Abstract
The paper compares and contrasts the feminist elements within "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker and "Beloved" by Toni Morrison. The paper addresses the issues of female victimization, gender roles and feminist liberation. The paper shows how the crucial elements of feminism depict a greater sense of female identity in African-American literature.

From the Paper
"Alice Walker reveals issue of feminist victimization through her characterization in The Color Purple. The evolution of mostly male perceptions of life through racism was the norm until women writers began to change this focus in African American literary forums. Nellie often takes on the part of victim to male aggression, since she has been raped repeatedly by her owner, and the other abusive males in her life. Walker's portrayal of Nellie is very similar to the way and manner in which Morrison depicts her female roles in Beloved, such Sethe. However, the major difference between these two women is the way that slavery has affected them, and how they had let it affect their lives."

Tags:male, aggression, victimization, gender, slavery, Nellie, Sethe

Abstract
This ten-page undergraduate paper compares "Young Goodman Brown" with "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg". The themes are much alike. The theme of determinism is especially seen in both stories, along with faith.

Abstract
Jean Rhys extends far past Charlotte Bronte's limitations, not only in the feminist vision, but also in her opinions of the post-colonial experience. Through "Jane Eyre", Bronte has a feminist vision, but in the 19th century, she was unable to view some of her patriarchal constraints. Jean Rhys, in "Wide Sargasso Sea", pulls back and stands apart, making her able to pick up where Bronte and other feminist writers have left off, and gives the readers a clear, uncensored vision. This paper states how Bronte is able to undermine part of her patriarchal constraints, but ends up falling short of her goal. It also shows how Rhys, who picks up the same storyline as Bronte, is able to overcome that patriarchy and truly have feminist visions.

From the Paper
"Rhys, now, takes up the feminist torch from Bronte and runs with it. Woolf seems surprised in A Room of One's Own when a female author remarks that one woman likes another woman (82). Females always seem to be portrayed in relation to a man, but in Woolf's instance it's a woman-woman relationship. Rhys accomplishes multiple relationships between Antoinette and various female, and male, characters. It could be argued that the main relationship observed is Antoinette and Rochester's, however I believe that she delves much deeper in female relations than Bronte achieves."

Tags:Rochester, St., John, Moi

Abstract
This paper compares and contrasts the elements of Poe's story, "The Cask of Amontillado", and Faulkner's story, "A Rose for Emily", that make the stories unique and enjoyable to read. The paper compares and contrasts the characters in the stories, Poe's and Faulkner's vivid use of detail, and how the authors masterfully use the element of suspense.

From the Paper
"Although Montresor and Emily are very different characters; however, they have one thing in common in that they commit premeditated murder. For example, Montresor does not he his motive for murder nor does he show any remorse about it. We are told that Montresor has made sure the house is empty prior to Fortunato's arrival. We are told that, "there are no attendants at home . . . I had told them that I should not return until the morning, and had given them explicit orders not to stir from the house" (Poe 92). Additionally, we are also aware that he took the trowel with him while the mortar waited below in the catacombs. In comparison, Emily also prepares for her murder by buying the arsenic. (Faulkner 456) Emily does not seem to show remorse for actions, either. In fact, she sleeps with Homer's dead body in a room decorated as a bridal suite."

Tags:murderous, acts, homer, revenge, imagery, moods, death, gray, disappearance, town, kill

Abstract
This paper discusses the value of the works of the great Roman poets and prose authors. The paper specifically discusses how Roman literature and poetry is criticized because it lacks originality, being greatly indebted to the Greek texts. It describes the meter and themes of Roman literature and discusses how these, and even the mere details, are most of the times only imitations of the Greek writings.

From the Paper
"Thus, Roman art can be characterized by the lack of spontaneity and speculative power. The Romans were a logical and practical people, usually engaged in political affairs or warfare. The greatest conquerors of the antiquity, the Romans were also the greatest civilizing power. Their systematic and disciplined spirit laid the foundations of the Western civilization. As it is obvious from the lyric, dramatic and epical works of the Roman writers, they Roman people was certainly not inclined to philosophy as the Greeks had been. Indeed, the only writer who can be said to have contributed meaningfully to the realm of antique philosophy is the multidimensional Cicero, who is the only Roman methodological philosopher: "Philosophy was not a natural growth at Rome: indeed, it was regarded by the average Roman with definite mistrust, and we hear that philosophers were banished from the city in 161 B. C....The Roman, essentially a man of action engaged in the practical business of war or politics, was not given to pausing on his way to reflect deeply on the nature of the world or the ultimate meaning of human life."(Bailey, 183) The Romans were thus less preoccupied with the ultimate meaning of the universe and of life, as the Greeks were, but rather with the world of action and human behavior. Usually associated with imitation rather than creation, Roman art had nevertheless its own force precisely through its absolute conformity to classicism."

Tags:scholars, antique, poetry, writings

Abstract
This paper examines how Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" and Marge Piercy's "Woman on the Edge of Time" conform to Sally Miller Gearheart's statements on feminist utopia in literature. Through an analysis of both texts, it looks at the ideas of the "woman's role" , motherhood and men as controllers of the "word" and the "world". It also compares and contrasts the future societies of Gilead and Mattapoiset and asks whether either live up to the idea of a feminist utopia.

From the Paper
"It is significant too that present conditions in The Handmaid's Tale are most strongly criticized by male figures. The third of Miller-Gearhart's conditions for feminist utopian fiction is that it should "see men or male institutions as a major cause of present social ills", but this does not see, to The Handmaid's Tale, where it is the ills of Gilead, the present of the novel, rather than our present, which are caused by men. The aunts try to convince the Handmaid's that things were much worse before, showing pornographic movies and telling stories of battered and murdered women, but these scenario's are not borne out by Offred's own memory of that time, and the stories appear to be more an instrument of propaganda rather than a reflection of the truth."

Tags:distopia, gearhart, gilead, mattaspoiset, motherhood

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This paper discusses how the stories William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" and Ambrose Bierce's "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" compare in so many ways. It looks at similarities such as the setting of war, the theme of death and the the love that the characters of Emily and Peyton have for their families.

From the Paper
"Ambrose Bierce's "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is a story of a man who breaks the law and dies. The story describes why the man was hanged, the life after death and his life before death. The irony in this story is great in the fact that that the entire story is a description of the man's "great escape." In reality they are describing what has happened in his afterlife after he is hanged. The story proceeds to tell about how he was freed from the rope that was supposed to kill him and how he gets away. He swims with all of his strength until he can reach the point where it is safe to get out and be free of the bullets. The author depicts beautiful scenery that ironically seems heavenly with "the fragrance of their blooms," and "the wind made in their branches the music of Aeolian harps," when describing the sounds this man hears. "

Tags:Peyton, death, war

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This essay deals with the changing attitudes towards war as expressed by the poets Alfred Lord Tennyson (pre 1914) and John McCrae in their works "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and "In Flanders Fields." It includes an analysis of poetic techniques and the changing ideologies between the two poems, with a particular attention paid to social, historical and other contextual changes.

From the Paper
"Tennyson's poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade" describes a great military disaster in the Crimean War where troops were massacred after being led to their death by their commanders. Tennyson praises the heroism of the British soldiers who faced a certain death, but who fought without questioning it. He portrays the battle as a glorious victory despite the huge disaster, admiring the courage of the men who gave up their lives to fight for their country: "Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell." Here, Tennyson personifies death, using capital letters to emphasize the words "Death" and "Hell." He does this repeatedly throughout the poem, which reminds the reader that the soldiers are going to die. In stanza 5, when the brigade is retreating Tennyson uses a subtle variation of his earlier lines; this effectively works in re-iterating the fact that so few returned from the action. "They that had fought so well Came thro, the jaws of Death, Back from the mouth of Hell."

Tags:massacre, crimean, war, death, soldiers

Abstract
This paper examines the women's movement which is divided on the problems of existing inequalities among women particularly those of social class, ethnicity and skin color. This paper discusses why radical feminists believe that the elements of women's culture are preferable to their male analogs in a dominant culture. This writer of this paper also probes how feminist and post structuralist theories have distanced themselves from the category of nature.

From the Paper
"American women writers from the early nineteenth century to the present have rearticulated gendered ideologies of nature. A cultural studies approach enables me to reveal how women's texts transform the representations promoted by literary, popular, and political discourses. By analyzing environmental and feminist history I demonstrate how a diverse array of fiction transfigures the ideologies of nature for feminist, and sometimes environmentalist ends."

Tags:feminism, women, movement, rights, law, history, literature, nature, environment

Abstract
This paper explains that the project will be a detailed analysis of two works by William Shakespeare, "Othello" and "Romeo and Juliet", focusing primarily on the feminist and philosophical elements of the two plays, as well as the significance of the historical context in which they were written. The author points out that feminists, who are preoccupied with the commentary being made in Shakespeare's plays concerning women, question whether his representations of women truly reflect reality. The paper includes an outline of the method by which the project will be completed.

Table of Contents:
Project Overview
Subject to be Studied
Intended Outcomes
Learning Objectives
Detailed Work Plan
Project Outline
Method
Literary Resources
On-Line Resources
Faculty Supervisor's Role
Proposed Timetable

From the Paper
"The project proposes to examine the genius of Shakespeare as a dramatist who possessed a deep psychological understanding of women and who usually was able to anticipate a feminist perspective on women's issues and roles. Being a male author during the Elizabethan period, Shakespeare exhibited profound insights into the psyche of his female characters. Desdemona is unafraid to confront her father and is fascinated by the violent aspect of life yet she is also incapable of taking any real action to resolve her situation."

Tags:comparison, literature review, transformation history cultural