Essays 1981 - 2010
quietly, knowing something is coming her way, some feeling, some understanding, some epiphany. Then, it comes. It tells her she is...
all of the principals until they died and the destruction of the states evidence used at the trial, a turn of events that to this ...
terrible punishment, as they shall "alwey whirle aboute therthe in peyne" (line 80) and they shall not be forgiven for their wicke...
that the simple things in life, those things that really count for more, are drown out by the roar of progress in the form of a la...
part of Chaereas, but because the decline of this young man serves to rally the entire community and the assembly appeals to Hermo...
53). However, when he discovers Nora and her involvement in certain business matters, he is forced to realize that she has done fa...
the only thing they share: "Othello reveals a more detailed acknowledgment of Desdemonas sexual appeal. As he discusses her death ...
the townspeople, although they dont agree with him being Tom Robinsons legal counsel, respect his integrity and honesty. He repre...
"black heart," but each kept some number of people at bay, not letting those individuals enter the inner recesses of either their ...
duties. Leviticus 19:32-33 details the societal obligation to respect the elderly, and also instructs that strangers should not be...
movement of Naipaul from newcomer to departing visitor. The first part of the book shows Naipaul as he comes to England to experie...
There is also a skewering of the notion that the acquisition of wealth makes all problems disappear and ensures eternal happiness....
living with Emily, which is certainly not proper but the town accepts this because there is sympathy for Emily who is a sad and lo...
across, and thus get the power of the film across. The predominant focus of the film is the story and the man who is an alien. It ...
part political tract, part musicology, and part autobiography (as the New York Times described it), The Book of Laughter and Forge...
he is about to leave home, his oldest daughter asks her mother to do the can-can. His wife kicks up her heels and begins to dance....
chocolates. However, whether he realizes it or not, he is still a hero for trying to the utmost of his ability to correct a situat...
The work was going on. The work! And this was the place where some of the helpers had withdrawn to die. They were dying slowly it ...
a point of time, and the idea that he will love her until the Jews convert is also a reference of time. It is similar to the state...
and hoor; /Thanne is a wife the fruit of his tresor" (Chaucer 55-58). At this point, it is not certain that Januarie sees, as ce...
and it was this heart-felt emotion that elevated her works from ordinary to the ranks of extraordinary. Music had long play...
at a bar before moving on and a Native American woman deposits a three-year-old girl in her car and begs her to keep the child. ...
not been there for his two sons. In this respect both of the sons have had to grow up without their father, or with essentially an...
his insistence that he does not love her, is accounted for by the delirium which is affecting his mental faculties. However, the g...
the end, ones heart may win over ones intellect. In Diane Ackermans poem, which may very well be a modern retelling of...
seems to be making a statement about independence of spirit, but an involvement with mankind. "I markd where on a little promontor...
short temper gets him into trouble. In Book IX, Polyphemus, the son of the sea god Poseidon, decides to dine on a few Greeks who ...
won the Nobel Prize for Literature (The National Steinbeck Center, 2002). John Steinbeck was very talented at creating s...
"moves slowly, but surely into a plotline filled with many serious topics: abuse, rape, the inability to love, the immediate reper...
vision, no true identity, and certainly does not connect with his African American culture. His mother, however, changes some o...