Essays 481 - 510
Melville: "he was ... a gentleman adventurer in the barbarous outposts of human experience" (147). Melvilles Bartleby the Scriven...
the weight,/ the weight we carry/ is love" (Ginsberg 1-9). In this poem we do not necessarily see love as an uplifting real...
Mr. Henderson; Sheriff Peters and his wife and Mr. Hale and his wife Martha. The five of them go to the Wright place the morning a...
limited means to make a living. The fires he sets may be construed as the rage that burns inside of him. This arsonist is continua...
camps, and symbolic of the true need to survive, something not really seen in the mother or the infant who all but seem to accept ...
day to trip me up" (Updike). This is a line that also suggests he may be judgmental as well. But, in essence, he is very much symb...
many years, that she hardly heard them at all" (Lawrence). In these references it is quite clear that Mabel is essentially...
fact. In "The Black Cat," the narrator tells readers that he was "docile" and "tender of heart" as a youth, and that he retained t...
man called each living creature, that was its name" (Genesis 2:19). Adam gave names to all of them "But, for Adam no suitable help...
of a mother or a sister; and on his head was a three-cornered hat, which in its better days had perhaps sheltered the graver brow ...
long as he can maintain he position of self-imposed eminence. Because Samia cannot remember where she left her very valuable ring...
in the Broadway Journal (Magistrale 81). Steeped in Gothic tradition, the theme involves one mans descent into total madness, whi...
is presumably himself, as an adult, looking back at the things his father did for him. These are things that the child clearly nev...
turn something seemingly worthless into a treasure. A quilt being symbolically assembled throughout the story reflects how societ...
reality in Poes work. And, the fact that it comes back to haunt the characters in the story further emphasizes the power of this "...
happened, or what may have happened, to this young girl, and finds herself examining her own life as a result. Without even und...
distance, an unclear picture is present. It is this vision of the mistress that the narrator begins to imagine must be of some fan...
the other until, in the end, exhaustion overcomes it. We see this not only in Maggie herself, but in Skipper and Brick, and the in...
of his contemporaries, [Poe] refused to soften or idealize mortality and kept its essential horror in view But what is the "essen...
The Ministers Black Veil Hawthornes The Ministers Black Veil is a short story that describes evil and depravity as developmental ...
In eight pages these three short stories are considered in terms of summary and analysis of themes. Ten sources are cited in the ...
close, as truly intimate with his wife as he is with this group of friends. Nick does not run away from his responsibility, but th...
Oscar often refers to "filthy lucre" (Lawrence 922). His mother explains that luck is "what causes you to have money. If youre l...
sack of flour, no gunpowder, or leather, or cloth, or iron tools" (Cather). He would see, "Not a letter, even -- no news of what w...
suggests that it belongs to Rachel, the teacher, Mrs. Price pounces on this piece of knowledge and insists that Rachel accept the ...
Therefore, Aylmer is destined to live a life of unhappiness, based not upon any inherently horrible thing about his life, but base...
this keeps them interested even more, thus providing us with the dual nature of formal religion as it teaches one thing but does a...
seen in literature of her time, but clearly something that existed in the real world. She was fortunate to have married a man w...
Sebastian for the arrows to begin piercing him" (OConnor). We see the hat that she is so proud of an he, in his impatience, "Put i...
inability to understand the calls in the dead of night are paralleled with the frustration they feel at not getting any informatio...