Essays and Research Papers on Mixed & Comp. Literature

4 pages in length. Compares the literary characters Huck Finn and Hester Prynne and how they were symbolic of conflict in society. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

6 pages in length. The writer compares and contrasts Adam to Satan in relation to free will and temptation. Bibliography lists 8 sources.

A 5 page paper that examines the 1994 book by author and professor Richard Krueger entitled Focus Groups: A Practical Guide for Applied Research. Discussed are the book's purpose, points and presentation, its contributions and shortcomings, and its recommended readership. Also included is a brief discussion on the differences between quantitative and qualitative ...

A five page paper looking at Ibsen's "Ghosts" and Pope's "Rape of the Lock" in terms of the commentary they make on social relations between men and women. The paper concludes that in both Ibsen's work and Pope's, society seems to have granted men the right to do what they want; women are expected to ...

This 3 page paper explores Ondaatje's work Running in the Family, and explores the reasons he ran away from his family and his subsequent re-discovery of his heritage. Focus is on his works and his abilities as a writer, as well as his family life. Bibliography lists one source.

(5 pp) Authors use the language of human experience. Authors attempt to symbolize with words what they hear, see, think and feel. The words express emotions, the core of human language and self-knowledge. We will also consider that each of the three writers we are examining use versimilitude the quality of appearing to be ...

A four page paper comparing and contrasting the protagonists of these two works by Leo Tolstoy and August Wilson, respectively. The paper concludes that both works show that the significance of life rests the relationships we build with those we love, not in the fences we build to keep them at bay. No additional sources. ...

A five page paper looking at the way these two writers satirize the philosophies of the Enlightenment and their eighteenth-century world. The paper concludes that Swift epitomized the idea that if we all really operated logically, our minds would be in tune with our hearts and we would be compelled by conscience to reform ...

A five page paper on three short stories: Eudora Welty's "Why I Live at the P.O.", Joseph Conrad's "The Secret Sharer," and James Joyce's "Araby." The paper looks at different reactions to feelings of inadequacy, pointing out that it can cause us to strike out defensively; paralyze us from doing anything at all; or inspire ...

A twelve page paper comparing the anonymous fourteenth-century poem "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" with Miguel de Cervantes' sixteenth-century novel "Don Quixote." The paper concludes that Gawain's tale introduces us to the concept of chivalry as it was originally envisioned; "Don Quixote" shows us how far society had fallen from the chivalric ideal in ...

This 4 page paper looks at three characters, hamlet, Medea and Vivian from Shakespeare, Euripides' and Edison examining the way in which these characters behave and influence the events around themselves. The bibliography cites 3 sources.

A 7 page paper. Toqueville said: "Two tendencies in fact result from equality; the one first leads men directly to independence and could suddenly push them tight over into anarchy; the other by a roundabout and secret but also more certain road, leads them to servitude." This paper explores the credence of this statement. ...

A three page paper looking deriving a definition of modernism by looking at Marcel Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past". It compares the seeker in the modernist era to Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote, who tries to define values in a period that didn't seem to have any. Bibliography lists one source.

An eight page paper discussing the way images introduced in the opening passage of a novel and repeated in the final paragraphs give the work a sense of closure. Specific novels mentioned are Margaret Atwood's "The Robber Bride," Anne Tyler's "The Accidental Tourist," Roddy Doyle's "The Commitments," and David Adams Richards' "Nights Below Station ...

A five page paper comparing these two stories by John Updike and James Joyce. Both stories show a young man thrown into conflict, ostensibly over a girl. However, in both cases, the deepest conflict comes from the young man's encounter with life itself, and his realization that he, as an individual, is no longer willing ...

This 5 page paper considers three very different plays, Chekhov's the Cherry Orchard, Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Ernest and Ibsen's Hedda Gabeler. The paper argues that although they are very different the three plays all have prominent female characters along with a comic content in common. The bibliography cites 3 sources.

5 pages in length. There were a number of reasons why Salem became the historical foundation of witch hunts, but none were so powerful as the threat of female independence had at that time. Without out a doubt, the fear of women's emancipation was the foremost reason for the colonial New England witch hunts. ...

This 5 page paper looks at aspects of the parent child relationship by using Oedipus the King by Sophocles and The King's Horseman by Soyinka. The paper contrasts the assumptions and presentations of parenthood in these two works which are written millennia apart, finding that the changes in society may nit have been as great ...

A 6 page paper that discusses the death of spouses at the end of 'The Immoralist' by Andre Gide and 'The Retreat from Love' by Colette. The two deaths are compared as they function as parts of the narratives. No additional sources cited.

5 pages in length. The writer compares and contrasts the characters Oedipus and Creon from Sophocles' "Oedipus the King." No additional sources cited.

5 pages in length. Seneca's Oedipus is a quite more violent and gruesome version than that of the play by Sophocles. By comparing the characters in Macbeth and Seneca's Oedipus, one can see what the playwright is able to create in terms of manipulating the audience and how the characters are used in this way. Bibliography lists ...

5 pages in length. The writer discusses the concept of ambition by utilizing Burton Raffel's "Beowulf," Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "Balthazar's Marvelous Afternoon" and Jose Armas' "A Delicate Balance." Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A five page work comparing Sophocles' Oedipus, Homer's Odysseus, and Shakespeare's Macbeth as tragic heroes, and the works in which they serve as protagonist ("Oedipus Rex," the "Odyssey," and "Macbeth") as tragedies. The paper concludes that Odysseus is not a tragic hero at all, because his problems do not arise from a doomed conflict between ...

This 4 page paper looks at 'The Veteran' by Ruzante, 'Mandragola' by Machiavelli and 'Servant of Two Masters' by Goldoni, arguing that there is a morality within the humour of these three works, however, this morality must be seen as subjective. The bibliography cites 5 sources.

This 5 page paper compares Jean Baudrillard's 1993 book, The Transparency of Evil: Essays on Extreme Phenomena and Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, written in 1992. No additional sources are listed.