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Literature Study Guides
Early Modern English Poetry
Sex, Seduction, and Love in Early Modern Poetry
Shakespeare & Renaissance Poetry
Shakespeare's Sonnet 116: Love's Unchanging Nature
Early Modern Poetry
Science and Contradiction in Donne's "A Valediction"
Contemporary American Literature
Chris McCandless: Quest for Meaning in the Wilderness
American Drama
Stanley and Blanche: Character Archetypes in Streetcar
American Literature
Government Overreach in "Harrison Bergeron"
European Literature
Unconditional Love as Illusion in Kafka's Metamorphosis
American Poetry
Extended Metaphor in Frost's "The Road Not Taken"
Comparative Literature
Power and Inhumanity in Macbeth and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Gothic Literature and Romanticism
Isolation and Violence in Frankenstein: The Creature's Rejection
American Literature
Freedom and Emotional Autonomy in Saunders's "Escape from Spiderhead"
Contemporary American Literature
Down Syndrome in "The Memory Keeper's Daughter"
American Drama
The Corrupted American Dream in Death of a Salesman
American Literature
Holden Caufield's Hypocrisy in The Catcher in the Rye
Poetry Analysis
Freedom vs. Conformity in "Dog" and "Family Reunion"
Short Story Analysis
Obsession and Rage in Roald Dahl's "Lamb to the Slaughter"
Ancient Greek Literature
Achilles' Regret: Glory and Mortality in Homer's Odyssey
American Literature — 19th Century
Social Division and Reform in Jacob Riis' "How the Other Half Lives"
American Poetry
Emily Dickinson's "Title Divine": Tone, Allusion, and Trope
Folklore and Fairy Tales
Aladdin Through a Marxist Literary Lens
American Literature
Racism and Heritage in "Desiree's Baby" by Kate Chopin
African American Literature
Race, Gender, and Freedom in Octavia Butler's Kindred
American Poetry
Loneliness and Solitude in Robert Frost's Winter Poetry
American Literature
Schizophrenia in Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown"
Greek Drama
Oedipus's Role in His Own Downfall: Fate vs. Choice
American Literature
Gilded Illusions: Gatsby's Dream and Its Moral Collapse
American Literature
Gilded Lies: How Gatsby's Dream Exposes America's Myth
American Literature
Illusion as Architecture: Gatsby's Dream and Its Ruins
Short Story Analysis
Language, Culture, and Gender in "Two Deserts"
Native American Literature
Native American Storytelling: Culture, Ritual, and Identity
British Literature—19th Century
Victor Frankenstein: The True Villain of Frankenstein
American Literature
Willy and Biff's Conflict in Death of a Salesman
Native American Literature
American Holocaust's Legacy in Native American Literature
Native American Literature
Native American Trauma in "Tony's Story" and "The Killing of a State Cop"
American Literature—Short Story and Poetry Analysis
Mental Illness and Mask-Wearing in Poe and Gilman
Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama
Psychological Deterioration and Madness in Shakespeare's Hamlet
Utopian and Dystopian Literature
Utopia Reimagined: More and Lennon's Vision of Ideal Society
American Drama
Territorialism Over Racism in Clybourne Park
Modern Poetry
Yeats' "The Circus Animals' Desertion": Loss of Poetic Inspiration
18th-Century European Literature
Sexual Exploitation of Women in Voltaire's Candide
African American Literature
Violence and Redemption in Toni Morrison's Jazz
British Literature—Eighteenth Century
Satire and Irony in Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal
Indian Literature
Caste vs. Love in The God of Small Things
American Literature
Montresor's Unreliable Narration in "The Cask of Amontillado"
Drama & Theatre
Nora's Journey: Identity and Rebellion in A Doll's House
American Poetry
Emerson's Literary Influence on Whitman and Dickinson
Comparative Drama and Opera
Parody and Parallelism in M. Butterfly and Madama Butterfly
American Literature
Point of View and Madness in "The Yellow Wallpaper"