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"And I of Ladies Most Deject and Wretched": Diagnosing Shakespeare's Ophelia with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
07/28/10 - 3370 words If William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is “the most famous play in English literature,” his Ophelia is arguably the field’s most tragic female figure (Meyer 1588). Torn from her lover and bereft of her father... Go to Article » Mysticism and Christianity in Early English Literature: Comparing "Beowulf" and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"
07/12/10 - 1827 words The introduction of Christianity to England in 597 established a structured, uniform faith among a people accustomed to different branches and pockets of polytheistic paganism. Over the next seventy-five years, the burgeoning... Go to Article » Aphra Behn's "The Rover": Evaluating Women's Social and Sexual Options
07/08/10 - 2284 words Following the collapse of the Puritan Protectorate in 1660, the halls of court seemed to buzz with a festive attitude: “Out with the old and in with the… older.” Cavalier revelries under Charles II regained... Go to Article » Rhetorical Analysis: Pauline Inklings in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
06/22/10 - 1549 words The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson proves to be an enduring literary illumination into the human psyche. This little novella, published as a Christmas story in 1886, took some of the first steps... Go to Article » Vampires: The Ever-Changing Face of Fear
05/07/10 - 3202 words In the past two-hundred or so years, vampires have transformed from a sort of worst nightmare into the charming hero of our dreams. Flashback to 1734, Oxford English Dictionary’s first record of the word vampire: they were... Go to Article » (Im)Mortality and the Poem: Comparing and Contrasting Marvell and Shakespeare
04/29/10 - 1824 words The meaning behind both Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” and Shakespeare’s sonnets has been debated since their respective publications. Marvell’s poem and specifically Shakespeare’s... Go to Article » Food and Dining in Jhumpa Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies"
04/28/10 - 1811 words In the collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri uses food and dining as a vehicle to display the deterioration of familial bonds, community, and culture through the transition from Indian to American... Go to Article » Baz Luhrmann's "Romeo + Juliet" compared with Shakespeare's Original Work
04/26/10 - 1206 words Baz Luhrmann’s kaleidoscopic film adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, while often leaving much to be desired from the two main actors in the way of delivery, presents a fascinating modern interpretation of the 16th century... Go to Article » Epideictic Oratory in Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead"
04/21/10 - 1620 words “I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone’s right to one minute of my life. No matter who makes the claim, how large their number or how great their need” (Rand 684). So states Howard Roark, protagonist... Go to Article » The Rocky Horror Picture Show as the Inverted Plautine Comedy
04/12/10 - 2434 words The first line of Plautus’ epitaph reads: “Postquam est mortem aptus Plautus, comoedia luget, scaena est deserta,” or roughly translated, “since Plautus is dead, comedy mourns, deserted is the stage&rdquo... Go to Article » A Generation of Men Raised by Women: Gender Constructs in 'Fight Club'
04/09/10 - 2505 words Throughout history has existed a prevalent theme of men and women being reliant on one another, despite the significant—though changing, and usually artificial—inequalities in areas such as education, career power... Go to Article » High Fidelity: Comparing Novel and Film
04/07/10 - 2385 words Since soon after the invention of sound films, directors have been turning popular—and sometimes not so popular—books into motion pictures. Many a critique, either positive or negative, has been written about... Go to Article » The Concept of Unity in Elizabeth Gaskell's "North and South"
04/06/10 - 2254 words North and South is a novel defined by the resolution of binary conflicts: heroine Margaret Hale is presented with a number of divisions of sympathy, between industrialists and the working class, between conflicting views of Mr... Go to Article » Mind Sweet Mind: A Closer Look at Salman Rushdie's Invisible Homeland in "East, West"
03/26/10 - 1642 words Every person has a birthplace, a starting point that offers a sense of identity for an individual. Through this start, this receding to the roots mentality, one examines their present in terms of their constructed past. Salman... Go to Article » Shakespeare's Apemantus: The Amazing, Changing Flat Character
03/04/10 - 1419 words In William Shakespeare's The Life of Timon of Athens, the character Apemantus is a Cynic philosopher, who delights in presenting the truth to other characters in the most offensive manner possible. He is a secondary character... Go to Article » Revisiting H.G. Wells' Depiction of Science and Religion in War of the Worlds
03/02/10 - 1282 words Every passing decade, the culture of human beings as a whole has been significantly affected by technology and science. Whether it’s something small, like the invention of automatic doors, or something enormously important... Go to Article » Conceptions of the American Dream
03/01/10 - 3251 words Since its coinage in 1931, the concept of “the American Dream” has lured tens of millions of immigrants from all corners of the planet to the United States with promises of prosperity and happiness far beyond anything... Go to Article » Exploring the American Immigrant Experience Through Literature
02/23/10 - 2011 words In “Amor de lejos: Latino (Im)migration Literatures,” B.V. Olguin writes, “Latino/a (im)migration narratives…often illustrate the traumatic aspects of displacement by focusing in part on how immigration... Go to Article » Christ, The Modern Hero - As Seen in John Milton's "Paradise Lost"
02/22/10 - 1520 words The story of mankind's fall from Eden as written by John Milton in his epic poem Paradise Lost portrays a classically heroic Satan and a modern hero in God's Son, Jesus Christ. While Satan fits the archetype of an epic hero,... Go to Article » Immigration, and What it Means to be an American
02/22/10 - 1049 words On the eve of the 19th century, in 1781, French-American immigrant Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur wrote a letter, the third in his famed Letters from an American Farmer, entitled “What Is An American?” His answer,... Go to Article » The American Immigrant: A Roach In The Glue - Examining the work of Hemon and Kambanda
02/11/10 - 1235 words At the conclusion of her essay, “My New World Journey,” Nola Kambanda writes that “Sometimes I am not sure whether home is behind me or in front of me…I might just be attaching [this longing] to those... Go to Article » Michael Cassio as a Foil to Shakespeare's Othello
02/10/10 - 1520 words Theodore Spencer wrote of Shakespeare's Othello, “In presenting the character of Othello to his audience, Shakespeare emphasizes very strongly his grandeur, self-control, and nobility” (Spencer 127-28). This observation... Go to Article » The Balance of Power Between Men and Women in Robert Browning's Poems
02/09/10 - 1505 words Robert Browning’s two poems, “Porphyria’s Lover” and “My Last Duchess,” have some striking similarities. Both feature men who seem mentally disturbed; Further, both of these men had relationships... Go to Article » Comparing Female Characters in "Christabel" and "The Eve of St. Agnes"
02/05/10 - 2225 words Despite both being the leading female characters in their respective pieces, Christabel from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Christabel and Madeline from John Keats’ The Eve of St. Agnes have many striking similarities.... Go to Article » Corruption and Theories of Kingship in Macbeth
02/03/10 - 2367 words In England and Scotland, the notion of a king's divine right to rule gained leverage during the reign of King James I. In James’s The True Law of Free Monarchies, first published in 1598, he describes his philosophy concerning... Go to Article » Virginia Woolf on the Role of the Artist in the Modern World
02/02/10 - 2041 words Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse follows the development of the painter, Lily Briscoe, as she strives to create a meaningful space for her artwork in an increasingly critical and unkind world. Woolf’s stylistic... Go to Article » The Relevance of Food to Representations of Gender in 'The Awkakening' and 'Goblin Market'
02/02/10 - 3299 words Carole Counihan argues that ‘men’s and women’s ability to produce, provide and consume food is a key measure of their power,’ (1998:2) whilst Jack Goody has argued, ‘gender hierarchies are maintained... Go to Article » The Manipulative Nature of Claudius in Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'
02/01/10 - 1709 words King Claudius, as seen in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, is both intelligent and well-spoken, two traits that, put together, complement his manipulative and dangerous nature. In fact though, it is his conscience that makes... Go to Article » The Relationship Between Fathers and Sons in Shakespeare
01/31/10 - 2637 words A father’s goal is for his son to surpass him or simply carry on the honor of the family name. To try and avoid any mishaps, fathers advise their sons using the experience they have gained throughout their own lifetimes... Go to Article » Brief Review: "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
01/28/10 - 1060 words Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is about a man on a voyage by ship, who in one impulsive and heinous act, changes the course of his life – and death. The Mariner faces... Go to Article » Women as the Submissive Sex in Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein'
01/26/10 - 864 words In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the author characterizes each woman as passive, disposable and serving a utilitarian function. Female characters like Safie, Elizabeth, Justine, Margaret and Agatha provide nothing more but... Go to Article » Filling in the Holes in the Biography of William Shakespeare
01/25/10 - 3995 words Shakespeare was a man surrounded by controversy. He, himself, has a biography filled with holes and question marks. Some have even held that the great English Bard could not have been one man. Although the idea that... Go to Article » A Second Look at Don John, Shakespeare's Most Passive Villain
01/22/10 - 2228 words In William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, all of the main characters experience and participate in some form of deceit designed to dupe another character. However, among the societal members of Messina, Don... Go to Article » Sylvia Plath's "Bee Sequence": A Microcosm of Poetic Development
01/21/10 - 4017 words The poems which Sylvia Plath composed in the weeks and days immediately preceding her death contain some of the most disturbing themes present in Modernist poetry. In Ariel, an anthology containing her most fervent, emotional... Go to Article » A Midsummer Night's Dream: Imagination, Romantic Love, and the Creation of Art
01/20/10 - 1970 words In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare plays with the themes of love, art, imagination, and dreaming to forge an overall meaning for his work. His play within a play, found in Act V, expands on his themes and portrays... Go to Article » Losing and Writing: Synonymous Art Forms for Poet Elizabeth Bishop
01/15/10 - 998 words Elizabeth Bishop, known for her reticent poetic style, reveals the secrets of her personal life through carefully wrought metaphors. In her villanelle, “One Art,” Bishop reveals the purpose of art and the significance... Go to Article » Perceptions of Heroes and Villains in European Literature
01/12/10 - 3532 words It is tempting to classify literary, cinematic, and historical characters into groups. The trouble of course, is that such labels can be misleading at best, and severely subjective and variable. When using terms such as hero,... Go to Article » William Shakespeare's Richard III: Brilliant Schemer, Entertaining Villain
01/11/10 - 1229 words William Shakespeare’s Richard III is no doubt a fascinating character and an entertaining villain. It is Shakespeare’s command of the English language, and his keen sense of drama and psychological depth, that make... Go to Article » Book Review: Stephen Kotkin's 'Armageddon Averted'
01/08/10 - 3114 words As the world's first real Marxist experiment, the Soviet Union, by virtue of lasting seventy odd years, proved Western intelligentsia wrong. The latter had long thought it was doomed to fail. When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989... Go to Article » "Once There Were Two Towers": Describing Tragedy to Children after 9/11
01/07/10 - 4603 words The attacks of September 11th have frequently been characterized as unimaginable, capable of inflicting confusion and emotional trauma beyond the scope of other historical events. On September 12th, 2001, N.R. Kleinfeld of the... Go to Article » Examining Oppression Through the Lives and Stories of Sylvia Plath and Charlotte Perkins Gilman
01/05/10 - 5131 words Sylvia Plath‘s The Bell Jar is about a young woman named Esther Greenwood entering college in the early 1950’s, a time before the second wave of the women’s movement had been implemented. Esther has dreams of... Go to Article » Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Plays of Shakespeare
12/31/09 - 4547 words The number of ancient sources available to the readers and playwrights of Elizabethan times was truly immeasurable. These sources could be reached both as original texts in Greek and Latin, and in French and English translations... Go to Article » How Now, Hecate?: The Supernatural in Shakespeare's Tragedies
12/17/09 - 4151 words William Shakespeare wrote these lines, but his use of the mythological tradition of otherworldly appearances in his plays is anything but insubstantial. Sometimes he crafted them as a permeating presence, other times passing... Go to Article » Perceptions of Knighthood: Comparing the Character of "The Knight" in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to the Knight in Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal
12/17/09 - 1759 words Chaucer’s description of “the Knight” in his “General Prologue” may be seen as a multi-layered narration. First he gives a very precise and historically relevant account of his campaigns. Based on... Go to Article » Slavery Plays Jump-Rope with Racism: Examining the Poetry of Phillis Wheatley
12/10/09 - 4303 words Children’s literature in the context of this research paper (and hopefully too in the eyes of the majority) is the ultimate escape; it is neither box nor leash nor constraint of any sort. It is the one genre of literature... Go to Article » The Passage from Now to Then: Examining Historical Literature Through Marguerite Yourcenar's "Memoirs of Hadrian"
12/09/09 - 1938 words When considering historical literature that is based upon people who once lived, readers often ask where the details are taken directly from historical accounts, and where they differ. This is a perfectly valid lens through which... Go to Article » An Insatiable Hunger: A Literary Analysis of Richard Wright's Autobiography, "Black Boy"
12/08/09 - 2080 words The autobiography Black Boy, by Richard Wright, is a tale of hope and determination. It catalogues Wright’s life growing up as an African-American in Jim Crow South, depicting the economic and social struggles that were... Go to Article » Poetic Structure in Robert Frost's "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening"
12/01/09 - 760 words In Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” the motive behind the narrator’s “stopping” has long been debated (3). On one side, some argue that the narrator is simply looking... Go to Article » Confrontation with Death Illuminates Death's Mystery in "The Odyssey"
11/28/09 - 1396 words Even in fairy tales and fantastical legends, the trespassing of the breathing upon the domain of the spirits is rare. It is a disturbing idea; when the dead visit our world, we can at least find comfort in numbers. Yet the hero... Go to Article » Anton Chekhov and the Development of the Modern Character
11/27/09 - 1177 words Considered by some to be the father of the short story, Anton Chekhov created a paradigmatic form for writing fiction. By mimicking reality he produced a representational art through his stories. The revelations in Chekhov&rsquo... Go to Article » Examining Mythology in "The Chronicles of Narnia" by C.S. Lewis
11/27/09 - 4604 words The wonder of opening a book feels very similar to the experience of opening a wardrobe door and finding oneself in another world. Stories told to children as they prepare for bed act also as vehicles for transportation... Go to Article » A Brief Look at Feminism in Shakespeare's Macbeth
11/25/09 - 748 words In Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, he presents the conflicting character of Lady Macbeth. Upon receiving her husband’s letter about the witches’ prophesies, she attempts to be like a man in order to exude the strength... Go to Article » Literary Analysis: Turn of the Screw
11/24/09 - 989 words In “The Turn of the Screw,” Henry James presents to the reader a story that seems as factual as the recorded ghost sightings that were a major influence for this novel. However, upon further investigation, the reader... Go to Article » Religion in Caribbean Literature
11/23/09 - 1760 words The language of religion plays an important part in the novels Brown Girl, Brownstones; The Farming of Bones; and In the Time of the Butterflies. In Brown Girl, Brownstones, the author presents the intricate Silla as a woman... Go to Article » Patroclus: The True Emobidment of Human Tragedy in the Illiad
11/23/09 - 1285 words Why raise the curtain on this 45 day by 45 night saga? In a story whose ending everybody knows already, why choose these actions of these characters to expound upon? The Iliad is not a war tale one might tell in which friends... Go to Article » Derek Walcott's "A Far Cry from Africa"
11/18/09 - 671 words Derek Walcott’s “A Far Cry from Africa” expresses how he is torn between “Africa and the English tongue [he] love[s]” (30). Several of Walcott’s poems – “The Schooner Flight&rdquo... Go to Article » Viewing Four Vonnegut Novels Through the Lens of Literary Criticism
11/17/09 - 2599 words I like Kurt Vonnegut because he’s innovative and unique, his literary voice speaking out of a time period I love, when he “was actually helping to breathe life into a new genre—modern, pop fiction,”[1]... Go to Article » Female Norms and the Patriarchal Power Structure in Shakespeare's Hamlet
11/17/09 - 956 words Socialization is the process by which individuals internalize the mores and norms of the society they live in. It is through this process that the established social order is perpetuated. When individuals fail to accept the beliefs... Go to Article » "Telepathic Shock" and "The Rush of It All": Jack Kerouac’s Use of Language in On the Road
11/16/09 - 4936 words Jack Kerouac once wrote, “It’s not the words that count but the rush of what is said." In a graduate class focusing on the origin, art, and development of effective language, choosing a man of letters who, by... Go to Article » Child Murders in "Medea": Parallel, Past, and Present Use of Child Soldiers
11/13/09 - 1450 words That wars are fought by the young for the old is a universally known truth. It is an ancient argument, a tired anti-war theme. Tired not in that it is hackneyed or obsolete, but in that its hollering admonitions have for all... Go to Article » Stamp Paid and the Power of Self-Actualization in Beloved
11/12/09 - 2803 words A character in Toni Morrison's Beloved whose crucial importance to both the plot and thematic intent of the book is Stamp Paid. He is a character with limited space devoted to him, but whose every action is a catalyst for the... Go to Article » Future Hell: Nuclear Fiction in Pursuit of History
11/11/09 - 17019 words What is a cyclical history? Why does humanity seem doomed to repeat the same mistakes over and over again? Are we doomed to this machine called fate? What is a soul, and how do I express it? Predicting what futures may lay ahead... Go to Article » Absurdism in Post-Modern Art: Examining the Interplay between "Waiting for Godot" and "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
11/05/09 - 3587 words Post-modern art is permeated by Absurdism. The Post-World War II Absurdist movement centered on the idea that life is irrational, illogical, incongruous, and without reason (Esslin xix). The ‘Theater of the Absurd&rsquo... Go to Article » From Comrades to Lovers: "The Hollow Men" and the Broken Homosocial Spectrum
11/02/09 - 2523 words In Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire, Eve Sedgwick proposes the idea that not only women, but also men, can travel along a social spectrum that ranges from friends to lovers. However, she argues that... Go to Article » Janet Malcolm and Norman Mailer: Navigating Author, Narrator, and Subject
10/30/09 - 3855 words Janet Malcolm opens her book, The Journalist and the Murderer,[1] with a stringent criticism of journalistic practice: "Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what... Go to Article » Henry Park's Identity through Selves and Space in Native Speaker
10/28/09 - 1905 words Henry Park: family man, father, son, husband, spy, traitor to his race, without race, ghost among the corporeal, in the wrong place, homeowner, homeless. Borne of nothing, self-cesarean, autochthon. Native speaker of the hyphen... Go to Article » "Allows itself to anything:" Poor Tom Familiarizing and Enacting Chaos in King Lear
10/27/09 - 4136 words In Shakespeare’s King Lear, Poor Tom—a figure of madness, poverty, and linguistic play—acts as the personification of the semi-apocalyptic state into which the social world of the play descends. Edgar first... Go to Article » A Contrast of Issei and Nisei as Illustrated by King-Kok Cheung, Hisaye Yamamoto, and Emiko Okori
10/25/09 - 881 words Hisaye Yamamoto’s double-telling stories, according to King-kok Cheung, convey “two tales in the guise of one,” one woven from the explicit words of the narrator, the other from the softened and sometimes pointedly... Go to Article » |