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Women in Classical Literature
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A five page look at the role women have played in Western literature from the Old Testament through the Greeks and Romans through the Middle Ages and early Renaissance to the Romantic era. Works discussed include the Bible: Homer's Iliad and Odyssey; Aeschylus' Agamemnon; Euripides' Medea; Virgil's Aeneid; Dante's Inferno; the works of Petrarch; Cervantes' Don Quixote; and Goethe's Faust. Bibliography lists two sources.
Filename: KBwomen3.doc

The Faustian Bargain in Classical Literature
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A five page paper looking at the way a number of classical sources treat the 'Faustian Bargain' -- the exchange of short-term gratification for long-term misery. Sources discussed are the Bible, Machiavelli's 'The Prince,' Homer's 'Iliad' and 'Odyssey,'; Aeschylus' 'Agamemnon,' Sophocles' 'Oedipus Rex,' Virgil's 'Aeneid,' Dante's 'Divine Comedy,' Cervantes' 'Don Quixote,' and Goethe's 'Faust.' No additional sources.
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Goethe's 'Faust' / The Devil's Funnybone -- A Comic Episode
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A 5 page paper examining one episode of comic relief in Goethe's Faust. It concerns the Devil's advice to a first-year student trying to decide on a field of study, and contains considerable irony and satire. The paper concludes that the Devil's cynicism actually serves to throw Faust's sincerity into higher relief. Bibliography lists three sources.
Filename: Devilfun.wps

Goethe’s Faust - A Soul Torn Between Gretchen and Mephistopheles
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This 5 page report discusses Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s masterpiece “Faust” and whether or not Faust will give his soul over to God, to Gretchen or to Mephistopheles. Throughout the story, it could be resolved in a number of ways. However, what Faust never seems to realize is his fundamental helplessness in the face of powers much greater than his own. No bibliography.
Filename: BWfaust.rtf

Magic In Shakespeare & Goethe
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A 5 page paper that details the passage of magic, dreams, and incantations in a Midsummer Nights Dream and Goethe's Faust. The writer also examines how both works display these qualities and goes into significant plot analysis as well.
Filename: Midg.wps

Messages for Today in Goethe’s “Faust”
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A 5 page paper examining the issues Goethe raises in Faust and determining the extent to which they are relevant to our own time. The paper concludes that Faust is redeemed through not only an acknowledgment of his mistakes but an understanding of them; he is also redeemed through an increased knowledge of the importance of giving of oneself. No additional sources.
Filename: KBfaust.wps

The Role of Otto in Goethe's 'Elective Affinities'
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A five-page paper looking at this seldom-studied novel by Johann von Goethe, in terms of the symbolism of the doomed child Otto. The paper concludes that despite the fact that Otto's parents were married at the time of his conception, they were both in love with someone else, and he is thus the product of a 'two-fold adultery.' No additional sources.
Filename: KBgoethe

George Orwell's '1984' / Themes Of Totalitarianism
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This 5 page paper suggests that Orwell's infamous work was about fears of Nazism and totalitarian leadership as opposed to an invasion of privacy. Examples are provided. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: 1984fear.rtf

Class and Imperialism in Orwell's 'Burmese Days'
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An 8 page analysis of Orwell's depiction of British imperialism in his first novel. The paper observes that Orwell was able to convey not only the injustice suffered by the natives at the hands of the British, but the tremendous guilt suffered by sensitive British individuals like himself, who suffered for the natives' oppression but felt incapable of bucking the system. Bibliography lists four sources.
Filename: Burmday.wps

1984 & Animal Farm / Similarities in the Stories of George Orwell
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A 5 page examination of author George Orwell as a social critic who looked at the world from his own unique perspective. The writer describes how all of Orwell's novels are alike in that they are tales of solitary characters, each in one way or another an expression of Orwell himself, seen against backgrounds which are part of his own experience. Points are argued through a discussion of character & theme in 'Animal Farm' and '1984.' Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: Orwell.wps