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Literature Study Guides
American Poetry
How to Eat a Poem: Merriam and Hughes Compared
Holocaust Literature
Mala: The Other Survivor's Tale in Art Spiegelman's Maus
British Romanticism
Aesthetics, Philosophy & Psychology in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
British Literature
Clarissa's Speech in Pope's "The Rape of the Lock" Analyzed
American Nonfiction
Fast Food Nation: Land, Workforce, and American Culture
Comparative Epic Literature
Beowulf and Achilles: Comparing Two Epic Hero-Figures
Shakespeare Studies
Imagery in Romeo and Juliet: Themes of Love and Tragedy
Dystopian Fiction
Anthem by Ayn Rand: Individuality vs. Conformity
Literary Character Analysis
Tom Ripley's Amorality and the Murder of Dickie Greenleaf
Short Fiction Analysis
Garcia Marquez's Unconventional Children's Tale Analyzed
French Literature
Voltaire's Story of a Good Brahmin: Happiness and Paradox
Christian Literature
God, Evil, and Free Will in The Screwtape Letters
World War I Poetry
Siegfried Sassoon's "Suicide in the Trenches": A Close Reading
Fairy Tale and Folk Literature
Hansel and Gretel: Gender Roles and Cooperation in the Grimm Tale
Ancient Greek Literature
Storytelling in Homer's Odyssey: Structure and Technique
Ancient Greek Literature
Agamemnon's Egotism as a Failure of Leadership in the Iliad
Literary Analysis
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: Schizophrenia and Stigma
African American Literature
Linda Brent's Quest for Freedom in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Young Adult Literature
Out of the Dust: Reflection on Depression-Era Adolescent Poetry
Ancient and World Literature
Gilgamesh and Odysseus: Comparing Two Epic Heroes
American Literature
Mayella Ewell's Motivations in To Kill a Mockingbird
American Literature
Moral Ambiguity and The Misfit in O'Connor's Story
Comparative Drama and Film
Cyrano de Bergerac vs. Roxanne: Tragedy to Comedy
American Literature
The Yellow Wallpaper: Female Artistry and Oppression
American Literature
A Lesson Before Dying: Humanity, Dignity, and Injustice
Elizabethan Drama
Hamlet as a Renaissance Man: Shakespeare and Humanism
African American Literature
Dreams and Idealism in A Raisin in the Sun
American Literature
Confession and Madness in Three Edgar Allan Poe Stories
Medieval Literature
Dante's Inferno as an Epic Poem: Six Key Qualities
Ancient and Classical Literature
The Epic of Gilgamesh as a Journey Through Life's Meaning
American Literature
The Minister's Black Veil: Transcendentalism vs. Anti-Transcendentalism
British Literature
Savagery vs. Civilization in Lord of the Flies
American Literature
Nick Carraway as Unreliable Narrator in The Great Gatsby
African American Literature
Trauma and the Jungle Within: Morrison's Beloved Analyzed
American Literature
Greg Graffin's Punk Identity: An Adolescent Search for Self
American Literature
Kate Chopin's The Awakening: Women, Freedom, and Society
American Literature
Dreams and Goals in Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun
American Literature
Giovanni's Room: Race, Homosexuality, and Identity in Baldwin
Early Modern European Literature
Identity and Self in 16th–18th Century European Literature
American Literature
Family, Race, and Social Mobility in A Raisin in the Sun
Victorian Literature
Gender, Sex, and Power in Three Victorian Novels
British Poetry
Jonathan Swift's "The Lady's Dressing Room": Gender and Vanity
Chinese Literature
Wang Anyi's "The Destination": Vagabondage and Identity
American Literature
Female Oppression in Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth
Environmental Literature
Cod by Mark Kurlansky: A Review of History Through Fish
Victorian Literature
Symbolism of Hunger in Dickens' Oliver Twist
Victorian Poetry
Old Age and Wisdom in Tennyson's "Ulysses"
Medieval Literature
Irony in Chaucer's Lawyer: Canterbury Tales General Prologue