Essays 1981 - 2010
When Pelayo discovers an old man sporting wings in a sandy marsh and summons his wife Elisenda to take a look to assure he is not ...
as devoted as Ms. Emily thinks, goes out with another woman. When he returns, Emily poisons him with arsenic. Finally, she closes ...
Melville: "he was ... a gentleman adventurer in the barbarous outposts of human experience" (147). Melvilles Bartleby the Scriven...
the weight,/ the weight we carry/ is love" (Ginsberg 1-9). In this poem we do not necessarily see love as an uplifting real...
concerned for the welfare of his rather homely adopted daughter, Beina. First of all, Jin makes it clear that women within Chinese...
Her husband has only used her sexually for that is his nature, and is representative of the oppressive patriarchal culture. But, s...
stopped, at least for Neddy Merrill. It seems that for those like Neddy, money must be had at all costs, but he had a problem too,...
readily admits that: "On the whole theyre not a bad lot of natives; though you get a cheeky bastard now and then" (21). She is als...
life, liberty or property without due process of law, (or) deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the ...
its extreme, I pointed out the evil being perpetuated against the Irish." Lady Macbeth interrupts, "I am familiar with this wo...
standing in a position that speaks of martyrdom: "he, his hands behind him, appeared pinned to the door frame, waiting like Saint ...
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 ...
reality of humanitys cruel heart. True to Hawthornes nature of portraying both the worst and the best humankind has to offer, he ...
some of the local women, but he does not follow through on this desires because - above all else - he wishes to avoid consequences...
used as power weapons in such crimes as drive-by shootings, minor altercations and myriad other random acts of violence. With the...
that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethical values. It is the sheer weight of her social stat...
the characters talk and interact creates a very different setting for the story. It also limits how we envision the story that unf...
both married before their husbands had died and left them widows. In the first section of the story, Wharton gives background prof...
of his own family history." At this point the critic moves into examining the history of Hawthornes ancestors and the developme...
human being. Her song on the "blond wood psaltery" produced a "crystalline sound like water purling between stones" (82). As this ...
of symbolism can be seen in Melvilles "great white whale in Moby Dick; Dantes journey into the underworld in The Inferno" and many...
Any strategic human resources plan will need to consider the companys future needs as well as its current ones, and plan for meeti...
this day, of course, will differ from all others. What makes this a significant day in Miss Brills life is that she is about to be...
of Brown. It is essentially natural worshipping, however, with many different types of people coming together in a more ritualisti...
plan was due to fail on several fronts. First the plan itself was way too broad - and way too much for...
there is the suggestion that Elsie is a good mother. OHara writes that the "only thing," that Elsie "held against" her children, i...
he used to own and wear while he was working. The fact that Tom wore a tuxedo while performing suggests that he played at the best...
by the men on the train platform, and then by the overly dramatic grief of Merricks mother. The contrast between the nature of Mer...
with typical Christian values, and most of them wanted to grow up to become policemen, firemen, or doctors. Being average did not...