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Literature Study Guides
Shakespearean Drama
Social Class and Love in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
American Literature
Fathers, Sons, and Spiritual Doubles in Marilynne Robinson's Gilead
French Drama
Don Juan's Libertinism in Molière's Play: Self and Damnation
American Drama
Fate and Responsibility in Death of a Salesman
Comparative Literature
Religion in The Scarlet Letter and Life of Pi Compared
American Literature
Ethics and Morality in Twain's Huckleberry Finn
African Literature
Nigerian Writers in English: Challenges and Cultural Identity
Early Modern English Literature
Aphra Behn's Oroonoko: Race, Slavery, and Colonial Identity
Ancient Greek Drama
Creon's Pride and Downfall in Sophocles' Antigone
African American Literature
Rhetorical Analysis of Audre Lorde's "The Fourth of July"
Speculative Fiction
Capitalism and Class in Matt Haig's "The Invention of Peanut Butter"
American Literature
Gender Roles and Female Solidarity in Glaspell's Trifles
Renaissance and Elizabethan Drama
Structure and Staging of the Elizabethan Theater
Literary Criticism and Essay Analysis
Is Orwell's Critique of English Language Political or Historical?
Drama and Theatre
A Doll's House: Comparing the Play to Film Adaptations
Multicultural Literature
Polyethnism in Literature: Culture, Identity, and Global Society
American Literature
Europe vs. America: Social Conflict in James and Wharton
Literary Analysis
Solzhenitsyn's "Reflection": Water Symbolism and Human Life
American Literature
Faulkner's Battle Between Tradition and Modernity
Literary Analysis
Imperialism and Imagery in Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant"
American Literature
The Hunt as Myth: Faulkner's "The Bear" and the Lost South
Renaissance Poetry
Shakespeare's Sonnet 130: Real Love vs. Idealized Beauty
American History and Culture
Book Review: Revisiting America by Susan Wyle
Russian Literature
Contrast and Duality in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment
American Literature
Horatio Alger's Ragged Dick: The Real American Dream
American Literature
Sammy's Rebellion and Sexism in Updike's "A&P"
Literary Analysis
Gladwell's Outliers Applied to Shakespeare's Success
20th-Century British Literature
Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory: Faith and Politics
American Literature
Walt Whitman and American Romanticism: Poetry and Identity
Asian Literature
The Book of Tea: Okakura's Teaism and Japanese Aesthetics
English Literature
Shakespeare vs. Tey: Competing Visions of Richard III
American Literature
Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" and "The Villager" Compared
American Poetry
W.H. Auden's "The Unknown Citizen": Poetry Analysis
American Literature
Race, Gender, and Identity in Kate Chopin's "Désirée's Baby"
Postcolonial Literature
Darling's Identity and Displacement in We Need New Names
Children's Literature
Why Humor Matters in Children's Literature: Mo Willems
Gothic and Romantic Literature
Nature as Refuge in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Victorian Literature
Gender, Autobiography, and Syphilis in Jane Eyre
American Literature
Franklin and Douglass: Parallel American Autobiographies
British Literature
Heathcliff's Revelation in Wuthering Heights: Diction & Imagery
Poetry Analysis
Racism in Soyinka's and Olds's Poetry: A Comparative Study
American Drama
Conflict and Character in Miller's The Crucible: Opening Scene
Romantic Poetry
Ocean Metaphors in Keats and Longfellow's Poetry
Young Adult Literature
Feminist Critique of Jandy Nelson's I'll Give You the Sun
Modern and Contemporary Poetry
Bill Bissett's Ode to Frank Silvera: Urban Life and Language
American Drama
Anna in the Tropics by Nilo Cruz: Love, Modernity, and Literature
American Literature
Edgar Allan Poe: Writing Style and Literary Analysis
Asian Autobiography and Memoir
Freedom in Exile: A Review of the Dalai Lama's Memoir