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An Analysis of the Feminine Transformation (909 words, 2 pages)

A Feminine Transformation Society has and may always reflect the gender specific point of view of man, for every facet of society has been tainted with masculinity. The laws of the land and the generally accepted civilized behavior all remain unconsciously over powered by the male perspective. In this male ... Read More

The Struggle of Hedda Gabler Between Femininity and Masculinity in the Play by Henrik Ibsen (2128 words, 3 pages)

Hedda Gablers Struggle Between Masculinity and Femininity Henrik Ibsen portrays Hedda Gabler as a nineteenth century woman in conflict with herself. Because of her unique upbringing under General Gabler and the social standards imposed upon her as a woman, Hedda exhibits both masculine and feminine traits that are characterized by ... Read More

An Analysis of the Several Important Themes in Disease and Corruption (3231 words, 5 pages)

The play develops several important themes, the major ones being DISEASE, CORRUPTION, REVENGE, PROCRASTINATION, MADNESS, and POISONING. The following is a set of notes on each of these topics. 1. DISEASE AND CORRUPTION Through Hamlet the character, the Shakespearean audience experiences the frustration and sadness of a state gone to ... Read More

An Analysis of the Theme For the Fiction Story Named Grendel as the World is Yet To Be Explored (1105 words, 2 pages)

GRENDEL THEME The theme for the fiction story named Grendel is The world is yet to be explored. In Grendel it shows that the theme for the story is The world is yet to be explored when Grendel thinks he knows everything about life, and religion and also about the ... Read More

The Theme of Escape in the Novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (717 words, 1 pages)

The conflicts surrounding the quest for freedom in Mark Twains The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn create a plot think with sorrows and triumphs of a boy traveling with a runaway slave in the harrowing years before the United States Civil War. The overlying theme of escape seems to be an ... Read More

The Theme of Succumbing to Death in Fear No More by William Shakespeare (1308 words, 3 pages)

Fear no more By William Shakespeare William Shakespeare utilizes simplistic language to emphasize the themes in Fear no more however, he exercises complex metaphors to depict the struggles one undergoes during a lifetime and as a result urges the reader to overcome all melancholic sentiments that lead one to oppose ... Read More

An Analysis of the Satire Theme in Kurt Vonnegut’s Harrison Bergeron and Cats Cradle, and Mike Nichols’ The Graduate (996 words, 2 pages)

Satire is a unique way to criticize the culture or the society. As opposed to directly stating the negative aspects, it illustrates the opposite view in a sarcastic and ironic manner. Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, The graduate by Mike Nichols and Cats Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut are the efficient ... Read More

An Analysis of the Theme Escape in A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (1565 words, 2 pages)

In Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, love and intoxication are closely tied to the even grander theme of escape. Although escape is a greater driving force, it exists in its connection to these other themes. This complex relationship is found not only in Hemingway's use of action and language, ... Read More

The Theme of Death in the Poems “Because I Could Not Stop For Death”, “I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died” and “I Felt a Funeral in My Brain (1443 words, 2 pages)

Emily Dickinsons Theme of Death Emily Dickinson's poems "Because I Could Not Stop for Death", "I Heard A Fly Buzz-When I Died", and "I Felt A Funeral In My Brain" all deal with one of life's few certainties, death. Dickinson's intense curiosity towards mortality was present in much of her ... Read More

Exploring the Many Themes in John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath” (1047 words, 3 pages)

John Steinbeck shows the readers many themes in "The Grapes of Wrath". One of the most apparent is as Steinbeck stated, "The Joads passage through a process of education for the heart." Many characters in "The Grapes or Wrath" exhibit this theme, but it is valiantly apparent in the actions ... Read More

A Discussion of the Theme of Suffering in Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein and P.B Shelly’s (3349 words, 4 pages)

by n KALSI Discuss the theme of suffering in Mary Shelly's 'Frankenstein' and P.B.Shelly's 'Alastor Or the spirit of solitude'. The theme of suffering is best conveyed through the "solitary" aesthetic figure of the wanderer or vagrant. Romantic writers produced works revealing extremes of isolation and socialisation, creating 'either a ... Read More

An Analysis of the Concepts of Femininity and Masculinity (2631 words, 4 pages)

This essay argues that the concepts of femininity and masculinity are culturally and racially specific and can not be read as universal. The notion that there are commonly held ideas about what constitutes being a 'woman' across cultures and races will be rebuffed in this essay using the arguments put ... Read More

The Theme of Denial in John Knowles’ Book A Separate Peace (668 words, 2 pages)

In A Separate Peace, John Knowles enlightens readers on human existence by displaying how denial allows a person to stray from reality. Numerous cases of denial overwhelm and test characters' assurances of their own presence. Characters such as Gene Forrester and Phineas (Finny) fail to acknowledge denial, so that their ... Read More

The Theme of Dehumanization in Elie Wiesel’s Night and Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis (688 words, 1 pages)

Dehumanization in Night and The Metamorphosis Night by Elie Wiesel, and The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka both discuss the theme of dehumanization one in a World War II setting and the other during the industrial revolution. Both books tell the reader what it is like to be controlled. Night discusses ... Read More

A Description of Death as a Common Theme in Many Poems (812 words, 1 pages)

Death is a common theme in many poems. It is viewed so differently to everyone. In the poems, 'Because I could not stop for Death,' 'First Death in Nova Scotia,' and 'War is kind' death is presented by each narrator as something different. To one it is a kind gentle ... Read More

An Analysis of the Theme of the Degradation of the Female Gender in the Short Stories Daisy Miller and the Yellow Wallpaper (1025 words, 2 pages)

In the short stories Daisy Miller and the Yellow Wallpaper, there is one distinct and obvious theme the degradation of the female gender. Society often places specific, stereotypical, and restrictive standards on the female sex. Although modern women have overcome unfair chauvinism and prejudice, late nineteenth and early twentieth-century was ... Read More

A Description of Courtship and Marriage as One of the Themes Used in Aphra Behn’s “The Rover” and “Oroonoko” (945 words, 2 pages)

Courtship and marriage has been one of the themes used in Aphra Behn's "The Rover" and "Oroonoko". Not only is it emphasized in the plots, but also in the written characters as well. In "The Rover", Aphra Behn criticizes the idea of arranged marriages which is not stereotypical of women, ... Read More

The Theme of Corruption in George Orwell’s Animal Farm (755 words, 1 pages)

The corrupt use of power, when carried out to its fullest extent, is extremely dangerous and alarming. The more power an individual has, the more tempting is the abuse of it, mainly for personal gain. Ironically, fewer checks and balances are available to restrain the corruption. This continues until absolute ... Read More

An Analysis of the Religion and Freedom Theme By Freud and Mason (1083 words, 2 pages)

Freud and Mason Religion and Freedom Theme Themes such as religion and freedom are prevalent in both Gilgamesh by Herbert Mason and Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud. Throughout Gilgamesh the character Enkidu is portrayed as an easygoing creature who has an overwhelming sense of freedom in his everyday ... Read More

An Analysis of the Theme of Chivalry in Culture (769 words, 1 pages)

Chivalry When I first think of chivalry, I think of knights and dragons and damsels in distress. It's not really something that I associate with the society that we live in today. You've heard it before, chivalry is dead. But I don't really believe that. It's too final it doesn't ... Read More

The Theme of Evil in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer and The Divine Comedy by Dante (468 words, 2 pages)

Evil in Dante and Chaucer We in the twentieth century would be much more hard-pressed to define evil than would people of either Chaucer's or Dante's time. Medieval Christians would have a source for it -- Satan -- and if could easily devise a series of ecclesiastical checklists to test ... Read More

The Common themes in Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “The Tempest “ (1213 words, 2 pages)

Shakespeare often used certain themes or characters throughout many of his plays. One such theme that is present in many of his plays in the idea of magic and the supernatural (although many of his tragedies have such elements, only two of his comedies have this trait). Those two comedies ... Read More

The Theme of Generic Alteration in Stephen King’s Firestarter and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1077 words, 2 pages)

Firestarter by Stephen KingA Brave New World by Aldus Huxley. Altering genes for better or for worse always is going to get both negative and positive reactions. Both Stephen King and Aldus Huxley's books deal with genetic alteration. Stephen King has been more of a horror writer, whereas Aldus Huxley ... Read More

Exploring the Themes of Pride and Success in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman (1538 words, 2 pages)

Things are not always as they appear. At times many things are found to have deeper meaning. Arthur Miller displays his elusive technique as symbolism in Death of a Salesman. In this play, the author uses symbolism to establish the themes of pride and success. Furthermore, symbols are used to ... Read More

Exploring the Theme of Wagner’s Opera in the Story of Tristan and Isolde (522 words, 1 pages)

If the name of King Arthur is mentioned, I suppose what comes to mind is not so much one person as a whole array of characters and themes, a montage so to speak. Of course we do think first of the King, the magnificent monarch of a glorified or idealized ... Read More

An Analysis of the Themes and Style in Penny Siopis’s Work (553 words, 1 pages)

What attracted me Penny Siopis was that the majority of her works are very obscure and layered with metaphors. The images that she presents are not those of the generalized South African style. Her works are very different in the sense that they explored media in much the same way ... Read More

The Theme of Deception in Shakespeare’s Macbeth (1526 words, 2 pages)

The Renaissance play The Tragedy of Macbeth, written by William Shakespeare, truly demonstrated a compelling tale of greed, power, and jealousy. The play revealed the turn of a good nobleman into a powerful and greedy king. It showed audiences how one crime led to another and eventually to a gruesome ... Read More

An Analysis of the Honesty, Poetry, Theme and Imagery in William Wordsworth’s Poem A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal (817 words, 2 pages)

Poetry is a mysterious thing. The use of poetry can be made to bring about a feeling or emotion about something, or it can be used to earn a few extra dollars. There are some writers though, like William Wordsworth, who used the writing style to write about their real ... Read More

An Analysis of the Theme of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a Novel by Mark Twain (473 words, 1 pages)

A complex literary work may have several themes. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, it has many themes. In my opinion I think the most important theme is that people in our world can distort what is right and just, causing an individual to break away from ... Read More

The Theme of Regret in Robert Hayden’s Those Winter Sundays an William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island (882 words, 2 pages)

In "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden, and in "Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota" by James Wright, both speakers have a feeling of regret. Both of the authors have the same approaches to making this feeling apparent. In each of these poems, the ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013