Both characters had well planned murder plots in each story. ... Both characters hide their victims well. ... Confrontations do not come easily for any of Poe's characters. ... All of Poe's characters are written to be gothic and gloomy with a background setting of death to reinforce his characters traits. ... Some see them as violent insane murderers, while other see them as complex characters with inner struggles. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

William Golding's Lord of the Flies is an extremely complex and symbolic novel that goes beyond a group of English schoolboys who are stranded on an island and forced to survive on their own. ... In Lord of the Flies, William Golding uses the characters, symbolism, and setting to give a detailed description of these two faces of human nature. The characters in Lord of the Flies serve as archetypes that depict the conflict between man's journey toward civilization and his urges to become primitive. Ralph, Piggy, Simon, and Jack are the most important characters in the novel. ......

• Word Count: 856
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• Grade Level: High School

Fahrenheit 451 Three of the characters depicted in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 illustrate the damaging effects of tyrannical governments on their citizens. ... The second character is Faber who was once an English professor and is now living in poor conditions with illegal books. ... This is well exhibited in the character Mildred. ... Another character that was greatly affected by the government was Faber. ... One of the most complex characters in Fahrenheit 451 is Captain Beatty. ...

• Word Count: 669
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• Grade Level: High School

Discuss the theme of concealed identity with respect to characters, images and philosophical backgrounds. What is "concealed identity" and why do characters seek it? ... Instructor's Recommendation: I would like to see an essay on the theme of how difficult it is to live life in an increasingly complex world. ...

• Word Count: 789
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• Grade Level: High School

Two characters in Chekhov's "The Lady with the Dog- fell in love. ... He did not know that women are complex individuals who need to be treated as equals. ... His character in Lermontov's "Princess Mary- was able to seduce any woman at will. ... In Gogol's "Nevsky Project-, the romantic character Piskaryov is brought into play. ... Because of that, they are the only genuinely happy characters discussed here. ...

• Word Count: 1555
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• Grade Level: High School

The consequences in behaviour and social observations of two main characters due to traumatic experiences When examining literature an important aspect is continuously present, the aspect of traumas and the effect of it on present lives. Traumas seem to be noticed through the way characters act and react in the novels Death of a salesman by Arthur Miller and The catcher in the rye by J.D. ... In Death of a salesman Biff is one of the main characters. ... Holden's character is utterly complex. ...

• Word Count: 1477
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• Grade Level: High School

Owen Meany is a person who is unbelievably complex. He does not have a massive inferiority complex; it is the opposite, Owen thinks of him as the smartest and the best. ... Nearly every significant event and character had some religious affiliation. ...

• Word Count: 1641
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• Grade Level: High School

Through an analysis of the character named Jack, this essay expresses how that same evil takes him over little by little as he develops mentally, physically, and emotionally throughout the novel. ... The more hunting Jack did and the further attacks he made on Ralph"s camp, the more complex his ideas became. ... People get into the role or the character their costume shows, and sometimes people get caught up in the drama. ... So to conclude with, William Golding created the character of Jack in an attempt to make him symbolize humans and humankind as a whole. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Willy Lomans tragedy is due equally to his own flawed character and to society"'s flaws. ... In contrast to male characters of the play, female characters lack the vivid, multi-layered human quality that male characters seem to possess. ... Given the complex and compelling traits of the male characters in Death of a Salesman, it is surprising that Miller chose to give so little attention to the female characters. ... For all intents and purposes, she merely exists as a periphery character to complete Willy"'s family unit. ... Incapable of her own thoughts and opinions, Linda"'s ...

• Word Count: 4675
• Approx Pages: 19
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Heilman states that Miller, turned to more vigorous characters who cause suffering rather than uncomprehendingly suffer, he portrayed an evil rooted in human nature overwhelming the community, he made advances toward complexity of motive, and he began to discover inner division (160). ... It is a complex story b Miller makes it easier because he starts each new act telling us of the dreadful possibilities and ending each act with the possibilities happening. ... The Crucible has a narrator, a voice not a character, that tells us about the characters and the action and helps us to understand th...

• Word Count: 11015
• Approx Pages: 44
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

I look into the connection between Beauty and another complex aesthetic concept, the concept of Good. I will examine Lord Henry's character as the "Seducer-. ... The existence of world is provable to them only by its aesthetic character. ...

• Word Count: 2278
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• Grade Level: High School

Like a great chef he has cooked up haute cuisine using the same basic materials as his contemporaries, but has shifted the measurements so that the final result is finer and more complex. ... Another of Woo's trademarks, a character shooting two guns at once while flying through the air, also is used in this scene. ...

• Word Count: 2769
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Known as a gifted rapper and a brilliant lyricist, Tupac was often said to be the Marvin Gaye of hip-hop, complex and talented, but a "Trouble Man" to the core. ... The same year he came out with his first cd, he starred in a low budget film called "Juice," playing a character living the gang life involved in drugs and murder. ...

• Word Count: 1619
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Because television was especially powerful and influential during this time, viewers were compelled to challenge society's morals and question the character of political figures and the crookedness of the government. ...

• Word Count: 5064
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

On March 1, 1969, Jim Morrison exposed himself to 13,000 people during a concert in Miami. The band left the country the next day on a planned vacation, but Morrison turned himself in to the FBI in Los Angeles upon his return. The press had a field day prior to his arrest while he was out of the cou...

• Word Count: 3338
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Is War Necessary? There are many reasons why a country or several countries could go to war. Some of these reasons are just, however many of them are not. There are many movies made illustrating many different aspects of American wars, good and bad. The American Revolution was mainly a politica...

• Word Count: 4263
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School