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an ever-present element in "The Cask of Amontillado", Poe manages to keep it just below the surface of the plot until that final ...

souls, and rebirth, a central focus in lifes journey for all cultures and time periods. Mankind throughout history has bee...

Plant nothing else, and root out everything else... Stick to Facts" (Dickens 1). For Dickens, this was an atrocity of monumental ...

seemingly to detain me, but I escaped, and rushed down stairs. I took refuge in the courtyard belonging to the house which I inhab...

remember the dream he had been having. It had been a good one" (Rowling 19). Contemporary Children First and foremost, we note...

source of motivation for all life. Her dedication to him surpasses no other, whether it plays a part in family rituals or just th...

it clear that there are many unsolved frictions between the two sisters, frictions which include the fact that the youngers husban...

feat of time travel, for example, through the wonders of modern science. After years of meticulous work he has managed to create ...

News Service). Even that consideration, however, is worthy of additional introspect in regard to the intended cultural meaning of...

the town of Bisbee. "It is July 20, 1989, early afternoon, monsoon season in the Sonoran Desert, and I am going back to Bisbee. A...

position to that of management, or even to that of an incredibly successful salesman/employee. His character was weak, and his int...

society that Don Quixote escapes, and in books of chivalry, women are honorable for what they refrain from doing. The use of force...

homesick. If we never arrived anywhere, it did not matter. Between that earth and that sky I felt erased, blotted out. I did not s...

an individual is to relive the medieval times of knight errantry detailed in his favorite books. Changing himself into the dashin...

by the same name and so was translated to the silver screen. When this is done it is always a touchy business. Much of the motivat...

had previously been reserved only for God. He works feverishly on what he believes will be a perfect human form for it was manufa...

reality of humanitys cruel heart. True to Hawthornes nature of portraying both the worst and the best humankind has to offer, he ...

is that so many people believe in ideals like Willys. In the end, what is show is that a man with so much potential ends up losing...

himself who willed that he should suffer (lines 5-8). In other words, Hardy pictures preferring a world such as the ancient Gre...

and understood in many different ways. We are not only given one perspective but two that work together in different and powerful ...

power in many ways. The more titles the greater the power. And, in a social perspective as it involves the government system, this...

this particular case emphasized the role of the hero. Sancho is reminiscent of the modern world that cannot conceive or begin to f...

drama when Medea finds that she has been betrayed she cries to the heavens and says, "Come, Flame of the sky! Pierce through my he...

own enjoyment so much as for the enjoyment of others, for the pride he could have when looking at what he achieved through the eye...

Medeas chorus is intent upon pointing out the downfall of one of mythologys most important literary motifs: power and the tragic h...

is told that Sofia is a woman who does not know her place. She should not be allowed to talk back to her husband, or state her own...

of the novel, the other narratives, we do not simply see him as a kind and gentle creature. We also have the narrative that com...

Domestic Product (GDP): This is an economic term that is "a measure of the size of the economy of a particular territory" (Wikiped...

Ophelia to see how women characters have changed over the years. Penelope was able to fight off suitors for decades while maintain...

city -- grew out of this traumatic childhood experience" (Hackenberg; Johnson). Interestingly enough, in relationship to Fagin,...