|
Enter your query below to search our database containing over 50,000+ essays and term papers
Search results 1981 - 1990 of 2661 matching essays
- 1981: The Role Of Women In The Heart
- By: Tom Rider The Role of Women in Heart of Darkness Women have taken an increasingly important role in literature. Only recently, historically speaking, have authors portrayed women in a dominant, protagonistic light. Sophocles and other classical writers portrayed women more as reactors than heroines. Since the ancient Greeks, however, a trend has been established ...
- 1982: The Great Gatsby
- ... person of any age, race, or gender who is interested in understanding a peculiar part of what the modern world has become. F. Scott Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby truly captures the essence of American literature. Word Count: 1544
- 1983: The Chosen, By Chaim Potok
- ... Hasid. He has earlocks, grows a beard, and wears the traditional Hasidic outfit, but he doesn't have the reverence for it that he should. Danny is a genius. His religion forbids him to read literature from the outside world, so he struggles with his thirst for knowledge and the restraints that have been put on him by both his father and his religion. He lives with his father, mother, older ...
- 1984: The Cast Of Amontillado
- ... Edgar Allen Poe." Dictionary of Literary Biography. Volume 73: American Magazine Journalists. 1988. 235 - 251. The Gale Group. Pellissippi State Technical Community Coll. Lib., Knoxville. 9 July 2000. . Poe, Edgar Allen. "The Cask of Amontillado." Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing. 5th ed. Eds. Edgar V. Roberts and Henry E. Jacobs. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1998. 277 - 281. Word Count: 694
- 1985: Plot Flaws In The Great Gatsby
- ... side of this time with its underlying themes of greed and betrayal on the part of many of the characters. The novel as a whole seems to be a very well thought out piece of literature with little or no flaws. However, if studied a bit harder several defects can be spotted. These include such things as shifts in setting, sequence manipulation, and shifting of narrators. The setting of a novel ...
- 1986: Life
- ... Episode I: The Phantom Menace. Hollywood: 20th Century Fox, 1999. Shakespeare, William. Julius Caesar. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. London and Glasgow: Collins. 876. Thomas, Dylan. Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night. Literature and Ourselves. Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers, 1997; 553. Word Count: 1295
- 1987: Kurt Vonnegut
- ... makes each story his perception of life. All of this comes together to make an enjoyable collection of "pungent satirical depictions of modern society" (Draper, 3784). Bibliography Draper, James P., editor. "Kurt Vonnegut, Jr." World Literature Criticism: 1500 to the Present. 1992 ed. "Existentialism." Microsoft Bookshelf '94. (CDROM) N.p.: Microsoft Corporation, 1994. "Kurt Vonnegut, Jr." Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography: Broadening Views, 1968-1988. 1989 ed. Mantell, Harold, producer ...
- 1988: Huck Finn-Racism
- ... to make by writing Huck Finn. This book illustrates the possibility of a real friendship across even the strictest social boundaries of race and class. Huck Finn is not only a classic piece of American literature, but also a heartfelt statement against slavery, and a clever ridicule of the duplicity of White America. Word Count: 579
- 1989: Huck Finn
- ... are not real and so, along with the other members, he quits the gang. Still, Huck ignorantly assumes that Tom is superior to him because of his more suitable family background and fascination with Romantic literature. Pap and "the kidnapping" play another big role in Huck's moral development. Pap is completely antisocial and wishes to undo all of the bad things that the Widow and Miss Watson have attempted to ...
- 1990: Heart Of Darkness
- By: Jeff M I had read this story once before when I was a freshman at a branch campus of Penn State called Behrend. I read it for a literature class dealing with short stories and their analyzation. I didnt really like the story back then, and it really hasnt moved-up any spots on my list of favorites. Although I really didn ...
Search results 1981 - 1990 of 2661 matching essays
|
