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Exegis in 2 Kings Chapter 4 Verses 8 through 17

in your arms." "No, my lord," she objected. "Dont mislead your servant, O man of God!" 17 But the woman became pregnant, and t...

Comparing Colonialism Themes in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

the traditional society to fall apart," observes G.D. Killam. "Okonkwo is unable to adopt to the changes that accompany colonialis...

Two Motherhood Perspectives in Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes and Toni Morrison's Beloved

and perverts every aspect of their lives. Unlike the Hubbards, Reginas husband, Horace Giddens, is a man of principle. He has jus...

Postcolonial Literature and Symbols

each. Before going on, it pays to define post colonialism. DeHay (2004) explains that the definition she likes to use for postc...

Characters in Literary Works Contrasts

success and leading a happy life. Willys attitude toward being liked and being popular do not change at all. This is evident when ...

Irony as a Literary Device

You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. AT LENGTH I would be av...

Literary Psychological Growth and Spiritual Transformation

no nurturing. Neither story has a good ending, but the characters do emerge somewhat enlightened. Candide takes a very differen...

Literary Epiphanies

a future where she could do as she pleased, without the burden of a husband. She was not imagining a life where she lived wildly, ...

Questions on the History of China

huge country (Kaplan, 2001). Wihtin this country were seven great powers (competing with one another in both military and economic...

American Contributions of Edgar Allan Poe

"These sketches will . . . will include every person of literary note in America; and will investigate carefully, and with rigorou...

Literary Image of Mulattos

thinking that pretending to be something she is not will somehow make her life more pleasant and simple. However, she learns that,...

Theme of Identity Featured in Literary Works of Leslie Marmon Silko and Sandra Cisneros

there is the father, a man who feels a deep connection with the past, and perhaps more importantly, the Mexican Revolution. It is ...

Vera Figner's Memoirs of a Revolutionist, Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons and Radical Russian Intelligentsia Images

with what respect that principle is surrounded" (Turgenev, 1996, p. 7). Although the...

Minor Characters in Willa Cather's The Professor's House and William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury

story (Sparknotes). Her husband is Roskus, a man who suffers greatly from rheumatism, a condition that will kill him. T.P. is...

Literary Criticisms of the Style and Works of O. Henry

does so in a most subtle way. It is as if O. Henry plays on the expectation of a terrible demise, then, at the last moment, as a s...

Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Religious Literary Devices

in a manner that was often regarded as blasphemous by her Puritan and Calvinist neighbors. Emily Dickinsons approach to poetry wa...

Homosexuality in Le Fanu's Carmilla and Wilde's Dorian Gray

the everyday eye, Dorian does not seem to age a day, nor does his beauty fade. There are several indications of a homosexual nat...

Society, the Individual, and Sociology

themselves. It is in adjusting to change that people lose their ground. Meaning and purpose in life is lost. Thus, clinical depres...

The Literary and Film Versions of Alcott's Little Women

are pleasant individuals who go through many different dilemmas, relatively simple dilemmas in the beginning. They become friends ...

Madness And Depression As Common Literary Themes

for the best. Soon, however, a sudden sense of calm overcomes her as she whispers "free, free, free" (Chopin PG). Mrs. Mal...

E.M. Forster's A Passage to India, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Setting

will discover and find, much of which is seen in things that are black and things that are white. This critic notes that, "Signs ...

Comparative Analysis of 2 of Kate Chopin's Short Stories

until it breaks. This inner storm mirrors the outer storm which brings Calixta and Alcee together. "When he touched her breasts t...

Two Examples of Madness in Literature

loves to write, and obviously sneaks off to do because we are reading about it. Writing is her passion and while it is seen as an ...

Common Themes in Literature

see this throughout the world. It is not something peculiar to a time and place. Only communism was supposed to alleviate the clas...

Contemporary Society and Love

become separate" (p.48). An interest point is made as Fromm investigates erotic love. Today, many equate eroticism with romanticis...

Comparative Analysis of Hester Prynne and Medea

bound to engage. While mythological women were strong of mind and spirit, they were not allowed to express their inner most being...

Lion Feuchtwanger's Prophetic Novel, The Oppermanns

reader, who has the benefit of hindsight, to wonder why German Jews, such as the Oppermanns, did not react earlier to the Nazi thr...

Spiritual Journey and Spiritual Growth

to return to the cave because its familiar and comfortable? The answer to all these questions is "yes." (Allegory of the Cave, 2...

Comparative Analysis of George Orwell and Virginia Woolf's Literary Styles

satisfying sexual or intimate relationship because of it. She essentially lived a life wherein she was torn between the desire to ...

American Author William Faulkner's Life and Writings

gloried in the proud history of the plantation South that secured a place of honor for the aristocrat, and yet he abhorred the opp...