Essays and Research Papers on (All) Literature

In four pages this paper examines the Bokononist religion featured in Kurt Vonnegut’s science fiction novel in a consideration of the function of faith and how it is based more upon untruths than on logic. One source is listed in the bibliography.

A seven page paper looking at the difference between a conventional view of religion and that of people whose jobs constantly require them to face the possibility of death. A little-known novel of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s and Melville’s most famous work are used as the basis for this analysis. No additional sources.

A five page look at John Steinbeck's classic novel about a migrant family in the 1930s. The paper contends that Steinbeck refutes the basic assumptions that conventional Christianity makes about family structure and replaces it with a radically new sense of what family means. Bibliography lists two sources.

A 7 page paper which analyzes how Flannery O'Connor's view of religion is revealed in her 1955 short story, "A Good Man is Hard to Find." Bibliography lists 6 sources.

A 3 page paper which examines the role of religion in Gustave Flaubert’s “A Simple Heart.” Bibliography lists 2 additional sources.

This is an 8 page paper, that discusses the word of Wordsworth. It refers to how he blended religion in his work. It gives a description of his life, what his influences were and how the kind of person he was. There are 4 sources cited.

This five-page-paper presents a discussion on the strengths and weaknesses of Anne Tyler's book, "Saint Maybe". Bibliography lists one source.

A 4 page paper which examines the importance of religion and spirituality in the novel. No additional sources are used.

In three pages this paper examines how religion plays the role of Mary Rowlandson’s teacher in a discussion of her seventeenth-century narrative about her time as a Native American captive during King Philip’s War of 1676. Two sources are listed in the bibliography.

A 3 page paper which examines how religious the people were in medieval times based on Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 10 page paper which examines how religion affected Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" and how religion is present in the work. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

This 71/2 page paper takes a look at three works of Emily Dickinson and explains the poets views on religion. Specific examples are given on Alabaster, and Faith is a Fine Invention. Brief overview of the poet's life discussed. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A 3 page paper which examines the role of religion for Eveline in James Joyce’s “Eveline.” Bibliography lists 2 additional sources.

A 3 page paper which examines the position of religion in Zadie Smith's novel "White Teeth." No additional sources cited.

A 13 page paper which examines Joyce's position on religion through his works concerning the Dubliners. The paper examines the works, as well as examines Joyce's position on religion. Bibliography lists 10 sources.

A 6 page research paper that discusses the connection between happiness and compassion, in terms of both Christian and Buddhist belief and then explains this connection further by examining Tolstoy’s Death of Ivan Ilych. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

This 6 page report discusses the English poet, writer, and clergyman, John Donne (1572-1631), who is best known for his religious and metaphysical poetry, his sermons and meditations. Donne demonstrates that he knows a great deal about love but he also makes it clear that the spiritual component of love is a quintessential characteristic of the deepest love. Romance and ...

This 5 page report discusses how three of the pre-eminent thinkers of the past 1,500 years viewed the relationship between religion and science. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 4 page paper comprises 3 short essays on ancient religions and how they compare with today’s worship; gothic cathedrals; and the concept of the romantic hero. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

A 10 page paper showing the religious references in three of this twentieth-century Southern writer's stories: 'A Good Man is Hard To Find,' 'Good Country People,' and 'The River.' The paper argues that the intrinsic violence of much of O'Connor's work comes from her unusual interpretation of the working out of God's grace in the ...

This 3 page paper uses various readings, in particular Chinua Achebe’s novel “Things Fall Apart,” to discuss ways in which culture and religion shape each other. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

This 6 page research paper examines the scientific and religious views of man and the cosmos offered by Thomas Hobbes' The Leviathan (1651) and John Milton's Paradise Lost (1667). Bibliography lists 2 sources.

A 5 page paper analyzing Voltaire's views on religion as expressed in this novel. The paper points out how the author satirized a number of viewpoints current in the eighteenth century, and concluded at the end that talking is vanity; religion lies in the doing. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A six page paper looking at the way Henry James’ novel “The American” and Ernest Hemingway’s novel “The Sun Also Rises” could be said to be subliminally religious. The paper argues that just as James’ protagonist proves the immorality of the British class system, Hemingway’s protagonist searches for a code of conduct beyond the mores ...

A 5 page paper comparing and contrasting religious views of the Sumerians as evidenced by the epic of Gilgamesh with religious attitudes in our own day. Bibliography lists 2 sources.