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The Lieutenant: A Character Analysis, 2002.
This essay examines the character of the lieutenant in Graham Greene's novel, "The Power and the Glory".
1,530 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 1 source, £ 34.95
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This paper is a character analysis of the anonymous lieutenant in Graham Greene?s ?The Power and the Glory.? It focuses primarily on his anti-religious views, the doubts and changes he goes through when the priest begins to speak and reason with him, and the roles that he plays throughout the novel.
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"In order for a character to be truly effective, it is necessary for the character to play an important role, undergo change, and above all, be interesting. In Graham Greene?s novel ?The Power and the Glory?, there are two characters that fit this typecast best, the priest and the lieutenant. Both of these characters? destinies are intertwined, and it impossible to talk about one without mentioning the other; however, of the two, there is the one who changes (the lieutenant), and the one who does the changing (the priest). Therefore, the character that most fully matches the definition of an effective character outlined above would be the lieutenant."
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Lieutenant Jimmy Cross, 2008.
A character analysis of Lieutenant Jimmy Cross in Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried".
1,863 words (approx. 7.5 pages), 3 sources, MLA, £ 41.95
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The paper presents the thesis that Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried" depicts Jimmy Cross' journey from boyhood to manhood and reveals a character marked by youth's naivete, unshared love, war, death and the feeling of guilt. The paper discusses the common features he shares with other soldiers regarding his young age, his lack of experience and his misinterpretation of the war. The paper also considers the differences between Jimmy Cross and the other soldiers, Martha's mark on Lieutenant Jimmy Cross and how Lieutenant Cross copes with the death of Ted Lavender.
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Similarity to other soldiers
Differences between Jimmy Cross and the other soldiers
Martha's mark on Lieutenant Jimmy Cross
Lieutenant Cross' coping with the death of Ted Lavender
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"The Things They Carried is the first of a series of short stories that depict soldiers' lives during war times. The stories are based on author Tim O'Brien's own experience with war and his own charter is sometimes included in part of the writings. The short story revolves around a platoon of soldiers fighting in Vietnam and the things they carry with them (not only the actual things but also what they carry in their mind)."
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"The French Lieutenant's Woman", 2002.
An analysis of how Darwin's theory of Natural Selection relays themes in John Fowles' "The French Lieutenant's Woman" and reflects the characters.
1,142 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 27.95
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A paper which details how theories from Charles Darwin's "Origin of the Species" conveys themes discussed within the lives of the main characters in the novel, "The French Lieutenant's Woman" by John Fowles. The paper explores Darwinism and how it pertains to Charles, Sarah and the narrator. It also demonstrates societal evolution within the context of Darwinism.
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"The narrator discusses Darwin and relates his ideas to the condition of the characters. Fowles suggests that despite evolution, every species struggles and often loses the same kinds of fights fought and lost centuries before. To Fowles, evolution, in essence, means both change and no change. In the novel, the narrator says himself: "Darwinism, as its shrewder opponents realized, led open the floodgates to something far more serious than the undermining of the Biblical account of the origins of man; its deepest implications lay in the direction of determinism and behaviorism" (pg. 120)."
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The French Lieutenant's Woman, 2006.
A discussion and analysis of John Fowle's 1969 novel, "The French Lieutenant's Woman".
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, £ 30.95
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This essay takes a look at John Fowle's 1969 novel, "The French Lieutenant's Woman". This is a novel set in Victorian times that features many Victorian values and mores. Yet by dissecting the novel's two main characters, this paper makes the argument that Fowle's bridges the gap between the past and modern times by infusing said characters with modern worth and values.
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"The old saying "Hindsight is 20/20" is applicable to no better theme than literature. As readers of literature, we are settled firmly in the present, whenever that present time might be. Yet the object with which we interact, on which we ponder and ruminate, the text, the physical book that we read, is firmly planted in its own time, whether it was written centuries ago or merely yesterday. The reader has no choice but to apply and compare his or her present circumstances, attitudes, and social mores to those present in the text, making judgments on both periods as to right or wrong, advanced or dated. Be it the bawdy and rambunctious behavior of Chaucer's travelers or the tragic and un-emancipated treatment of Twain's Jim, present values cannot help but be taken into account when understanding what was written, and what was. In his novel "The French Lieutenant's Woman"..."
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Lieutenant William Calley, 2005.
An analysis of the My Lai Massacre and the war crimes committed by Lieutenant William Calley.
1,506 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 8 sources, MLA, £ 34.95
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This paper presents a brief history of the My Lai Massacre and the war crimes Lieutenant William Calley committed during the Vietnam War. The paper explains that Calley's sentence was reduced by President Nixon from life in prison to a three-year house arrest at Ft. Benning, GA. The paper examines the dilemmas that the jury had to face when coming to a final verdict and discusses why that verdict should not have been pardoned by President Nixon. The paper justifies this with very strong supporting evidence. The psychological experiments done by Stanley Milgram on the human nature regarding authority is also addressed in the paper. The paper also provides a comparison to a modern day war crime, the Abu Ghraib Prison scandals during the Iraqi War.
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"On March 16, 1968 the southern Vietnamese hamlet My Lai, was invaded by a demoralized platoon of U.S. soldiers, led by Lt. William L. Calley. During the four hours at My Lai, an estimated 347 unarmed civilians were brutally massacred by American GI's. These civilians included women, babies, children, and old men. Many of these civilians were raped, sodomized, mutilated, tortured, and then shot to death in cold blood. This shameful incident remained unknown to the American public until the autumn of 1969. That is nearly 18 months that the government and U.S. Army kept it covered up from the public. We may not have ever known of this abhorrent event if not for journalist Seymour Hersh, who tapped Pentagon sources and began publishing syndicated stories about My Lai. After the bloodshed was made public, special investigations by the U.S. army and the House of Representatives took place. Several soldiers and veterans were charged with murder, and a number of officers were accused of dereliction of duty for covering up the massacre at My Lai. However, only five of these soldiers were court-martialed and one of them, Lt. William Calley, was convicted. Calley was found guilty on March 29, 1971 for premeditated murder of at least twenty-two Vietnamese civilians and was sentenced to life imprisonment. However, President Nixon pardoned his sentence, and reduced his punishment to serve just 3 ? years under house arrest at Fort Benning in Georgia. Is this justice? Was Nixon's pardon justifiable? Is Lt. Calley a sadistic lunatic fringe on society or was he innocently and blindly obeying orders given by a higher ranking authority figure?"
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"Lieutenant Lookeast", 2005.
An analysis of the village society in the short story "Lieutenant Lookeast".
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, £ 30.95
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This paper looks at a Japanese short story, "Lieutenant Lookeast" that is set in post-war Japan and that focuses on the society of a Japanese village. The paper examines the elements of tradition within the society and all the negative and positive aspects of it. This story's village is also compared and contrasted to the village in a second Japanese short story, "Prize Stock."
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"The village society in "Lieutenant Lookeast" and "Prize Stock" This essay looks at a Japanese short story, Lieutenant Lookeast, set after World War II in a Japanese village society. It examines how the story shows that that society has been damaged by war and how the strengths and the weaknesses of the village society are depicted. The essay also attempts to answer whether the story gives tradition a positive or negative influence on the society. Furthermore, Lieutenant Lookeast's village is compared and contrasted with the village in another Japanese short story, Prize Stock. In Lieutenant Lookeast, Ibuse Masuji gives us a satirical sketch of the life in a Japanese village in the post-war years. "
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'The French Lieutenant's Woman' and Categorization, 2007.
This paper discusses John Fowles' exploration of categorization in 'The French Lieutenant's Woman'.
2,911 words (approx. 11.6 pages), 9 sources, APA, £ 59.95
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In this article, the writer notes that the traits of order and categorization, without which society cannot function, are especially prominent in the Victorian society in which 'The French Lieutenant's Woman' is set. The writer points out that the Victorian era is an outstanding example of when categorization was taken to the extreme, almost completely suppressing the socially and scientifically inexplicable instead of incorporating it into a system as had been done in religion and superstition. The writer discusses that Fowles' experimentation with the most fundamental elements of the Victorian novel (for instance with their endings) clearly indicates that he actually uses his image of Sarah to highlight the limitations he suffers in his own position as author with an equal weight. The writer notes that Fowles shows, through his exploration of the categorization of the individual and the external world, and his evasion of authorial convention, that the problems of excessive categorization are just as much of a problem for the author himself - not just the world around him.
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"That which makes The French Lieutenant's Woman most radical and arguably post-modern, however, is that Fowles goes beyond the implicit existentialism of modernist literature and becomes directly self-reflexive. He tackles the idea of unnecessary categorization far more directly by exploring it in his own position as author. Fowles demonstrates this in his unwillingness to be limited by basic premises of narrative of the conventional novel. Interruptions to the narrative, denial of authorial omniscience, moving backwards and forwards in time as easily as in the imagination - these are all attempts by Fowles to avoid being pinned down. The Victorian crusade of categorization, it seems, was still evident in the need for a 'second wave' of feminism in the 1960s - excessive categorization, while already established as a problem by some Victorians, required a 'second' wave for the internalization of this change in attitude."
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"The French Lieutenant's Woman", 2002.
This paper discusses John Fowles' novel, and Harold Pinter's film, "The French Lieutenant's Woman".
2,650 words (approx. 10.6 pages), 3 sources, £ 67.95
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This paper relates this story about a woman named Sarah who fabricates an explanation of her estrangement and isolation. The author points out that she falsely represents herself as the victim of an absent man, and by doing this, she frees herself from certain constraints and bonds. The paper concludes that the film amplifies her mystery with images, but the novel explores her complexity with detailed substance.
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"A Farewell to Arms", 2007.
An analysis of the love affair of the main character in Ernest Hemingway's novel "A Farewell to Arms."
1,482 words (approx. 5.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 33.95
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This paper reviews Ernest Hemingway's novel "A Farewell to Arms." It particularly discusses the issue of love in a world of violence, that of World War I. The paper analyzes the main character, Lieutenant Henry and follows his love affair with a nurse in order to illustrate this point. The paper analyzes his language, as well as the circumstances he finds himself in and concludes that love does not turn out to be a refuge for Henry from violence.
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"Henry's love for Catherine and her love for him did not turn out to be a permanent saving grace for either of them. The violent birth of their stillborn child killed Catherine, and Henry reflects sadly that "it did not take her very long to die" (331). He attempts to find closure in saying goodbye to the dead Catherine, but is unable to because "it was like saying good-by to a statue" (332). Even the love the two had shared cannot be spared the violence, death, and destruction that was happening all around them in the war. Escaping the war turned out to be no escape at all for them. Henry's love made him happy while it lasted, but its end affected him far longer that the time it had actually endured. The future, too, was tainted by the fact that he could feel no affection or love for the tiny stillborn son. There is no suggestion that the love between Catherine and Henry will sustain him against a world of violence."
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?Oroonoko?, 2002.
A review of Aphra Behn's "Oroonoko" with an emphasis on the character of the narrator.
917 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 0 sources, £ 22.95
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This paper discusses Aphra Behn's "Oroonoko", a powerful story of a West African prince (Oroonoko) who is abducted into slavery in Surinam and how Oroonoko?s story is told by a young Englishwoman visiting a colony in Surinam in South America. The narrator is the daughter of the lieutenant governor of Surinam, who died on the way to visit the colony. The paper analyzes the character of the narrator who seems to be a dispassionate observer who ultimately avoids responsibility for the young prince's terrible fate. It is this status as outsider that allows the young narrator to report dispassionately on the horror of slavery and Oroonoko?s ultimate sad fate.
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"The narrator's ambivalence and neutrality is further seen in her relationship with the young prince Oroonoko. She notes that her relationship with the young prince is close, and that Oroonoko considers her a friend "in whom he had entire confidence." She notes that her advice has great influence over and calms the young man. Nonetheless, the young narrator withdraws with the rest of the women when Oroonoko is free in the jungle. Further, she is quick to distance herself when the colonists harm Oroonoko. Says the narrator, "I was persuaded to leave the place for some time" (where Oroonoko was held), whereupon the colonists torture and kill the young prince."
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The Narrative Techniques of Postmodernist Fiction, 1991.
This paper discusses the with a focus on narrative techniques of postmodernist fiction, "The French Lieutenant's Woman " by John Fowles and "The Book of Daniel" by E.L. Doctorow.
5,625 words (approx. 22.5 pages), 19 sources, £ 93.95
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"The purpose of this research is to examine the narrative techniques of postmodernist fiction, with a focus on "The French Lieutenant's Woman " by John Fowles and "The Book of Daniel" by E.L. Doctorow. The plan of the research will be to set forth the origins and characteristics of postmodernist literature as a response to previous modes of literary style, and then to discuss, by means of comparison and contrast, how these novels are consistent with the postmodern style. As appropriate, reference will also be made to the work of other postmodernist practitioners, with a view toward defining on one hand and assessing on the other, the attributes, position, and strength of the literary method.
The literary style known as postmodernism attained currency in the years following World War II. In linear time, ... "
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The Theme of Freedom, 2005.
This paper compares the novels Charles Johnson's, "Middle Passage" and Contrast John Fowles' "The French Lieutenants' Women", both of which contain the themes of freedom and slavery.
870 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 0 sources, £ 20.95
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This paper explains that Charles Johnson in "Middle Passage" tells the story of what it was like to be a freed slave in nineteenth century New Orleans from the unique point-of-view African-American; whereas, John Fowles, in "French Lieutenant's Women", examines the notion of freedom from the point-of-view of an ex-slave instead of an English gentleman. The author points out that, in both the New Orleans and British societies, every character is enslaved by their own social ladder because they can move only so far up and down. The paper concludes that the same condition is true today because all people are slaves bound by bigotry to their social, economic or racial class, which defines the roles of their class thus limiting their freedom.
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"Charles begins to understand what freedom truly is chapter 45: "But above all it seemed to set Charles a choice; and while one part of him hated having to choose. . .we know that another part of him felt intolerably excited by the moment of choice. He had no existential terminology; but what he felt was really a very clear case of the anxiety of freedom--that is, the realization that one is free and the realization that being free is a situation of terror (267)." Until this point, Charles has always believed he was free. He now realizes that freedom involves choice. A free man gets to choose the path he/she wishes to follow in life. Charles is not free, because he is confined by the rules of his nobility. He does not have a choice. The rules decide for him. Charles recognizes this further in chapter 58: "When he had his great vision freed from his age, his ancestry and class and country, he had not realized how much the freedom was embodied in Sarah (335).""
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A Wartime Dilemma: A Three Philosopher?s Approach, 2002.
This paper uses three philosophers? models to discuss the ethical questions that arise during war.
1,435 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 3 sources, MLA, £ 32.95
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This paper creates a wartime ethical dilemma of a lieutenant who is asked to be a decoy by his commanding officer but refuses. His commanding officer threatens to shoot him. The lieutenant continues to object and gets shot. The author argues the question by using Mill?s utilitarian theory, Kant?s categorical imperative theory and Royce?s loyalty theory.
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"There are two fundamental issues in this situation that challenge Mill, Kant and Royce: First, whether sacrificing Lt. Downs as a decoy is justifiable, and second, whether shooting him in the face of his non-compliance was justifiable, or even humane."
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Memogate, 2008.
A look at the events surrounding the CBS news report by anchor Dan Rather's regarding apparent gaps in George W. Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard.
1,230 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 4 sources, MLA, £ 28.95
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On September 8, 2004, CBS news anchor Dan Rather aired a report on apparent gaps in presidential candidate George W. Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard. In order to portray these gaps as evidence that Bush had received preferential treatment, Rather relied on memos that had allegedly been written by Lieutenant Colonel Jerry Killian, one of Bush's superiors during the early 1970's. Immediately after Rather's report, bloggers across the Internet began to raise doubts about the authenticity of these memos. By describing how the bloggers' suspicions eventually led to Rather's downfall, this paper attempts to show that the scandal revolved, not around the actual facts of Bush's service, but around the methods that CBS had used to gather and present documentary evidence.
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"The report that aired on "60 Minutes Wednesday" featured an exclusive interview with Ben Barnes, a former lieutenant governor of Texas and speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, who said that he helped get Bush into the Texas Air National Guard at the pinnacle of the Vietnam War. As mentioned above, the report included documents from 1972 that were allegedly written by the late Lt. Col. Jerry Killian, one of Bush's former commanders. The Lt. Col. had previously alleged that Bush's Guard records had been "scrubbed" to hide information. The story was part of an investigation alleging that Bush benefited from political favoritism in getting out of commitments to the Texas Guard. The documents, supposedly made by Killian, included criticisms of Bush's service in the Guard and allegedly showed that Bush disobeyed orders. "
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