Essays 661 - 690
in the promised land did so through the exploitation of the land, its resources, and its natives" as is the case with Jay Gatsby (...
wrong with him. Seth states, "I dont like the way he stare at everybody. Dont look at you natural like" (Wilson 232). The fact t...
Madame Defarge. There is an exception however, for a few years back she did play the Wicked Queen in Snow White, which could perha...
wife. Claudius states, "Though yet of Hamlet (the late king was also named Hamlet) our late brothers death/The memory be green" (I...
is Miss Havisham. He believes that she is funding his education so that he can become educated and then wealthy and then be worthy...
that this woman has a great power over her and over the rest of the class. She begins to look around her at the reservation and re...
There is no question that death plays a major role in this story, as evidenced not only by all the dying patients but also through...
be a lover and an optimist. But we begin to see images of tension in the fact that he describes the evening sky spread out as "a p...
the ribald joke or two. Of course, considering that the entire play revolves around Helenas ability to get her promised husband in...
her brothers wrongful imprisonment she requests an audience with Angelo. When she asks for her brothers release Angelo is so taken...
Iago and others are not around, we know that Iago is a liar. Our first true indication of how Iago plans to use Othellos love a...
to delve deeper into their own spirituality. Thus, each of the four major characters are guilty of acquired knowledge which stems ...
even "seeing" that in marrying a man, Lucy would not be happy (81). Lucy understands then that her mother is only concerned with L...
problems and the pollution of the towns water table by Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E). Brockovich instinctively felt that the case ...
at the end because they simply enjoy being, instead of attempting to compete with others. Dr. Pangloss maintains, in great satiric...
try" (207). As this exposition suggests, Marshalls presence as an outsider to the dynamics of the Hubbard family and as an outsi...
to comment on his future and to give him advice. The viewer comes to understand that Ben is expected to follow in his fathers foot...
man who may have once possessed dreams, but today is an angry and bitter individual. "He was a man of thirty-one with a hardened f...
a very well to do family. She attempts to foster a love of beauty and words to the narrator. In order to do this she encourages th...
wonder of nature, or the natural balance of things as he is determined to kill the whale. As one author notes, "Ahab destroys hims...
cannot go when he obviously want it so badly. James feels that his fathers sarcastic rejection of the idea of visiting the lightho...
My tenderness of heart was even so conspicuous as to make me the jest of my companions. I was especially fond of animals, and was ...
and leave her father, or suffer through this madness with Hamlet. While she is still deciding, her father is killed and she is sur...
serve as a catalyst. It is because of Zossimovs prying and prodding that the reader is able to understand what is going on inside ...
with the ideas of the era have made her a prime target for heartache, as her suitor, not as devoted as Ms. Emily thinks, goes out ...
time period has no choices, that she cannot freely move around and do many things before marriage. Society restricts what she can ...
capitalists, wining and dining them all through Paris" (Nugent). In this we see the psychology of the seriousness of the Russia...
him that she wants to stop talking about it, indicating she feels completely powerless and is just going to do it and get it over ...
the house, knowing it will frighten his wife. In fact, in the first scene of the story, Sykes sneaks up on Delia and tosses his b...
to Southern society but also how the strength of love could unite individuals to meet formidable challenges. His perhaps na?ve an...