Essays 421 - 450
mother," and thinks only of her, marries her and promises to love her for all eternity, then his soul will flow into hers (Gold). ...
she should behave. She goes to a home where she is treated very well and ultimately has a puppy of her own and this makes her life...
world, in which society is restructuring itself after the devastation of the war - a devastation which T, at least, seems to feel ...
told that Death took his life. Quite in the drunken state they vow to find Death and to make him pay. They find directions to wh...
told with the simple vocabulary and simple sentences of a young child, often fusing ungrammatical language and childrens slang tha...
constant throughout history. The Prologue features the much-married Dame Alice, who is a shrewd manipulator of men who unabashed...
tragic reality. It comes as no surprise to note that one of the most powerfully, if not the most powerfully, tragic individual ...
in order to be educated at a missionary school since her British uncle runs the school. What happens as a result is that Tambu co...
Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...
indicative of a disdain for authoritarian institutions. Vathek is a powerful man who indulges in vast excesses. Beckford makes it ...
life was perhaps like in Medieval times. Looking at each individual story, however, would take a considerable amount of time an...
same as it would be had Genjis father actually fathered the new baby. Yet, this baby takes the throne as it is not revealed who t...
eventually escapes with the same hopes that one day he may win the love of Emelye. While hiding in the bushes he sees Arcite and h...
he decides to proceed anyway. Clearly, the dark, cold, unforgiving surroundings that encapsulate the guest as his driver leaves h...
Elisa carried with her always, always feeling and smelling and tasting the day. The garden hose water, which tastes like no other ...
Verloc has used her brother, her foundation for understanding her husband dissolves and the two no longer are able to communicate....
"girl" in reference to this female, a choice which would appear to indicate that she is somewhat younger than her companion yet He...
Montgomery. It could be contended that even the geographical location of Maycomb is a critical element in Lees plot. Montgomery,...
but more than that he is dedicated to God in his heart. The Parson is an example of a man who lives in accordance with what he pr...
of some moral message in the end. Through danger the characters are made stronger, and they are developed more powerfully, truly p...
what anyone tells him at face value, though as the story wears on a touch of skepticism begins to creep in. Especially when he spe...
from the former Le Dynasty, which explains why Nguyen Du was unwilling to join the new government" (The Tale of Kieu: Vietnams Epi...
how so many consumers have come to think of shopping and accumulating things as something of a hobby, even a passion. People ident...
The Wife makes it clear that she has always enjoyed sex and this verifies the Churchs depiction of women as licentious. In fact, t...
when the Beowulf poet writes "Fate always goes as it must" (43) and "Fate often saves an undoomed man when his courage is good" (...
away. He stands as a man of a higher social class who has integrity. His mother, however, represents all that is bad in the upper ...
grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...
at 4 a.m., his guilty conscience elicits the narrators confession. Is this an example of another Poe murder mystery or does it re...
(Burton, 1985). He tried to talk her out of it, but she insisted, and thus began the thousand nights, for each night she would end...
possible, but have not been invented yet. This will sound strange, because science itself is just getting started, but really, all...