Essays 31 - 60
all (Hinze PG). Dickinson is described as reclusive and shy. Although she was well educated, she is said to have often deferred ...
present us with the sheer power of the sea. Now, as mentioned, these lines, filled with imagery, can be seen from many symbolic ...
In five pages some of Emily Dickinson's poems that celebrate her passion for nature are examined....
such. We had long thought of them as a tableau, Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled sil...
Each story is quite solidly set in their culture. In Hawthornes the narrator states, "Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset int...
time reader knows the story may move on logically from her death to another consecutive event. However, after a couple of paragr...
whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument" (Faulkner I). In this one im...
with one last chance at a relationship in the form of Homer Barron, a day laborer from the North. When the community realized that...
content nor particularly happy with her lot in life. She brags to her husband and it is obvious that she could best him in almost...
did not allow her to be an individual. This offers us a subtle vulnerability that all people possess to some extent. And that vuln...
as devoted as Ms. Emily thinks, goes out with another woman. When he returns, Emily poisons him with arsenic. Finally, she closes ...
for the best. Soon, however, a sudden sense of calm overcomes her as she whispers "free, free, free" (Chopin PG). Mrs. Mal...
town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity ...
and taken blood from both. He tries to convince her that to give in to him, to give him herself, has been ultimately blessed by th...
he will bring the excitement back into her life. When she gives him a cutting from her prized mums to give to another woman (its a...
they sneak away; here the reference is to an angry and implacable god who is ready to strike down those who disobey. The second r...
men, and it was known that he drank with the younger men in the Elks Club--that he was not a marrying man" (Faulkner). This can be...
(Faulkner). In the story of Miss Brill one does not see her as a tradition of the people, a sort of monument to an Old South bec...
literary criticism entitled, The Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fiction, Judith Fetterley described "A Rose for...
- into a "setting conducive to unrest and fears" (Fisher 75). The narrator reveals that his grief over his wife Ligeias death pro...
great deal of literature there is a foundation that is laid in relationship to a community. The community is a part of the setting...
had died, the reader recognizes that Emily must always live in that Old South because of her father and his demands. But, at the s...
the circumstances surrounding their creation and the manifest events of the plot differ quite dramatically. For instance, one migh...
extent to which she, as an unchanging artifact of her own times, is overpowered by death despite struggling against it at all poin...
in the midst of an otherwise modern cityscape. In this manner, Emilys eventual psychological breakdown which leads to her murderin...
he recognizes the inconsistencies between the social representation of men and women, and is bold enough to comment upon them. Th...
lives, and all this really comes out as people and their relationships to the place that formed them (Smith ppg). Duality shown i...
In five pages this paper examines the gender relationships featured in 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner, 'Ligeia' by Edgar A...
In five pages this paper examines how perspectives on the past manifest themselves in the storytelling of 'How to Tell a True War ...
In eight pages this paper discusses how Southern life, history and geography are depicted in the short stories 'A Rose for Emily,'...