Essays and Research Papers on (All) Literature

A 4 page paper which examines the expression of immortality in Dostoevsky’s The Grand Inquisitor and Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilych. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

This 3 page paper discusses their family’s reactions to the problems facing Gregor Samsa in “Metamorphosis” and Sonny in “Sonny’s Blues.” Bibliography lists 3 sources.

In three pages this paper examines the concept of redemption, whether or not it is primarily religious in nature, how what it entails for the novel’s protagonist Amir, and considers whether or not redemption is possible in this life. Three sources are listed in the bibliography. TGkrredeem.rtf

A 3 page paper that consists of 2 parts. The first section is a 2 page essay that compares and contrasts 2 short stories. The writer argues that "The Gift of the Magi" by William Sydney Porter, who is better known by his pen name of "O. Henry" and "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" by Ernest ...

This 4 page paper discusses the roles of Offred and Moira in “The Handmaid’s Tale” and argues that they are direct opposites. Bibliography lists 1 source.

In three pages this paper compares and contrasts Whitman’s autobiographical poem with Tolstoy’s novella. There are no additional sources listed in the bibliography.

An 11 page essay that examines Alan Ayckbourn’s “The Norman Conquests” is a trilogy of plays: “Table Manners,” “Living Together,” and “Round and Round the Garden.” All three plays involve the same characters and the events of one weekend in July. However, each play tells the story of the weekend from a different location in ...

A 4 page essay that discusses the similarities between Satan in Milton’s “Paradise Lost” and the character of Frankenstein’s Monster in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Both characters were expelled from the place where they were created by their creators. Both were are considered hideous in form. Both are evil. However, there are also differences between the ...

This 5 page paper discusses the classic novel “The Great Gatsby” and what it tells us about our current “cult of celebrity.” Bibliography lists 2 sources.

This 3 page paper discusses the short story “A Fifty-Year Old Man” by Shusaku Endo and answers questions about it. Bibliography lists 1 source.

In three pages this paper examines two chapters from Brave New World Revisited (“The Art of Selling” and “Brainwashing”) in a consideration of how people of the twenty-first century are essentially fulfilling the predictions Aldous Huxley made more than a half-century ago and the disturbing questions this raises about contemporary society. There are no ...

In nine pages this paper examines how the moral and physical resistance of Jews during the Holocaust is portrayed in Jurek Becker and Nechama Tec’s books Jacob (Jakob) the Liar and Defiance: The Bielski Partisans in and in Frank Beyer and Edward Zwick’s 1975 and 2008 film adaptations of these texts. Three sources are ...

This 3 page paper analyzes the book “Gangs of America” by Ted Nace, a look at the influence of corporations on politics today. Bibliography lists 1 source.

This 3 page paper is an analysis and response to the book “My Sister’s Keeper” by Jodi Picoult. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

A 5 page essay that draws on sources in order to discuss the points made by Susan Glaspell in her 1916 play “Trifles,” which deals with a murder case in which a woman has strangled an abuse husband. As a sheriff and county attorney investigate the crime scene, two women who accompany them in order ...

This 4 page paper provides an overview of Checkov's Three Sisters. This paper relates some of the major elements of this story. No references cited.

This 6 page paper discusses the book “Tuesdays with Morrie” with regard to the use of stereotypes and metaphors by the author, and what their use implies for our culture. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

This 8 page paper discusses various aspects of Upton Sinclair’s novel about the meatpacking industry, “The Jungle.” Bibliography lists 7 sources.

This 5 page paper examines this character in Orlando Furioso. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 4 page research paper/essay that discusses what is meant by this term. The Absurd is a philosophical orientation that has its roots in the philosophy of the Danish thinker Soren Kierkegaard. Related to both existentialism and nihilism, this orientation asserts that it is not possibly to find meaning in life and that any attempt ...

This 3 page paper compares the duties of an actual Reeve to the way Chaucer describes this character, and argues that the portrayal is inaccurate. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

An 8page critique and analysis of the book Night Rider by Robert Penn Warren. No additional sources cited.

A 4 page essay that looks at 2 books. Cormac McCarthy in The Road and Clifford Chase in Winkie offer two very different commentaries on the corruption, narrow-mindedness and hubris that colors the present political and social atmosphere in the United States. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

3 pages in length. Even though a bit off course from his quintessential style, Gabriel García Marquez still envelopes a familiar sense of magic realism into his otherwise wholly serious The General in his Labyrinth. No additional sources cited.

This 3 page paper discusses the significance of the metaphors used in an essay about them. Bibliography lists 2 sources.