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Literature Study Guides
American Drama
Purified by Fire: Symbolism and Integrity in The Crucible
African American Literature
Tea Cake's Gift: Love and Self-Actualization in Hurston
American Literature
From Shame to Selfhood: Symbolism in The Scarlet Letter
British Romanticism
Ambition's Monster: Creation and Guilt in Frankenstein
Shakespearean Drama
Iago's Architecture: Race and Jealousy in Othello
American Drama
A Streetcar Named Desire: Play vs. 1951 and 1998 Films
Children's Literature
Wilbur's Coming-of-Age in Charlotte's Web: A Analysis
Shakespearean Drama
Is Hamlet Truly Insane? Jealousy, Revenge, and Tragic Heroism
Spiritual and Self-Help Literature
Breaking Free from the Pain-Body in Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth
Irish Literature
Yeats and Boland: Irish Bardic Tradition and Modern Verse
African Literature
Race and Gender in Gordimer's "Country Lovers"
Renaissance Literature
Women's Role in Castiglione's Book of the Courtier
Irish Drama
Riders to the Sea: Trope, Loss, and Maurya's Liberation
Old English and Medieval Literature
Epic Poetry and the Hero: A Study of Beowulf
American Literature
Gender Power and Female Sexuality in Susan Minot's "Lust"
American Literature
Irony and Liberation in Kate Chopin's "Story of an Hour"
Poetry Analysis
Pablo Neruda's "Ode to Wine": Love, Imagery & Symbolism
Political Autobiography
Bill Clinton's My Life: Purpose, Legacy, and Political Philosophy
American Literature
Themes in "No Name Woman" by Maxine Hong Kingston
Fantasy Literature
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings: Sources and Influences
Medieval Literature
The Ideal Medieval Knight in the Song of Roland
Comparative Literature
Dante's Inferno and the Heroic Quest: An Epic Comparison
American Literature
Imagery and Symbolism in Steinbeck and Hemingway's Female Characters
Restoration Drama
Alithea and Margery Pinchwife in The Country Wife
American Drama
Laura Wingfield as Williams' Symbolic Self in The Glass Menagerie
American Literature
Ideology and Revolt in Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's Story
American Literature
Dream or Reality in Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown"
Modernist Fiction
Mental Illness in Mrs. Dalloway and Virginia Woolf's Life
Russian Literature
Solzhenitsyn's Camp as Soviet Dystopia in Ivan Denisovich
Comparative Literature
Slavery, Magic, and Colonialism in The Tempest and Solibo Magnificent
Irish Literature
Gender and Feminist Discourse in James Joyce's Fiction
Ancient Greek Drama
Ismene as Foil to Antigone in Sophocles' Play
Gothic and Horror Literature
Dracula, Eros, and Thanatos: Freudian Themes in Bram Stoker
Scandinavian Literature
Smilla's Sense of Snow and Danish Prejudice Against Greenlanders
American Literature
Poe's "Man of the Crowd": Analysis and Film Adaptation
American Biography
Book Review: Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Isaacson
Fairy Tale and Film Adaptation
Beauty and the Beast: Fairy Tale vs. Cocteau's 1946 Film
American Literature
Art vs. Competence in A River Runs Through It
American Literature
Andre Dubus's Meditations From a Movable Chair: Faith & Loss
Postcolonial Literature
Architecture as Cultural Symbol in Three Classic Novels
American Literature
F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Crack-Up": Despair and the Personal Essay
American Literature
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle: Labor, Controversy, and Reform
Comparative Literary Analysis
Motherhood Themes in Song and Personal Essay Compared
African Literature
Things Fall Apart: Missionaries and Village Elders Compared
Classical Literature
Nostos and Symbol: How The Odyssey Defines Heroism
Postcolonial Fiction
Tradition Versus Erasure: Colonialism and Masculinity in Things Fall Apart
African Literature
Okonkwo's Rigidity: Colonialism and Igbo Collapse in Achebe
British Literature
Mutual Correction: Pride and Prejudice's Argument for Growth