ESSAYS -
LIST OF AVAILABLE ESSAYS ...
Select any essay below and it WILL be delivered to you TODAY via your choice of e-mail or fax! --Only $/pg!-- The bibliography page(s) are always FREE!

Comparative Character Analysis of Olunde in Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman and Obi in Chinua Achebe’s No Longer At Ease
[ send me this essay ]
In five pages this paper provides a comparative character analysis of similarities in terms of how both Olunde and Obi are caught between cultures and how their stories end tragically, differences in circumstances, feeling, and meaning, and how these differences imply different political and cultural situational differences in Nigeria presented by the authors. Four sources are cited in the bibliography.
Filename: TGolundobi.rtf

Comparative Character Analysis of Ruth and James in James McBride’s “The Color of Water”
[ send me this essay ]
A 2.5 page paper which compares and contrast the novel and son of this autobiographical tale. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: TGcolwat.rtf

Comparative Feminist Analysis of Henrik Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House” and Sophocles’ “Antigone”
[ send me this essay ]
A 5 page paper which considers how the female protagonists in these plays respond in unexpected and unacceptable ways to the social and legal expectations of women in their respective societies, noting the similarities and differences of each. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: TGnorant.rtf

Comparative Literary Analysis of D.H. Lawrence’s “The Rocking-Horse Winner” and Graham Greene’s Short Story, “The Destructors”
[ send me this essay ]
A 5 page paper (4-1/2 pp. + ½ pg. outline) which compares and contrasts each story’s plot, characters’ emotions and feelings, setting and mood, authors’ purposes (whether to entertain, satirize, realistically portray a life problem, analysis of emotions and responses, communicate a moralistic message), and the authors’ styles. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: TGdesroc.rtf

Comparative Literary Analysis of Jane Austen’s Novel, “Pride and Prejudice,” Victor Hugo’s Novel, “Les Miserables,” and Wallace McRae’s Poem, “Reincarnation”
[ send me this essay ]
A 5 page paper which analyzes how point-of-view shapes the exposition, prose, style, tone, plot, theme, and character of these works. No additional sources are used.
Filename: TGjavhwm.rtf

Comparative Literary Analysis of John Cheever’s Short Stories “The Worm in the Apple” and “The Housebreaker of Shady Hill”
[ send me this essay ]
A 6 page paper which compares and contrasts the literary elements of each story, such as themes, settings, plots, characters, language and points of view. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: TGcheevr.rtf

Comparative Literary Analysis of Timothy Findley’s “Not Wanted on the Voyage” and Jeffrey Eugenides’ “The Virgin Suicides”
[ send me this essay ]
A 6 page paper which compares and contrasts the authors, their writing styles, they ways in which they convey themes, symbols, storylines, settings and characterizations and, in particular, considers the role of women in their respective novels. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: TGvirnot.rtf

Comparative Literary Analysis on How Nathaniel Hawthorne and Washington Irving Look at American Culture in Their Short Stories
[ send me this essay ]
A 6 page paper which examines how these authors comment on aspects of American culture and search for deeper truths in the stories “Young Goodman Brown,” “The May-Pole of Merry Mount,” “My Kinsman, Major Molineux,” “Rip Van Winkle,” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: TGhawirv.rtf

Comparative Literature: A look at the depiction of insanity
[ send me this essay ]
This 4 page paper examines two works: The Awakening by Chopin and Poe's The Cask of Amontillado. Protagonists in each of these works are discussed in terms of their display of insanity. The characters Edna and Montresor are compared and contrasted Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: SA348in.rtf

Comparative Mexican Literature: Ruben Martinez’s “Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail” and Victor Valle’s “Recipe of Memory : Five Generations of Mexican Cuisine”
[ send me this essay ]
A 5 page overview of the content of these two books and the differences in presentational style elected by each author. The author of this paper emphasizes that Mexican literature offers a wide gamut of style and subject matter. Of particular interest is the way different writers chose to present their information. Some chose a discursive appropriation while others use formal appropriation. The approach elected by Valle falls into the latter category while that of Martinez falls into the former. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: PPmexLit.rtf