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A Comparison of Life in London Depicted in Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell and Life in Canada in The Crysalids by John Wyndham (1106 words, 2 pages)

A comparison of life in London, Air Strip One (or Great Britain) in the George Orwell novel 1984 and Waknuk, Canada in the John Wyndham novel The Crysalids. Waknuk is a society living after a nuclear attack. The people of Air Strip One (or Britain) in 1984 live in a ... Read More

A Comparison of the Relationships of the Characters in the Plays Bacchae and Hippolytus (760 words, 2 pages)

Comparison Of Bacchae and HippolytusIn the plays Bacchae and Hippolytus, many similarities and differences exist between the relationships of the characters. One similarity between the relationship of Pentheus and Dionysus in Bacchae and that of Hippolytus and Aphrodite in Hippolytus are the tragedies caused by the gods to these characters. ... Read More

A Comparison of the Characters of Ralph and Jack in Lord of the Flies by William Golding (999 words, 2 pages)

Contrasting the Characters Ralph and JackRalph and Jack are both powerful and meaningful characters in William Golding's classic novel, Lord of the Flies. Ralph is an excellent leader responsible, and stands for all that is good. Jack is a destructive hunter, selfish, and represents evil. These two main characters can ... Read More

A Comparison of the Themes and Characters of The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible (1219 words, 2 pages)

The Scarlet Letter The Crucible Comparison EssayThrough carefully analyzation of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthrone and The Crucible by Arthur Miller one will discover the related themes throughout the stories. These themes include sin, punishment of sin, Revered Dimmsdale and Hester Prynne, the devil, and love lust. Through carefully ... Read More

A Comparison of the Themes of The Catcher in the Rye and Pygmalion (2100 words, 3 pages)

Comparing Catcher in the Rye and Pygmalion and the Themes They RepresentIn J. D. Salinger s novel The Catcher in the Rye, the main character, Holden Caulfield, muses at one point on the possibility of escaping from the world of confusion and phonies while George Bernard Shaw s main character ... Read More

A Comparison of the Characters of Mrs. Linde and Nora of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House (548 words, 2 pages)

After reading A Doll s House by Hendrik Ibsen. I can conclude that there is both a parallel and a contrast structure in the characters of Mrs. Linde and Nora. A contrasting difference in the characters, are shown not in the characters themselves, but the role that they play in ... Read More

A Comparison of the Arthurian Legends and J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring (2430 words, 4 pages)

A Medieval ContestIn comparing and contrasting the Arthurian Legends and J.R.R. Tolkien s book The Fellowship of the Ring, it is almost like a medieval contest between the two with many of the similarities coming from the customs of the Middle Ages. A look at the make up of the ... Read More

A Comparison between the Representatives of Romanticism and Victorian Realism in Charlotte Bronte’s Novel Jane Eyre (1189 words, 2 pages)

A TALE OF TWO HEARTSWhile an artist uses a variety of colors and brushes to create a portrait, Charlotte Bronte used contrasting characters and their vivid personalities to create a masterpiece of her own. In her novel Jane Eyre, Bronte uses narration and her characters to portray the struggle between ... Read More

A Comparison of the Relationship Between Women’s Roles and Patriarchal Society in Raise the Red Lantern and Fargo (1337 words, 2 pages)

Explore the relationship between women's roles and patriarchal society in Raise the Red Lantern and Fargo.For many years from our history, women's rights have always been a contraversial topic. History has shown the world to be primarily a male-dominated society, where a woman's role is often dictated by a man. ... Read More

A Comparison of Boxer The Horse And His Mother Both Being Hard Workers (324 words, 1 pages)

Boxer the horse from Animal Farm was much like my mother. They both share the characteristics of hard workers. They are dedicated to what they do, admired by many, and never quit before a job is done.Boxer was the strongest animal on Animal Farm, and my mother is one of ... Read More

A Comparison of Relationships in The Pardoner’s Tale and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (679 words, 1 pages)

The Pardoner's Tale vs. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightThroughout literature, relationships can often be found between the author of a story and the story that he writes. In Geoffrey Chaucer's frame story, Canterbury Tales, many of the characters make this idea evident with the tales that they tell. A ... Read More

A Comparison between the Novel Dawn and the Life of Elie Wiesel (737 words, 2 pages)

Dawn by Elie WieselIn this report you will see the comparisons between the novel Dawn and the life of Elie Wiesel, its author. The comparisons are very visible once you learn about Elie Wiesel s life.Elie Wiesel was born on September28,1928 in the town of Hungary. Wiesel went through a ... Read More

A Comparison of the Characters in the Movie American Beauty and the Characters of Paradise Lost (850 words, 2 pages)

One often reads a book or watches a movie and finds a specific meaning behind the whole story, a moral. After watching American Beauty it is easy to see a resemblance in the characters to that of Paradise Lost. In this way you could say that by reading Paradise Lost ... Read More

A Comparison of the Mental Ward and the World in the Movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (716 words, 1 pages)

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's NestThe movie, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, tells the story of McMurphy, a convict, who is sent to a mental institution because he believes he is insane. In actuality McMurphy, is sane when he comes to the mental ward, he only wants to get ... Read More

A Comparison of Wallace Thurman and Richard Wright in their Contribution in African Literature (1907 words, 3 pages)

In African Literature these two names Wallace Thurman and Richard Wright have contributed some of the most famous fictional works depicting Black culture in America. Since the two authors come from the same time period they share the experience of what it is like to be apart of the black ... Read More

A Comparison of Eveline by James Joyce and Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1007 words, 2 pages)

Have you ever held yourself back from a once in a lifetime opportunity because you were afraid of the consequences? Have you ever doubted your faith because of a few bad experiences? These are questions the characters, in Eveline by James Joyce and in Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne, ... Read More

A Comparison of Mrs Gibbs and Mrs Webb on a Figurative Level in Representing the Monolithic Thinking in a Small Town (364 words, 1 pages)

Mrs. Gibbs is Mrs. Webb is Mrs. Gibbs In Thorton Wilder s classic play about life in a small town, no other two characters share so much in common with one another as Mrs. Gibbs and Mrs. Webb do. Their purpose in the story, on a figurative level, is to ... Read More

A Literary Analysis and a Comparison of a Clockwork Orange and the Crucible (1733 words, 3 pages)

A Literary Comparison OfA Clockwork Orange and The CrucibleThe existence of evil in the world is a universal question that is often contemplated. Anthony Burgess and Arthur Miller in their novels A Clockwork Orange and The Crucible address this question of evil. One of these stories is set in the ... Read More

A Comparison of the Film and Book Frankenstein (914 words, 2 pages)

In Kenneth Branaghs film Mary Shelley s Frankenstein, the director, Kenneth Branagh sticks to the major themes of the original book with minute changes. There are many similarities and differences between the book and Kenneth Branagh s adaptation of the book. I believe Mary Shelley wanted readers to catch the ... Read More

A Comparison of the Power of Mind and the Power of Appearance (1033 words, 2 pages)

The Power Of Mind Versus The Power Of AppearanceIn Mary Shelley's FrankensteinThe so-called monster in Frankenstein demonstrates, through his own problems with understanding and being understood by the world, the importance and power of language on the one hand and of outward appearance on the other. As this essay will ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence and a Comparison to Montana 1948 by Larry Watson (1603 words, 2 pages)

The setting for Montana 1948 is a small rural community where the pioneer family about which the tale evolves controls the law and the medicine. The plot for Montana 1948 is mixed with racial tension, sexual abuse and murder. The Hayden family is torn between justice and loyalty in this ... Read More

A Literary Analysis and a Comparison of the Lottery and Young Goodman Brown (2038 words, 4 pages)

The Lottery Young Goodman BrownThe two short essays written by Jackson and Hawthorne are both thought provoking and full of evil. Many symbols are used to help develop the themes of both stories. The authors unveil the stories in such a way that you really don't know what the outcomes ... Read More

A Comparison of Shakespeare’s Plays Macbeth and Othello (1062 words, 2 pages)

Macbeth vs OthelloWilliam Shakespeare is one of the greatest writers of all time he wrote both novels and plays. Like all Shakespearen heroes, they all possess a tragic flaw that will eventually lead to their downfall. Othello, the main character, is no exception to this and neither was Macbeth. Both ... Read More

A Comparison of The Bible and The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain (1199 words, 2 pages)

Mark Twain s The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg is a story with a definite moral or lesson to be learned. The lessons in the story are presented to the reader as a parable, much like a parable of the Bible. Mark Twain s The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg isa modern ... Read More

A Comparison of the Characters of Victor Frankenstein and His Monster in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1128 words, 2 pages)

How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to form? (Shelley, 42)In Mary Shelley s Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein, who has spent two long years laboring in Ingolstadt to create this scientific marvel known only as ... Read More

A Comparison of Hamlet and Macbeth in Terms of Madness (946 words, 2 pages)

Have we all gone mad?Did you ever ask yourself, have we all gone mad? It seems that in our time confusion, disorder, and madness seem to reign chaotically throughout the world. Then, we seem to look at ourselves and wonder, who really is mad? The people around us are so ... Read More

A Comparison of Oedipus and Creon as Complete Opposite Individuals (1128 words, 2 pages)

Oedipus Versus CreonAt first glance, Oedipus and Creon are two very different people. But as time progresses their personalities and even their fates grow more and more similar. In Sophocles s play Oedipus the King , Oedipus and Creon are two completely opposite people. Oedipus is brash and thoughtless, whilst ... Read More

A Comparison of Oedipus the King, a Play by Sophocles and Things Fall Apart, a Novel by Chinua Achebe (2190 words, 3 pages)

"Oedipus the King" and "Things Fall Apart"The poem "Oedipus the King" and the novel "Things Fall Apart, there is some differences between these two stories. These two stories were very famous in the ancient time. "Things Fall Apart has won the following awards Nigerian National Trophy, Commonwealth Poetry Prize, Nigerian ... Read More

A Comparison of Hamlet: Prince of Denmark and Oedipus the King (615 words, 2 pages)

In the play Hamlet Prince of Denmark, a young prince is in search of the truth behind his father s murder. At first, Hamlet sees the ghost of his deceased father and it tells him he was murdered by the now current king, Hamlet s Uncle Claudius. Hamlet has to ... Read More

A Comparison of the Role of Women in The Odyssey and Rustling Rhapsody (856 words, 2 pages)

Odyssey vs. Rustling RhapsodyComparison of the Role of Women A woman is very unpredictable. She is romantic, sensitive and caring however, underneath she is convoluted, deceptive and dangerous. -Erin Perrizn (1963 -)One would automatically assume that the female character in a heroic story takes the preconceived role of an object ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013