Essays 1861 - 1890
still places on the planet where nature is more important than man and his machines, and where nature actually "knows best" and sh...
as he encounters people he believes to be good Puritans his innocence is slowly being threatened with a truth he cannot understand...
enough cotton over the next summer to buy her a new coat. However, it is also clear that his mother feels compelled to hold James ...
Her neighbors believed she never married because "none of the young men were quite good enough" (Faulkner 437). It was only when ...
on real events, but a fictional work inspired by the nature of the wealthy and powerful and the nature of simple young women lured...
this relationship, which is entails infidelity and, therefore, mistrust and lies. Similarly, miscommunication and infidelity pla...
mother, Elinor and Marianne (who are both young women) and younger sister Margaret, by beginning with the death of Henry Dashwood,...
active service with the Republicans, though not as a soldier but as a medical corpsman (Donahue). Although such a position was a "...
complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves" (Bowers 91). Marlow is discouraged by other Europeans who work for the enigm...
cold hearted person. She was like this because she was afraid to really look at herself. She was also afraid to hope for anything ...
why he became an addict; he also express great uncertainty about his life after hes released from prison (Class lecture on "Sonnys...
she is the sort of woman who would love to go to such an event, but could not possibly go to such without looking regal and wealth...
Gregory talks about how his mother got angry when he threw out a free coat and Williams speaks of how his parents loved the kids, ...
his motivation for stealing Jean and Ricks car. However, in committing grand theft auto, Anthony objectifies Jean and Rick just as...
standing in a position that speaks of martyrdom: "he, his hands behind him, appeared pinned to the door frame, waiting like Saint ...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at "Martha of California". The paper explores various details of the story. Paper uses...
both married before their husbands had died and left them widows. In the first section of the story, Wharton gives background prof...
several symbolic connotations in this name, primarily the contrast to the happy little dance called the Jig and the fact that she ...
of his own family history." At this point the critic moves into examining the history of Hawthornes ancestors and the developme...
hygiene she also realizes are very large and she is shocked. This is a significant statement by the wife, since up until this time...
the characters talk and interact creates a very different setting for the story. It also limits how we envision the story that unf...
meant to be - mixing with society people and being decorated with fine jewelry. However, she ends up losing the necklace...
own enlightenment. Joy/Hulga has actively chosen to be pessimistic about life and about people. She is bitter and angry, which ...
lost. This brings us to one of the differences in the story, yet it also involves a similarity. With Mabel we have a woman who ...
talked too much anyway" (Glaspell). Throughout the story, Martha Hale feels guilty because she did not visit Minnie more often, b...
him to the hospital. After a short while on the road they stop for coffee, then later, they stop for pancakes. All the while their...
his own parent/child relationship. Not coincidentally, Frankenstein labors "for nine months... to complete his experiment" (Riche...
In a research study on the factors which lead to acts of revenge, University of Arkansas psychologists tested a number of voluntee...
to be dealing with the religious beliefs that he held and those he was questioning at the time. When Young Goodman Brown...
modern-day utopias that seemed to have the best of everything. There were sporting events, community activities, performing arts,...