Essays 301 - 330
opined that, in this work, the tragic and the supernatural are synonymous: "The tragedy of Macbeth thus lies in the attempt of a m...
is until he has suffered pain and unhappiness, concepts that are foreign to David, who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth....
his own resulting suicide because he believes his life is not worth living (which, in many ways, parallels Clarissas own ambivalen...
depicting what he discovered about each of the victims. The first of these characters is the Marquesa, who is the daughter of a we...
they have somehow missed the spiritual dimension which they purport to seek, and have been sidetracked instead into seeing materia...
for all, for life itself. And Linda has a heart full and hands outstretched to give back to life the love it gives her" (OBrien Bi...
fathers death, she sets to the task of making a funeral shroud. Every day she spends hours working on it, then when night comes, s...
unfortunate accident, and they do run into the notorious Misfit. Both the grandmother and the Misfit are concerned with the quest...
Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616) donqu2.html). He was beaten, and he returned home where he approaches Sancho and pleads with him...
he recalls when his mother stole a piece of ham just so she could feel it to her family. In another example, he recalls when his ...
Although "The Secret Sharer" was not written until 1909, some thirteen years after his last sea voyage, it is considered one of Co...
His wife does not seem to be well and is anxious all the time about what is to become of them. Obstinately refusing to believe tha...
plagued with corruption. Gamasa Al-Bulti is the chief of police, at least at first, and he delves into the underworld. Yet, while...
illustrating how misery is a product of human actions. This book can be said to have more dark overtones than those of some of h...
In fact, Bastard Out of Carolina is very much the story of her own life (Dorothy Allison Talks About Working Class Guilt). Allis...
aware that her and her mothers poverty had placed them at the bottom rung of Kentuckys socioeconomic ladder, with the chances of u...
story "Grit" portrays the intense conflict that arises between Glen, the manager of the Black Beauty Minerals Plant located in Mob...
chill in the air (London 143). But his canine companion knew better. He was all-too-familiar with this icy terrain, and his inst...
It took place in the south, as did most of OConnors stories, and showed the ignorance of southern whites by using a certain predil...
that they are constantly losing, for many losers keep plugging away. And, if they constantly plug away, with good intentions and p...
the people that they are there to convert, that they find peace for themselves, and are able to build a presence for the Church wi...
the individuals lot in life. On their journey there are numerous arguments for the adoption for rejection of the different...
to life, he rejects it, hoping that the life he has brought into the world will simply die, erasing his mistake (Madigan 48; Franc...
where Moll informs workers that she wants to grow up to be a gentlewoman. What this means is that she wants to support herself and...
born on July 18, 1926 and died on January 5, 1987 (Margaret Laurence). Laurence was married in 1947 and then moved to London with...
in a most hideous way, Yossarian pleads with Doc Daneeka to ground him on the basis of insanity. Doc Daneeka replies that Yossaria...
In five pages this paper applies the human personality theories of Sigmund Freud to an analysis of these two classic literary char...
that there is always a tidy or satisfactory resolution to the womens dilemmas. In fact, in the case of the intentionally ambiguou...
the whales as evil, or the one particular whale as evil, has infiltrated the beliefs of the men on board as well: "The whalemen be...
when they enter it. Fortunato has a bad cough and so, on their way to the wine cellar, Montressor keeps giving Fortunato more wine...