Essays and Research Papers on (All) Literature

This 3 page paper compares the original written work to the 1939 filmed version. Differences and similarities are highlighted. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 4 page paper analyzes an article written by Edwin Jonestown, about Aldous Huxley’s dystopian novel Brave New World. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

A four page paper that analyzes how this biographical text was written, with particular attention paid to the tone in presentation, and how this affects the decisions the author makes. There are no additional sources listed in the bibliography.

This 8 page paper argues that The Odyssey by Homer, Antigone by Sophocles and Lysistrata by Aristophanes, provide a view of the role of women as progressing from an idealized model of womanhood that was restricted to family roles, to a recognition of the bravery and strength that can be a female attribute. No additional sources are listed. ...

A 6 page paper that includes 5 examples of creative writing. This includes adaptations of John Steinbeck's "The Chrysanthemums" and Gail Godwin's "Dream Children." Bibliography lists 2 sources.

An 8 page paper which examines the autobiographical and socio-political criticism associated with Tomasi di Lampedusa’s book “Il Gattopardo.” Bibliography lists 5 additional sources.

A 7 page examination of political obligation as it related to writers of the 17th and 18th centuries. Concentrates on John Locke and the leaders of the fledgling United States. Bibliography lists 8 sources.

This 5 page paper considers the writing of Plato and how it may upset any idea of security we may have at the same as encouraging independent thought, helping us to become stronger as individuals. The bibliography cites 3 sources.

An 8 page paper. Palace Walk, written by Naguib Mahfouz is compared and contrasted to The Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village, written by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea. Mahfouz places a fictitious family against the backdrop of the reality of Egypt's struggle for freedom from British rule. Fernea writes about her ...

A 12 page paper which examines James Joyce’s “Ulysses” and Virginia Woolf’s “To The Lighthouse” in terms of modernist writing. The issue addressed is whether or not the principal subject of modernist writing is writing itself. Bibliography lists 3 additional sources.

This 3-page paper focuses on the book An Hour Before Daylight, which is an autobiography written by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.

A 7 page essay/research paper that contrasts and compares the early feminism of Mary Wollstonecraft, who penned A Vindication of the Rights of Women in 1792, and Virginia Woolf who wrote A Room of One's Own in 1928. While different in context and writing style, these two writers made many of the same points, as ...

6 pages. Christine de Pizan was a feminist far ahead of her times. Her book, The Book of the City of Ladies, written in 1405, was the first literary attempt by a woman to write about women. Christine's book defends a concept of reason which is discussed in this paper as well as the relationship between reason ...

A 5 page paper on the life, writings, and style of C.S. Lewis, with a special emphasis on his children's work, The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. The paper shows how Lewis' Christianity informed everything he wrote. Bibliography lists three sources.

This is a 5 page paper discussing themes consisted and found within Morrison’s “Sula”, Anzaldua’s “Borderlands” and the poetry and writings of Namjoshi and Hanscombe and Willis. Themes of cultural dichotomy, opposing forces, self and identity are consistent throughout writings by women minorities. In Toni Morrison’s “Sula” and Gloria Anzaldua’s “Borderlands” both describe situations of ...

This 5 page paper discusses this work by Twain which was written in his later years and published after his death. This work is atypical of his writing in that it was a dark analysis of man and God. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

A 9 page paper on Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, looking specifically at the way it is written to be understood on both an extremely literary level as well as by a more mass-market audience. The paper points out that by writing the story realistically but packing it with classical archetypes, Mann is able to ...

A 5 page paper that presents a reflection of Joseph F. Schmidt's Praying Our Experiences written in the third person narrative style. Included are tutorial notes and suggestions on how this paper may be written in the first person voice or style. Bibliography lists 1 source.

(5 pp) What thoughts do you have why an author writes? Does he have a choice? Is he compelled, or is he escaping into a world of his own creation. Comparing the style of writing and the works of Raymond Carver and Truman Capote, allows us toe examine that question. Bibliography ...

A 5 page essay that contrasts the writing styles of Jane Austen and Ivan Turgenev, using brief passages from their respective works Pride and Prejudice and Fathers and Sons. The writer argues that an examination of these passages illustrates the differences between the two writing styles, specifically that Austen "shows" the action while Turgenev tends ...

This 12-page paper discusses Rhinton Mistry's collection of short stories, "Tales from Firozsha Baag" and why, in writing about India he has also written about the immigrant experience in Canada. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

This 4 page book review is on "Arby Jenkins" by Sharon Hambrick. Written in the persona of a sixth grader, the writer gives an overall perspective on this juvenile novel that is written from a religious Christian perspective. Bibliography lists only the source.

A 10 page essay that contrasts and compares the two writers. This examination uses Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Lawrence's The Rainbow, and also Lawrence's writing in which he overtly expresses this opinion of Whitman in order to comment on how Whitman's work influenced Lawrence, looking at this influence from both a positive and a ...

A 3 page essay that analyzes the writing style employed by the ancient Greek historian Thucydides in writing his classic history of the Peloponnesian War. The writer focuses on Thucydides' use of narrative and rhetorical arguments. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

Tennessee Williams once wrote a short story about Tent Worms. This 3 page essay explores the basic writing techniques used to covey this highly emotive short story.