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James Joyce's 'Eveline' and Kate Chopin's 'Story of an Hour'

A slightly different perspective on family life is offered in Joyces Eveline. Here, the protagonist is not only...

James Joyce's 'Araby'

praises which I myself did not understand" (Joyce). In this we see him envisioning himself as something of a noble knight, a figur...

Ralph Ellison's 'Battle Royal' and James Joyce's 'Araby'

we are all but immediately taken to a place where the boy is completely betrayed by that adult world. In the beginning he is proud...

James Joyce's Portrayal of Alienation in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

through the trauma he suffers when he is forbidden to play with Eileen Vance because she is a Protestant. Stephens mother, who is ...

James Joyce's Araby, Counterparts, and The Dead

powerless to stop his thoughts about her. His growing physical tensions haunt him as he relives how the light plays on her hands. ...

Joyce's "Clay" and Emotional Repression

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at "Clay" by Joyce. Discussion questions are answered in the form of detailed outlines...

Bronte’s Jane Eyre/Joyce’s The Dead

because he is married to another woman and she will not compromise her morals or her principles. However, when she is offered a ch...

James Joyce's 'Eveline'

new life are fearful of such change, choosing to live the life they are accustomed to instead. Eveline is a woman who has dreams a...

'The Dead' and James Joyce's Attack on Ireland

Twelfth Night, the eve of Epiphany which is defined by Joyce as a sudden shining down of reason and awareness, a "sudden spiritual...

Comparative Analysis of John Updike's 'A and P' and James Joyce's 'Araby'

In six pages these two short stories are compared and contrasted in terms of girls' roles in each tale. There are no other sources...

Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, James Joyce's 'The Dead' and Gender

In five pages gender and how it influences relationships are examined within the context of these literary works. Four sources ar...

James Joyce's Writings and the Concept of Paralysis

he illustrated and the language he used in presenting the reader with images that denoted paralysis. And, considering that we are ...

James Joyce's 'The Dead'

Gabriel learns that the song brought to Grettas mind a recollection of a young man from her home county. Pressing her further, he ...

James Joyce's 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'

This is a 5 page paper that explores what how protagonist Stephen agonizes over what he thinks he should do as opposed to what oth...

James Joyce's 'Eveline'

In six pages this paper examines how Eveline suffers from psychological paralysis and the causes of this malady. One MLA source i...

James Joyce's The Dead and Images of Intellect and Passion

In six pages this paper discusses how Joyce portrays the conflict of Apollonian intellect and Dionysian passion in the imagery emp...

Emancipation Proclamation, The Debate

This essay summarizes the opposing views of Stephen B. Oates and Vincent Harding on the question of whether or not Abraham Lincoln...

The Distinctly American 'Best Essays Of The Century'

of racial struggles. In one of her most well known pieces - I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Angelou addresses the concept of op...

Biography of John Brown by Stephen B. Oates

himself was raised by a strict, fundamentalist father who beat him often for the slightest infraction of rules or signs of religio...

How Abraham Lincoln Overcame Social and Political Obstacles in the Elimination of Slavery and Preservation of the Union

great impact on the national notions and approach to freedom and civil equality. From as early as his Inaugural Address, Pr...

Fires of Jubilee by Stephen B. Oates

them extensive evidence of plagiarism in two of Oates biographies. In his own defense, Oates accuses Burilngame of taking quotes o...

Fires of Jubilee Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion by Oates

and families. Turners Rebellion was squelched before he ever reached Jerusalem, and after six weeks of hiding from the authorities...

Let the Trumpet Sound by Stephen B. Oates

In four pages this research paper examines this powerful text on the life of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Five sour...

Carol Shields' The Stone Diaries

In five pages this paper examines the effects generated by text description, diction, tense, point of view, and symbolism in The S...

Theories of Gender and Moral Development Stages

In five pages this paper examines Kohlberg, Piaget, and Carol Gilligan's definitions of moral development stages with Kohlberg's s...

A Comparison of Devil In The Shape Of A Woman and Salem Possessed

of teenage girls who were having what appeared to be seizure-like attacks that initially started the witch hunt. After they thras...

A Christmas Carol and the Industrial Society Critique of Charles Dickens

Scrooge is the quintessential business owner of the nineteenth century, at least in the opinion of Charles Dickens. He views the ...

Carol Henning and John Steinbeck's 'The Chrysanthemums'

In 9 pages this paper analyzes the short story by John Steinbeck in order to determine whether or not his wife Carol Henning was t...

Diffuse Responsibility and Group Behavior

In five pages a Carol Tavris article is referred to in a consideration of group behavior as establishing the ways in which individ...

Reconstruction to the Populist Party in U.S. History

Lincoln developed a reasonable Reconstruction plan to stitch the nation back together again. But again, remember we are talking a...