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18757 The Story
of Medea and Nora's Rebellion in Ibsen's "A Doll's House".
This paper is written about Medea and Nora's rebellion. Civil
society depends on people not acting from their base emotions,
such as the rage and jealousy that inspired Medea's terrible
massacre. Pasolini's film adaptation of Medea stresses the gap
between social customs that are meant to restrain what the Greeks
saw as very dangerous potential in human beings who give in
to their animal reactions.
Pages: 6
Bibliography: 2
source(s) listed
Filename: 18757
A Doll's House.doc
Price: US$29.70
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18799 Technology
and the Body: The Relationship between Humanity and its Biosphere
in Two Works of Science Fiction.
This essay will examine the relationship between technology
and the body in two works: Phyllis Gotlieb's Sunburst and Robert
Charles Wilson's BIOS. It will be argued that in both texts
the relationship between technology and the body is defined
in terms of the paradigms of the periods in which they were
written.
Pages: 8
Bibliography: 3
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Filename: 18799
Technology Body Humanity.doc
Price: US$39.60
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16630 The Utility
of Literary Theory and Criticism
In this paper, we will discuss the utility of Literary Theory
and Criticism. By utility, we mean not only usefulness in an
intellectual and scholarly sense, this we will cover, but we
also mean utility in a social, political, and educational sense.
With a focus on contemporary and more comparative forms of Literary
Theory, we will deeply investigate its utility through understand
the ideas, and the thinkers, of the major theoretical movements.
Some of the movements we will investigate are: Marxism, Feminism,
Postmodernism, Structuralism, and Poststructuralism, among others.
We will also look at why the teaching of Literary Theory to
high school age students, which at present is near to non-existent,
is important to our culture and our society, and why it may
be the most important utility of Criticism.
Pages: 18
Bibliography: 4
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Filename: 16630
Literary Theory utility.doc
Price: US$89.10
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19969 Mothering
and Othering: Separation, Closeness, and the Mother Figure in
John Gardner’s Grendel, Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon, and
William Shakespeare’s Macbeth
This 6-page undergraduate essay examines mother figures in John
Gardner’s Grendel, Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon, and William
Shakespeare’s Macbeth all share significant similarities. This
essay suggests that Grendel’s mother, Ruth Foster Dead, and
Lady Macduff are all relatively marginal but powerful characters.
In the texts, the mother figures are closely associated with
the development of the male protagonists of the narratives.
The protagonists must negotiate their relationships with their
mother in order to forge their own identities. In each case,
the relationships depicted between mothers and sons are close
and can be read from psychoanalytic approaches. However, while
Gardner’s texts makes use of the mother-son relationship to
approach ideas of humanity, Morrison uses the same relationship
to express ideas of racial identity, while Shakespeare uses
the mother-son relationship to address issues of political structure.
In each text, the outcome of the mother-son relationship differs.
In Morrison and Gardner’s text, the son returns to an altered
but closer relationship with his mother. In Shakespeare’s text,
however, death serves as the ultimate separation between mother
and son.
Pages: 6
Bibliography: 3
source(s) listed
Filename: 19969
Mothers Three Texts.doc
Price: US$29.70
327.
20111 The Heroic
Ideal in the Narratives of Gilgamesh and Odysseus
This 6-page undergraduate paper considers the heroic ideal of
the characters Gilgamesh and Odysseus, who appear in the epic
poems, The Epic of Gilgamesh, and Homer’s The Odyssey, respectively.
This essay argues that Gilgamesh and Odysseus can tell us much
about heroic ideals. The two men are very similar in many ways,
as they are both strong, noble-born, and individualistic men
who embark on quests which test them. They both survive their
journeys by using their abilities as well as supernatural interventions
or powers. For Gilgamesh and Odysseus, heroic values rest in
masculine nobility and action. However, Gilgamesh symbolizes
a compassionate masculine heroism which is concerned with establishing
community, while Odysseus embodies masculine heroic ideals of
egotism, activity, wile, and individualism.
Pages: 6
Bibliography: 8
source(s) listed
Filename: 20111
Gilgamesh Odysseus Heroic.doc
Price: US$29.70
328.
20408 Female
Metamorphosis in Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” and Sartre’s “The
Flies”
This 3-page graduate paper considers the changes undergone by
the characters Grete in Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” and Electra
in Sartre’s “The Flies”. This essay addresses the comparisons
between the two characters and discussed the 'metamorphosis'
Grete and Electra undergo. This essay concludes that the depictions
of feminine metamorphosis juxtaposed with masculine change in
both Sartre and Kafka suggest a basically misogynist vision
of women’s development. Both Grete and Electra are depicted
as ultimately self-serving and flighty in their desire to be
reintegrated into the home or society, while men are seen as
independent and willing to represent justice. Electra is depicted
in an even more unsavoury fashion, as she abandons her principles
in order to garner protection from the flies or furies. Both
women serve as foils to the changes of male protagonists, and
both represent the ways that changes are harmful or negative.
Grete changes into a modern and uncaring woman seemingly in
order to get approval from her family, while Electra becomes
a faithless follower, abandoning her earlier visions to escape
punishment.
Pages: 3
Bibliography: 2
source(s) listed
Filename: 20408
Kafka Sartre Women.doc
Price: US$14.85
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20900 Cycles
and Chaos: Differing Treatments of Violence and Death in Eden
Robinson's Monkey Beach and Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the
Sower
This 8-page undergraduate paper compares the way violence and
death is treated in Eden Robinson's Monkey Beach, and Octave
E. Butler's Parable of the Sower. This essay uses the two primary
sources, to examine the way the themes are incorporated into
the novels and the ways in which the themes of violence and
death inform the content and structures of the two texts. This
essay concludes that both Eden Robinson's Monkey Beach and Octavia
E. Butler's Parable of the Sower present the twin themes of
violence and death in fascinating ways. In both texts, violence
and death are closely related, as numerous violent deaths in
both texts suggest that death is a form of violence in the lives
of both Lisa and Lauren. Robinson’s text, however, includes
loss as an essential component of a cycle, which includes loss,
violence, and death in a repeated pattern throughout the life
of Lisa, the protagonist and narrator of Robinson’s text. In
contrast, Butler presents a bleak vision of violence, in which
random acts of cruelty are chaotic and largely unpredictable.
There seems to be little pattern in the violence, which occurs
in Lauren’s reality. These essential differences in depictions
of violence and death inform the ways that narrative structure
is addressed in both texts. That is, since Lisa’s narrative
presents violence and death as a cycle, then her narrative takes
on the form of a personal history. Simply, Lisa must re-examine
and revisit the violence and deaths in her past to deal with
her current loss of her brother. In contrast, Lauren’s focus
on violence as random and chaotic creates a narrative based
on a journey forward. Rather than a re-exploration of the past,
her narrative is a reaching forward, or the building of an order
out of chaos. Further, just as different approaches to violence
and death inform narrative structure, the differences in the
treatment of the theme also inform ideas about the origin of
violence. That is, just as Lisa’s vision of violence and death
is cyclical, like the seasons, so she seems to associate violence
with natural causes. That is, she sees the earth and the sea
as main causes of violence. Lauren, on the other hand, sees
chaotic and random violence as stemming from the individuals
living outside walled communities, and thus she associated violence
with human greed and the unpredictable nature of human wants.