Freud on Dracula Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, once referred to Bram Stoker's "Dracula" as an exploration into "the return of the repressed". The novel is about a man who comes to Count Dracula's house to conduct business matters. Dracula traps Jona...

In Zora Neale Hurston’s short story, Sweat, Delia finds herself stuck in an unbearable marriage. Her husband, Sykes, mistreats her, leaves all work to her, and is unfaithful. After being married to Sykes for 15 years, Delia has lost all hope in the marriage. The countless beatings and pain...

In Zora Neale Hurston's short story, Sweat, Delia finds herself stuck in an unbearable marriage. Her husband, Sykes, mistreats her, leaves all work to her, and is unfaithful. After being married to Sykes for 15 years, Delia has lost all hope in the marriage. The countless beatings and pain...

Human beings are naturally burdened with character imperfections that, to a great extent, define who they are as people. The idiosyncrasies, character flaws, actions, and turns of phrase characteristic of every individual are personifications of the "not so perfect" world. In literature,...

John Donne's "The Flea" and Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" are poems with very similar underlying messages. They each have a male speaker and in each poem, the narrator is trying to persuade a young woman to relinquish her virginity. Although the message is obfu...

?Githa Hariharan's debut novel, "The Thousand Faces of Night" articulates the problems of women, the basics of Indian Mythology. Hariharan links the plight of her women characters with the Indian myths as Mahabaratha, (Sanskrit stories etc.) to the gods, goddesses and legendary heroines in the ...

The Confucian tradition, which began during the Han dynasty (202 BCE-220 CE) strongly stressed that all of society, including the government, could be run according to the principles of the family. The family was the moral and political model for all organizations. The commonly used phrase ¡§...

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in a want of a wife." This is the first sentence in a book called, "Pride and Prejudice" by a very talented English female author Jane Austen. Then the author writes, "this tr...

Listening and family communication: How they relate. Family communication is important because families who can communicate find it a lot easier to discuss issues, problems, and even crises when they occur. If you know how families work, issues and problems arise often. Listening and becoming a ...

THE AWAKENING, A DOLLS HOUSE AND THE QUEST FOR FREEDOM Both The Awakening by Kate Chopin and A Dolls House by Henrik Ibsen involve a quest for freedom. Both lead characters, Edna and Nora are trapped by societal rules and regulations. The women are also controlled by their husbands. In The Aw...

Richard III – Act 4 Discussion Questions 1) What does Anne realize about her relationship with Richard? The horrified Anne fears that Richard's coronation will mean ruin for England, and says that she should have resisted marrying Richard because after all, she herself has cursed him (...

The Maasai Facts about the Maasai Geographical Location: East Africa, in Kenya and Tanzania Language spoken: Maa Neighboring Tribes: Samburu, Baraguyu (Ilumbma), Wa-Arusha, Njemps. Geographical sections of Maasai land: Ilkinsongo (largest), Ilpurka (2nd largest), Iloitai, Ilmalapato, ...

"A Streetcar Named Desire" vs. "Taming of the Shrew" Shakespeare's writing was so profound and inspiring that his ideas continue to echo in the different plots and themes of many modern plays. The themes of sexuality, illusion, and marriage are evident in both Shakespeare's "Taming ...

Marriage and Family We here the word "family" everyday, but how often do we think where would we be without our family? How often do we think what exactly is a "family"? The definition is parents and their children, members of one household, and group of persons related by blood and marriage. ...

In The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood, Offred has many different relationships. Some of those relationships are with the Marthas, the Commander's Wife and the Commander himself. Offred does have a relationship that is not like the others. This relationship is with Nick, a Guardian. T...

Dido and Aeneas The Aeneid is considered as the single most important poem ever written and has continuously guided and inspired billions of readers. Its popularity today remains the same as it was back in the time when it was published. Virgil, a Latin poet, devoted the final 11 years of his l...

I think that each person at some stage at his or her lives, wander what culture is all about. I personally think about that often. In order for a person to appreciate their family, friends and all the other people around them, one must understand what culture is all about. Culture is a body in a w...

Kinship in Sudan: Buth and Mar Among the Nuer Introduction The Nuer people are one of more than one hundred ethnic groups in the northeastern African country of Sudan, which stretches stretches southward from Egypt for 2000 kilometres and westward from the Red Sea for 1500 kilometres. The Nue...

Parenting involves a multitude of choices, the decisions of which determine the efficacy of each unique parentage. In his essay "On the affection of fathers for their children," Montainge delineates the harmful decisions of the "common parent" in a thorough description of the ac...

Imagine you're a couple, deeply in love, committed to each other for life and desperately wanting children, only you can't have any. Why? Not because of what the average person might think. It's because you're a gay or lesbian couple, or, as many that are of the persuasion prefer...

"I created you and the world on which you live. I created the realm in which your world exists and it in my hand. I control that which you cannot stop or escape and under which all is bound. I am all knowing and understanding. I know that by nature you cannot achieve perfection and I do not h...

When ignorance plagues your mind, you find it difficult to remove the rose colored glasses from your eyes and let the clarity of reality seep in. We all have the ability to scratch the surface of any culture, to know that Egypt has the Great Pyramids or China with its Great Wall. But when we a...

CHARACTERS Akunna - Akunna is a clan leader of Umuofia. He and Mr. Brown discuss their religious beliefs peacefully. Neither converts the other, but they learn more about the other's faith. Mr. Brown - Mr. Brown is the first white missionary to travel to Umuofia. He institutes a policy of com...

During Antebellum period, slaves were heavily centralized to South. African Americans were enslaved on small farms, large plantations, in cities and towns, inside homes, out in the fields, and in industries and transportation. Slaves, who were treated like part of the owners' properties, could ...

"Free! Body and soul free!" Those are the great words written by the great American author, Kate Chopin in "The Story Of An Hour" in 1894. Her real life stories were her biggest influences in her literature and her unique themes. Perhaps one of her most famous works was her ...