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512.20321 The Relationship of Willy and Biff Loman in Death of a Salesman
This paper will seek to understand the relationship between Willy and Biff in the play Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. By understanding the way that Willy, the father in the play, demeans his son Biff, we can surely learn why failure and self-denial are familial traits. Although Biff is a victim of this abuse for the longest time, he breaks this family tradition by accepting his father, who tragically never changes throughout the play.
Pages: 4
Bibliography: 1 source(s) listed
Filename: 20321 Miller Salesman Willy.doc
Price: US$35.80
513.20407 Jungian Shadow and A Wizard of Earthsea
According to A Handbook to Literature, the term romance describes ?works relatively free of the more restrictive aspects of realistic verisimilitude and expressive of profound, transcendent, or idealistic truths? (436). This definition applies quite well to Ursula Le Guin?s novel A Wizard of Earthsea. The fantasy genre in and of itself allows for less restrictive verisimilitude, and Le Guin?s use of heroic quest archetypes from the romance tradition creates a mood of profundity and universality.
Pages: 4
Bibliography: 4 source(s) listed
Filename: 20407 Le Guin Earthsea Jung.doc
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514.20422 Human Flaws of Rip Van Winkle and Roderick Usher
Two 19th century American short stories reveal different uses of negative human traits to evoke emotional response in the reader. ?Rip Van Winkle,? by Washington Irving, exposes the human tendency toward idleness and self indulgence, suggesting that people who are too lazy to accept personal and social responsibilities contribute so little that they may as well be dead. ?The Fall of the House of Usher,? by Edgar Allan Poe, uses conventions of the ghost story to underscore the damaging effects of upper-class inbreeding.
Pages: 3
Bibliography: 2 source(s) listed
Filename: 20422 Irving Poe Negativity.doc
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515.20483 Zen in American Literature in the 1950s: A Comparison of Kerouac and Salinger in Their Interpretation of Zen
This paper explores the impact of Zen upon authors during Post-World War Two America. This paper takes the position that authors J.D. Salinger and Jack Kerouac used Zen as a means of helping their characters understand their life experiences. There are three chapters, one of which explores the rise of Zen in the post-War United States and why the Beat Generation adapted it.
Pages: 50
Bibliography: 15 source(s) listed
Filename: 20483 Kerouac Salinger Zen.doc
Price: US$447.50
516.20520 The Importance of the Modern Self in Raymond Carver?s ?Are These Actual Miles??
This 3-page undergraduate essay considers Raymond Carver?s short story, ?Are These Actual Miles??. Briefly, this essay answers the question ?Aside from not having enough money to pay his bills, what do you think is Leo's greatest problem is?? Further, this essay briefly considers the significance and meaning of the title. In short, this essay argues that Carver?s story can best be understood as a narrative about a man fighting to understand the self in modern society. Although Leo?s problems are seemingly financial, it is soon obvious that his real hardship lies in his poor sense of self. Partly as a result of his own beliefs, and partly as a result of society, Leo comes to feel worthless, a fact that affects his relationship with his wife and his interaction with the salesman. His poor sense of self leads Leo to act suspiciously towards his wife, it leads him to accept his wife?s insults, and it makes him unable to answer the salesman?s direct questions.
Pages: 3
Bibliography: 2 source(s) listed
Filename: 20520 Carver Miles Character.doc
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517.20690 "Under the Heavy Weight of a Thousand Unrelenting Eyes": Nathaniel Hawthorne?s The Scarlet Letter and Puritan principles of Community Involvement
This 4-page undergraduate paper considers Nathaniel Hawthorne?s The Scarlet Letter (1850) and Frederick Binder and David Reimers, The Way We Lived, Vol. I: 1492-1877 in order to explore the idea that the story of Hester Prynne reflect Puritan principles. Specifically, this paper examines the ways in which Hester?s story suggests that for the Puritans, morality, family values, and religion were never separate from public life or from communities. In brief, this paper looks at the relationships which Hester has with her lover, her husband, her daughter, and her community, and concludes that Hester?s story reflects not only some of the realities, but also some of the more problematic aspects of Puritan culture. Hester?s relationships with her husband and her lover reveal the importance of patriarchy in Puritan culture, but these relationships also suggest some of the uncomfortable spaces patriarchy may posit women. Hester?s relationship with her daughter suggests the prevalence of community involvement in family morals, but also suggests that communities may have sometimes left families to develop with only observation and not with community interference. Hester?s relationship with the community suggests that observation and judgement may have played a role in Puritan society, which was concerned with upholding religious and moral standards, but that some fluidity allowed untraditional individuals and families to exist in the economic and social fiber of Puritan society.
Pages: 4
Bibliography: 2 source(s) listed
Filename: 20690 Scarlet Letter History.doc
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518.20874 A Poetic Analysis of A Slave?s Dream by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
This paper will seek to understand the technical merits of the poem "The Slave Dream" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. By realizing the point of view from a slave's mind, we can understand how dreams of freedom lie within the human soul, making it impossible to actually enslave any human being. This view is proposed by Longfellow to show the indestructible nature of the human soul, even after the death of the slave at the end of the poem.
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