YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Comparison of Two Literary Protagonists
Essays 1321 - 1350
in the Broadway Journal (Magistrale 81). Steeped in Gothic tradition, the theme involves one mans descent into total madness, whi...
saving lives, and he was - in her view - incapable of providing her with sexual satisfaction or any type of emotional salvation. ...
that he too is a man like Stoksie, but the reference to Stoksies children again reveals his immaturity. Referring to the babies in...
were signified by it" (1323). He then goes into great narrative detail to describe the letter to emphasize its significance: "The...
a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...
a background. Woolfs imagery concentrates on light and dark, and various colors. She mentions "dark autumn nights," a "yellow-und...
the reader is the consumer. A writerly text is at the other end of this spectrum, as in these texts the reader is also a co-produc...
plague wreaks death and despair onto the Theban people, Oedipus pride motivates him to make a deal whereby he reveals the identity...
and accepts her even after she confides her sexual past to him. However, Amir never confesses his sin to anyone - not to his fath...
"a castle, ruined or intact, haunted or not"; sinister ruins "which arouse a pleasing melancholy"; dungeons, catacombs, crypts and...
complete madness, until at last Elizabeth Proctor, who is completely innocent, is charged with being a witch (Miller, 1952). Not s...
audience" (66). The reversal refers to a reversal in fortune, which Aristotle believed was classically represented in a fall from...
is blasphemous. Also, and certainly unknown to himself, he is skittering along the knife edge between madness and sanity. He is a ...
of specific interest, and which concern morality in the context of war, are those that argue for and against putting the Mitylene ...
of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...
maturation of the American colonies as they journey toward war and independence. The thematic context demonstrates how it is exper...
she had no particular interest in helping or educating others. For Lau, her diary represented the ultimately self-expression her ...
He notes that old women often have big stomachs, while the men are "thin as rakes, and they all carried sticks" (Camus, 1946, p. 8...
to her on the basis of her sex. To further complicate her situation, she was an exile from her primitive Colchis homeland, forced...
considered to be a study of the process of recording history, may be as important as history itself (Crawford, 1983). In other wor...
be a study of the process of recording history, may be as important as history itself (Crawford, 1983). In other words, we might w...
another persons mind and perception. We each live isolated lives with only language as a bridge to understanding the worldview and...
This is not to say that the influence of European authors was not discernible in the work of these authors. For example, Melvill...
Moderation. Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve. 10. Cleanliness. Tolerate no uncleanline...
In eight pages the importance of setting historical setting in order to take readers back to an earlier period is considered in an...
way his eyes move continually to the fact that he cannot stand to be touched: "Once, when he had been making a synopsis of a parag...
bedroom and gently holds him. Then she pours kerosene over the sleeping man and burns him to death. Morrison writes that Plum ope...
times (Faulkner). Fed up with Snopess carelessness and laziness-Harris provides wire for Snopes to repair his hog pen, but the man...
scanned text files, featured a scanned version Frank St. Vincents important exposition of the poem that was first published in Exp...
love between two ordinary people: "Placed on the same pedestal for no good reason, drawn randomly from millions but convinced it h...