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In five pages this essay examines Faulkner's 'Barn Burning' and 'A Rose for Emily' as they represent the themes of death and love....

the stereotypical feminine behavior of Woolfs era. In order to be a journalist, Woolf explains how she had to kill "the Angel" and...

indicates that "The theme of loves difficulty is often explored through the motif of love out of balance-that is, romantic situati...

seems to possess a great deal of truth. According to Machiavelli, the conventional wisdom is that a prince "should try not to ins...

civilization these men were often more comfortable with the open plans and the cattle than they were with people who lived in a to...

if there is no hope at the end. Several other similarities exist between Antony and Cleopatra and other Shakespeare plays. Bits ...

for the deaths of her husband, Edward V, and her father, Henry VI. Nevertheless, he demonstrates himself as quite capable in prov...

of the aristocrats. Although Cathy took to Heathcliff immediately, her brother Hindley was not nearly so receptive, and had taken...

being wholly inferior. Others claim love is for the weak of both mind and spirit, the weak-willed who cannot live their lives alo...

But there are even deeper meanings as well. Given the era in which this story takes place, there are plenty of political overtone...

Jefferson made his views on slavery (for the general populace) known. In his notes for the Virginia Constitution, Jefferson also n...

the pot-bellied stove; everything else was either burned to the ground or damaged beyond repair from smoke and/or water. It was o...

Beth E. Jorgensen defines magical realism as the "use of the literary devices of hyperbole, oxymoron, personification, flashback a...

in the emails were exactly the same. Additionally, the emails were coming from software developers in the office, five emails in a...

blatant from the first chapter. As Craycraft states, "the Swiftian allusions and turns in these novels, the kind of satire so inge...

despair associated with poverty, class distinctions, and opportunities for individuals to ever rise above their "place." The Dif...

of striving to attain immortality, just as Jesus himself did. Over and over again in our lives we are tested, and each choice we ...

is established that she has not yet reached her fourteenth birthday. Yet, she is also shown to be a practical, level-headed girl. ...

In fact, Wilde seems to be making important commentary on Victorian society itself, contending that something may reveal a perfect...

first of all, wherever friendship or community flourishes, justice doesnt - and when this fades, justice becomes more important. S...

context changes and it seems more logical given the tone of the rest of the poem. Thus, the word as is reflective of the way that ...

we love ourselves, we fill ourselves with love that we then are able to give away (Is Self-Love Justifiable? 2004). If we do not...

tell the difference, but Batailles argument deserves contemplation. In trying to reach human limits in eroticism, one can go too f...

Lysias topic is love, which in the ancient Greek world referred to the love of a man for another man. Homosexuality was practiced...

A.E. Housman. They are both young men who die before they age, before they have perhaps achieved a powerful greatness it would see...

castle where he runs into a surly servant girl: Danielle(who beans him with an apple). Later, when he sees her in some of her si...

(line 7). Brownings devotion to her future mate is equated with a sense of lost innocence, as well as religious fervor. "I love th...

Carrs literary style has been described as that of a poets by his wife, who put together a book of some of his more inspiring writ...

at using the site for urban expansion. When the city forced the sale of the site through "imminent domain," Hooker added a disclai...

be a lover and an optimist. But we begin to see images of tension in the fact that he describes the evening sky spread out as "a p...