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A Befriending Prelude to Murder
Essay Grade: 92%   (541 words, approx. 2 pages)
Poe Comparitive of "The Tell Tale Heart" and "The Cask of Amontillado."
A Big Difference between a Machiavellian Rule and a Utopian Rule
Essay Grade: 95%   (710 words, approx. 2 pages)
Shows the contrast between a state under a Machiavellian rule and a state organized like Utopia.
A Bridge Between Two Worlds
Essay Grade: 86%   (807 words, approx. 3 pages)
Comparison essay about the book Mama Day and the urban development in Willow Springs compared with the urban development that happened in Hilton Head Island.
A Close Ananlysis of "Daddy" and "Zonnebeke Road"
Essay Grade: 88%   (1,885 words, approx. 6 pages)
Evaluates and compares two poems, Sylvia Plath's "Daddy" and Edmund Blunden's "Zonnebeke Road." Describes how each poem tackles a disturbing personal experience.
A Comparative Essay of "Enduring Love" and "Knowledge of Angels"
Essay Grade: 94%   (1,996 words, approx. 7 pages)
Essay compares and contrasts the openings of the novels "Enduring Love" by Ian McEwan and "Knowledge of Angels" by Jill Patton.
A Comparative Essay of "Tess of the D'urbervilles" and "Antigone"
Essay Grade: 92%   (3,192 words, approx. 11 pages)
Essay describes to what extent are the outcomes of Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" and Jean Anouilh's "Antigone" attributable in each case to the personality of the heroine.
A Comparative Study of Brave New World
Essay Grade: 83%   (1,003 words, approx. 3 pages)
Compares Aldous Huxley's Brave New World with Lord of the Flies, by William Golding and William Shakespeare's play, Macbeth. Describes major themes and discusses how they relate between the texts.
A Comparison and Contrast of "Romeo & Juliet:" Text Vs. Movie
Essay Grade: 81%   (612 words, approx. 2 pages)
This essay compares and contrasts William Shakespeare's Play "Romeo and Juliet" with the modern movie "Romeo and Juliet."
A Comparison Between The Way to Rainy Mountain and Love Medicine
Essay Grade: 96%   (1,130 words, approx. 4 pages)
A comparison between literary devices used in two Native American literary works.
A Comparison Essay of "Julius Caesar" and "Things fall Apart"
Essay Grade: 86%   (835 words, approx. 3 pages)
This essay compares themes and characters between "Julius Caesar" by William Shakespeare and "Things fall apart" by Chinua Achebe.
A Comparison of "Old Goriot" and "King Lear"
Essay Grade: 92%   (1,996 words, approx. 7 pages)
A look at the similarities and differences between Balzac's "Old Goriot" and Shakespeare's "King Lear."
A Comparison of "The Book of the Family" and "The Selected Letters"
Essay Grade: 96%   (1,688 words, approx. 6 pages)
This essay compares "The Book of the Family" by Leon Battista Alberti and "The Selected Letters" of Alessandra Strozzi and draws paralells as to how Alberti's visions for a family translated into real living in renaissance Florence.
A Comparison of "The Scarlet Letter" and "The Minister's Black Veil"
Essay Grade: 90%   (1,010 words, approx. 3 pages)
This is a comparison of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" and "The Minister's Black Veil."
A Comparison of "a Description of New England" and "of Plymouth Plantation"
Essay Grade: 86%   (622 words, approx. 2 pages)
Provides a comparison of the texts "A Description of New England" by John Smith and "Of Plymouth Plantation" by Bradford. Examines each author's use of tone, persuasion skills, and personal bias.
A Comparison of "the Great Gastby" Film and Novel
Essay Grade: 86%   (683 words, approx. 2 pages)
Compares The Great Gatsby's film and literary versions. Discusses the significant events added to the film version that were absent from the novel. Explores how those events created a different story from the novel.
A Comparison of "The Masque of the Red Death" and "The Seven Ages of Man"
Essay Grade: 93%   (1,273 words, approx. 4 pages)
Deals with comparing and contrasting of "The Masque of the Red Death" and "The Seven Ages of Man" both by Edgar Allen Poe.
A Comparison of Angela's Ashes and My Papa's Waltz
Essay Grade: 86%   (603 words, approx. 2 pages)
Compares the Frank McCourt novel, Angela's Ashes, to the Roethke poem, My Papa's Waltz. Examines similar themes in the texts and the influence of drunken fathers upon their sons.
A Comparison of Arthurian Literature
Essay Grade: 92%   (1,586 words, approx. 5 pages)
Compares and contrasts two books based on the Arthurian Legend, The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley, and Knight Life by Peter David. Discuses plot, summary, and some major themes in both books.
A Comparison of Character Development in "The Stranger" and "Siddhartha"
Essay Grade: 92%   (1,189 words, approx. 4 pages)
Essay discusses how Monsieur Meursalt and Siddhartha develop uniquely in society and how they are changed after their own close encounters with death in "The Stranger" by Albert Camus and "Siddhartha" by Herman Hesse.
A Comparison of Cleopatra and Heloise
Essay Grade: 83%   (1,260 words, approx. 4 pages)
Compares Shakespeare's Cleopatra with Heloise from "The Letters of Abelard and Heloise." Examines issues of sex, family, and breaking female stereotypes.
A Comparison of Ever After and Cinderella
Essay Grade: 83%   (1,143 words, approx. 4 pages)
Compares and contrasts the fairy tale story "Cinderella" and the film Ever After. Analyzes each text. Analyzes the film from the director's perspective.
A Comparison of Flowers For Algernon and Hoods I have Known
Essay Grade: 78%   (494 words, approx. 2 pages)
Compares the novels Flowers For Algernon, by Daniel Keyes and Hoods I have Known, written by Sonara Spatt. Explores the similar themes in each text. Describes how each of the two main characters get to live a different life style for a short period of time.
A Comparison of Friendship in "Of Mice and Men" and "A Separate Peace"
Essay Grade: 93%   (788 words, approx. 3 pages)
Compares the friendship between George and Lennie in the novel "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck and Gene and Finny in the novel "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles.
A Comparison of Gattaca and Brave New World
Essay Grade: 75%   (0 words, approx. 0 pages)
Imagine a world in which sex is just fun and children are made in test tubes and petri dishes. This is the world of Gattaca. This is also the prophetic view of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. These "utopia" societies strive to make every man and woman the perfect size, IQ, social status.
A Comparison of Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now
Essay Grade: 88%   (263 words, approx. 1 pages)
This essay compares Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness with the movie "Apocalypse Now." It compares and contrasts the two main characters.
A Comparison of Heart of Darkness and Deliverance
Essay Grade: 88%   (849 words, approx. 3 pages)
Compares James Dickey's Deliverance and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Describes how each author's visions of the "unethical" world outside of society are shown to their readers. Considers whether or not morality exists outside of society.
A Comparison of Lord of the Flies and Heart of Darkness
Essay Grade: 86%   (630 words, approx. 2 pages)
Provides a thematic comparison of the two novels "Heart of Darkness," by Joseph Conrad, and "Lord of the Flies," by William Golding. Describes how the two works have remarkably similar themes, and have created the setting as an essential enhancement to the theme.
A Comparison of Metamorphosis and Siddhartha
Essay Grade: 86%   (477 words, approx. 2 pages)
Compares adverse settings in Kafaka's "Metamorphosis" and Hesse's Siddhartha. Discusses how the journeys of the protagonists concentrates primarily on unconstructive surroundings which ironically erect self- assurance in the characters.
A Comparison of Mr. Rochester and Heathcliff
Essay Grade: 96%   (1,725 words, approx. 6 pages)
In examining the portrayals of Mr. Rochester in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Heathcliff in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, one sees similar themes throughout each story. Both of these male protagonists are portrayed as anti-heroes, also known as Byronic heroes; they both possess dark qualities, higher intellectual and emotional capacities, and a lack of true heroic virtue. Through looking at the two protagonists' characterization, attitudes, past experiences, and treatment of others, however, Mr. Rochester portrays the likeable, romantic hero better than Heathcliff does.
A Comparison of Neuromancer and We So Seldom Look on Love
Essay Grade: 86%   (1,190 words, approx. 4 pages)
Compares realism as presented in Neuromancer by William Gibson and We so Seldom Look on Love by Barbara Gowdy. Describes how the stories explore the boundaries of realism by using similar elements, including the margin between life and death, which these two stories address.
A Comparison of Ordinary People and Good Will Hunting
Essay Grade: 86%   (621 words, approx. 2 pages)
Compare the novel, Ordinary People to the movie, Good Will Hunting. Describes how the main characters handle guilt. Considers how each character creates punishment for themselves in order to escape that guilt.
A Comparison of Robert Frost's and Emily Dickinson's Poetry
Essay Grade: 92%   (504 words, approx. 2 pages)
A Comparison of Robert Frost's and Emily Dickinson's Poetry, Frost's Design
Dickinson's Apparently with no Surprise
A Comparison of Shakespeare's Othello and the Film O
Essay Grade: 83%   (2,096 words, approx. 7 pages)
Comparative essay dealing with Shakespeare's Othello and the feature film "O." Includes discussion of similarities and differences. Also examines themes of race and jealousy.
A Comparison of Similarities between "Slam Dunk & Hook" and "Reflections of a Seventeen Year Old"
Essay Grade: 96%   (562 words, approx. 2 pages)
Compares the similarities in Sylvia Plath's "Reflections of a Seventeen Year-Old", and Yusef Komunyakaa's "Slam, Dunk & Hook."
A Comparison of Taming of the Shrew and 10 Things I Hate about You
Essay Grade: 86%   (1,481 words, approx. 5 pages)
Compares Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew with the film based upon it, 10 Things I Hate About You. Provides a feminist examination of both the play and the film. Examines the patriarchal dominance contained in both.
A Comparison of Ten Things I Hate About You and Taming of the Shrew
Essay Grade: 83%   (1,526 words, approx. 5 pages)
Examines the effect of social and cultural constraints on characters in Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare and Ten Things I Hate About You, a film based on the bard's play.
A Comparison of Tess of the D'urbervilles and the Europeans
Essay Grade: 86%   (4,436 words, approx. 15 pages)
Compares `The Europeans' by Henry James and `Tess of the D'Urbervilles' by Thomas Hardy. Shows how the two authors introduce the major issues of their day. Discusses the shared themes and symbolism of both works and details how both discuss the same contemporary social values.
A Comparison of the Characters Lyra and Gaea
Essay Grade: 86%   (1,039 words, approx. 4 pages)
A comparison of two characters, Lyra from "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman and Gaea from "Anthem" by Ayn Rand.
A Comparison of The Crucible and Under the Banner of Heaven
Essay Grade: 83%   (947 words, approx. 3 pages)
Compares the play, The Crucible, by Arthur Miller with Anthony Storr's nonfiction book, Under the Banner of Heaven. Discusses how the beliefs of the characters in the novel relate to the real life characters in Storr's book.
A Comparison of the Film and Novel Versions of "The Scarlet Letter"
Essay Grade: 87%   (636 words, approx. 2 pages)
This essay compares "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne to the film version.
A Comparison of The Lord of the Flies and Antigone
Essay Grade: 86%   (675 words, approx. 2 pages)
Compares the ancient Greek Tragedy Antigone and the novel The Lord of the Flies. Discusses how characters in each literary piece abuse their power. Explores the common themes of good judgment and morality.
A Comparison of The Ministers Black Veil and the Birthmark
Essay Grade: 86%   (785 words, approx. 3 pages)
Compares the stories The Ministers Black Veil and The Birthmark, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Describes Hawthornes use of symbolism in each story. Details how the symbolism forces the reader of each story to look deeper in an attempt to understand the ideas that Hawthorne tries convey.
A Comparison of the Sherlock Holmes Stories
Essay Grade: 88%   (2,468 words, approx. 8 pages)
Compares three of the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle: "The Speckled Band" (TSB), "The Man with the Twisted Lip" (MWTL), and "The Red-Headed League" (RHL). Examines the similarities and differences between them. Analyzes what qualities made the stories effective mysteries.
A Comparison of the Ways in Which Fitzgerald and Bronte Present Their Heroes. (2742 Words)
Essay Grade: 92%   (0 words, approx. 0 pages)
In both "Wuthering Heights" and "The Great Gatsby", the authors have put the central focus for the readers on the romantic heroes of the text. The romantic heroes in the two texts are Gatsby and Heathcliff. These two characters are both very similar and very different and the following is a comparison of how each of them is presented in the novels.
A Comparison of Two Horror Stories
Essay Grade: 86%   (2,147 words, approx. 7 pages)
Compares and contrasts two horror stories, The Red Room, by H. G. Wells, and The Monkey's Paw, by W. W. Jacobs. Considers how each author creates and builds tension and atmosphere in his story.
A Comparison of Two Noel Gallagher Articles
Essay Grade: 86%   (834 words, approx. 3 pages)
Compares how information, concerning Noel Gallagher, is presented to give a one sided or biased view in The Mirror and The Telegraph. Reveals how each paper uses word play to present a different slant on the same story. Describes how each paper writes toward its prime audience.
A Comparison of Two Poems
Essay Grade: 86%   (467 words, approx. 2 pages)
Compares poems 'The Horses' by Edwin Muir to 'Your Attention Please' by Peter Porter. Describes how Muir offers a more optimistic view of the future. Analyzes the symbolism and literary devices used in both poems.
A Comparison of World War I Poetry
Essay Grade: 88%   (2,589 words, approx. 9 pages)
Compares and contrasts poetry from the first World War. Uses poetry from writers Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. Explores how the war affected the two poets and their work.
A Comparison of: Raisin in the Sun, Confederacy of Dunces, Great Gatsby
Essay Grade: 96%   (1,454 words, approx. 5 pages)
Essay provides a comparison of Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun," F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," and John Kennedy Toole's "A Confederacy of Dunces."
A Comparison: "Contender" and "Speak"
Essay Grade: 83%   (1,300 words, approx. 4 pages)
A critical comparison of the novels "Contender" by Robert Lipsyte and "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson. Relates them to a quote by Abraham Lincoln.
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