Essays and Research Papers on Mixed & Comp. Literature

A 6 page review of George Steiner's fictional novel featuring Adolf Hitler. In it Hitler finds temporary reprieve from the post World War II world in an Amazon jungle. Ultimately, however, he is hunted down for the purpose of being subjected to the world's wrath. Steiner's works clarifies that there is a ...

A 6 page paper which compares the transformation of individuals in times of change as seen in the books "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque and "Journey Into the Whirlwind" by Eugenia Ginzburg. No additional sources cited.

An 18 page paper which examines the significance of acting and performing in Charlotte Bronte's "Villette" and George Eliot's "Middlemarch." Bibliography lists 10 sources.

A 4 page paper which examines how Antoinette becomes alienated from her society, and the effect of language serving as an impenetrable barrier. No additional sources are used.

This 5 page paper compares and contrasts the characters of Bone in "Bastard out of Carolina" and Offred in "The Handmaid's Tale." Bibliography lists 4 sources.

This 8 page paper considers the development of remembering and forgetting in the book 'Tales from Firozsha Baag', also printed as 'Swimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag', and considers how these themes are presented with specific reference to the narrator character Kersi. The bibliography cites 4 sources.

A 3 page paper which examines the existence of prostitution in Daniel Defoe's novel "Moll Flanders" and "Mrs. Warren's Profession" by George Bernard Shaw. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

4 pages in length. Ethnic coexistence in a society where whiteness is the overpowering culture is, according to George M. Frederickson, comprised of four distinct categories: hierarchy, assimilation, pluralism and separatism. The extent to which racial disharmony has perpetuated because of these dividing classifications is both grand and far-reaching; that only one of ...

4 pages in length. The progression of orality and literacy through the three time periods of The Epic of Gilgamesh, The Mali Epic of Son-Jara and Don Quixote illustrates the extent to which humanity changes as its intellectual development progresses. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

4 pages in length. Medea and Hester Prynne share a common denominator of passionate love for the men in their lives, and they also share the torment associated with possessing such deep love. Each woman's ability to deal with her respective crisis is what sets them apart, however, inasmuch as Hester works through ...

This 6 page paper examines two works Everything that Rises Must Converge and Oedipus Rex to explore self-discovery and identity. Some quotes are provided. Bibliography cites 6 sources.

4 pages in length. The writer briefly describes each period and identifies one author and character. No Bibliography.

This 3 page paper compares and contrasts George Orwell’s “Shooting the Elephant” and Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Black Cat” to assess the way in which they both depict the human heart with the aim of identifying which may be the most effective. The bibliography cites 2 sources.

A 7 page overview of the female characters in the ancient work of literature by Euripides and the more modern work by Jean Rhys. The author contends that in each of these works the presentation of female characters runs counter to the audience's expectations. Literary conventions and audience expectations, values, and assumptions are ...

This 15 page paper provides an overview of the following topic: The Presentation of Family and Friends: A Comparison of Children's Picture Books in Israel and the United States. Bibliography lists 10 sources.

A 3 page paper which examines the use of naturalism in “Age of Innocence” and “The House of Mirth.” Bibliography lists 2 sources.

A 4 page paper which examines the theme of childhood in Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” and Khaled Hosseini’s “The Kite Runner.” No additional sources cited.

A 7 page paper which examines the ways in which the themes of rebellion and submission are elaborated in and developed by the protagonists in each novel. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

This 8 page paper examines the way in which Levi Strauss utilizes Ferdinand de Saussure's structural linguistics to analyse myth. The paper considers the way this is approached in modern society with a range of ideas and alternative approaches and demonstrates how Levi-Strauss used the example of Oedipus to present his analysis method. The bibliography ...

A 3 page paper which examines confrontation with death as seen through Homer’s “The Odyssey,” Virgil’s “Aeneid,” and Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina.” No additional sources cited.

A 6 page paper which closely examines what makes this section so important to conveying the novel’s overall themes, and considers dominant tropes and images as well as compares how the urging to claim agency to the women in Azar Nafisi’s “Reading Lolita in Tehran” and Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own.” No ...

7 pages in length. The self/other dichotomy is present in myriad forms throughout literary history, but perhaps nowhere is it better illustrated then within the context of Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, two pertinent examples of how the respective authors can uphold the same approach yet do so in quite different ...

A 7 page analysis of Franz Kafka’s “The Trial” and Herman Hesse’s “Steppenwolf” as they relate to ideas expressed by critic/philosophers. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

A 4 page paper which examines the affects of illness and death as seen in Leo Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” and Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis.” No additional sources cited.

This 4 page paper relates the concept of Kafkaesque relative to Kafka's Trial. The term “Kafkaesque” has been used to describe the helplessness of an individual in the face of unknown forces that persecute him without reason. Bibliography lists 4 sources.