Essays and Research Papers on (All) Literature

In five pages this paper argues that Medea is less guilty than Jason in this defense case on her behalf. Only the primary source is listed in the bibliography.

A 4 pag epaper which examines how women are often presented as victims who struggle in a man’s society as seen in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper and the film The Changeling. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

A 3 page paper which analyzes a portion of George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss. No additional sources cited.

A 4 page essay that discusses the significance and purpose in Crane's famous short story. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 6 page paper which examines and compares the narrative technique in Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine and Eden Robinson’s Monkey Beach. No additional sources cited.

A 3 page essay/research paper that discusses and analyzes 2 Harlem Renaissance poets, Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen. The writer briefly discusses the historical context and background of each poet and analyzes Hughes' "Mother to Son" and Cullen's "Saturday's Child." Bibliography lists 3 sources that were drawn from the Norton Anthology of African American Literature. ...

A 3 page paper which compares and contrasts the views of marriage and society in Kate Chopin’s The Story of an Hour and Susan Glaspell’s Trifles. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

A 4 page paper which analyzes the novel Catch 22 by Joseph Heller. Bibliography lists 8 sources.

This 3 page paper discusses Stephen Budiansky’s book The Bloody Shirt, about the violent terrorist attacks on blacks by white Southerners during the Reconstruction period. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 3 page paper which considers the difference between art and craft with reference to Don Juan by Strauss and Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. The bibliography lists 4 sources.

An 8 page essay/research paper that argues that the dichotomy between friendliness and loneliness is the principal theme in Steinbeck's novella Of Mice and Men. Drawing on sources, the writer argues that the subplot of Candy and his dog are intrinsic to this theme. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

This 4 page paper discusses the similarities in social behavior in “Hamlet” by William Shakespeare and “The Importance of Being Earnest” by Oscar Wilde. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

This 3 page paper briefly discusses three books for young adults: “Early Thunder” by Jean Fritz; “Escape from Warsaw” by Ian Serraillier; and “Island of the Blue Dolphins” by Scott O’Dell.

This 9 page paper examines the seminal African novel “Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe from a feminist perspective; it also argues which critics seem to have made cogent statements and which are less convincing. Bibliography lists 10 sources.

A 3 page essay that discusses the time imagery in this short story. A principal component of William Faulkner's short story "A Rose for Emily" is the imagery that the author associates with time. The passage of time is integral to conveying the full import not only of Emily Grierson's psychosis, but also the relationship ...

This 10-page paper provides an analysis of the book Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer.

This 7 page paper discusses Holden Caulfield as an alienated teenager. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 8 page paper compares and contrasts the stories “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell with Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper.” Bibliography lists 6 sources.

A 6 page essay that discusses Nathaniel Hawthorne's nineteenth century novel The Scarlet Letter, which draws on his Puritan heritage, as it is set around the middle of the seventeenth century. The plot of the novel has tremendous psychological depth and complexity. Therefore, it can be analyzed from a variety of critical perspectives. This examination ...

A 3 page paper which discusses the insanity of Emily in William Faulkner’s short story A Rose for Emily. No additional sources cited.

A 6 page paper which compares and contrasts three short stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. They are The Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship, and The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 3 page paper which examines Chaucer’s view of the Church as seen in his tales from Canterbury Tales. Bibliography lists 1 source.

This 3 page paper examines the poetry of Williams and argues that Williams has made a statement about place, but he has also managed to connect it with a general sense about humanity and human life. No additional sources cited.

A 4 page paper which examines the theme of obsession in The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart. No additional sources cited.

This 3 page paper describes the way in which the book “Hemingway In Love and War” describes the background of the novel “A Farewell to Arms.” Bibliography lists 3 sources.