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Heroism and its Characteristics

In 5 pages this paper examines how the characteristics of heroism are defined in such literary works as A Simple Heart by Gustave ...

Tolstoy, Virgil, and Homer on Happiness and Erotic Love

in the cave by night, it was she, not he, that would have it so" (Homer V). In this we get the impression that while Ulysses may h...

African American Playwright August Wilson

as befits an author who had been writing virtually one play a year since Ma Rainey had its first reading in 1982 at the Eugene ONe...

Literary Critique: The "Ancient Mariner" and "Great Expectations"

brought there. Pip tells of this meeting in a calm voice, almost serene, but his powers of observation are acute. He describes th...

Analysis of Edgar Allan Poe's Works

indicates, be associated "with the sentimental writers of his time and earlier." When a reader stops to consider how much death is...

Deciphering Gertrude Stein

reputation as a modern writer, and her influence was extensive. Stein was profoundly dependent on her brother Leo after their par...

Order and Chaos in Homer's 'Odyssey' and the Epic of Gilgamesh

In five pages this paper examines the relationship between order and chaos within the context of these two classical literary work...

August Wilson and Leo Tolstoy

This 4 page paper compares and contrasts the protagonists of The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy and Fences by August Wilson. ...

Leo Tolstoy and Franz Kafka

successful than Gregor and supported his family. But as his story develops he begins to envision how his life has been pointless, ...

Civil Disobedience Perspectives of Leo Tolstoy and Mahatma Gandhi

In eight pages this paper compares the approaches to civil disobedience by Mahatma Gandhi and Leo Tolstoy noting various differenc...

Of Mice and Men vs. The Pearl

Mexican Peninsula just south of San Diego. Like Of Mice & Men, it is confined within a time period of only a few days, and also l...

A Comparison of the Tales of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Beowulf

warrior society that Beowulf invokes derives from these "newcomers" to the British Isles. Abrams, et al also state that in this wa...

The Revolt of Mother by Freeman and The Awakening by Chopin

In five pages these two works are compared in terms of the author's psychological and sociological objectives and how they are exp...

Colonialism and the Literature of Africa

In seven pages two literary works are compared and contrasted in order to paint a detailed postcolonial Africa. The works are Ste...

Mallarme, Baudelaire and Goethe

faun, so that he participates in the creation of the work (Betz, 1996). The faun cannot decide if he has been dreaming or not, but...

Raphael, Michelangelo, and Leonardo da Vinci and Their Renaissance Art

and is a study of psychological reactions. A serene Christ, who is resigned to his destiny, has just announced to his disciples th...

Hawthorne's "Birthmark"/Lee's Mockingbird

possible defect" causes him dismay, as it is a "visible mark of earthly imperfection" (Hawthorne 1021). Alymers disdain for the bi...

Hawthorne's "Birthmark"/Lee's Mockingbird

possible defect" causes him dismay, as it is a "visible mark of earthly imperfection" (Hawthorne 1021). Alymers disdain for the bi...

Compare and Contrast: Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor

grandson. It is clear that she has done this many times before. At some point in the past, several years ago at least, the boy acc...

Solitude in the City

refuge in the cafe. In this work the solitude, while sad, is also one of peacefulness. One might also say that it is a juxtaposit...

Needs Theories By Maslow And McClelland

founded on the belief that individuals are motivated when they experience a need that is not satisfied. Maslow explained it this w...

Cartesian Rationalism from a Critical Viewpoint

experience, will readily be admitted with regard to such objects, as we remember to have once been altogether unknown to us..." (A...

Supplication in "The Iliad"

its absolutely necessary, but then he wants something in return, because if he does lose her its a matter of honor. Achilles tries...

Flare Path by Terence Rattigan and Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw Compared

the romantic featured true-life situations but preferred a more sentimental or whimsical interpretation of the subject matter. Bu...

Emily Grierson in William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' and Phoenix Jackson in Eudora Welty's 'A Worn Path'

did not try to respect her or help her, indicating they merely thought she was odd. No one bothered to try to understand her neces...

Comparison of An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea and Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz

In eight pages these texts are contrasted and compared. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

Characters of Robert Cohn in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and Jay Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

now wealthy and has achieved all he set out to do. In this chapter we see many different things which tell us that Jay is nothing ...

Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse and Characters of Lily Briscoe and Mrs. Ramsay

In five pages these two female characters are compared. There are no other sources listed....

Manet's The 'Kearsarge' at Boulogne and J.M.W. Turner's Europa and the Bull Paintings Compared

a smooth, detailed technique....he later experimented with more radical techniques and evolved a highly original style that influe...

Gawain and Lancelot Heroic Comparison

of Lancelot and Gawain. The hero The publisher of Malorys work, William Caxton (1485), wrote in the preface: I...enprynte....