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Literature Study Guides
American Literature
Fear, Power, and Conscience: The Crucible's Themes
World Literature
Sin, Guilt, and Redemption: The Kite Runner's Moral Core
American Young Adult Fiction
Blood and Brotherhood: Violence and Class in The Outsiders
American Young Adult Literature
Light Against Division: Symbolism in The Outsiders
British Literature
When Pigs Rule: Tyranny's Cycle in Animal Farm
Holocaust Literature
Darkness Made Visible: Night's Symbols of Lost Faith
Political Allegory
Allegory in Action: Animal Farm's Revolutionary Symbolism
19th-Century Drama
Mrs. Linde as Foil in Ibsen's A Doll's House
Contemporary Poetry
Loneliness and Loss in Modern Poetry: Barth-Martinson and Alexie
African American Literature
Slavery and Dehumanization in Toni Morrison's Beloved
European Drama
Why Nora Leaves Her Family in Ibsen's A Doll House
African Literature
Patriarchy and Colonialism in Things Fall Apart
Gothic Fiction
Victor Frankenstein's Journey to Self-Knowledge in Shelley's Novel
American Literature
Faulkner's "Barn Burning": Character, Class, and Modernism
American Literature
Character Development in John Updike's "A&P": Sammy's Growth
British Literature
The Power and the Glory: Greene's Catholic Allegory Analyzed
Literary Analysis / Creative Nonfiction
Song Hee-Suk and Life Under North Korea's Regime
American Literature
Power and Gender in Hemingway's Hills Like White Elephants
Gothic Literature
Doubling and the Uncanny in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Victorian Literature
Narration and Conversation in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre
Shakespearean Drama
How Shakespeare's Hamlet Destroys and Rebuilds Identity
American Literature
Captain Ahab's Otherness in Melville's Moby-Dick
19th-Century European Literature
Marxism and Hysteria in Zola's Germinal Explained
Romantic Poetry
Wordsworth's Return to Nature in "Nutting" and Sonnet
Victorian Literature
Victorian Childhood and Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Comparative Literature
Betty Mahmoody vs. Marjane Satrapi on Iranian Society
African-American Literature
Racism and Prejudice in Angelou, Hurston, and Staples
American Drama
Emotions and Eternity in Thornton Wilder's Our Town
American Literature
Gatsby's Green Light: The American Dream as Elegant Lie
Comparative Literature
Kurtz vs. Jack: Savagery in Conrad and Golding Compared
Victorian Literature
Heathcliff's Madness and True Love in Wuthering Heights
American Literature
Belonging in America: Mukherjee and Alexie's Minority Narratives
South Asian Literature
Home and the World by Tagore: Truth vs. Illusion Review
African American Literature
Race, Gender, and Identity in Kincaid's "Girl" and Staples's "Just Walk on By"
Caribbean and Latino Literature
Junot Díaz's Oscar Wao: Culture, Identity, and Clash
American Literature
True Transcendentalism: Thoreau's Walden and Nature
Classical Greek Drama
Aristotle's Poetics and Sophocles' Antigone: Greek Tragedy
American Poetry
Memory and Blindness in Li-Young Lee's Poetry
American Literature
Going After Cacciato: War, Fantasy, and the Vietnam Experience
African American Literature
Dehumanization and Humanity in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye
American Literature
Why the Traveler Dies in Jack London's "To Build a Fire"
American Literature
Kate Chopin and Toni Cade Bambara: Author Biographies
American Literature
Herman Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener: Symbols and Meaning
Comparative Literary Analysis
Tension and Suspense in Wells and Lively's Short Stories
American Literature
Killing the Mockingbird: Innocence, Injustice, and Symbol
American Literature
Symbols of Innocence Lost: Mockingbird's Moral Architecture
American Literature
Hollow at the Core: Character and Corruption in Gatsby
American Literature
Illusion as Architecture: The Great Gatsby's False Dream