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Comparative Analysis of Sophocles' Antigone and Lorraine Hansberry's Raisin in the Sun

this retaliation against his brother whom Polyneices felt had stolen the throne from him. Both brothers are killed in battle, one ...

Hitchcock/Strangers On A Train

an accidental meeting, as they have lunch in Guys private compartment, Bruno makes comments that reveal that he has detailed knowl...

Comparative Analysis of Dances With Wolves Novel and Film

main character, but is predominantly depicted as a sympathetic witness to a way of life that he senses will soon be lost forever. ...

Macbeth and Macduff

heath. There is something essentially uncivilized about Macbeth, which may be why he is such an outstanding soldier. Macduff does...

Cinematic Comparison of Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday and Natalie Portman in Closer

sexuality and innocence that made superstardom a foregone conclusion. The cinematic experience is one in which the spectator (the...

Character Analysis of Tom and Gatsby in "The Great Gatsby"

and a man who, as mentioned never had to work for a living. In these two so far we see many differences, the primary one being ...

Comparative Analysis of Offred and Bone

unstable" (Bouson, 2001, p. 101). Bouson contends that it is really her shame that is Bones core; and that her deep sense of wor...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and the Characters Roger Chillingworth and Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale

religious fervour had already given the earnest of high eminence in his profession. He was a person of very striking aspect, with...

Aeneas and Achilles

reign of government. He is simply a warrior and that is what he does. With Aeneas he is fighting for his Rome, his people, his lan...

Fools Crow

the favor of the spirit world, of the gods, and yet they both approach it differently. Fast Horse is presumptuous and arrogant whi...

Comparing Characters Lutie Johnson in Ann Petry's The Street and Hester Prynne in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

the Scripture and the statute-book. Then let the magistrates, who have made it of no effect, thank themselves if their own wives ...

Hester Prynne and Edna Pontellier

publicly punished for it, while no one ever learns of Ednas adultery. There are those who have their suspicions, but she is carefu...

Brutus and Elisha

who engages in the plan to kill through jealousy and hatred. Brutus replies: "I would not, Cassius; yet I love him well. But where...

Purgatory and Liberalization in Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka and The Outsider by Albert Camus

about Gregors change is the way he accepts it without question. The reminder of the book deals wit the consequences of his transfo...

Old Testament Larger than Life Characters

influences on the society in which they lived. Daniel was challenged throughout his life by a number of circumstances, one of whi...

Alice Walker’s Everyday Use

she has moved to the city and been educated. One sees perhaps the only conflict this mother has in her life because it is a confl...

Family in A Raisin in the Sun and American Beauty

kind of money people like Lester makes. He has all these schemes and dreams and he ultimately learns they are pointless, just as L...

Vulnerability: Chopin and Godwin

A 4 page paper which compares and contrasts the characters in The Story of an Hour by Kate Choping and A Sorrowful Woman by Gail G...

Comparative Analysis of Characters Mark Antony and Caius Cassius in William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar

meant he was not "someone to take seriously" as a threat to his power (Derrick 14; McMurtry 41). Others seriously underestimate A...

Comparison and Contrast of O’Connor’s Men

that is not present in the Bible salesman. The Bible salesman is more of a manipulator and is very subversive in his actions, no...

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...

Oedipus Rex & Darker Face of the Earth

on themes that have to do with familial love and altruism, rather than the hostility and fear that were attributed to it by Freud ...

Scorsese to the Second Power: "Goodfellas" and "Casino"

errand boy to a "coke and gun dealer" (Quart). This is a twisted version of the American dream. Scorsese populates this film wit...

Sophocles, Gilman & Browning/Oppressed Women

finer points of interpretation. However, the general consensus, down through the ages, is that Sophocles main theme had to do with...

Titus’ Aaron and Othello’s Iago

thunders crack or lightning flash; Advanced above pale envys threatening reach...Then, Aaron, arm thy heart, and fit thy thoughts....

What is Tragic Destiny?

or swordfights, etc. Instead, the action here "consists in nothing other than the process of revealing, with cunning delays and ev...

Study Guide/Oedipus the King & Darker Face of the Earth

this writer/tutor encourages the student to reread the play, noting passages that support the chosen theme. While certainly study ...

Close Readings/Darker Face of the Earth & Oedipus

an already contradictory situation. Consider how she acknowledges the baby as both "my son" and as "valuable property." Her matern...

Does Oedipus Receive Justice?

the way; at the same time, the "old man," who was watching carefully, "struck me from his carriage, / full on the head with his tw...

Oedipus and Lysistrata: Tragedy and Comedy

they can stop the men from going off to war and would ultimately bring some peace. The premise of the story is a tragic one, in th...