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12 Apr 2010
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Heroism in Beowulf and Macbeth

Essay - 3 pages - Literature

Grendel first appeared in Herot, the mead hall of the king of the Danes, Hrothgar. Disturbed by the feasting and celebration taking place in the evenings by Danish warriors and heroes, who often met in the hall to tell exaggerated tales of glory and drink mead, Grendel stole in during the night...

12 Apr 2010
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Literary analysis of "The Dead"

Essay - 3 pages - Literature

James Joyce was born on February 2nd, 1882, in Dublin. His lifelong obsession with his own Irish culture, and the local city of Dublin, inspired many of his works. In particular, Dubliners, a collection of short stories taking place in Dublin, published in 1914, testifies to this obsession....

12 Apr 2010
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Domination and submission in Jane Eyre: An essay on power play

Essay - 3 pages - Literature

In a manner of speaking, Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre reinvents the concept of romance. One hardly expects a sordid tale of domination and submission from a sickly country girl, yet Bronte dabbled experimentally with the idea of feminism and power play in her hugely successful first novel. Jane...

12 Apr 2010
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In the hands of Yankees: Fitzgerald's "The Ice Palace" as a Northern American captivity narrative

Essay - 2 pages - Literature

The effective removal of the American Indian from North America failed to kill off the American tradition of captivity narratives established by the primarily female Anglo-American authors of Indian captivity narratives. In these memoirs of life among the “other,” Anglo-American women...

12 Apr 2010
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The Church's Grasp: Captivity in Joyce's Dubliners - published: 12/04/2010

Essay - 2 pages - Literature

It is easy to recognize when one is held captive by the unfamiliar, but the crippling effect of familiar forces is not so easily realized. Throughout American captivity narratives, typically female Anglo-Americans are ensnared by Native Americans, the “other” of early Anglo-American...

06 Apr 2010
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Renaissance Literature is indebted more to emblematic and allegorical modes, than to modern forms of realism

Thesis - 6 pages - Literature

The aftermath of reformation, mid 16th.Century, left the art and literary world in upheaval. The former art of Catholicism which had been figurative and vivid, depicting the saints in all their glory, was redundant and even despised. Many reformers believed that to idolize the saints and to...

06 Apr 2010
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The prose style of an author

Essay - 4 pages - Literature

What is so compelling about Faulkner's work is his gloriously bold approach toward form and content. He embraces the dark side of humanity, through the characters of Jason, Caddy and Quentin, refusing to deny or disguise its existence and in doing so redefines despair, it is no longer, '...

06 Apr 2010
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Representations of history and regeneration by Pat Barker

Essay - 2 pages - Literature

Barker has chosen to tell the tale from the viewpoint of the patients and staff of a war hospital, which treats mainly psychiatric injuries caused by battle. Straight away we are dealing with issues of masculinity. These patients have been discharged, not for receiving injuries in the line of...

06 Apr 2010
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What role did women play within Anglo Saxon culture?

Essay - 3 pages - Literature

Throughout history, the position of women in society has fluxed dramatically. It seems quite clear from looking at historical evidence that most of this movement has been a decline, rather than an improvement in the social attitudes towards women. In Anglo- Saxons times, women were valued members...

06 Apr 2010
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How is the notion of woman represented by 18th century writing?

Thesis - 3 pages - Literature

Throughout the 18th century, we see gender as a site of much anxiety. At this time, women were emerging as key contributors to both political and popular writing, through works such as Oroonoko, by Aphra Behn, and A Vindication of the Rights of Man, by Mary Wollenstonecraft Godwin. This feminine...

06 Apr 2010
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Willy Loman and the death of an American dreamer

Thesis - 2 pages - Literature

Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman is a portrait of a man who wrestles with his own delusions of success and happiness within the business world. One of the main themes of the story is how the main character has attached his success and failures in other areas of life to his self-image as a...

01 Apr 2010
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The things they carried: Time O'Brien

Book review - 1 pages - Literature

This book is, debatably, a memoir of the Vietnam War. By debatably, I mean to say that it is written in the form of a memoir, although the author denies that many of these events actually took place. This book includes the stories of Tim O'Brien and the soldiers that he knew in Vietnam during the...

01 Apr 2010
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The House on Mango Street

Book review - 2 pages - Literature

I chose this book because my aunt recommended me reading it. Although I don't usually read books like this, because it was a book about coming of age, I thought it would be interesting to read. This book was somewhat like The Catcher in the Rye, but instead of taking place in New York, it...

01 Apr 2010
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Daisy Miller: Henry James

Book review - 2 pages - Literature

This book takes place in 1878 and centers around the idea of an extended trip throughout Europe, which was very popular among wealthy Americans at this time. This novel addresses the behavior of the young American girls who visit Europe and due to their new distance from home, become very...

01 Apr 2010
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The Picture of Dorian Gray: Oscar Wilde

Book review - 2 pages - Literature

I chose to read the Picture of Dorian Gray because I was already semi familiar with the story and numerous friends recommended it to me. This famous novel takes place in nineteenth century England and revolves around the high society of that time and place. There is a supernatural aspect to this...

01 Apr 2010
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The Secret Life of Bees: Sue Kidd

Thesis - 2 pages - Literature

I selected this book because I know a lot of people who have read it before. I was expecting this book to be about animals, well more like bees. It turns out to be more about the story of a young white girl living in a time without black rights. This book is fiction; it takes place in a time...

01 Apr 2010
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Hard Times by Charles Dickens

Thesis - 4 pages - Literature

Charles Dickens highlights that facts aren't everything. You can't always rely on them, because they can burn out being untrue and serving you wrong. When Louisa was talking to her father, Mr. Gradgrind about how facts ruined her life and how she didn't know how to rebate and handle her feelings,...

01 Apr 2010
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Fyodor Dostoevsky: Coping with flaws and surviving in society

Thesis - 5 pages - Literature

In Fyodor Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground, the narrator writes from an underground location reflecting on the flaws in man and the society he once lived in. Through examining his days prior to retreating underground the narrator comes to hate the bonds of society and human nature more and...

01 Apr 2010
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Siddhartha by Herman Hesse

Book review - 2 pages - Literature

This book was originally recommended to me by freshman humanities teacher. When I read the book previously, it helped me to make sense of my own beliefs and I recently came to a point in my life where I felt that it was time to read it again. This is really a story of philosophy and religion. It...

01 Apr 2010
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Psychological analysis in the Heart of Darkness

Book review - 1 pages - Literature

Orphaned at the age of twelve, Conrad's writing reflects solidarity. In his most popular novel Heart of Darkness he states, “We live, as we dream- alone.” Common themes in his works are alienation, confusion, and doubt. He wrote not only about physical threats but also about inner...

01 Apr 2010
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Integrated essay on the empire in the West, France and England as powerful states, the medieval period and Black Death in Europe

Thesis - 5 pages - Literature

Charlemagne's coronation as emperor at St. Peter's Basilica heralded a new era for the West and for the Byzantine Empire. Charlemagne became the strong leader at the helm and his missi dominici kept a watchful eye on territories that were far away. The governments of France and England could not...

30 Mar 2010
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T.s. eliot's the hollow men: exploring self-realization - published: 30/03/2010

Thesis - 5 pages - Literature

When reading “The Hollow Men”, by T.S. Eliot, one's immediate response might be to consider it against to context of which it was written. Such context may be purely historical or may revolve around the author's social life. All of these accounts may prove significant in assessing the...

26 Mar 2010
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The history of poetry: A magazine of verse

Thesis - 6 pages - Literature

Harriet Monroe became famous for her magazine, but even more so, her open-door policy. There were many poets that just wouldn't get published, authors listed above, because their works were not accepted in society. T.S. Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock was considered...

26 Mar 2010
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Iago and Lady Macbeth: The nature of their evil

Thesis - 4 pages - Literature

The conflict between good and evil is one of the oldest and most consistently fascinating sources of literary drama. It is a primary motor of countless movies and books, just as it has always been one of the most important issues for philosophers and religious scholars. Shakespeare explored the...

26 Mar 2010
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Creative rebels without a cause

Thesis - 4 pages - Literature

Rimbaud once said that creativity is the greatest form of rebellion, a sentiment that I mostly agree with, and can completely understand after having read some of his poetry. There is a strong vitality to his work, an intensity and dissatisfaction that draws the reader in and communicates...

26 Mar 2010
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Ironic patriotism

Thesis - 3 pages - Literature

Someone once said that history is written by the winners, and, as in the case of Shakespeare's history play The Life of King Henry the Fifth, sometimes it is even dramatized by them. Total objectivity is very difficult to achieve when drawing solely from historical documents of either the victor...

26 Mar 2010
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Shakespeare's dark humor

Thesis - 3 pages - Literature

Pinpointing just what exactly makes “good comedy” is one of the most elusive and difficult tasks to undertake. Who can really say why one joke is funny and another one isn't, what subtleties must a stand-up comedian consider to get his audience laughing? Shakespeare could be considered...

26 Mar 2010
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Shylock: A Shakespearian scarface

Thesis - 3 pages - Literature

There's no doubt about it, bad guys are more interesting than good guys. In dramas catering to mass audiences every hero is set within a strict moral rubric. We know what to expect from him. The villains are the wild cards. In the typical Hollywood blockbuster they have meatier lines, they get to...

26 Mar 2010
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Donne's Angel and Marvell's Mistress

Thesis - 2 pages - Literature

Donne's song “Air and Angels” and Marvell's “To His Coy Mistress” are both love poems. However, they are poles apart in their definitions of love. Donne sees his beloved as a mysterious presence whose body merely gives shape to the love he has felt before. Marvell sees the...

26 Mar 2010
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Meatball and Callisto: Two responses to entropy

Thesis - 2 pages - Literature

Pynchon's “Entropy” begins at a party that has lasted 40 hours. Everyone knows parties don't last that long - or at least, they shouldn't. Meatball's party has continued far too long and is about to disintegrate. This deterioration is linked explicitly to the law of entropy, which is...