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Literary Device of Symbolism

Morrisons work because water is symbolic of Beloveds need to fulfill a basic desire, but also a thirst for freedom. Another impo...

Abandonment Theme in Sula by Toni Morrison

extremely close friends. Nel is abandoned by her husband, Jude, when she catches him making love to Sula. This is a double loss fo...

Toni Morrison, William Faulkner, and the Uses of Syntax and Language

cohesive literary glue that holds it all together. One of the ingredients of that glue is the use of language. His particular use ...

Historical Views and Times Represented in the Writings of Toni Morrison, Adrienne Rich, and T.S. Eliot

to her poetry is the element of history. For Rich, the "sea is another story/ the sea is not a question of power / I have to lea...

Murders in Beloved and Sula by Toni Morrison

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares these novels by Toni Morrison in terms of how each feature murders. There are no ...

Literary Realism and Social Problems

a very unexpected place: her fears. She is so terrified that life is simply going to pass her by that the thought nearly paralyze...

William Shakespeare's The Tempest Featured in Tar Baby by Toni Morrison

as he, also, is an exile from civilization (12). Also like Prospero, Valerian exerts control over the rest of the characters (Walt...

Literature and Reality

In twelve pages this paper examines how reality is perceived in the literary works Jazz by Toni Morrison, Waiting for Godot by Sam...

Racism within the Context of Literature

would then include the contrast and comparison on how the characters dealt with racism and their subjectivity to it. Finally, the ...

Evil Underpinnings in Sula by Toni Morrison

In 4 pages this paper examines the struggles of Nell and Sula in contending with apathy and evil in this novel by Toni Morrison. ...

Sex in Beloved by Toni Morrison

In 5 pages sex as an instrument of power rather than an expression of intimacy is considered in this analysis of Beloved by Toni M...

Literary Considerations of Greed

typical, but maybe too stereotypical. He is someone who today would appear on The Jerry Springer Show. His life has always been dy...

'Interior Life' of Slaves and Toni Morrison

As the development of bound labor in the American south moved from the indentured servitude system of the colonial era to the grow...

Sylvia Plath and Toni Morrison on the Self Actualization of Women

This paper examines the self actualization of women in an analysis of the poems 'Daddy' and 'Mirror' by Sylvia Plath and the novel...

Comparison and Analysis of The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Beloved by Toni Morrison, and Billy Budd by Herman Melville

In nine pages Melville's message in Billy Budd is analyzed and then the novel is compared to the works by Arthur Miller and Toni M...

Jazz by Toni Morrison and Reflections of the Harlem Renaissance

In eight pages this paper examines how Toni Morrison reflected the Harlem Renaissance artistic movement in her novel Jazz. Two so...

Langston Hughes and Toni Morrison on Individual Choices

In five pages this paper compares Beloved by Toni Morrison with Langston Hughes' 'Montage of a Dream Deferred' in a consideration ...

Comparative Analysis of the Film and Novel Versions of Beloved

In five pages this report contrasts and compares the 1987 novel Beloved written by Toni Morrison with the 1998 movie adaptation. ...

Beloved by Toni Morrison, Memory, 'Rememory' and 'Disremember'

remembering what happened. With disremember she is primarily taking a memory and pushing it away so that it will not become real t...

Relationship of Nel and Sula in Sula by Toni Morrison

and sung amidst a house that was less than perfectly organized. As we can see in this very simple beginning, a beginning that sets...

Sula by Toni Morrison and Childhood Homes

the ease and comfort of old friends. Because each had discovered that they were neither white nor male, and that all freedom and t...

Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison

However, this influence is seldom acknowledged by critics, who "see no excitement or meaning to the tropes of darkness, sexuality ...

African Americans and Racism

became indentured servants, but this was rare (Faragher, et al 57). Because of the institution of indentured service, "New world s...

Artists' Power in Works by Toni Morrison and J.D. Salinger

beginning, as we see the characters in a somewhat present condition, a condition wherein the women are not slaves, we also see tha...

Community in Sula by Toni Morrison

However, each contact with the white community in the town below reminds the reader of the constraints established by racial bigot...

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison and Friendship

friendship: conflict between human beings. The exact manner in which Morrison reveals this conflict is an integral component to t...

Beloved by Toni Morrison and Protagonist Symbolism

survivor of a slave ship, which crossed the water. With this crossing of the water, vast numbers of people had their way of life c...

Eight Works of Literary Fiction and the Influence of Social Position

- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...

Good and Evil in Sula by Toni Morrison

Nel and Sula. Nel is light-skinned and lives in a tidy, respectable middle class home. Sula is deep brown and lives in a disrep...

Toni Morrison: Life and Works

depictions of Black America" (Nobelprize.org). Another critic notes that, "Morrison powerfully evokes in her fiction the legacies ...