Essays, Research Papers & Book Reports on North American Authors (1,479) essays
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Thornton Wilder
... the popularity which has periodically been his (Unger 355). The key to his significance is his extraordinary ability to combine his philosophy and ethics with his personal experiences in perhaps one of the greatest paradoxical plays ever written. Thornton Niven Wilder ...
An essay on Jonathan Edward's speech "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."
... promise to keep any natural man out of hell one moment. God certainly has made no promises either of eternal life, or of any deliverance or preservation from eternal death..." As you can clearly see, according to Edwards, God has no pity or compassionate feeling towards the population of the world ...
"Goodbye, Columbus" by Phillip Roth
... the packed-in tangle of railroad crossings, switchment shacks, lumberyards, Dairy Queens, and used-car lots, the night grew cooler. It was, in fact, as though the hundred and eighty feet that the suburbs rose in altitude above Newark brought one closer to heaven, for the ...
A discussion of Margerat Atwood's use of shock in 'The Handmaid's Tale, and how it relates to current issues.
... The brutality of the scene is most poignant because no-one in the room is satisfied at the end - the physical discomfort that Offred feels is nothing compared to the emotional discomfort that all three have to endure. Similarly, although the ultimate aim of the event is procreation, no-one ...
This essay compares the writing styles of Edgar Allen Poe and Washington Irving in relation to the atmospheres in which they grew up.
... the children that bullied him while he was attending grade school. As an adult, the main character, Ichabod Crane is still being tormented by the kind of person he was bothered by when he was young. During the course of the story he is taunted and teased by the ...
The Life and Times of Nathanial Hawthorne is a summary of his life, his career, and an analysis of his masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales
... the final pages to his wife. He wrote, "It broke her heart and sent her to bed with a grievous headache, which I look upon as a triumphant success" (Whitelaw 66). Regarded as his masterpiece and as one of the classics of American literature, The ...
Frederick Douglass and Olaudah Equiano
... of them spent the day resting and going to church. One of the most amazing aspects of the slave's freedom is when Fredrick Douglass talked of the slave who had a free wife whom he visited every Sunday. This slave was given the freedom to ...
Irony in Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour"
... of irony reflect the strength of Louise Mallard's need for freedom in an oppressive and overbearing world. The story begins with the discovery of Brently Mallard's death. After hearing tragic news like this, one would expect the widow to feel most depressed and significantly troubled by this type of ...
Edward Albee's unique view on the "American Dream"
... one would not expect someone to insult another person and then expect a kiss. Martha's incongruous behaviour allows the reader to see Albee's negative view of the "American ...
The "Falseness" of the American Dream in Arthur Miller's Writing
... to being anything more than a dream. Miller uses situations such as business crime, and illegal immigrants to illustrate his disillusionment of the American Dream in the post-World War II society. The origin of the AmericanDream was immigrants coming from Europe in search of a better life where one ...