Essays and Research Papers on Mixed & Comp. Literature

This is a 6 page paper discussing the equality and education of women in the works of Ibsen, de Pizan, Wollstonecraft, Mill and Chopin. The equality and education of women and issues which relate to the equality of in marriage have long been evident in the literature of the past 500 years. Christine de Pizan ...

5 pages. This paper looks at the works of two authors, Nuruddin Farah who wrote Secrets and Bapsi Sidhwa who wrote Cracking India : A Novel. Both writers deal with the increase of violence in their countries. This increase in violence is an event of history-making proportions. The important lessons to ...

A 5 page paper which compares and contrasts the writing styles of F. Scott Fitzgerald in “The Great Gatsby” and Emily Bronte in ”Wuthering Heights.” No additional sources cited.

5 pages in length. Education is the key to freedom. As succinct as this statement may be, it holds within its brevity the singular ability to emancipate oppression and improve dire economic situations. According to Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed, education – or rather the lack there of – has long stood ...

This five-page-paper discusses the styles of education that are depicted in two different novels; Frankestein and Emile. The self taught vs the gender based structured style are compared and contrasted.Bibliography lists two sources.

A 7 page paper comparing Eugene O'Neill's Before Breakfast and Susan Glaspell's Trifles. The paper notes that in each play two violently different mindsets come crashing together, and the conflicts are based on gender-specific ways of seeing the world. No additional sources cited.

A 5 page paper which examines issues of race and gender in Toni Cade Bambara's "The Salt Eaters" and Zadie Smith's "White Teeth." No additional sources cited.

5 pages in length. The writer compares and contrasts these two stories as they relate to conformity versus rebellion and gender roles. No additional sources cited.

9 pages in length. Virtue was synonymous with the female gender back in the eighteenth century; indeed, a woman without virtue was looked upon as being indigent of conscience. However, this social and emotional oppression was not placed upon women from their own kind, but rather, men were solely responsible for setting forth ...

An 18 page paper which examines the ways in which William Shakespeare used word-plays (puns) for erotic, humorous and ironic purposes. Specific plays discussed include Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, Merchant of Venice, Othello, A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It and The Taming of the Shrew. Bibliography lists 9 sources.

3 pages in length. Gender perspective serves as the defining difference between Joyce Carol Oates and Anton Chekhov's respective versions of The Lady With the Pet Dog. While two couples in love represent the common denominator shared by both stories, the image of gender weakness is a decidedly blatant and undermining attribute of ...

In eight pages this paper compares and contrasts how gender relationships are depicted in each text as reflective of different perspectives and cultural backgrounds. There are no additional sources listed in the bibliography.

A 3 page paper which examines coming of age in The Secret Lion by Albert Alvaro Rios and Doe Season by David Kaplan. The paper compares the two stories which are different in terms of the gender of the main character and the narration. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

This 5 page paper relates to a hypothetical situation in which an individual is one of 35 people who have survived a major catastrophe and emerged as survivors. This paper considers the best application of a single political example related from the works Huckleberry Finn, Brave New World and Joseph Andrew. This ...

A 4 page paper which examines the descent of Dr. Faustus and Dr. Jekyll in Marlowe’s The Tragical History of Dr. Faust and Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. No additional sources cited.

A 5 page overview of Holocaust poetry. This paper emphasizes how poetry like that of Don Pagis, Paul Celan, and others have added significantly to our understanding of the horrors of this time in history, not through rote historical fact, but through the moving words of their poems. Bibliography lists 9 sources.

Through Robbie and QT-1, Isaac Asimov spins the human lesson utopian tale of a society that would live under only three laws: harm no one, do our jobs, and preserve ourselves for the protection of all. If we did so, the world would be a better place. Bibliography lists 1 source. jvIRobot.rtf

Martin Luther King, Jr. said that anyone living in the states should never be considered an outsider, but Henry David Thoreau points out that the United States is not truly a society of people, but a country made up of individuals with only their own needs to consider, under the law. As such, their capitalist ...

A five page paper looking at two female characters from these works by Dante Alighieri and William Shakespeare in terms of their submissiveness to the principle of love. The paper concludes that in Dante, Francesca's poignant defense of her adultery actually redeems her to modern readers; while Desdemona's total submissiveness -- which Shakespeare seems to ...

A seven page paperlooking at William Shakespeare's King Lear and Dante's Inferno in terms of their use of animal symbolism as a metaphor for the monstrous aspects of the human psyche. The paper concludes that in both works human weakness and shortsightedness bear responsibility for a punishment which sometimes doesn't seem to fit the crime. ...

5 pages in length. The aspects of love and relationship are vast and far-reaching within the literary boundaries of William Shakespeare's "Othello" and Robert Browning's "Porphyria's Lover." While both writers equally address each aspect, the manner by which they do so does not mirror the other; rather, Browning's treatment is significantly more traditional ...

Marriage is the capstone of the comic solution in Shakespeare, who uses marriage not only delight and entertain. but affirm and guarantee the future. Marriage is a solution to central concerns in The Tempest and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and The Merchant of Venice. Bibliography lists 3 sources. jvSHmarg.rtf

A 5 page paper which compares and contrasts the themes manipulation of weakness and the wearing of masks in William Shakespeare's play, "The Tragedy of Othello" and David Henry Hwang's play, "M. Butterfly." Specifically considered are how Othello and Rene Gallimard are vulnerable because of their status as foreigners, how they attempt to mask ...

A five page paper looking at "Oedipus the King", "Macbeth", and "Death of a Salesman" in terms of the way they pit the individual against forces he cannot control. The paper asserts that over time, Western civilization moved from a definition of tragedy as something set in motion by outside agents -- such as ...

This 5 page report discusses the idea that many of the modern attitudes and beliefs that have shaped literature throughout the ages have demonstrated how people view the realities of love and longing. For example, Jay Gatsby would have never been the character he was without his focus on Daisy and Emma Bovary’s “scandalous” behavior would have never occurred had she ...