Essays 211 - 240
to note that Charles, Emmas husband, is little more than window-dressing, in her elaborate fantasies, a sort of necessary accessor...
is important for it illustrates one of the reasons why the hero is determined to go back. Because she is honorable and admirable t...
of knight. He was the kings representative in battle, and his role as the protector of freedom was assumed with honor and uncompro...
of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...
have "been kicked around so long were black and blue from head to toes" (Odets 7). But, he offers the point that if anyone strikes...
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...
wife. Claudius states, "Though yet of Hamlet (the late king was also named Hamlet) our late brothers death/The memory be green" (I...
Madame Defarge. There is an exception however, for a few years back she did play the Wicked Queen in Snow White, which could perha...
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...
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...
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...
is Miss Havisham. He believes that she is funding his education so that he can become educated and then wealthy and then be worthy...
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...
the ribald joke or two. Of course, considering that the entire play revolves around Helenas ability to get her promised husband in...
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...
small boy, but to insure my familys survival, my own birth" (29). Through the next several years, Dana returns to the Weylin plan...
the complete ignorance that the male of Torvalds type had toward women during this time in history. They are seen as incapable of ...
Mrs. Popov is likely a respectable woman who understands the etiquette of the day, which is what the audience will likely see (Che...
monstrous creature Grendel, Grendels mother, and the dragon - it considers the impact of social obligations (loyalty to God and co...
In many ways the social failure of America as a whole at this time in history is symbolized by the personal failure experienced...
lessons in humanity. Nazis aint got no humanity. Theyre the foot soldiers of a Jew hatin, mass murderin maniac, and they need to ...
name is ironic in that Beneatha is beneath no one in her family. Her intellect and her passion for knowledge are unsurpassed. Sh...