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Lighthouse, there is a subtle form of cruelty that thrusts the female protagonist into society as the woman is expected to act lik...
This paper examines what Tita's blanket symbolizes in Laura Esquirel's novel Like Water for Chocolate and in its cinematic adaptat...
help, grownups refuse to give it what it needs, and offer it instead what it detests. As a substitute for stories that bring suns...
In four pages this paper analyzes how life's renewal and rebirth are symbolically represented by the olive tree in Homer's epic 'T...
This paper consists of ten pages and discusses the symbolic importance of stairs in Flannery O'Connor's short stories 'The Geraniu...
In two pages this paper assesses the symbolic value of th narrator's possessions in the briefcase. There are no other sources lis...
PG). Often present is the guilt and depravity that each and every person hides behind the invisible mask where their true charact...
In five pages this paper examines how the Green Knight is symbolically portrayed as strong, noble, and just. There are no other s...
survivor of a slave ship, which crossed the water. With this crossing of the water, vast numbers of people had their way of life c...
so clearly it is evident why the Indian people placed such importance on caste and took the entire system so seriously....
from the Garden of Eden. The novel is "structured in two parts, each beginning with an air battle followed by an exploration of th...
and rainfall again. References to wetness and of being soaked with water seem to refer to the state of the men, that they are abou...
"color meaning" website lists exactly these same colors: red, blue, green, orange and purple, plus black and white, as the ones it...
retinas are one yard high" (Fitzgerald 15). The student researching this topic will note that there are divergences from the stu...
creating a believable psychological portrait based on this duke, which is largely considered to be accurate according to Renaissan...
/ Arrayed of the Round Table rightful brothers ... / the feast was in force full fifteen days" (37-39, 44). They are celebrating t...
two people who hold true to the notion that determination and hard work can get you ahead in the world of the American ideal. Gats...
daddy, you bastard, Im through" (Plath). Throughout the poem, which is full of Nazi imagery, she has compared herself to a Jew, a...
a shelf, he decides to seek the counsel of the Skin Horse. He inquires what it means to be REAL, and the Horse answers, "Real isn...
bombs on the city that they created a firestorm-a self-perpetuating inferno that destroyed the city almost complete. The worst par...
time reader has no idea why. "The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer...
and actually wrote several novels and short stories during the period ("F. Scott Fitzgerald"). Interestingly, his novels were neve...
attractive young lady and Gwendolyns country counterpart, rounds out the cast. Not for a moment would we expect to find the sort o...
scholarship addressing the character of Pearl have seen her as the "sin-child, the unholy result" of an adulterous love and a symb...
a man they dislike, saw it and pulled it so that they would not be exposed with the rest (Twain, 2006). The entire town is convuls...
it up" (Hurston). By focusing on poor urban blacks instead of writing about the African-American doctors, dentists, and lawyers, ...
makes an impression is the plot and specifically the incident when Huck could turn Jim in to the men who are hunting runaway slave...
even to the edge of doom" (Shakespeare 9-12). In the end he claims that if he is wrong then he never wrote and no man ever loved. ...
is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel; at is worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable; and first and...
are powerfully illustrative of the claim that many female writers of the time used the ghost story as a means of examining, indire...