Antagonist Essays and Term Papers

Oates' "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?": Arnold Fiend

Oates' "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?": Arnold Fiend In Joyce Carol Oates' “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” critics argue whether the character of Arnold Friend, clearly the story's antagonist, represents Satan in the story. Indeed, Arnold Friend is an allegorical devil ...

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A Good Man Is Hard To Find

In the short story, “”, the main character is the grandmother. Flannery O’Connor, the author, lets the reader find out who the grandmother is by her conversations and reactions to the other characters in the story. The grandmother is the most important character in the story because she has a ...

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Lord Of The Flies

How mankind can’t survive without rules and laws Could civilization live a normal and stable life, without any rules and orders to obey? Could you picture, New York City, with no laws to follow and everyone doing as they please? Just imagine the disasters that we will experience. In the novel, ...

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The Importance Of The Press

The newspaper is a powerful medium. It is powerful because it has the ability to influence the way that people view the world, as well as their opinion of what they see. In peaceful times (or in times of oppression, for sometimes they can appear to be happening at the same moment) the press ...

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Tale Of Two Cities

In the fictitious novel , the author, Charles Dickens, lays out a brilliant plot. Charles Dickens was born in England on February 7, 1812 near the south coast. His family moved to London when he was ten years old and quickly went into debt. To help support himself, Charles went to work at a ...

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The Arm Of The Starfish

The title of this book is . It was written by Madeleine L’Engle. She named it , because Dr. O’Keefe is studying starfish. Humans and Starfish are closely related and Dr. O’Keefe is seeing if because starfish can regrow limbs maybe humans can too. The setting of this story is in ...

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Dark City

I did my book report on by Frank Lauria. The main characters in the book were John Murdoch, Mr. Hand, and Mr. Book. Since Murdoch woke up in the icy bathtub in a strange room, he has been suspicious of everything. He is wanted for a series of brutal murders which he can’t remember ...

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A Good Man Is Hard To Find 2

“A Good Man is Hard to Find” In the short story, “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, the main character is the grandmother. Flannery O’Connor, the author, lets the reader find out who the grandmother is by her conversations and reactions to the other characters in the ...

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Film Review (The Money Pit)

The Money Pit is a love comedy directed by Richard Benjamin in 1986. This movie was performed humorously by Tom Hanks who usually perform comedy. The movies he has performed before were The Man with One Red Shoe, Splash, Bachlor and etc. Tom Hanks and Shelley Long play Anna and Walter, a young ...

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Upon reading Robert Hayden’s 1970 poem, “The Whipping” (1075), one may find themselves feeling very disturbed. The title is not subtle in hiding the fact that the plot of the poem is of a mother beating her son. The tone of the poem is very violent, and filled with a lot of ...

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The Chocolate War

1. Robert Cormier wrote . The copyright of the book is 1974. 2. In the exposition of , Jerry Renault, the freshman quarterback, was receiving constant blows from opposing players. Jerry was trying to get the ball to his receiver, the Goober, but not having any luck. In , the rising ...

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A Tale Of Two Cities

Subject: English--tale of two cities Tale by HAROLD BURWELL In the fictitious novel Tale of Two Cities, the author, Charles Dickens, lays out a brilliant plot. Charles Dickens was born in England on February 7, 1812 near the south coast. His family moved to London when he was ten years old ...

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Treatment Of Inner Evil - Tell

"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story authored by Edgar Allan Poe in which the underlining theme of evil becomes contradictory. Throughout Poe's passages are various instances of the illogical and unreasonable. In particular, the evil is pointed out by the narrator as being a physical evil. ...

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The Origins Of Star Wars

In the movie Star Wars, Director and Screenplay writer George Lucas creates a very complex, believable universe. Lucas borrows many things from different places to create his universe.This paper will show whether or not he succeeds and how does he does it. The origins of the much of Star Wars will ...

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Macbeth A Character Analysis O

A Character Analysis of Lady Macbeth “What’s done cannot be undone” This is what Lady Macbeth said to her husband when he returned from murdering King Duncan. The statement is subtle and explains her way of thinking. Although Lady Macbeth is not completely evil-minded, she does ...

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Heart Of Darkness 10

The novel Heart of Darkness, was written by a man named Joseph Conrad in 1894. Conrad was born December 3, 1857 into a family of polish decent in the northern Ukraine. The backgrounds of his family members consisted of a father that was an avid translator of Shakespeare as well as poet, along ...

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Last Of The Mohicans: Differents Between The Book And Movie

The book Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper was very different from the movie Last of the Mohicans in terms of the storyline. However, I feel that the producer and director of this movie did a good job of preserving Cooper's original vision of the classic American man surviving in the ...

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The Crucible: Personal Turmoil

The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, is a play that takes place in the sixteen nineties during the famous but tragic Salem Witch Trials. Although the entire community is in pandemonium, there are certain characters that are fighting internal conflicts of their own. In Millers’ play, there are ...

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A Critical Approach To "Barn Burning" (By William Faulkner)

A Critical Approach To "Barn Burning" (By William Faulkner) "Barn Burning" is a sad story because it very clearly shows the classical struggle between the "privileged" and the "underprivileged" classes. Time after time emotions of despair surface from both the protagonist and the antagonist ...

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The Plague 3

“The Villain, Iago” Perhaps the most interesting and exotic character in the tragic play Othello, by William Shakespeare, is "Honest" Iago. Iago, through some carefully thought-out words and actions, is able to manipulate others to do things in a way that benefits him and moves him ...

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