Essays and Research Papers on (All) Literature

This 3 page paper discusses Rapunzel's view of women, based on a reading of the classic fairy tale by the brothers Grimm. Bibliography lists 1 source.

This 3 page paper compares and contrasts the characters of Candide (from "Candide") and Orgon (from "Tartuffe"). Bibliography lists 2 sources.

This 5 page paper examines Voltaire's Candide and how it is critical of the Ancien Regime. The Enlightenment is discussed. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

A 3 page essay on Andersen. The fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen were never meant to be read solely by children. The fact that Andersen's style frequently disguises a sophisticated moral message suggests that he also intended these stories to speak to adults. One of Andersen's best-known tales is "The Emperor's New Clothes," which ...

A 3 page paper which examines the environmental conditions of Glen Canyon Dam before and after its mention in the book “the Moneky Wrench Gang” by Edward Abbey. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A paper which considers issues of humanism and grace with regard to the characters of the grandmother and the Misfit in O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find". Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A paper which considers Du Maurier's "Rebecca" and Barker's "The Ghost Road" with specific reference to the philosophical perspectives expressed by Kant and Bourdieu. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

A 7 page paper which examines the role of money in Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun.” Outline included. Bibliography lists 7 sources.

A 4 page paper which examines the similarities between Gilgamesh and Achilles as it involves changing. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

A 3 page report on “Black Beauty” by Ann Sewell. No additional sources cited.

A 9 page paper that is composed of 3 entirely separate shorter paper on specific Italian-American authors. These papers are 3 pages in length and have at least 2 sources in their bibliographies. The authors and works are: Giose Rimanelli's Benedetta in Guysterland; Richard Vetere's Gangster Apparel; and Anthony Valerio's Lefty and the Button Men ...

This 5 page paper focusses on The American but also provides many examples from The House of Mirth. How women were used almost as possessions in the era is duly noted. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

A 3 page paper which examines confrontation with death as seen through Homer’s “The Odyssey,” Virgil’s “Aeneid,” and Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina.” No additional sources cited.

A 5 page essay. Moliere, the seventeenth century French playwright, and Oscar Wilde, the nineteenth century British satirist, while separated by centuries, held similar views regarding fundamental human nature. Each of these writers looked at societal dictums concerning virtue and decorum with a jaundiced eye and satirized the idea that these injunctions are even plausible ...

A 5 page paper which argues that Heathcliff’s revenge in Emily Bronte’s “Wuthering Heights” my well be justified. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

This 5 page paper discusses the book "American Workers, Colonial Power" by Dorothy Fujita-Rony, and how the Filipino experience parallels – and differs from – that of other Asian immigrants. Bibliography lists 1 source.

This 3 page paper discusses the symbolism of the Shadow in the first of the books, A Wizard of Earthsea, and agues that the Shadow is in actuality the dark side of Ged, the wizard of the title. Bibliography lists 1 source.

A 5 page book review that focuses on a specific aspect of thematic content. Ruth Ozeki's novel All Over Creation offers a complex web of thematic tension, with relationships and plot twists pivoting around the issue of knowledge/ignorance and how this informs the lives of the book's characters. This thematic tension works on multiple levels ...

This 3 page paper examines the character Troy Maxson, the protagonist in August Wilson's Fences. His role as a father is the focus of the discussion. No additional sources cited.

A 6 page paper which closely examines what makes this section so important to conveying the novel’s overall themes, and considers dominant tropes and images as well as compares how the urging to claim agency to the women in Azar Nafisi’s “Reading Lolita in Tehran” and Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own.” No ...

A 5 page paper which examines the theme of money, and how it affects people and society, as seen in the novel “The Maltese Falcon” by Hammett and the film of the same name. Bibliography lists 5 additional sources.

A 7 page paper which relates the events of the Great Depression to the Joads, considering specific literary elements (point-of-view, characterization, and symbolism) that reveal and reinforce the novel’s themes. Bibliography lists 8 sources. TGgdgrapes.rtf

A 6 page overview of W.E.B. Du Bois' masterpiece The Souls of Black Folk. The writer offers brief descriptions of the various chapters and relates their themes to the book as a whole. No additional sources cited.

A 3 page paper which examines the murder of Agamemnon in Aeschylus’ work. No additional sources cited.

A 7 page paper which examines how Jeremy Collier’s pamphlet, “A Short View on Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage” (1698) led to intense censorship of Restoration comedies and dramas that were performed on the English stage, culminating in the Licensing Act of 1737. Bibliography lists 6 sources.