Essays 901 - 930
In six pages this paper discusses the profound impact of the culture of the American South upon Emily Grierson in the short story ...
secrets are inferred. That her father suppressed her sexuality and thwarted her womans life is clearly stated. The town assumes t...
In five pages the spiritual laboratory assistant Animadab is compared with the nonspiritual Aylmer as depicted in this short story...
In five pages this paper examines the significance of symbolism in this famous short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. There are no o...
In five pages this paper examines how this short story features the author's powerful use of symbolism. Five sources are cited in...
In five pages this paper examines how an individual's social conflict is demonstrated through the use of religious imagery in this...
In five pages this paper presents a biographical profile of the author and also provides a brief analysis of his popular literary ...
In fifteen pages this paper considers how women were treated in this famous novel as well as their portrayal in the short stories ...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the enslavement theme within these short stories from the perspectives of the revo...
In nine pages this paper examines how the protagonist is transformed throughout this short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Seven so...
from Melville to modern Freudians, Hawthornes fearful secret has been the subject of speculation. But whatever it was and whatever...
In five pages this paper examines the importance of symbols to the telling of the short story 'Young Goodman Brown.' There are 7 ...
In nine pages this paper discusses Yiddish American writer Isaac Bashevis Singer's life and writings including 'The Lecture' and '...
criminal is so small, few would talk about it. Another way to look at the situation is that the author hones in on one story in ...
felt a sense of liberation she had never known before. She could support herself and write about the subjects she felt passionate...
two share. They are obviously not really enjoying this moment, or life, for some reason. And, the reason is never clearly spelled ...
in complete truthfulness, "a man" (OConnor, 1972, p. 255). When the pair become hopelessly lost in Atlanta, they find themselv...
live. "In this theory, Madeline and Roderick (who are twins) represent the unconscious and the conscious, and when Roderick denies...
The rural citizens depicted in the story are average, everyday people who indulge in senseless human sacrifice that they never que...
walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode, were but matters to w...
like Poe: "TRUE! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe NA). The narr...
unfortunate accident, and they do run into the notorious Misfit. Both the grandmother and the Misfit are concerned with the quest...
fundamentally selfish and mean-spirited. In fact, OConnor repeatedly demonstrates to the reader how similar Fortune and his grandd...
ending is quite compelling, letting on that the narrator is much more insightful than first appears. Certainly, the narrator is no...
to Murry and Maud Butler Falkner, an "old south" family that remembered the Civil War - the familys patriarch, William Clark Falkn...
says she is experiencing anything but sorrow and despair. During the times that this story takes place, a woman was not expected...
taught, by her father, those attitudes that provide them the social status they were born into, a class common to the traditional ...
all his days. This appears to be true as Montressor is compulsively confessing his evil fifty years later. Other critics agree t...
way that he feels about himself is not overly shocking to Gregor. His determination to make his train, the fact that he would even...
Western States Book Award for Fiction and the Walt Whitman Award (The Iguana Killer [Review]). Interestingly enough, Rios spoke Sp...