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Book of Job vs. The Odyssey
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A 5 page essay comparing Job to Oedipus from Sophocoles 'Oedipus The King.' Issues such as free will are discussed throughout. No Bibliography.
Filename: Bookofjo.wps

Individuality in James’ 'Portrait of a Lady' and Conrad’s 'Lord Jim'
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A twelve page paper looking at these two novels by Henry James and Joseph Conrad, respectively, in terms of their treatment of individuality. The paper seeks to determine whether an emphasis on asserting one’s individuality reflects a naive outlook on life, and concludes it does. No other sources.
Filename: KBjim.wps

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Henry James' Washington Square: The Application of Szacz's The Myth of Mental Illness
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This 7 page paper considers the application of Szacz's The Myth of Mental Illness to the basic premises of Shelley's Frankenstein and James' Washington Square. This paper considers the nature of mental illness as a construct of societal views and defines the implications for the main characters in both novels. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: MHfranke.wps

Conrad, Blake, Swift, & the Dialectics of Literary Inheritance
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A 20 page paper showing how Joseph Conrad, as an early Modernist, used many techniques inherited from earlier literary periods -- some of which he would have cheerfully acknowledged, others of which he would have found less congenial. Specifically, the paper looks at ways in which the ideologies and techniques of Jonathan Swift and William Blake found their way into Conrad's works. Bibliography lists 20 sources.
Filename: Conswift.wps

Utilization Of the Journey Motif In Contemporary Literature
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This 5 page paper analyzes how the journey motif was used in The Grapes of Wrath (1939) by John Steinbeck, The Old Man and The Sea (1952) by Ernest Hemingway, and Deliverance (1970) by James Dickey. No additional sources cited.
Filename: Journey.wps

Contrasting Literature of the Romantic and Victorian Periods
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A 5 page essay contrasting the differing styles of literature between the Romantic an Victorian period using examples from Lord Byron's Don Juan and Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner from the Romantic period and Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest from the Victorian.
Filename: Romvict.wps

Snobbery & Class In Austen & Gaskell
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A 6 page paper examining these issues in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South, dealing with the characters of Darcy and Thornton, respectively. The paper concludes that although class-consciousness became much more dependent on the possession of money after the Industrial Revolution, snobbery in both novels is a response to one's position being threatened. Bibliography lists four sources.
Filename: Gasaust.wps

The Theme Of Violence On 'The Lottery' & 'Doe Season'
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A 5 page paper examining the theme of ritualistic violence in these two stories. Compares and contrasts the two different approaches taken by Jackson and Kaplan that arrive at the same conclusion - that violence is wrong.
Filename: Lottdoe.wps

Locke, Voltaire, & Huxley / On Society
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A 5 page paper that discusses how these three authors' intent was to prepare society for the world in which it lives. The paper discusses the three viewpoints, but brings them together in a thesis that they wrote their stories and philosophies in order to provide information to humans about how the world is/should be constructed. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: Lockeh.wps

Empathy and Human Rights in Shelley, Conrad, and Borowski
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An eight page paper looking at these issues as presented in Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein,' Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness,' and Tadeusz Borowski's 'This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen.' Tracing these themes from the Enlightenment to the mid-twentieth century, the paper argues that in order to secure human rights for all, we need to be able to empathize with one another's pain. Bibliography lists five sources.
Filename: KBfrank3.wps