55). As a result, an entirely new way of thinking had to develop regarding how such workers would be managed and directed. Recog...

The Scarlet Letter versus Mao II by Don DeLillo vs. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In five pages this paper compares DeLillo's and Hawthorne's works in terms of social acceptance and isolation. There are 3 source...

Puritan Values Rejected by Nathaniel Hawthorne in The House of the Seven Gables and The Scarlet Letter

In seven pages this paper examines how Hawthorne's first 2 novels represents his rejection of New England Puritan values. Twelve ...

Intellect and Emotion in Hawthorne's 'The Scarlet Letter'

This paper addresses religious rationalism versus romantic passion in Nathanial Hawthorne's nineteenth century novel. This five p...

The Scarlet Letter

the story the reader discovers that he has branded himself permanently with an "A" to pay for his sins. But, he is not a man who w...

The Individual and Society in "The Scarlet Letter"

p. 42). As Hawthorne writes, "the scene was not without a mixture of awe... [as well as] guilt and shame", purely because of the d...

Mukherjee's Jasmine/Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter

This paper discusses Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter," but then focuses on Mukherjee's "Jasmine," as a novel that portrays immigrant e...