Literary Mastery in Chopin's 'The Awakening'
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A 5 page paper on this late nineteenth-century novel by Kate Chopin. The paper looks at the literary techniques Chopin used to develop her work, and concludes that the novel's construction and development is as innovative for the times as its shocking theme. Bibliography lists six sources.
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Sexuality in Chopin's 'The Storm'
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A 5 page paper analyzing the astonishingly frank depiction of female sexuality in Kate Chopin's landmark short story. The paper looks intensively at the social backdrop against which Chopin wrote her story, and shows why this story remained unpublished until long after the author's death. No additional sources.
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Women In Power
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6 pages in length. Powerful women are a rare breed. Such rarity is clearly depicted in three particularly outstanding stories: Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin, Everyday Use by Alice Walker and The Widow of Ephesus. While each woman's strength is varied among these tales, they share a common thread of power felt from down within one's very being. It is about this strength and power that the writer describes these women as they are able to cope with extreme situations and make their lives more worthwhile. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Women's Self-Image in Ibsen and Chopin
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A 6 page paper comparing and contrasting hthe characterization of Edna Pontellier in Kate Chopin's The Awakening with that of Nora Helmer in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House. The paper concludes that the heroines' differing fates are defined by the nature of each woman's self-image at the time of the story's climax. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Sexism in Anderson, James, Updike and Welty
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An 8 page paper that concludes: In these five stories, women are portrayed in various ways. Only Anderson's 'The Egg' continues to stress the inadequacy and calamity of women. James, Updike and Welty each present a twist on society's sexist view of women in the situations presented. Each writer provides redeeming qualities in their female characters, although the message is sometimes muddled in traditional constructs. In 'Daisy Miller,' James goes so far as to point out the error in those constructs, which is why the male character is named Winterbourne. The name itself infers that the man contributed to Daisy's death by not responding to his own perceptions incongruous with society's claims. His perceptions later proved to be accurate. Six sources cited.
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Love in Wilde, Joyce & Blake
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An 8 page paper looking at Oscar Wilde's urbane The Picture of Dorian Gray, James Joyce's modernist Dubliners, and William Blake's Romantic Songs of Innocence and Experience, in terms of the way each author depicted humanity's problem with love. The paper shows that all three authors felt society has impeded our ability to freely express love and establish intimacy with one another. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Obscenity and Vulgarity in Joyce and Carter
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A five page paper looking at the question of whether James Joyce’s Ulysses and Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber deserve to be considered obscene and vulgar. The paper concludes that Joyce’s use of vulgarity is a natural part of an otherwise life-affirming novel; Carter’s is merely intended to incite lust in the reader, and thus has no redeeming social value. No additional sources.
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Heart of Darkness & Apocalypse Now / Comparison and Contrast
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In 7 pages, the author discusses compares and contrasts 'Heart of Darkness' by Joseph Conrad, and 'Apocalypse Now,' a movie loosely based on the novel. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Verisimilitude In Grisham, Wharton, & Guterson
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A 6 page paper discussing the reality of the settings and details in these three novels. The paper points out that verisimilitude is very important in fiction, because only when the reader is grounded in reality can he suspend disbelief sufficiently to be drawn into the story. Bibliography lists one source.
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Book of Job vs. The Odyssey
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A 5 page essay comparing Job to Oedipus from Sophocoles 'Oedipus The King.' Issues such as free will are discussed throughout. No Bibliography.
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Individuality in James’ 'Portrait of a Lady' and Conrad’s 'Lord Jim'
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A twelve page paper looking at these two novels by Henry James and Joseph Conrad, respectively, in terms of their treatment of individuality. The paper seeks to determine whether an emphasis on asserting one’s individuality reflects a naive outlook on life, and concludes it does. No other sources.
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Henry James' Washington Square: The Application of Szacz's The Myth of Mental Illness
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This 7 page paper considers the application of Szacz's The Myth of Mental Illness to the basic premises of Shelley's Frankenstein and James' Washington Square. This paper considers the nature of mental illness as a construct of societal views and defines the implications for the main characters in both novels. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Conrad, Blake, Swift, & the Dialectics of Literary Inheritance
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A 20 page paper showing how Joseph Conrad, as an early Modernist, used many techniques inherited from earlier literary periods -- some of which he would have cheerfully acknowledged, others of which he would have found less congenial. Specifically, the paper looks at ways in which the ideologies and techniques of Jonathan Swift and William Blake found their way into Conrad's works. Bibliography lists 20 sources.
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Utilization Of the Journey Motif In Contemporary Literature
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This 5 page paper analyzes how the journey motif was used in The Grapes of Wrath (1939) by John Steinbeck, The Old Man and The Sea (1952) by Ernest Hemingway, and Deliverance (1970) by James Dickey. No additional sources cited.
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Contrasting Literature of the Romantic and Victorian Periods
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A 5 page essay contrasting the differing styles of literature between the Romantic an Victorian period using examples from Lord Byron's Don Juan and Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner from the Romantic period and Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest from the Victorian.
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Snobbery & Class In Austen & Gaskell
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A 6 page paper examining these issues in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South, dealing with the characters of Darcy and Thornton, respectively. The paper concludes that although class-consciousness became much more dependent on the possession of money after the Industrial Revolution, snobbery in both novels is a response to one's position being threatened. Bibliography lists four sources.
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The Theme Of Violence On 'The Lottery' & 'Doe Season'
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A 5 page paper examining the theme of ritualistic violence in these two stories. Compares and contrasts the two different approaches taken by Jackson and Kaplan that arrive at the same conclusion - that violence is wrong.
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