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?Happy Endings?, 2002.
A gay and lesbian literary criticism of ?Happy Endings? by Margaret Atwood.
931 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 33.95
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This paper analyzes ?Happy Endings? a short story by Canadian feminist Margaret Atwood with the effect on the story if one of the characters had been involved in a gay or lesbian relationship.
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"Further, Atwood rallies against the traditional fairly tale, where the boy and girl meet, fall in love, get married, have children, and live happily after until they die. She presents many interesting possible variations of Mary?s life, all culminating in her death. Atwood almost seems to mock the traditional fairy tale (Wilson).
"This story would have been much more interesting and effective if one of the characters had been involved in a gay or lesbian relationship. Certainly, Atwood?s presumed aim of shocking the audience would have been made, much more effectively. Further, the story would have provided a much richer and broader experience of the entire human romantic experience. In addition, showcasing a gay or lesbian relationship in this story would have further exposed heterosexual individuals to other romantic possibilities."
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"Happy Endings" -A Review, 2007.
This paper reviews Margaret Atwood's short story entitled "Happy Endings."
774 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 27.95
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This paper analyzes and reviews "Happy Endings," a short story by Margaret Atwood about a couple named John and Mary. Atwood presents six succinct scenes, centralized around the couple, and illustrates possible avenues their relationship may undergo. The reviewer notes Atwood's feminist perspective in this work, and Atwood's cynical and satirical tone. The writer sees Atwood as using cynicism to convey her belief in the nonexistence of fairy tale endings.
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"Atwood's cynical attitude about the insignificance of life is evident in the third story when she explains the reason John purchased a handgun is "the thin part of the plot and can be explained later" (219). Atwood does not place impact on the events leading to death. Instead she concentrates on the "happy ending" itself, for all that matters is that the ill-fated lovers do die, it does not matter how. This reinforces Atwood's notion that life is simply a means to the "happy" end."
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An End to Happy Endings, 2006.
This paper looks at underlying meanings of fairy tales which we read as children.
1,120 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 38.95
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In this paper the author looks at fairy tales of our childhood, and argues that these were really meant as adult reading and have been tamed down over the years. He looks at the traditional fairy tale that we know, as being undercurrents for more lurid and vivid tales. He gives examples of how tales of eroticism became tales of bad children being punished for their willingness to explore beyond prescribed boundaries. The author proceeds to give specific examples from well-known fairy tales which, in his opinion, have been distorted. The author concludes that if the fairy stories would not have been distorted, then maybe he would not have grown up believing in dreams coming true and he would live a more realistic life.
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"Each author that submitted a response to Bernhaimer's call affirms my decision to view the fairy tales of my childhood with skepticism and a renewed desire to find the "truth" in their uncensored predecessors. Grimm's Grimmest, compiled by Maria Tatar, is one of a few available texts with the most accurately translated versions of the Grimm brothers' original work and the first place I looked for a clear representation. In my quest for the "original" tales, I have come across a few more editions of the brother's tales, but most of the available texts on the market today are the Disney-esque renditions of the first works. It is frustrating, and significant, to no end."
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"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber", 2008.
An analysis of Ernest Hemingway's short story "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" .
1,914 words (approx. 7.7 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 61.95
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This paper relates that the theme in Ernest Hemingway's short story, "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber", is that it is better to live a short and happy life with authenticity than to live a long and unhappy life without authenticity. More specifically, the paper looks at how, the character of Macomber does not live a happy life until he proves himself. The paper further explains that Macomber begins his life innocent and spoiled in a protected society, then becomes awakened to reality in the dangers of Africa, and ends self-fulfilled by achieving authenticity and happiness in a fatal world.
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"In stage three of his initiation, Macomber achieves authenticity and happiness in a fatal world. He panics while shooting a large male, but the very fear that makes him run away from danger, teaches him, in less than twenty-four hours, how to face a charging buffalo with all the bravery of a seasoned hunter. When Macomber finds out that the buffalo is still alive, "for the first time in his life he really felt wholly without fear" for which "instead of fear he had a feeling of definite elation" (24). Ben Stoltzfus suggests that in choosing to face this challenge Macomber "asserts a new identity and, in putting cowardice behind him, he defines an authentic self". Macomber is no longer afraid; in fact he is eager to kill the buffalo. Hemingway describes Macomber's change as a "wild unreasonable happiness" which feels "like a dam bursting inside himself" (25). "
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Love and Desire, 2002.
An examination of Kate Chopin?s ?The Story of an Hour? and Margaret Atwood?s ?Happy Endings.?
1,412 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 47.95
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In ?The Story of an Hour? and ?Happy Endings? the demands of love and the demands of desire are aptly contrasted, even as they are compared. The writer shows that while these two stories have somewhat different takes on the situation of women (due in part, no doubt, to the difference in time periods which their writers inhabited), both deal extensively with the degree to which love can fulfill or fail to fulfill a woman?s true desires.
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"One of the greatest challenges which feminist see facing women through-out history is that of fulfilling both their loves and their desires. The forces of history and even of linguistics create a sort of trap for women, in which ?desire? is inextricably linked to romance, marriage, sexuality, and love. Even feminist writers seem to focus their critiques of the structures of marriage and society on the apparent divide between women?s sexual and romantic needs and the traditional strictures of marriage. ?In these failed articulations of desire, the hunger for narrative, for growth and mobility, is overshadowed by the strictures of the marriage plot, stranded between a sense of the futility of romantic desire and an inability to give voice to any other kind of desire.? (Wallace, 8) Definitions of desire which focus entirely around the woman?s relationship to sexuality, love, and marriage overlook a vast portion of her humanity. Just like their male counterparts, women?s desires are capable of extending well beyond the boundaries of such reproductive/emotional functions."
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Why Forrest Gump is so Happy, 2001.
An analysis of Aristotle's view on happiness and why Forrest Gump is a happy man.
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 53.95
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This paper examines Aristotle's philosophies, especially those about happiness and compares these to Forrest Gump, the character of the movie. The simple pleasures in life is what makes Forrest happy and this ties in to Aristotle's views.
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"Aristotle believes that goodness is accompanied by kindness, generosity, hopefulness, and also such traits as love of friends and fellow men, and love of what is noble. Forrest Gump was not a smart man by any means, but ignorant people often make better choices than more knowledgeable people. It does not take intelligence to do good. To constitute true happiness, good actions must persist with continuity throughout a lifetime. A person is defined as ?good? if his behavior is in accordance with what human nature was designed for. Happiness consists in fulfilling this function excellently. Even though Forrest Gump is handicapped, this does not stop him from displaying virtue, courage in danger, love for others, and generosity."
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The Happy Ending, 2001.
An examination of the endings of three different comedies and the cost in each of a perfect resolution.
1,261 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 42.95
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This paper discusses how one of the basic tenets of a comedy is a neat and satisfying resolution and how, in order to achieve a happy ending, playwrights often end up hastily tying up loose ends and glossing over unresolved problems. It looks at how the ending of Moliere?s "The Miser" is a good example; either as a result of sloppiness, hastiness, or just plain indifference, Moliere writes an ending that elides rather than resolves some of the play?s major issues. It examines how the ending of George Bernard Shaw?s "Widowers? Houses" also involves characters not only forgetting their previous gripes about society?s ills, but embracing those ills wholeheartedly. Finally, it analyzes how Eugene Ionesco?s "Amedee" ends more bizarrely and ambiguously, and how the same idea repeats itself.
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"The main obstacle to characters? happiness in The Miser is Harpagon, the title character. His children, Cleante and Elise, wish to marry Marianne and Valere (respectively). They realize, however, that Harpagon will not agree because their two prospective spouses are poor. The play centers around Harpagon?s miserliness and other characters? attempts to get by him. Then the ending comes out of nowhere and in one fell swoop makes everything all right. In the midst of Harpagon?s attempts to catch the man who has stolen his 10,000 crowns, Marianne and Valere discover that they are siblings and that the rich Anselme is their father. This is enough for Harpagon ? he readily agrees that his children be married to Anselme?s children. This hasty ending allows the characters to avoid the problem of Harpagon?s miserliness."
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Being Good & Being Happy, 2006.
A discussion regarding the connection between being good and being happy.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 5 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper discusses the question "is there a necessary connection between 'being good' and being happy?" which might at first glance look fairly straightforward. However, in order to grasp the complexity of it, each of the important words in this sentence needs to be examined, i.e. Necessary, good, and happy. The paper shows that this is anything but a straightforward question and consequently, a simple answer is not possible. However, on balance, it argues that the answer to this question is no. The word "necessary" means essential or requisite.
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"Happy Hour", 2003.
An analysis of Alison Baker's "Happy Hour".
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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This paper looks at Alison Baker's "Happy Hour" as an evocation of the absurdity of the human condition. It discusses Baker's use of irony and the story's focus on end- of -life family dynamics in an institutional setting.
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"Reinforced by a context of narrative irony, Happy Hour presents numerous closely observed details about end-of-life family dynamics in an institutional setting. The irony is not laden with humor or smugness rather taking on attributes of an absurdity ..."
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"On Tidy Endings", 2002.
An analysis of the film "On Tidy Endings" by Harvey Fierstein on the homosexual community.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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This paper will discuss Harvey Fierstein's movie " On Tidy Endings" and will argue for the gay and lesbian emotional issues that are just as real as those of heterosexual couples. By analyzing the various elements of this film, we can see how the circumstances may differ, but the gay and lesbian community should not alienated simply for their sexual preference, all people feel and gays should not be looked at as "different". 3 pgs. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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"The Short Happy Life", 2005.
A look at the argument that Francis Macomber was not intentionally killed by his wife, Margaret Macomber, in the short story, "The Short Happy Life", by Ernest Hemingway.
889 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 31.95
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This paper discusses how, in the short story "The Short Happy Life" by Ernest Hemingway, it becomes evident that Margaret Macomber did not intentionally kill Francis Macomber. It contends that, although it may seem that it was a conscious decision on Mrs. Macomber's part to shoot at her husband, the facts and situations presented by Ernest Hemingway in his writing prove otherwise.
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" 'You know I don't think I'd ever be afraid of anything again,' Macomber said to Wilson. 'Something happened in my after we first saw the buff and started after him. Like a dam bursting. It was pure excitement.' " (Page 32). Unfortunately, this sudden confidence gain was not enough to save Francis Macomber from death. While on safari in Africa with his beautiful wife, Margaret, and their guide, Wilson, Francis makes a fool out of himself in front of his wife by running away from a lion instead of shooting it. Margaret Macomber takes his cowardliness very offensively, especially when it is her husband that is showing it. Margot even goes so far as to sleep with Wilson because she is so upset with Francis. However, all of this does not prove that she killed her husband on purpose. Francis has a seemingly successful buffalo hunt that proves to his wife that he is not a coward, which was enough reason in itself for Margot to not kill her husband on purpose. Ernest Hemingway, author of "The Short Happy Life", specifically states that Mrs. Macomber shot at the buffalo, which just happened to be very close to her husband's head. This fact, among other reasons, is evidence that Margaret Macomber did not intentionally shoot and kill her husband."
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"On Tidy Endings", 2002.
An overview of the lessons in human nature that can be learnt from "On Tidy Endings" by Harvey Fierstein.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper will discuss the play "On Tidy Ending"s by Harvey Fierstein. By observing how the author of this play shows universal truths in human relationships, rather than separating them by heterosexual relationships in opposition to homosexual relationships, we can see how they do not differ. In observing the play, we can see how Fierstein proves this theme, along with a personal and critical view to support this.
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Endings in Novels, 2002.
Four different novels and the impact that their endings have on the work. A look at why the writer chose to end the novel in this specific way.
1,024 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 36.95
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This paper introduces, discusses and analyzes the novels "Little Doritt" by Charles Dickens, "MiddleMarch" by George Eliot, "Vanity Fair" by William Makepeace Thackeray and "Tess of the d'Urbervilles," by Thomas Hardy. Specifically this paper looks at the way the authors chose to end their novels and what it means about their lives.
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"Eliot uses the country town of Middlemarch to illustrate how characters in the countryside live and behave, and how their lifestyle is so different from those who toil in the grimy cities. They are able to walk in the countryside with their dogs, enjoy the fine weather, and ride when they want to, unlike the city dwellers, who often never see the sun, and whose lives end unhappily, as they did in this novel. While Dorothea seemed to deserve a happy conclusion, she was such a strong and powerful character that it seems almost inevitable that she will suffer in the end, and so the ending works for the novel."
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"Dance of the Happy Shades", 2003.
A literary analysis of Canadian author Alice Munro's collection of short stories "Dance of the Happy Shades".
2,093 words (approx. 8.4 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 65.95
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This paper chooses excerpts from stories in Munro's collection and synthesizes these together to form a complete analysis of Munro's style. It finds that by evoking feelings of the ordinary in Canadian life Munro is able to evoke an extraordinary empathy for the characters and their predicament.
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"The narrator and her sister both have a burden of guilt: the narrator has left her sister to shoulder the responsibility of caring for their chronically ill mother; Maddy has ultimately found it necessary to put her mother in a nursing home. The narrator states flatly at the beginning of the story that she and her sister "at heart reject each other", yet as the story unfolds, the sisters' emotional ties seem to matter as much as their opposed choices in life. Moreover, the narrator is linked to her sister, her mother and even her aunt, in that each, with greater or lesser success, has ?tried to run". Images and Walker Brothers Cowboy have in common that they both deal with the "bewilderment" that is the young imagination's response to dark experiences. The narrator in both stories pledges to share her father's secret."
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"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber", 2006.
An analysis of "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" by Ernest Hemingway.
1,721 words (approx. 6.9 pages), 0 sources, $ 55.95
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The paper reviews the story line of Hemingway's work. The writer praises Hemingway's depiction of a safari and his portrayal of the characters' emotions. The paper analyzes the use of the theme bravery throughout the story. In conclusion, the writer find's the short story to be one of confidence and deception, of great detail and anticipationand of the vitality of nature and the human spirit if let unleashed.
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"The relationship between the two is made apparent early in the story, and elaborated later on. Francis is a rich baby-faced gentleman who has almost no self-confidence with women or him. Margot at the time of their marriage was a beautiful model that made a handsome amount of money and was used to her extravagant lifestyle. She married Frances for his money, no other reason, and it is stated clearly later that she would never leave him because of that, and also because at her age if she was to leave him she could do no better. Francis on the other hand has the looks and money to be able to shop around for a new partner had he wished to do so, yet he didn't have the nerve to try and risk losing the beautiful, if not controlling wife he had."
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