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In Bram Stoker's "Dracula", desire is represented as monstrous in its resistance to the limiting positions of gender: the fixed roles of male and female. This paper discusses the ways in which desire is configured in the text through the relations of Jonathan, Lucy and Mina to Dracula. It also explains how that desire is also ultimately re-contained.

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"By associating sexual awakening and nightly desire with physical degeneration, the novel again encodes the notion of sexuality with disgust and disease. Lucy becomes other than herself because of Dracula's awakening of the girl to the pleasures of physical desire. In fact, after she dies and becomes one of the undead, Professor Van Helsing urges Harker to kill Lucy by saying that the walking woman who bears the girl's face is no longer Lucy. Desire renders the girl unlike herself and the novel returns Lucy to a state of innocence again after a stake is drawn through her heart."

Tags:vampirism, Professor, Van, Helsing, Professor, Van, Helsing

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This paper will focus on this process of depersonalization through the experience of Primo Levi which is documented in "Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity". Initially, the techniques that the Nazi's used to depersonalize their victims will be explored. Subsequently, Levi's response to this process will be considered. Specifically, its impact on him, his responses to it and their effectiveness will be assessed.

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In the work, "Hedda Gabler" by Henrik Ibsen, the main character, Hedda, commits suicide, while still pregnant with her unborn child. This paper is a character analysis of Hedda Gabler. It examines the reasons for Hedda's behavior and justifies it in her mind. Ethical issues, such as suicide, are also addressed.

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"In the last moments of Hedda's life thoughts of being mother, being trapped in a dull marriage, and the increasing threat of sexual assault and rape by Judge Brack raged through her mind. She could only see the bad things in life. She could not see the devotion to her from Tesman. She could not see the admiration the others had for her. She saw her life in a cage without control. That would not do. In her mind, suicide was the only way to escape the marriage, pregnancy, and impending affair."

Tags:norwegian, theatre, Elvsted, Judge, Brack

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This paper explains that Swift effectively parodies the cruel arrogance of the English and the submissiveness of the Irish parliament by presenting a horrific solution in well-reasoned and economically sound terms. The author points out that, instead of direct polemical criticism, Swift uses irony and parody to draw attention to the desperate conditions facing the poor of Ireland. The paper relates that the presenter employs pseudo-scientific statistics to make his argument appear more logical than it really is, thus creating the illusion of scientific certainty and reason by quoting numbers.

From the Paper
"The pamphlet is a bold satire that excites the passion of readers even today, over two hundred years after it was written. Suggesting that the Irish poor eat their babies and thus make them beneficial to society is a point sure to demand attention. It works as a satire because the proposal is made with such a straight and sincere face. The narrator presents himself as a reasonable and humanitarian man."

Tags:exploitation, babies, submission, parody, illusion

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The paper examines the character, Gregor, in Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" and discusses the main theme - that of alienation - by showing what Gregor goes through when he turns into a bug. The author of the paper questions whether many of the feelings expressed by Gregor were actually autobiographical elements of Kafka's own life when he grew up alienated due to his beliefs.

From the Paper
"By the final part of the story, part III, Gregor is nearly forgotten about. Grete does not notice if he eats or not, his room is hardly ever cleaned, no one even mentions him at all. Gregor begins growing bitter, angry and resentful, which must have been Kafka s own feelings for his father. Gregor s nagging injury (the apple in his back) causes his mobility to remain limited, and yet he still hopes to find some way in which to reach out to his family. When he finally dies, it is almost at the request of his family. The family is discussing how Gregor cannot be anywhere in the bug s body if it were Gregor, he would have left and spared them the awful horror of dealing with an insect. Gregor agrees, and quietly retreats to his room to die. This line of thinking seems to comfort Gregor he alienates himself from the insect he has become, in order to accept that his life is over, and that he must die."

Tags:Samsa, therapy, German-speaker

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This paper looks at Kafka's "Metamorphosis" , focusing on the protagonist Gregor Samsa and his metamorphosis into an insect. The author examines how Gregor's family discover hidden abilities and motivations towards personal betterment and a financially secure lifestyle.

From the Paper
"Prior to the metamorphosis, Gregor was the center of attention of his family he was the sole breadwinner. His business having gone under five years ago, his father was relegated to physical and emotional inactivity. His mother was an asthmatic, and his sister Grete was still young. He had great dreams: to rid his family of his father's financial commitments, and have his sister, a fair violin player, admitted into the "Conservatorium despite the great expenses that would entail."

Tags:storyteller, morphing, familial, societal, discovers, horror, panic, comparison, bulk

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This paper is a brief explanation of the role of religion in the life of the main character from James Joyce's short story, "Araby." It examines conflicts over what his religion is telling him is right and what his adolescent body is telling him is right.

From the Paper
"Adolescence is a difficult stage of life on its own. Suddenly, a young person is forced to confront issues involving independence, maturity, and even more complicated, love. The boy in "Araby" is no exception. He is the typical young boy fighting his way into manhood; only his journey is slightly more complicated as he is forced to take into consideration what the church has been teaching him for years. He is confused. Images of this girl he has become infatuated with are constantly with him, but so are his religious teachings."

Tags:essay, fiction, religion, sex

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"Ivo Andric's novel The Bridge on the Drina is unusual in its plot development, in its focus (or lack of focus) on characters, and in its basic meaning. Although the book covers four centuries--from the mid-sixteenth to the early twentieth--the plot does not have the sweeping feeling of an epic because the author focuses on the town of Visegrad in Bosnia and the bridge rather than on the people or even the events which take place. The work is less a novel, in fact, than an extended fictionalized declaration of the author's philosophy, which can be essentially boiled down to the view that despite many surface changes in history and in human relationships, nothing really changes at its core. The individual human being may meet death, and may be suffering at any moment, but elsewhere another human life is just beginning and joy is in another's heart. Another essential..."

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This paper examines the theme of paralysis in "Dubliners", a collection of short stories by James Joyce. It begins with a description of the religious, economic, cultural, and political oppression in Dublin. It then specifically expands on several of the stories in the collection: "The Sisters," "Araby," "Eveline," "Two Gallants," and "The Dead." Finally, the paper examines Joyce's writing style.

From the Paper
"James Joyce constructed a collection of short stories intended to present the city of Dublin during the early twentieth century in a straightforward manner. The theme of paralysis permeates the work to show the city as well as the whole of Ireland as oppressed by religious, economic, cultural, and political circumstances. Every story in the collection, beginning with "The Sisters" and continuing to the final revelation in "The Dead," is infused with this theme. Joyce himself admitted to the "special odor of corruption which, I hope, floats over my stories" (Grey). He was aware that his tales would be raw, his pictures of Ireland unadorned by compassion. However much he identified with the characters he created, Joyce retained a candor that allowed him to keep "a style of scrupulous meanness" (Brandabur 8) throughout."

Tags:araby, childhood, adolescence, maturity, public, life, city, ireland

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This paper discusses how "Venus in Furs" theatrically transgresses conventions of nature, gender and sexuality and how this transgression is nonetheless marked by limits. It is description of a male protagonist who is so captivated by a woman that he desires to live as her slave. It looks at how it offers forms of transgression and a fantasy of dis-empowerment available only to the empowered Western elite male subject.

From the Paper
"Severin experiences pleasure by having pain inflicted on him in sexual circumstances. Traditionally, it is the woman who feels pain during sexual intercourse. This has been reversed in Sacher Masoch's novel; however it seems unrealistic as it can easily be reversed back to the original state. Wanda is continually referenced as a woman with miniature hands and feet, and a very tiny waist. She could easily be overpowered by a man if he so chose - the masochist male fantasy in Venus In Furs appears as just that - a fantasy - since it can so easily be overturned. The empowered male is only acting submissive - in truth he is much stronger than the woman and can take control physically at any time."

Tags:dominatrix, severin, pain, fantasy