The characters in this drama all play curious roles in this depressing time in our country's history. ... The parallels between the theatrical version and film are immense. The characters and plot are similar and this makes contrasting the theatrical version and movie difficult. ... The depiction of the hangings provides insight into the feelings of the town. ... The theatrical version has no mention of the way the town reacted. ...

• Word Count: 2560
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Eliot wrote to Conrad Aiken on New Year's Eve 1914: "I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls...Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead." ...

• Word Count: 4134
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

God, Morality, and Meaning in Cormac McCarthy's The Road Erik J. Wielenberg Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road is, among other things, a meditation on morality, what makes human life meaningful, and the relationship between these things and God. While the novel is rife with religious imagery and ideas...

• Word Count: 8991
• Approx Pages: 36
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The main motif of conducting the research is to draw a comparative picture between "The Iliad" and "The Aeneid," so at the beginning we have provided some of the major key factors and basing on those factors we have categorized our comparisons between the two books. ...

• Word Count: 8864
• Approx Pages: 35
• Grade Level: High School

Other admirable men have led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought; but this man, in wide contrast." ... William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies, Published According to the true Original Copies, also known as the First Folio, was published in 1623, the reference to the author of Shakespeare's works as "our ever-living poet" suggests that the author is dead (Whalen 49). ... In this poem, Johnson calls the author "sweet swan of Avon," the town of Stratford is mentioned, and John Heming and Henry Conville, who were friends of Shakspere, were mentioned (The ...

• Word Count: 2847
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

12 Let us go and make our visit. 13 In the room the women come and go 14 Talking of Michelangelo. 15 The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes, 16 The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes, 17 Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening, 18 Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains, 19 Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys, 20 Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap, 21 And seeing that it was a soft October night, 22 Curled once about the house, and fell asleep. 23 And indeed there will be time 2...

• Word Count: 6460
• Approx Pages: 26
• Grade Level: High School

The first publication of the short story "Cathedral" was in the March, 1981, issue of Atlantic Monthly. It was selected to appear in "The Best American Short Stories, 1982," and became the title story in the 1983 collection, Cathedral. This volume was very well-received by critics and readers alike...

• Word Count: 11148
• Approx Pages: 45
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School