Medea, a play by the greek playwright Euripides, explores the Greek-Barbarian dichotomy through the character of Medea. She is a princess from barbarian, or non-Greek, land of Colchis. Throughout the Play, it becomes evident to the reader that Medea is no ordinary woman by Greek standarts. In this...

Many of the images and events in "Boys and Girls" have to do with freedom or the lack of it. The narrator defines freedom in a number of situations. In this story, the male world represents freedom while the female world represents confinement. In the narrator's perspective, her mother was confin...

Desires & Dreams In the story, Demian, desires play an important role. When Sinclaire follows his desires something good almost always comes out of it. When Sinclaire does not follow his desires and dreams something bad occurs. For example, when Sinclaire first became friends with Franz Kr...