Victimization in Wieland, Redburn, and Uncle Tom's Cabin
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A 6 page paper discussing these three novels by Charles Brockton Brown, Herman Melville, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. The paper concludes that in each of these novels, the characters had a choice about whether or not they intended to be a victim -- and for better or worse, the choice transformed their lives forever. Bibliography lists the three books as sources.
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Wagner’s Interpretation of O’Keeffe, Hesse, and Krasner
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A 15 page paper analyzing the issues raised by Anne Middleton Wagner’s Three Artists (Three Women) : Modernism and the Art of Hesse, Krasner, and O’Keeffe. The paper shows how Wagner, through a comparison of the lives of Eva Hesse, Lee Krasner, and Georgia O’Keeffe, convincingly presents the female artist’s plight in forging an artistic identity of her own. Bibliography lists ten sources.
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Sexuality and Women's Self-Determination in Four Classic Literary Works
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A 9 page paper showing the connection between these two issues, as demonstrated in the works of Aristophanes, Plato, Dante, and Shakespeare (Lysistrata, The Apology, The Inferno, and The Tempest, respectively). The paper asserts that Western literature first mocked or dismissed the sexual expression of female self-determination, later turned it into a sin, and finally transformed it into a social gaffe, but until recently still continued to maintain that its suppression was not wrong. Bibliography lists five sources.
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The Quest and the Hero in Homer, Dante, and Cervantes
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A five page paper analyzing the significance of these motifs in “The Odyssey,” “The Inferno,” and “Don Quixote.” The paper concludes that each hero, through his quest, has brought back to his society a dose of precisely the medicine it needs. Bibliography lists two sources.
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Plot in Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House” and Glaspell’s “Trifles”
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A five page paper analyzing the way the plots of these two works support a feminist argument, with and without explicit rhetoric. The paper asserts that the conclusions reached in each play are inevitable, given the way the plot was structured to produce them. No additional sources.
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Anti-Feminism In Five Tales
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A 5 page paper that reviews Sir Gawain, Wife of Bath (Chaucer), Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing in light of the anti-feminine treatment of its women characters. The writer argues that fear of the feminine in these tales leads to the necessity for control of the feminine. Bibliography lists four sources.
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Violence & Gender In Two Short Plays
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A 7 page paper comparing Eugene O'Neill's Before Breakfast and Susan Glaspell's Trifles. The paper notes that in each play two violently different mindsets come crashing together, and the conflicts are based on gender-specific ways of seeing the world. No additional sources cited.
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Anaya & Garcia Marquez / Magic Realism In Their Works
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A 6 page paper looking at this unusual literary genre as exemplified by Rudolfo's Bless Me, Ultima, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez' One Hundred Years of Solitude. The paper points out that magical realism criticizes the traditional views of reality, depicting them as deficient, and it is therefore a political and sociological tool. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Buchner And Koestler: The Tides Of Revolution
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Georg Buchner's play on the French Revolution, Danton's Death, and Arthur Koestler's novel, Darkness at Noon, both portray the consequences of opposing a popular revolution. This 5 page essay explores the similarities and differences between the French and Bolshevik Revolutions in light of these two literary works. No additional sources are listed.
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Art For Life's Sake
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A 7 page essay discussing the difference between art written for art's sake and art written for life's sake. It particularly discusses Flaubert, Ibsen, Dostoevsky and Yeats, and examines how each of these authors fit into the Romantic tradition of the artist as both spokesperson and iconoclast, and how each of these works discussed represent art created for life's sake. Bibliography lists seven sources.
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Satire and the Enlightenment in Swift and Voltaire
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A five page paper looking at the way these two writers satirize the philosophies of the Enlightenment and their eighteenth-century world. The paper concludes that Swift epitomized the idea that if we all really operated logically, our minds would be in tune with our hearts and we would be compelled by conscience to reform the world accordingly. Voltaire, however, does not reflect any real hope that logic and reason are the answers to humanity's woes. Bibliography lists four sources.
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Wuthering Heights / Pride & Prejudice
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6 pages in length. The differences between the love affairs of Catherine and Heathcliff in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, and Darcy and Elizabeth, the characters from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice are grand and far-reaching. To compare and contrast the way in which these two couples fell in love is to demonstrate the contrarieties between a spontaneous, smoldering romance and one that is born initially out of contempt and antagonism. The writer discusses these differences, as well as draws a conclusion on their ability to represent the passage of love. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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