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Hamlet and William Shakespeare's Use of Imagery

In six pages Hamlet and how Shakespeare artfully employed imagery particularly regarding the ghost are examined. Seven sources ar...

An Analysis of Twain's, The Story of the Bad Little Boy

This paper analyzes thematic elements of the short story, The Story of the Bad Little Boy by Mark Twain. The author compares this ...

Ghost of Hamlet's Father and its Authenticity

to manifest in either life. They take issue with something that has gone on before their death, and in fact, the ghost in Hamlet, ...

'Tent Worms' and Tennessee Williams

In three pages this essay discusses this short story by Tennessee Williams in an analysis of techniques....

'The Company of Wolves' by Angela Carter, 'The Swimmer' by John Cheever, and Short Story Journeys

In six pages the deceptiveness of appearances is examined in a consideration of the journeys each of these short story protagonist...

Religion and a Samurai's Life in Musui's Story

In five pages this paper analyzes society and religion as they pertain to Musui's Story....

Conforming By Way of Nonconformity in 'Bartleby, the Scrivener' by Herman Melville

In five pages the ways in which Melville's short story protagonist can only conform to social demands through nonconformity and no...

Passive Women and Active Men in Ibsen and Pope

In a paper consisting of 5 pages Henrik Ibsen's 'Ghosts' and Alexander Pope's 'Rape of the Lock' are comparatively examined in ter...

Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North, Toni Morrison's Beloved and Ghosts

Set just after the civil war Sethe is a runaway slave who had once killed her infant daughter so that she would not grow up in the...

Marriage Views of Henrik Ibsen

works, that Ibsen had a unique take on women. In fact, Baker-White notes that Ibsens realist plays had been subverted due to the u...

Section Five of The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Symbolism

In five pages this story's 5th section is analyzed in terms of the wallpaper symbolism, what it projects, and how it relates to th...

'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A section from this story is analyzed and then considered within the whole story's context in a paper consisting of five pages. T...

Social Criticism and Irony in Plays by Anton Chekhov and Henrik Ibsen

In five pages this paper discusses how in Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and in Ibsen's Ghosts the playwrights are able to convey so...

Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' Explicated

in a language that, though poetic, little resembles modern English: "By very force he raft hir maidenheed, / For which oppressioun...

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka and the Character of Grete Samsa

himself as comfortable as he wished" (Kafka 145). During those terrifying early days, when Gregor was uncertain what was overtaki...

Eudora Welty: A Worn Path

This 6 page paper analyzes Eudora Welty's short story A Worn Path. Primary source only....

Dan Hillman's The Peaceful Warrior

may have perceived myself as a moderate, it has been brought home to me enough times, that I can no longer pretend it is my person...

Act II Scene ii of Hamlet Within the Play's Overall Context

In six pages the response of Rosencrantz and Guilderstern to Claudius and Gertrude, the response of Claudius to 'The Murder of Gon...

Regeneration Trilogy of Pat Barker

This paper examines historiographical metafiction techniques employed by Pat Barker in the Regeneration Trilogy Regeneration, The ...

Jamaica Kincaid's 'Seeing England for the First Time' and Columbus in Chains'

Education as it is thematically depicted in these Jamaica Kincaid stories is the focus of this comparative analysis consisting of ...

Act I Soliloquy of William Shakespeare's Hamlet

In five pages this paper considers the ghost of Hamlet's father and his soliloquy in Act I of Shakespeare's play in terms of its p...

The Works of Amy Tan

In a paper that contains eight pages the inspiration writing has provided Amy Tan throughout her life is examined in essay 'Young ...

Madness as a Common Literary Theme

This paper examines Shakespeare's play, King Lear, as well as Ibsen's work, Ghosts to discuss madness and delusion as common theme...

Sitting Bull's Life from Dakota to Wounded Knee

In five pages this paper discusses the life and death of Sitting Bull which include such topics as his Little Big Horn battle invo...

'The Iron' Heel' of Jack London

From his wife, by the means of her recently discovered manuscript, we find that "Ernest Everhard was an exceptionally strong man. ...

First World War Trilogy by Pat Barker

In ten pages the First World War trilogy Regeneration, The Eye in the Door, and The Ghost Road by Pat Barker are discussed. Seven...

An Analysis of The Necklace

A 5 analysis of the short story by Guy de Maupassant. 7 sources,...

'To Build a Fire' by Jack London and Literary Style

In five pages the literary style in this short story is analyzed in terms of the story's direct and indirect evidence, deductive o...

Katherine Anne Porter's 'The Jilting Of Granny Weatherall'

her mother does not always know the time of day. "He just left five minutes ago"; "That was this morning, Mother. Its night now" ...

'The Country Husband' by John Cheever

In five pages this short story is reviewed. There are no other sources cited....