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Free Will in Four Works of Western Literature
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A six page paper looking
at the issue of free will as it is developed in Sophocles' 'Oedipus
Rex'; Christopher Marlowe's 'Doctor Faustus'; Shakespeare's 'King Lear';
Walter Mosley's 'Devil in a Blue Dress'. Each author argues that the
protagonist's free will is in fact tempered by social or cultural
factors that make his free will not so free. Bibliography lists two
sources.
Filename: KBfrewil.wps
Oedipus And Othello: Protagonists As Tragic Figures
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5 pages in length. As protagonists, both Oedipus and Othello ultimately ended up as tragic figures as a direct result of their inability to alter the course of their lives. Defining this particular concept calls for one's close interpretation of what the protagonist's role truly represents; with that, it becomes quite simple to understand how the lead characters can so easily slip into the tragic state they eventually inhabit. Through their difficult and sometimes life-changing experiences, both Oedipus and Othello come to recognize what it is their own self-knowledge has gained through their struggles. When assessing the integral components that comprised each character, it is important to determine just how much of their actions were motivated by fate or free will; summation of all applicable elements will likely lead one to conclude that determinism played a more significant role. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: TLCoedip.wps
Hemingway vs. Joyce / 'Just Representations of Nature'
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A 5 page paper examining Samuel Johnson's opinion that no literature will endure the test of time except that which reveals and explores situations and characteristics that are recognizable, that most of us share, and that are common to people across the boundaries of time and space. The paper compares Ernest Hemingway's 'A Clean, Well-Lighted Place' and James Joyce's 'Araby' in view of Johnson's dictum, arguing that Hemingway's story fulfills the requirement better than Joyce's because its theme is more easily accessible to the general reader. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: Hemjoyce.wps
Self-Realization in Three War Novels
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A 6 page paper which discusses the quest for a deeper sense of self as depicted in three novels: Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell To Arms, Timothy Findley's The Wars, and Joy Kogawa's Obasan . The paper observes that while a major life-crisis is not necessary in order to spur on this important personal journey, it is nonetheless true that most of us go through life without doing any particular self-analysis until a crisis strikes -- and then self-analysis becomes necessary for psychic survival. Bibliography lists three sources.
Filename: Warnovel.wps
The Great Gatsby Vs. The Sun Also Rises
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5 pages in length. A common thread between F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises is the strong sexual orientation theme. Nearly all of the main characters are caught up in one carnal crises or another, without the least bit of concern for those who ultimately become the victims of their passions. The writer compares and contrasts the attitudes and actions of the characters with regard to how their sexual orientation affects the outcome of the story. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: Gatsun.wps
Pablo Picasso, Leonardo Da Vinci, Daniel Defoe And Harriet Beecher Stowe: Influences Past And Present
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5 pages in length. Vastly different in their pursuits, Pablo Picasso, Leonardo da Vinci, Daniel Defoe and Harriet Beecher Stowe all contributed something unique to the worlds of art and literature. The writer notes that to discuss each individual's influences in both his or her own era as well as in contemporary society requires only that one become a part of the artistic rendering and relish the distinctive singularity enveloped within their respective works. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: TLCvinci.wps
Nietzsche and Dostoevsky: A Dialogue on Western Civilization
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A four page paper analyzing the degree to which Nietzsche and Dostoevsky are in agreement about the decline of Western Civilization. The paper concludes that although both men considered that nihilism -- the denial of values -- was at the root of what was wrong with European civilization in the nineteenth century, they simply attributed this nihilism to different causes. No additional sources.
Filename: KBphilos.wps
John Milton's 'Paradise Lost': Adam And Satan
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6 pages in length. The writer compares and contrasts Adam to Satan in relation to free will and temptation. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: TLCmiltn.wps
Use Of Nature As Escape
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The writing of the early part of this century and late nineteenth century was often defined as 'modern' by way of the propensity of the authors of that era to address the underlying psychological motivations for behavior. Unfortunately, this often resulted in a self analysis that was unbearable to the character and the inner conflict ended in cessation of life, lifestyle and, or the person as they had been before self evaluation. This 6 page paper argues that in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway's The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, The Awakening by Kate Chopin, Miss LonelyHearts and Day of the Locust by Nathaniel West, The Sound and the Fury by Faulkner and Call It Sleep by Henry Roth, nature plays a pivotal role as symbol and in reality in the examination of the self and is used as an escape from the lives and conflicts of the characters. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: KTstorys.wps
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