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a strong and masculine man, though perhaps not too intelligent, or so Ichabod thinks. One night at a party people are telling s...

Twelfth Night, the eve of Epiphany which is defined by Joyce as a sudden shining down of reason and awareness, a "sudden spiritual...

is almost always away on business, and the only permanent residents, in addition to the governess and the children is the stern an...

no avail. Her father explained that the antidote would actually kill her, but she did not want to live being poisonous anyway. The...

of the situation inside the house. He relates that "Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-wor...

reality in Poes work. And, the fact that it comes back to haunt the characters in the story further emphasizes the power of this "...

inability to understand the calls in the dead of night are paralleled with the frustration they feel at not getting any informatio...

turn something seemingly worthless into a treasure. A quilt being symbolically assembled throughout the story reflects how societ...

attention of the white community and gets him an invitation to deliver the speech at a gathering of the towns leading white citize...

contemporary executives. Integrity spoken must become integrity lived. Further, executives should accept the Socratic principle...

happened, or what may have happened, to this young girl, and finds herself examining her own life as a result. Without even und...

distance, an unclear picture is present. It is this vision of the mistress that the narrator begins to imagine must be of some fan...

the other until, in the end, exhaustion overcomes it. We see this not only in Maggie herself, but in Skipper and Brick, and the in...

Oscar often refers to "filthy lucre" (Lawrence 922). His mother explains that luck is "what causes you to have money. If youre l...

The Ministers Black Veil Hawthornes The Ministers Black Veil is a short story that describes evil and depravity as developmental ...

of his contemporaries, [Poe] refused to soften or idealize mortality and kept its essential horror in view But what is the "essen...

and isolation intensifies, and suffers what Professor Rita K. Gollin refers to as "the penalties of isolation (Nathaniel Hawthorne...

In five pages this paper discusses how Poe expertly employed satire in a mocking of romantic conventions in 'The Spectacles' short...

In six pages this paper discusses the symbolism of the cask that appears throughout Edgar Allan Poe's compelling short story. Eig...

at the center of the town square, and to emphasize its importance, the narrator notes, "The villagers kept their distance" (Jackso...

appeared to have a definite problem in separating fact from fantasy -- and a patent refusal to accept national transformations (su...

In six pages these two short stories are compared and contrasted in terms of girls' roles in each tale. There are no other sources...

by such elements as patriotism and mindless optimism rather than a desire to set out the facts and analyse them with any degree of...

terms, the trancendentalist is occupied with the natural over the synthetic. He uses vivid images in his explanation of what natu...

In a paper consisting of five pages this short story is considered in terms of its message, style, symbolism, and power struggle c...

In five pages history as seen through the eyes of Native Americans, African Americans, women, and factory workers is glimpsed in a...

In five pages this essay considers the narrative action and the main theme's implications within the context of the short story. ...

do with her own ambitions and determination to be acknowledged as a meaningful writer than it has to do with her ability to write ...

This paper consists of six pages and analyzes the symbolism that appears throughout each short story. Two sources are cited in th...

In five pages this paper analyzes the short story by Stephen King in terms of character, setting, theme, and point of view. There...