Essays and Research Papers on (All) Literature

This 3 page paper discusses Susan Glaspell's short story "A Jury of Her Peers." Bibliography lists 1 source.

A 10 page research paper/essay that contrasts and compares imagery in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver. Bibliography lists 10 sources.

This 3 page paper discusses three moral and ethical ideas we can find in The Odyssey. Bibliography lists 1 source.

A 6 page research paper/essay that discusses Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, which is a brutally honest autobiography of a woman who was born into slavery. The writer discusses how Jacobs addresses the ramifications that slavery had on women, particularly those of a sexual nature. This topic is related to ...

This 10 page paper examines the use of characterization, point of view and symbolism by the writers Sandra Cisneros and Theodore Roethke. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

This 6 page paper discusses the similarities in passages from "The Odyssey" and "The Aeneid." Bibliography lists 2 sources.

This 5 page paper discusses the relationship between Siddhartha and Govinda and argues that it is more than a traditional friendship; it is also a "calendar" of sorts, in which the presence of Govinda marks the stages in Siddhartha's development. Bibliography lists 1 source.

A 6 page essay that focuses on the character of John Singer in Carson McCullers' The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. Singer has been described as a "deaf mute, living with the man he loves, in a small Southern town where all the other outsiders come to tell him their sorrows" (Schulman 39). This summation ...

A 6 page essay that contrasts and compares three novels. Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, Jane Austen's Emma and Chaim Potok's My Name is Asher Lev are novels that each address the trials and tribulations of young protagonists as they come of age and enter the adult world. In each case, the author utilizes the literary ...

This 4 page paper discusses some aspects of Huxley's life and how they impacted his writing, particularly "Brave New World." Bibliography lists 4 sources.

15 pages in length. The extent to which Oedipus Rex can be examined from a combination of behavioral perspective and interactionist theory is both grand and far-reaching; that Oedipus's behavior represents a dichotomy of opposites speaks to the ever-conflicting interaction he constantly experiences both with himself and those around him. Oedipus' doom is ...

This 3 page paper discusses the theme of self preservation in Greene's short story "The Destructors." Bibliography lists 2 sources.

This 3 page paper discusses the way god(s) are represented in the Hindu epic the Bhagavad-Gita and Homer's classic poem, the Iliad. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

An 11 page research paper that offers detailed chapter summaries on each of the 14 chapters in Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich. No additional sources cited.

This 6 page paper examines Salman Rushdie's book "Midnight's Children" and explores the relationship between the novel's structure and its theme. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 4 page analysis of Holden Caulfield in J.D. Salinger’s novel “Catcher in the Rye.” No additional sources cited.

This 3 page paper discusses some of the differences between the novel and film versions of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Bibliography lists 2 sources.

A 5 page paper which presents a hypothetical discussion between Homer’s Hektor, Sophocles’ Antigone, Euripides’ Phaedra, and Thucydides’ Melians involving their decisions. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

An 8 page essay that discusses the Monster as a symbol of the fate of women in Victorian society. The writer argues that the way in which Shelley presents Victor Frankenstein's experimentation suggests a sexual ethos and a desire to establish dominance over nature in much the same way that male identity was predicated ...

This 7 page paper discusses Zora Neale Hurston's use of animals and animal imagery in her classic novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God." Bibliography lists 5 sources.

This 3 page paper analyzes Louise Erdrich's short story "Fleur." Bibliography lists 2 sources.

This 5 page paper argues that the fable "Beauty and the Beast" does not conform to current societal ideas about women's roles and gender. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A 5 page general research paper on Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ work One Hundred Years of Solitude. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 3 page paper explicates a passage in "The Scarlet Letter" in which Hester Prynne considers the nature of women's place in society, and what has to happen if it is to change. Bibliography lists 1 source.

A 4 page paper which examines how F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby essentially sums up the American individual and the assumptions made by Americans. Bibliography lists 2 additional sources.