Essays and Research Papers on (All) Literature

A 3 page paper which examines Kate Chopin’s short story The Story of an Hour as it involves the power and pain of freedom. No additional sources cited.

A 6 page paper which examines the desire for power in a particular chapter from Joseph Heller’s classic Catch-22. No additional sources cited.

A 4 page paper which examines the significance of religion and death in Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, and also discusses similar elements in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five. No additional sources cited.

This 3 page paper discusses the themes of love, religion and politics in Sophocles’ play “Antigone.” Bibliography lists 2 sources.

A 10 page paper which examines the theme of hypocrisy through religion in Mark Twain’s “the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” No additional sources cited.

A 5 page paper which examines the theme of religion in Flannery O’Connor’s short story A Good Man is Hard to Find. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A 5 page paper which examines how Bronte’s attitude towards religion is developed in the Preface and in the first one-hundred pages of the text, and also includes character analyses of Mr. Brocklehurst and Helen Burns. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

A 4 page essay that examines 2 Irish plays. The Book of Job recounts how this ancient Hebrew lost everything he had, including his children. Job 1:21 reads: 'Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away.' In two early twentieth ...

8 pages in length. The writer discusses the aspect of religion as it relates to these two stories. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

This 10 page paper examines the driving forces at play in defining the lives of Tess, Alec, and Angel in the Victorian era in which they lived. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

A five page paper looking at this seminal twentieth-century author in terms of the various ways her work can be analyzed and interpreted. The paper concludes that she can be productively viewed from both the standpoints of Catholic spirituality and sociological change. Bibliography lists four sources.

A 7 page paper looking at the treatment of Christian doctrine in these two novels by Charles Brockden Brown and Susan Warner. The paper points out that although Christian expression is used as a form of 'cultural shorthand' in both novels, only in Warner's is the teaching of Christian principles a major goal of the ...

A 6 page essay that reflects on the 3 works by John Updike, his novel A Month of Sundays and his short stories "Wildlife" and "Farrell's Caddie." The writer discusses how each work reflects on Updike's own lfie and attitudes and his perception of the divine. Bibliography lists 9 sources.

A 4 page paper which examines the theme of religion and secularism in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

5 pages in length. The religious implications of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and "Beowulf" are both vast and far-reaching; while one is riveted with subtle blatancy, the other boldly proclaims how religious beliefs served to separate two cultures. No additional sources cited.

A 5 page paper which compares and contrasts the religion of the New Worlders and the Reservation in Aldous Huxley's book "Brave New World." No additional sources cited.

A 5 page contention that we are currently experiencing the retributions of a general crisis in Western Thought, a crisis that has resulted from the collapse of western metaphysics in the areas of reason, morality, and religion. This crisis has serious implications for culture and the image of man alike. The author of ...

A 3 paper that analyzes the title article. The writer comments on the major themes, the intentions of the author, and why we should care. Bibliography lists 1 source.

This 5 page paper considers and contrasts the way in which religion and the state are portrayed in Thomas More's Utopia and Thomas Hobbes' leviathan. The style and approaches of the book are different, and the precipitin of the authors is also at odds, the paper looks at this and also considers briefly why ...

A 5 page paper which examined the significance and theme of religion in Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe. No additional sources cited.

An 8 page discussion of the influence of factors like religion and belief in God, as opposed to factors such as greed, lust, jealousy, and regret in the characters presented in Dostoyevsky’s “Demons” and Ibsen’s “Enemy of the People”. Contrasts these author’s ideologies with those of Freud and Nietzsche. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A 5 page paper that explores and examines the theme of the reconciliation of the heritage of Native American politics and religion with that of the heritage of the politics and religion of European colonization in twentieth century literature. Discussed and compared are John Neihardt's 1932 publication of Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life ...

A 5 page paper which examines which author is better at presenting a satire on religion, Voltaire in “Candide,” or Swift in “Gulliver’s Travels” Part IV. Bibliography lists 10 sources.

This 5 page paper discusses the function that religion performs in Dante's "Inferno" and argues that the poem makes no sense unless it is seen as a work set in a religious framework.Bibliography lists 2 sources.

4 pages in length. The obvious implication of religious and spiritual intolerance sets the overall theme for Perez Galdos' (2004) Dona Perfecta, a novel about Spain's historic tendency to castigate those who did not fall in line with faith unity. Pepe represents the antiestablishment 'villain' who is not only proud of his personal ...