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The Theme of Arranged Marriage in Fielding's Tom Jones

the father. Fieldings opposition to arranged marriages is largely dramatized through Sophias behavior in categorically refusing ...

Comparing Shakespere's King Lear and As You Like It

country landowner. The last thing Oliver needed was to have his authority challenged in the future by his young brother, armed wi...

Othello's Downfall

him completely off-guard, Othello is completely unprepared for the "depth and intensity" (Vanita 341) of his love. Just as his pu...

Social Movements and the Human Heart

Reviewing key quotes from Bell Hooks and Chris Dixon this paper emphasizes the importance of ideologies such as love, loyalty, and...

Two Novels and Gender Roles

This paper pertains to "We So Seldom Look on Love," a short story by Barbara Gowdy and It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken, a g...

NDEs and Religious Ministers

Near-death experiences (NDE) have been reported since ancient times. Even Plato reported one. In recent decades, there have been t...

Nietzsche and Plato, Views on Socrates

This essay pertain to the way Plato and Nietzsche perceived the character and philosophy of Socrates. Seven pages in length, five ...

Love According to Immanuel Kant and David Hume

rather selfish but perhaps it is true. Hume further believes that that the house also produces pleasure, which in turn produces pr...

Fear in Paton's, Cry the Beloved Country

is sick, Kumalo goes to the city to bring his sister home and to find his son, Absalom. When he arrives, he discovers that his son...

Uncle Tom's Cabin, Eliza and Marie

This essay pertains to two women characters, Eliza Harris and Marie St. Clare, who are featured in "Uncle Tom's Cabin." The wrier ...

Christianity in the First and Second Centuries

Christianity expanded and grew exponentially in the early centuries. There were many reasons for this quick growth including its m...

Various Approaches to Love in Literature

This essay presents an overview of how love is used thematic in various texts, which includes Dante's Divine Comedy, Chaucer's Can...

Nursing Student Learning and EHNE

This research paper pertains to a classroom scenario in which nursing students are having learning difficulties. Then, the writer ...

Three Poems by William Blake

/ So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep" (lines 3-4 11290). In the next stanza a small boy is upset because all of his hair h...

Ancient and Modern Learning Techniques

education (267). One might say that the stance is rather snobbish, but many do separate vocational and academic curriculums. They ...

Short Stories by Jack London and the Weather Protagonist

from Londons story which illustrates how the man is ignorant and in need of the weather to make him strong and enlightened: "But a...

Violence and Obsessive Love

was O.J. Simpson who, although proven innocent in a criminal court of law of his wifes murder, was well known for his jealous rage...

Analyzing Twelve Poems

remains rigid. This poem presents us with a rhyme on every line, further adding to the structural content. We note the first fe...

Machiavelli's Beliefs on Truth as a Princely Duty

a leader? How should a prince behave? Although the motive for Machiavelli writing this piece, and the application of this work to ...

True Love Rejected in Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame

the courage of a flea. Or so it seems at first glance. But, like the plain package that is unwrapped to reveal an interesting trea...

Cinema and Romantic Love

is very orderly and rigid and Harry is quite the opposite. In fact, many other films demonstrate that even people who do not get a...

Totalitarianism and Plato

the kings and philosophers -- should not have the right to bear children or even own their own property. This, he maintained, wou...

2 Poems by T.S. Eliot

time she was thirty years old. In Victorian England, it was normal for girls to marry young, and Mary Ann was unusual in that she ...

4 Brief Literature Essays

Pontellier, though she had married a Creole, was not thoroughly at home in the society of Creoles...There were only Creoles that s...

Happiness and Wisdom in Philosophy

of the same) is "reason" rather than the self-conscious "I." One may then extend the concept from ethical ideas to morality, whic...

Depiction of Women in D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love and James Joyce's Ulysses

the chapter "Penelope", the readers is somehow seduced into believing that Mollys thoughts and monologue are somehow unmediated (S...

George Stevens' Film A Place in the Sun and Doomed Love Affairs

true it probably isnt," the outcomes of the story may easily be predicted. Added to the overall sense of "too-good-to-be-true" is ...

Seventeenth Century Love in Poetry

celebration of Gods love, as well as a poet that addressed the purity of a love for a woman. In better understanding this we discu...

Woody Allen's 1977 Film Annie Hall and Its Ill Fated Love Affair

comedy has been a staple of American movies since movies were first created. There is an undeniable connection that exists betwee...

Aristotle and Plato

theory of "seeing is believing" and that something must be touched in order to be a reality. According to Goellnitz, one s...