Essays 481 - 510
food as a measuring cup of personality, a leavening for plot, and an ingredient in the theme" (Kellman 435). The contradictions i...
at the piano" but it may well have been the "first time she was ready, perhaps the first time her being was tempered to take an im...
both the peasantry and their oppressors, Turgenev invented the very word "nihilist" in "Fathers and Sons". He writes:...
the treacherous feet" (III.2.14-16). Rather than action, Richard offers poetic interpretations of his situation. The tone and imag...
essence, this is seen as "feminine and shrewd" (Rusche). From this description we can begin to understand that Gertrude may wel...
agrees that this scene is enlightening on Hamlets background and character. In fact, Bloom argues that loosing Yorick, who died in...
treated like a horse, complete with a bit in his mouth. Sethe managed to escape. In fact, because she was very pregnant and had b...
and they offer comfort and information, as in Adas case. Minor characters have the dual purpose in this book of offering more info...
While Tartuffe makes his entrance somewhat late in the play, he is a central figure from the beginning, as he is discussed by vari...
is considered to be especially significant in regards to the documentation of American history and despite having been written in ...
And, yet, it has been many years. She wars with her reason which offers her the explanation that she just wants this stranger to b...
her, it is apparent that his "real" life is with his wife and children, and that Nadine is only on the periphery. It is ironic, of...
rescue her from her loneliness. With Jessica the first hint of desire or romance comes when she asks Launcelot to give Lorenzo a n...
of women in the Bible as well. In these portrayals we learn that there is that there is a certain propriety in the world. Propri...
I believe that Hurston was attempting to expose the scope of the racism problem through the character of Janie, as well as the str...
the story deals with his infatuations, lusts, loves and relationships. Surprisingly, Genji retains a hard exterior through it all...
(I.iii.118). Banquo replies with a warning. He tells Macbeth that "instruments of darkness" frequently tell the truth in order to ...
on the world scene. And, we know that the one individual who could perhaps sway him from his innocent and noble ways is Gatsby him...
in the right way. In order to do this, however, one must be able to determine, using ones reason, what those right ways and right ...
she develops the illusion of her identity slowly vanishes. She is slowly seen as an intelligent woman who desires more from life t...
Emmas polar opposite. She has not been born to gentility, but has been raised to be so by the sponsorship of the Campbells. In ord...
is the assistant to an assistant. Hap lacks even the smallest spark of introspection or self-analysis, but rather is the embodimen...
one of greater wealth arrives and asks for her hand. Hamida is not necessarily being mean or cruel and she is not really lacking...
their lives and their emotions. However, she did have control over Jake, Robert, and Mike because they were lost, part of that los...
When Gittes is contacted to monitor the activities of supposedly philandering husband Hollis Mulwray, a successful Los Angeles wat...
all the players in the love triangle. But, they are also more than that. All three characters embody some of the ideology that was...
of what the Greek gods did to human beings when offended. Niobe was a proud mother of many children and she bragged that she had m...
tale that he is a eunuch, otherwise impotent. With the aid of his friend, Doctor Quack, he manages to land himself in the lap and ...
God Abraham received was detailed in Genesis as follows: "Go forth from your native land / And from your fathers house / And I wil...
an identical twin brother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia in a mental hospital; a sometimes overbearing stepfather (Ray); an...