Essays and Research Papers on Mixed & Comp. Literature

A 4 page essay that looks at 3 works. One of the most profound questions in life is what makes life worth living. What factors are required in order for people to feel happy and fulfilled? Henrik Ibsen in Hedda Gabler, Leo Tolstoy in The Death of Ivan Ilych, and Higuchi Ichiyo in The Thirteenth ...

A 5 page paper which examines the theme of maleness and the development of character involving maleness in Khaled Hosseini’s novel “The Kite Runner.” No additional sources cited.

This 3 page paper provides bulleted notes suitable for study. However, each piece of writing is analyzed. Various comments are provided in the context of the notes. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

An 8 page paper which compares and contrasts the specific illnesses and symptoms experienced by these young mothers, the impact on these women and others, offers historical perspective, and provides a complete DSM-IV five-axes diagnosis of Margery Kempe. No additional sources are used.

An analysis of the concept of Fate as used by Coelho in The Alchemist, and the way in which predestination and free will are treated in the course of the narrative. Bibliography lists one source.

A 3 page paper which compares and contrasts Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House” and Susan Glaspell’s “Trifles.” No additional sources cited.

A 3 page paper which examines three aspects of three stories. The stories are “The Glass Menagerie” by Tennessee Williams, “Bartleby the Scrivener” by Herman Melville, and “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson. No additional sources cited.

A 4 page paper which examines the characters and development in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s “Clothes” and Sandra Cisneros’ “Woman Hollering Creek.” No additional sources cited.

5 pages in length. Reactions to catastrophic events vary to a significant degree depending upon the cultural and social implications. The extent to which the aspects of public and private tragedy serve to further deepen the divide is both grand and far-reaching; that each form of catastrophe brings about responses of anger, perceived ...

A 4 page paper which examines the evolution of the modern novel through addressing “Sense and Sensibility” by Jane Austen, “The Mill on the Floss” by George Eliot, and “The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man” by James Joyce. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 3 page paper which examines of erotic love can bring happiness as seen through Homer’s “The Odyssey,” Virgil’s “Aeneid,” and Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina.” No additional sources cited.

A 5 page analysis of culture and humanity in Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart and the film The Gods Must Be Crazy. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

A 3 page paper which examines sexual relationships between adults and children as seen in the novels The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley and Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. No additional sources cited.

A 4 page paper which examines “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan, “Politics and the English Language” by George Orwell, and “If Black Language Isn’t a Language, The Tell Me, What Is?” by James Baldwin and then examines their discussions of language and identity, and language as political. No additional sources cited.

A 3 page paper which examines the characters of Gatsby from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. No additional sources cited.

This 5 page paper examines the life of this author. Attention is paid to her memoir entitled Persian Girls. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

This 4 page paper compares the characters of Gregor and Mersault in Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka and The Outsider by Albert Camus to discuss the way in which they both face purgatory and find liberalization. The bibliography cites 2 sources.

A 3 page paper which examines the self centered narcissistic nature of the narrators in Dostoevsky’s Notes From the Underground and Albert Camus’ The Stranger. No additional sources cited.

A 3 page paper which examines what makes a classic, and why classics are important as seen through an examination of Homer’s “The Odyssey,” Virgil’s “Aeneid,” and Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina.” No additional sources cited.

A 4 page paper which examines the role of the protagonist in Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Emma by Jane Austen, and My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 21 page paper provides an overview of the primary data collected for a comparison of works of Brecht and Shaw. Specifically, this paper looks at Brecht's The Good Woman of Setzuan and Shaw's Mrs. Warren’s Profession. Bibliography lists 20 sources.

A 3 page paper which discusses The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien and The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde. No additional sources cited.

A 7 page paper which compares and contrasts the theme of survival in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things and J.M. Coetzee’s Foe. No additional sources cited.

This 3 page paper discusses the book "The Shock of Arrival" by Meena Alexander, a chronicle of the immigrant experience. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 3 page paper which examines the mother and daughter relationship in Toni Morrison’s novel Sula, and also which compares and contrasts Sula to Edna in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening. Bibliography lists 4 sources.