Essays and Research Papers on (All) Literature

A 5 page paper which examines the case of Daniel Schreber and the narrator in Dostoyevsky’s “Notes from the Underground.” The paper incorporates the notes of Freud concerning the Schreber case as well. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

5 pages in length. No matter how close a family's infrastructure may be, it is inevitable that at one time or another, that very unique composition will waver and even crack under the pressure of unmet expectation. Such is the case in Julia Glass's Three Junes, a story that envelopes readers within the ...

This 6 page paper examines Jeffrey Reiman's book, "The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison." Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 10 page research paper that, first of all, analyzes a novel by Bushi Emecheta's novel entitled Second-Class Citizen, which was first published in 1974, and concerns the life of a Nigerian woman of the Igbo tribe. Emecheta's protagonist, Adah Obi, is pictured from childhood through early adulthood, with Emecheta charting her personal development within ...

A 7 page research paper that address Thucydides' Peloponnesian War and the causes, interactions and diplomatic relations between Athens and Sparta, as listed in Book 1 that indicate Thucydides' opinions on the causes of this momentous conflict. No additional sources cited.

A 4 page paper which examines why Tim, in Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried,” went to war and how it affects him. No additional sources cited.

A 4 page book review/research paper that examines this novel in order to discern the plight of labor unions in the steel industry from the late nineteenth century through the early twentieth. First published in 1941, Thomas Bell's Out of This Furnace is novel that tells the story of three generations of a Slovak immigrant ...

This 3 page paper discusses Susan Cooper's book "Greenwitch" and answers questions about it. Bibliography lists 1 source.

A 10 page analysis of Jonathan Swift’s novel Gulliver’s Travels. No additional sources cited.

A 5 page analysis of Flannery O’Connor’s The Life You Save May Be Your Own. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

An 8 page research paper. Nineteenth century British writers William Thackeray and Thomas Carlyle each address the topic of money and the role that financial status played in English society in their tests, respectively, Vanity Fair and Past and Present. The stances that these authors take are similar in that both of them picture ...

4 pages in length. Lystra's "Searching the Heart: Women, Men, and Romantic Love in Nineteenth-Century America" draws its influence from a long-standing misinterpretation of Victorian love and relationships as being covert and void of romantic undertones. The chronological scope of the nineteenth century provides for a more focused major emphasis upon the social ...

A 4 page essay that examines Goethe's The Tragedy of Faust, Part I, which epitomizes the Romantic era, and Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilych, which represents the narrative style of Realism. The writer contrasts these literary styles. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 6 page essay that explicates Chaucer's description of the Shipman from the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales. A close reading of Chaucer's description of the Shipman tells the reader a great deal about this man, such as where he stands in British society, and something of his character and political orientation. In so ...

A 4 page explication of Irish poet Eavan Boland's poem "Fever." Bibliography lists 3 sources, but the bibliography is incomplete.

A 3 page paper which examines the theme of individualism in the work of Mark Twain. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

This 6 page paper discusses Putnam's book "Making Democracy Work" and answers specific questions about it. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 14 page paper examines this character in George Bernard Shaw's play. The play is examined in historical context and the character is analyzed. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

A 4 page essay that analyzes "Ode, Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" by William Wordsworth, who uses a perspective that brings in the triad of the past, present and future as a means of understanding the fundamental reality of human existence. It is a fact of life that the joy of living ...

This 9 page paper is a literary analysis of the short story "A Late Chrysanthemum" by Fumiko Hayashi. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 6 page paper which examines the theme of finding one’s identity in William Faulkner’s short story Barn Burning. No additional sources cited.

This 4 page paper discusses the literary works "Sonny's Blues," "The Glass Menagerie" and "Salvation." Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 6 page analysis of The Lord of the Flies by William Golding. Bibliography lists 7 sources.

This 4 page paper discusses the character of Roger Chillingworth in "The Scarlet Letter." Bibliography lists 1 source.

This 4 page paper considers two questions with regard to the book "Dead Man Walking": how would we evaluate the Christian imperative to love in the context of the book, and how might American policy change if her concerns are considered? Bibliography lists 1 source.